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Grease Monkey Poems

Absent All About Autos Amid Awry Auto

...As it is the way with me, I have the car prepped by individuals whose love of the industry has acquired a rather peculiar name, "Grease Monkey." 

I have no understanding of vehicles or the...

Categories: grease monkey, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Still Life Instrumental

...Allegro
Crystal decanter, wine in a glass. 
Tabletop woodwinds court candlestick brass.
Fine sterling service, stems in a vase.
High-tone enamel meets low double bass.
Pale yellow roses, peaches...

Categories: grease monkey, art, music,
Form: Lyric

Running Outta Gas

...Used to be this high octane poet
Running outta gas, my poems sure show it
Need a fillup
Injection up my butt
Of phrases like “grease monkey in the pit”...

Categories: grease monkey, endurance,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Grease Monkey Rings

...It took him two trips to set it all up.
He kept it simple just the way 
he thought she'd like it.. 
A basket of fruit and ritz crackers
ham and cheese sandwiches,,,
and her favorite
a giant wed...

Categories: grease monkey, relationship, roses are red,
Form: Free verse

Running Outta Gas

...Used to be this high octane poet
Running outta gas, my poems sure show it
Need a fillup
Injection up my butt
Of phrases like “grease monkey in the pit”...

Categories: grease monkey, writing,
Form: Limerick

Grease Monkey

...Grease Monkey Rainbows
                                by Odin Roark

How colorfully the reflective smears ignited the senses.

How sinuous the undulating slick remained forever permanent,
its ...

Categories: grease monkey, father,
Form: Free verse

Grease Monkey Supplicant

...the lackluster heart
is a careless companion
his tarnished love is a thin man with hungry eyes
loved only by her mad mad mind
with a clean beauty to her that shines
the sour bread is bitter wine...

Categories: grease monkey, beautiful, beauty, christmas, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Impish Legacy

...Impish Legacy
            by Odin Roark

He was like you and me
Arms 
Legs
Regrets
Passions

With little that stood out
Save his church-Sunday handshake
His calloused palms
Telling much of
This no-no...

Categories: grease monkey, life,
Form: Free verse

I Put On For Pittsburgh

...I trip to the O, 
For grease monkey fries and a 40oz,
Scaling the Cathedral of Learning,
This is Oakland.

A roll of the die,
Stadium of choice,
Clemente Bridge connects us,
This is North Sho...

Categories: grease monkey, dedication, happiness, life, places,
Form: Free verse

Story of My Grandpa's Estate

...


Once upon a time
On a plateau
In a French hiding place
because in my opinion somebody wrote some cheques
that kept bouncing back
...

Categories: grease monkey, confusion, death, life, people,
Form: Free verse