The Manual Clunk
...My typewriter
was not a good typewriter,
its keys were weighty,
you had to use brain muscle to work it,
nobody wanted it.
My son unpacked a home computer.
I stood by and watched
as all the e...
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Categories:
ham fisted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 Finis
...A Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms...
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Categories:
ham fisted, love,
Form: Rhyme
Our World's An Awfully Dangerous Place
...Chairman Xi, like Chairman Mao
Vladimir Putin, shades of Josef Stalin
Kim Jong-un, plus Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Iranian Mullahs producing drones and bombs
Our world is an awfully dang...
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Categories:
ham fisted, america, freedom, green, motivation,
Form: Couplet
American Gothic - With Apologies To Grant Wood
...I’d plow four rocky acres, maybe even five,
For a taste of the honey from my Honey’s hive.
No one spices the clover like my lover does
When we meet in the meadow and we buzz, buzz, buzz.
She’s ...
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Categories:
ham fisted, farm, love, marriage,
Form: Lyric
We Are the Stardust Men
...We Are The Stardust Men
Collaboration by Stark Hunter and D.Lee
Dedicated to T.S. Eliot
We are the stardust men,
the wayward stardust catching men,
dalliances of mind and shadow occur openly,...
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Categories:
ham fisted, august,
Form: Free verse
We Are the Stardust Men
...We Are The Stardust Men
Dedicated to T.S. Eliot
We are the stardust men,
the wayward stardust catching men,
dalliances of mind and shadow occur openly,
As we have cast off our anchors
And ...
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Categories:
ham fisted, angst,
Form: Free verse
A Narrow Escape In the Coffee Shop
...In the coffee shop
A mistimed twist
By the barista
Caused a hissing
Coffee jet to
Ballista towards
My sister and I
Worried it would
Hit her wrist and
Give her a blister,
But fortunately
It missed her...
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Categories:
ham fisted, humor, humorous, silly,
Form: Free verse
Simply Me
...Inexpert at rhyme
or singing in time
I bray like a laryngitic donkey
my artwork's inept
I'm ham-fisted except
when doodling things that are wonky
Of style I'm bereft
my feet are both left
splayed...
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Categories:
ham fisted, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Hunger
...Here,
where the black white shadows
pond and melt
her dress
flutters around the
pronounced scimitar
of her neck line.
Eyes whisper
fr-ig-id
with a syllabically thick accent
as i...
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Categories:
ham fisted, food, people, sad, social,
Form: Free verse