Hammer Out Poems - Poems about Hammer Out

...(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications) I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest. The sun finally rises and its......

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...An old manual typewriter sits on a hill of dust. Is that hunched ghost your wordless self? Does that self with its thick fingers still hammer out a silence, upon a borderless page, one ......

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...Sputnik Scare The beep-beep-beep signal scare, From the Sputnik artificial satellite Orbiting the earth; broadcast through air Continued for twenty-two minutes Until the batteries ran o......

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...Granny hit you with it you fly across the room she was a 5th generation hep cat a finger popping bebopster with double elbows you can have your two bit Buddha garden and your silly Jesus candles......

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...I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest. The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I dry my hair. A meal, like a forced dose, we soak ou......

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...I guess we cling because we have to all the ropes and ice-picks these things in the cold these icicles we hang on to And strung upon the precipice are the ladders precarious pathways set to i......

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...This Bumptious Poet © Once again dear reader, aye strive to regale ye with in apropos prate, (nee inane) vain null gibberish in order to suss stain mine infamous reputation wi......

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...Pale white against the ghostly fog Smoke curled for lack of oxygen Black rim glasses hide, head bows Conceal eyes of cool cat daddy-o In dark, goatee, groomed and moody Beret tilted silhouette......

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...Back in the blues funk; a lone acoustic, round top guitar sings. The whining-twang-between-stanzas, slide-notes on lightly bent strings. Fingers hammer out the timing on an, ebony fretboard.......

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...Having said what I said, Having done what I did, I will never keep my head short of spirit or down with regret. Alone in my agony, alone in my dynasty, I will stand still and dig and have thi......

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