Fixing a Leak
...The plumber is fixing a leak;
The pipe’s needing more than a tweak.
So for things to improve
He will have to remove
Some wood panels - I’m starting to freak.
Our house, built in ‘80, is old
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Categories:
hammers, anxiety, house,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is But A Trick
...
Who knows how
Net turns ten
Now own to won
Off arm to mar
The sunshine of four
That rise to grow
Their sheep fur
Just like ours
As long as bride's gown
Unlike a fairy tale bird
Who...
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Categories:
hammers, art, dedication, growth, strength,
Form: Free verse
A Modest Enemy
...The argument of silence, absonant,
hammers into the pliant mind it’s hard
nails of craving.—a spirit thusly marred
will yield to any prickle, every scant
pressure to give in.—once the foreign i...
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Categories:
hammers, anxiety, confidence, fear, imagination,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Echo's Spiral Inward
...An echo is felt, touched, recalled,
it drums against our hearts,
strikes softly upon the ringing
shell of being.
An echo hammers upon an open door,
it is unconcerned with any closeted desires,...
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Categories:
hammers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Today, We Remember
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Today, we remember
the long, scorching march into the tombstone—
eyes like oceans, salt pouring from flesh.
Today, we remember
the cross, 300 pounds heavy,
bent and dipped into his head.
H...
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Categories:
hammers, betrayal, death,
Form: Free verse
Purple
...My jeans I’d wear, twirling in the air
the cousins, loved those kids; I’d
see them hardly ever, flying, laughing,
rising. Mother couldn’t understand
the wriggling out of the purple dress;
nails ...
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Categories:
hammers, memory,
Form: Narrative
Is This Love
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butterflies flutter in your presence
bluebells ring the sound of your voice
bold moon gives bright sun a turn
fireflies light when you smile
streams riffle your name
my heart hamm...
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Categories:
hammers, feelings, heart, love, moon,
Form: Nonet
BLUE CHEESE AND OLD PICKLES
...BLUE CHEESE AND OLD PICKLES
Looking back at the decades gone by
Over the wall at hammers and sickles
Berlin with a certain oldworld appeal
Just the setting for spy novels, I feel
For me, blue ...
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Categories:
hammers, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Miracle in the Spring Hills
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‘Tale of a Homeless Cat’
What an outstanding sunrise, that eventful day!
But I feared to see the clouds turn steel gray.
Then, the scary sounds of thunder!
It’s been month...
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Categories:
hammers, caregiving, imagery, poetess, woman,
Form: Free verse
June 26
...Violently thrashing and jerking and pulling
It implores me to act
Desperate to stay alive in it's final hour
Reminding me of our pact
It pleads, it begs, It cries to me
All the while concealin...
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Categories:
hammers, heartbreak, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Personification
In a Fix
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To fix with a hug or a kiss
means nothing much was amiss
When hammers and nails are required
~ the problem is truly dire
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Categories:
hammers, kiss, pain,
Form: Couplet
Hard Hat Times
...Yellow above the dredged-up earth.
hard hats, husky men
bent on constructive destruction,
Brush burning,
they flame throw their wands of
progress.
It all has to be done, done to be mended,
d...
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Categories:
hammers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ration
...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...
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Categories:
hammers, africa, america, bible, business,
Form: Narrative
Ration
...Reality is rising out of the earth, mixing water with dirt, the children are playing in the mud from morning until sun down and the crisis in the street have disrupted the long awaited peace, and I p...
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Categories:
hammers, africa, america, bible, business,
Form: Narrative
Enjoy My Life
...Enjoy My Life
Feel my death, walk on my life my loved love
Delete everything from our past, starting life
The new, crossing my life, loved by your life
Need you a died life, give him watery w...
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Categories:
hammers, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
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