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Horologist Poems - Poems about Horologist


The Horologist

...His fingers—spindly, delicate as a spider’s legs—
dart among the gears,
tools clink in whispers, sharp and sure.
He bends close, breath fogging the polished brass,
eyes fixed on the vortex of whe...
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Categories: horologist, metaphor, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse

The Clock On My Mantelpiece

...The Clock on the mantelpiece
Has a story to tell of love
It is a memory left behind
Like that of two turtle doves
My mother was in middle school
My father in her class
They were friends from gr...
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Categories: horologist, addiction, angst, green, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberInventing Time

...Inventing Time
David J Walker

The ancient argument of 
what’s been done

Measuring the 
Rising and the setting 
of the daily sun

And how long the night 
might last
And all that has pass...
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Categories: horologist, time,
Form: Rhyme

Sonority

...In the nascence of one’s polonaise,
Always an unknown tune invades, unseen, unfelt:
The sonority of a somber night-sonata,
Inside a cold, dark tomb.

Aleatory existence led by revolting wheels,
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Categories: horologist, death, desire, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Horologist

...I am quite a fixer....of clocks that are DIRTY old tickless clocks....
Lube 'em up and they purr like new. my new career?? what do yo think?

Celadon eyes with strawberry short cake locks of silk(...
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Categories: horologist, funny,
Form: I do not know?




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