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...
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Categories:
loading dock, art, music,
Form: Lyric
The Capsun Capsule
...Surreal, often not right just abstract.
half of something done for something
else seen as away of needing, but
being wanted from the position, of thought.
This the rhetorical rhetoric spoken by...
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Categories:
loading dock, appreciation, character, clothes, creation,
Form: Ballad
Ins and Outs Part 4
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
Dr. D. confers in panic
with Rex and boys at the Limbo Sa...
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Categories:
loading dock, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Rails-Chaucer Stanza
...I walked the rails out of my town this day and saw many things.
Train tracks are different marking a way that is often rank.
Weeds are here seen to conceal trash and rubbish a wild wind brings.
Bu...
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Categories:
loading dock, angst,
Form: Rhyme
All In the Family
...A family lived in a little row house in Queens.
When we saw them each week, there were numerous funny scenes.
The household head was adamantly opinionated.
This loading dock foreman was grossly un...
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Categories:
loading dock, nostalgiafamily, family,
Form: Rhyme
Archie Bunker At the Pearly Gates
...Archie Bunker at the Pearly Gates
By Elton Camp
Archie almost died at the loading dock
The experience, to him, quite a shock
“If the crate hadn’t missed, I’d be dead”
The scary thought ran t...
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Categories:
loading dock, funny
Form: Rhyme
Feel the Past
...An eyesore in the community as progress takes its toll.
Windows broken, rust on the old metal frames
Vacant, dust filled, old broken file cabinet in the corner
Taking a walk through it, I could fe...
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Categories:
loading dock, nostalgia, placesold, old,
Form: Narrative