Long Ceramics Poems

The Great Escape

Perched on a rooftop terrace in glorious sunshine he watches ahead
Floats on his sky looks inwards and ponders the magic path unravel
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Konrad’s hoover hovers from wall to wall in the back room of his mind

A partial vacuum once the power switch is on and all neurons are firing

Time for a good clean up the curtains have...

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I've tied my shoes, as I fold my hands to the completeness;
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…from as far back as I can remember I have made, “things”.  I remember before I began school, at my grandmother’s home in Detroit and working at her kitchen table, where we would spend...

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They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as grain, gold, textiles & ceramics,
animals & people,
purveyors were born like...

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(a love poem for my son)

Dreams spill out of sleep
sift across the hardwood floor
covers the window 
in colors of May

slamming me back towards childhood
or perhaps just to the ashtray.
One forged with labor
in elementary school ceramics;

patient...

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She’s a switchblade, blackjack,
Knuckle-duster dame.
Got the proper block and tackle,
Lash your rigging to the frame.
She put the drill press to your taproot
And the grindstone to your saber.
Good for sharpening your senses,
Keeps you on your best...

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By profession I’m an artist
In ceramics and in paint
Where with talent, flair, devotion
I create modern and quaint.
Some time back I was invited
To exhibit in Milan
So I worked in clay and managed
A good abstract, with elàn.
Finished...

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3/21/17


A stagnant
Fragment
Beside a magnet

Found placed in an outdated
Basement
Sitting adjacent
To something ancient
And makeshift

An area with stuffy air
Was here then there
Going up the stairs
Some of which needed repairs
Went past several chairs
And a kitchen table with a bowl...

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We stand on the shore where blue sky meets 

blue grey horizon seamless, faultless, dynamic,

tide laps the beach with timeless, metronome  beats,

seagulls hovering, hanging from the sky like ceramics,

waves building gaining power, spraying the...

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It was the last room, that she laid in;
Warm to the touch, in that instant;
In within the blink of an eye;
she did flown, fled flied flown;
unto the bosom of Our Lord;

Room full of ceramics, porcelain;
Colored...

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In a loose constrict
In what I am doing here
It occurs to me
A commonality
Between a Cat Lassie
And a Potter sometimes in a Frock.
 
It must be understood
The different characteristics
Of admire, aspire and inspire.
 
The inventor of...

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Among broken ceramics, old doll clothes, and books
Was a tiny trinket of the past no bigger than a half dollar
Bringing a rush of long kept memories into my heart
I held in my hand the dog...

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Let me tell you what had happened
When two children's day had darkened
Home alone, fed up with Communism
They decided on some Spiritism.

Naughty brother and his sister
Started chanting a tongue twister
Shaking, dancing,twirling a spatula
Air head kids called...

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Standing in Cairo market
streets bustling
horns honking
children’s
laughter
ball throwing
heat simmering
the melting pot.
Caught
in between
ancient and modern
sellers market
wares and bargain
prices over jewels and silks
fruits and vegetables.
Something about Cairo
City Triumphant.

Sipping espresso at a near
by cafe in the 
center of the...

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Years ago, in Budapest,
I bought ceramic mugs
As presents for my son and wife;
They thanked me and gave hugs.

The pottery was quite unique;
I bought some for myself,
Which sits there in my kitchen
On a front-and-center shelf.

I couldn’t...

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Making Breakfast    

     by Edmund Siejka

We live 
Where trees 
Reach out
To shade
A quite place.

Saturday morning
Chores 
Kids still asleep
She moves effortlessly
Cracking an egg
Then another
Adding seasoning
Stirring
A blur of movements
A flick...

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C	ontentment on hot summer days is to lay me down gently
                upon the glossy, cool, red ceramics tiles, that refresh...

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Kaolin ceramics shelved for display
A framed mirror suggests a window into time
Fortifications in a continuum surround this fortress

Inside a Southwestern style is secured
Bulldozing nature for architectural delight
Rich in warm tones and textures of stucco
Baroque oval...

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It's a final sale, no exchanges, no refund; grab anything that you like...
all items sell for a dollar or less, even grandfather's four-wheel bike.


Over forty two years I have collected transistor radios, vinyl records, ceramics...

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The Nine Million Dollar Bowl 

By Elton Camp

This account may seem fantastic, but it’s true
It’s just astonishing what some people will do

The small, red bowl is called a work of art
I’ve seen just as good...

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(19th century Tibetan Wangden rug)

Primal Properties

I look around at all the art I have collected
An assortment of inherited, home made and bought,
Ranging from African to Asian to Persian
With a smattering of European and American 
In...

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I had him reserved superb name
Simply to awaken the flame:
Grey Floyd proclaim “Never to fall”
This saying in Reception Hall
For Praised Artists’ Exhibition
That should address Inhibition
A crime make of Prohibition
And quite ignite The Ambition 
“Yeah, I...

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How I love this time of year
When Christmas markets beckon!
All major cities have them
And some small towns, too, I reckon.

The festive booths display their wares,
A lot of them hand-crafted,
Their quality assuring you
That no, you won’t...

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Here in Minneapolis,
In weather bright and cool,
We crossed the Mississippi 
Then we headed to the school.

Two students helped to guide us
To the campus place for art,
A museum by Frank Gehry,
Not a shabby place to start.

We...

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