Long Clanks Poems

Past the grain fields clanks the old train,
and it goes beyond the fertile valley;
then it vanishes amid the swaying hills,
not too far from the massive castle
built by the Normans, and it's pelted by rain,
washing the...

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Inside the Dishwasher everyone rushed!
Clinks, clanks, rattles, 'Ouches' and ' Ohs'!
"Would you pa--lease, settle down!" said Deb--They hushed.
"Now we can hear...let's just see how this goes."

Curious, Peter, looked out through a chinc,
And watched Vie and...

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An eerie glow swallows up the sun as our men lie wounded,
Brass against iron, loud clanks of armor, and the glorious hymn of victory,
Today we are knights, and our bodies float above the crushing tides...

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Mirror, Mirror 
I look at the clear glass in front of me framed with decorative carvings 
Back at me stares a pair of somber eyes 
With those eyes I see the fiery abyss of my...

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For Didds

Four tankards found at the foot of the hill
Bet someone got w*nkered, and now they feel ill
Bet it went down so easy that no one resisted
And now they’ve forgotten the tankards existed
But down at...

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In your blood we are birth,
In you we shall die like sons,
When the wind shall call of
A global village; you'll stand.
Of a truth your erotic voice is
The envy of many nations.
Before the night cut's heal...

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“Four dollars a shot,” 
marched from the bartender’s mouth - 
each syllable carried the clanks
of Herbie’s Rhodes – jutting like 
glacier crags in swells of desert-base. 
They carried the smoke curling like 
a silver chain...

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The land around here looks like it belongs to the side of a lake,
it slopes downward gently, suggesting a meeting with water,
it front-yard-surfs on grass rippling winds,
it slowly sails under the puffy power of clouds.
but...

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Delicately smoke stacks rose in tendrils
From my lobotomised mind, tracks of steam
Channels which searched for surrendour 
Teased unfamiliar air aflame, eventual glean

Chances which blind chases never uncovered 
Now relaxed stance soul caresses confirm
Worth in the...

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 April's Torment - The Villanelle Of The April Fool

April couldn't stop thinking about the April Fool
It was just so april fish and pranks
Never had she known anything so dual

That morning, April was shocked by...

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Same old routine, same venue too
We join the queue, I order
Flat white for her with fern motif
Tan crema round the border
For me a capuccino, large
With sifted chocolate powder
Baristas all look younger now
The music slightly louder

We...

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Yellow cabinets, like sunflowers are planted on top of floral walls,
the sink is clean; the lemon scent still lingering in the corners, 
the cooker whistles, and the sound echoes excitedly, bringing smiles to the waiters,...

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TWO LOVERS FRESH....... 

I watch two lovers in fresh embrace 
through my installed double glazing 
they seem too young for such desire 
that all embracing consuming fire.... 
It warms me, innocently gazing 


My border yields...

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My Life as a Car

Rusted and busted see my orange face
Used to grace the showroom place
See these broken eyelights that shone so bright
They saved your life one darkened night
Edsel body, wet shell to forget
Dear little...

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Driving past the couple 
I could see
They were heading my way
Expecting tea

Now anyone is welcome 
At my humble home
Except those two
Why have they come?

She clanks her teeth when she speaks
His nose always running... he eats...

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She guides me in and sits me down.
Not the Remington portable typewriter this time.
I grab a pen and some parchment they have more life i believe.
The mechanical twists and clanks sound so hollow.

In this depression...

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The sibilant wind blows 
over frosted shingles of cracked porcelain.
Passed chain link a fissured road 
wends the dry creek of my mind;
downtown the stars are charted
at a four-way stop of plywood windows,
oxidized copper's turquoise matte.

The...

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Lets leave you here'...

um over there...

Feel the freedom pier! And clanks in their dear old ships heightened, and waiting the fear. 

The weed of the consternation, and overall equity to be so lazy about a...

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The clinks and clanks                               ...

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at night, in the darkest part of the hour,
during the quietest part of the night,
my house speaks.
painful clanks of plumbing
complain of rusty pipes, 
shifting uneasily in iron skin.
walls, old and creaking,
move restlessly amongst rotting wood,...

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A building ruin touches my heart
Its days of worthiness are now gone.
Its French doors are now falling apart
crumbled bricks inhabit one-time-lawn

Weeds climb trellis instead of lace vine
Honeysuckle no longer calls bees.
Bush roses at last gave...

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Summer Sounds I

an alarum of distant clanks
wakens drowsy heads 
bright eyes inspect the room
outside the sun is calling
tapping on the windows
with cedar branches, “get up”

cow bells clank in dull chorus
they trod home for relief
milk splishes...

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The glass chatters, clanks, and shatters
As it hits the ground
But makes no sound
The only thing heard is the
Screams of pain
As I get hit into the glass
Blood everywhere
Pain unbearable
The ripping of flesh
Cracking of bones
Screams of pain
Yet...

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This old House
__________________________
This old house, clinks and clanks
some things are broke, and then some aint
Fix it up before it  breaks
this old house.

Could be made of stone, or even mudd
but still, it would make a...

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My boredom stretches like a steel girder across the abyss
to wherever it is that boredom ends.
My dog wines his most insistent whine,
the one that says, “I’m bored too”.

The TV runs, background noise to the dog’s...

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