Long Clickety click Poems

This Year’s Champion

It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue...

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A young girl stood at the school hall wall,
Some paper in her hand,
She shuffled her shoes while eyeing the views,
And the news on a notice board.
This space looks so impersonal, the wall so pale and...

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It’s the last of the snow
Spring finally arrived
Time to get ready for battle
Time to get my little hands 
On my bag of marbles
Way up there since winter
Abandoned on my bookshelf
A droopy, limp blue velvet bag
But...

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How do people do it?
For that matter, how do I pull it off?
Sitting in front of the computer for so many hours,
body compressed into a computer chair.
Feel a whole decade older than I actually am-
aching...

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passengers gather while their turn awaits
  very few standing out
  except for one, sprawling along my seat
  room for me, just about
  awkward two-handed pillow cupping head
  beyond waking, no...

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Just one more duty to perform...

The moon is full and navel orange on this hot August night. The crickets and tree frogs have just begun their sublime serenade. In the distance, the steady clickety, clickety,...

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Steam Travel
Steam Trains, are, archaic,
Romantic and prosaic,
It takes an army of volunteers
to keep these old trains going.
What will happen, in the future
There is just, no way of knowing,

To go by train,
on a summer's day out,
Hoping...

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Clique click clickety-click
If you are liked group acceptance is quick 
Clique click clickety-clack
Upset one, knives felt in your back
Clique click clickety-clock
Whispering messages sent round the block
Clique click clickety-cluck
Recreant bullies deliberate destruct
Clique click clickety-click
Treacherous two-faced hypocrites...

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Solitude
poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Silently the words
Tell me something
What am I feeling
No yelling .. only
Picture's rolling by
A mute is broken
And thoughts 
Are rolling in
Of broken times.

New days are comin ..
With new cravings.
Gone by midnight's 
Are replaced by
That awful...

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Walking along the busy street
the crowds mingle so fully free
attention grabbers out in force
camera's at the ready all to see

Nowadays mobile phones do everything
even taken a picture is all the rage
clickety click non stop all...

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Strappy white sandals with heavy heels
Clicking on the hood of his
1959 Pink Cadillac with the pink tailfins

Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap
If you think I am cute, your eyes can clap
Clickety Clickety Clickety Click. I am...

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Prepossessing pair liquefy as a still river’s exquisite glaze ~
An undercurrent ripples in the lazy meander to ply compliance
Yellow tones of twilight seep slowly, warming a cold demeanor

These two play in crepuscular light, ensconced in...

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Lost sounds that call a memory to life

Loose change jingling in the pockets of children.

Baseball cards riffling in the spokes of a bicycle.

The clack-clack of roller skates over sidewalk cracks.

The clickety-click of a stick dragging...

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Clickety-click, Clickety-clicks,
Maggie and Sharon are 66.
Friends forever, there whenever,
It's always fun when they're together.

Tickety-tick, Tickety-tock,
Time to share, no need for a clock.
Happy days roll on and on, there's 
Time for a picnic, time for a...

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Hush the whisperer is exhaling his/her sighs 
whispering softly, words barely heard --

to horses
"Keep calm, big fella, I dig Yah, don't daggle the reins"
to dogs
"Down boy, down, wag Ya tail if you understand, shake hands,...

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