Long Clunk Poems

How unparticular the day had particularly been,

On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,

For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,

Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.

 

‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,

From either...

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Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street.  Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug.  Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...

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I had an old auntie called Mable
Who could drink men under the table
She’d tell folks of her gout
Sup up six pints of stout  -
then stagger to the loo when able!

11~23~16

WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON


My paternal...

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Professor Henderson did pay no heed to the call of his wife. She shrugged her shoulders as did I. The Professors wife, Abigail, she left the hole with my assistance. We had dug to the...

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(Narrative)


So it was I sat across from this powerful Egyptian who had come to see me. He had been on the '25 expedition with my Mother and Father. That had almost been one year ago....

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THE DRAGLINE  for Pete Brett 

One hundred foot boom 
 7-½-yard bucket 
The tracks are like 
 Ones on the tracks of a tank
They go chunk clunk and clank  

Arm of the boom...

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I put eyeballs on rivals
as I survive and rise forth
an arrival of an idol
standing Eiffel with force
surprisingly viral 
taking titles and more
in a wave wide and tidal
winning prizes for sure

from miles behind to in front
a...

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oh hello-
my name is frigidair   and I am
a (retro) refrigerator
  for food
I have been in this apartment
      since 1950

a nice kitchen   but I cannot...

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pioneer esprit de corps front tier brisk.
*     *     *     *     *     *   ...

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Let’s go skiing ! Said my wife 
It gives you such a thrill
So off we flew to Canada 
To face the bitter chill

We took a bus from Calgary
To Banff’s National park
Found our hotel, went to...

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Drinks fridge murmurs accusations at me
Seals connect with whoosh of door close
Defuses incriminating strip of lights lairy
Where I go from this station, God knows!

Lady taking my coins sneers, fat old wench
Bottled coffee shaking, I scope...

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It’s not fun to watch the rust grow
So polish your shoes instead

There’s a bottle with the chemicals
In the nightstand by your bed.

Use it on your shoes—use it on your head:
That tired contraption on top.

The fun...

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Born into a life of poverty crime and squalor
where hunger and cold winds bite
and disease is rife
and it was a daily battle to stay alive
and find some food to stay alive.

Uneducated illiterate caught in the...

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Snick-woosh, rushing stream
Clink, gurgle, doppler shift
Glub then tinkle, drip drip
Crystal scrape metallic
A plastic click, pause, muffled hiss
Gurgle, snort, chuckle, snuff
Plink… Plink plink… Drizzle, drip, drizzle, drop
Coffee is brewing

Dry rustle, crinkle, pages on wood
Chock, thwock, slap,...

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Why can't I do it how I want to do it?
Been told my rhymes are sophomoric - at best
I may violate pentameter but I write what I like
Why must it pass some journal's vapid test?

Behind...

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Do you remember when we chased fireflies across the Serengeti?
How we woke at dawn to find the cheetah queen,
shining red like the sky?
And how after that,
Bobbing up and down with the clu-clunk of the land...

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Click
Clack

Click, clack
Click, clack, click

Click
Clack

Click, clack
Click, clack, click


On a steady morning walk -
Got a rhythm going
Hearing aids in
And yes, I'm "strollin'"

Click
Clack

Click, clack
Click, clack, click

Noisiest coat in the world.

Thunk
Rain drops falling
Thunk

Click, clack, thunk
Click, clack, clunk
Thunk, click, clack

Yes...

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Doing yoga in the dark
long before sunrise.
I heard a noise
out in the street,
a wayward son comes home.
A car door opened, a muffled laugh,
a quiet female voice,"...tomorrow.",
a closed door clunk, a departing car,
and then silence for...

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I was to interview my husband’s new secretary 
And was not excited or pleased
But he claimed he did not have the time
So I had her come to the house

Shoved the children upstairs 
Where they put...

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They are two freinds of a common cause. The company had documents  alot of documents for everything. If you were sick with the flu you signed the flu document, or if you had stomped...

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Our brains, the experts do opine,
Have a left side, a right side, and a dividing line –
But that daunting corpus callosum
I fear to cross it - there to, here from.

I started out upon a path...

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a set of old tires,
bald as a turtle's head;
the engine won't start,
'cause the battery's dead!

sank my last dollar,
on this piece of ol' junk;
all it does is rattle,
and go "clunkety-clunk!"

a funky lil' dealer,
in high water pants;
sold...

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1 Tequila Shot Down
I'm writing my first line.

2 Tequila Shots Down
I'm continuing to rhyme.

3 Tequila Shots Down
I could do this all day.

4 Tequila Shots Down
Um, uh,...What was I gonna say?

5 Tequila Shots Down
I can do...

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The Driving Award

By Elton Camp

At the early meeting that started the day,
Captain to state troopers had this to say:
Each of you watch for a driver who’s good,
One who does everything just as he should.

A new...

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Continued form pt1
    
    
    
       This is my only way I can communicate my wishes./ Of us exchanging passionate...

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