Long Trimmer Poems

gardens are where we are:

  from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
  from mountain to coast, town to country
  from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...

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* I wrote my first poem 2 years ago, to celebrate, I've written this poem where I've stole my own rhymes from my own poems and morphed it all together enjoy

I'm a quick wit picnic...

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Let’s face facts you’re a motherloving no one
couldn’t find a flow if you were looking at the ocean 
I’ll stand and deliver like I’m living in a river
Your thoughts are all flops 
like the tap...

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Grandma’s Hands


You wish me plenty good things
Your safe travels and good fortune 
I rightly claim 

Your purpose and plan you’ve acclaimed
Your poise and gentle grace , angelic 

Your only spoon of rice you gave your...

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Trim Trimmer get your head out the gutter,
forget the overbearing suffer and the bother,
forget the negative air you breathe like a monster,
prove you're a man and come out from undercover.

Now listen Nicholas,
your life is ridiculous.
The...

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husband 
didn’t pay attention when she started to change her look,
after all, she’d been saying how she wanted to for a while &
it seemed to make sense,
what with her going back to the gym full...

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I remember back a year or two when waiting for the barber’s chair,
where Bill Crosbie snipped around the heads, relieving excess hair,
and Bill’s as typical a barber that you’re ever deemed to meet.
He liked to...

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I feel if you want to steal my limelight
then you had best learn to rhyme tight,
and double up your rhyme with each line 
like mine so that I might feel the fright, 
decline and beeline...

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There’s a picture going around of a man who’s from our city 
he’s got his Johnson out and my gosh it is a biggie 
the girls have shared it with all the girls it’s gone...

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I drive around a bi-cycle
a cycle bike psycho 
at night a light’s on
my-ma (ma) mountain bike
oh it’s a little delightful 
my seat on my cycle 
I ride all night on
my-ma (ma) mountain bike 

I’ll jump...

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JUST    TOO    LATE

Five  past five
Sign across the glass door states “Closed”.

At the adjacent store I had just left,
There were no more spools of whipcord
For the grass trimmer
Which I...

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Summertime, 
And The “Livin Ain’t” Easy
Written: By Tom Wright
3-18-2008

I slept for five long hours and when I awoke
I was dazed and wobbly like a wheel with bent spoke
I showered & dressed and at the mirror...

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Poems I write may make me look a dunce 
so I’m going to take my time for once
See if this brain is with impotence 
Or when strained there’s difference 

A stanza with 2 rhymes in...

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3/21/17



Is it going to be the low, high, wrong or right path?

Something I've grasped

You can't get any time back

Days and nights just might pass

Quite fast

The weather and intentions of people colder than ice packs

Humans kill...

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I’m ready for
Tic Tac Toe
Cause I got
my own rhymes to show
Watch me shine
My X’s are always in a row
Can you feel the room react
as it feels my glow
The Tickity Tac Tac
Clackity Clack Clack
Ricky Rhyme Time...

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To husbands who are mystified
We offer here this marriage guide.
You'll have the finest union yet
If you accept this alphabet.

A  dopt a female point of view.
B  e strong, but gentle, kind, and true.

C ...

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   Christmas is just around the corner
   convulsions in the stomach region
   Poor elves who create all the toys
   and Santa takes the credit

   Squeezing...

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Passing of the New Year
We could have had champagne and not Buck’s fizz, but then we aren’t in showbiz. We glorify and harness God’s creation in full spirit, praising his glory. The passing of the...

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My truest friend, I am conveyed to say.
Is never more than a thought away.

His name? You ask, I recall plenty.
Met when I was nearly twenty. 

Late nights and girls, we had a blast.
Our bond grew...

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Harvesting Youth


Harvesting youthful energy 
Takes time and vitality 
Diamond and ruby 
Hand and machinery 

Poof goes the jazz hands 
A trimmer in the extremities 
And tapping shoes
A person off beat and balance

Heavy feet drag 
Brittle...

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A chance you armed as FOX YIN TUNG..
Trimmer chances will wangle out of laws.
Chance your arms are smuggle men.
Hong Kong FOX YIN TUNG had chance to come true.
Chance would be fine as there are only...

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S/HE who walks with contempt S/HE
who creates nothing but criticizes 
everything S/HE who waits in a hole, 
oh so comfortable, hoping that it will 
stay that way forever S/HE who swears 
allegiance to others in...

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Written: October 30, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
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as
gloominess
drops to the ground
the lamplighter performs his
rounds. Equipped with his
ladders, wick trimmer
matches, long...

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Radios blaring, televisions drumming on and on and on
The faucet drips, the dishwasher hums
A soft blowing sound from the air conditioner
The refrigerator dropping ice..then filling with water

Ticking clocks on the bed stands
The ringing of the...

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A Minute In The Mind Of A Poet

this work was done,a death view of paradise
& probably not the end, of it last night
(what a magnificent day, i said to myself
"fine" everyone i know your draught,...

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