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Mainspring Poems - Poems about Mainspring
Jan's Still Dancing the Highland Fling
...Hello dear Jan how are you doing Are you still dancing the highland fling Once tried it in vain Difficult with a cane This oldie has a broken his mainspring for Jan Allison......
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Jack Ellison
Categories:
mainspring,
anxiety, cheer up,
Form:
Limerick
Minds Meeting
...Similar brains swarm in the direction of leaning. Truth intervenes, each seeking some meaning. There's no one set piece or original tune to sing. Whatever power it gives, this is life'......
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Sotto Poet
Categories:
mainspring,
analogy, appreciation, best friend,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old Wooden Clock
...In the square of the town, is an old wooden clock with a movement that only one time has been wound. You can try to get answers, but no one will talk, though the rumors of horrible sights still ab......
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Jeff Kyser
Categories:
mainspring,
halloween, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
Anti-Poem the Chucko Children
...The Chucko Children roller derby brains passing into the steel mainspring if we eat these slivers of veal paradox and watercress the chucko children will slip beyond the sly pastures they wi......
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Stark Hunter
Categories:
mainspring,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Mainspring
...He took chances where there were none and created options when recourse called for momentum. Not by choice but by the necessity of dreams and dislike for being left out of control. In the en......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
mainspring,
courage,
Form:
Haibun
The Tree
...Wearing emerald crown, you can form a forest; You better know, unity is our strength; With a signal of green you stand very strong, You preach all theory to rectify our wrong, Positive attitude ......
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Manmath Dalei
Categories:
mainspring,
environment, nature, tree,
Form:
Narrative
For My Love She Stands
...What on her disgruntle to sidetrack my dear love- When by all means all hers are the mainspring of my joy? Her face; yea, hers, is the mellow effulgence of moon That sweeps away malaise out of my ......
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Kwach Abonyo
Categories:
mainspring,
girlfriend, love, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Adrift In Daydreams Upon the Banks of the Nile
...an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got bui......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
mainspring,
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
No Need For More Sorry
... For My Daddy Quickly came months, disintegrating years to gone. In that way, time did alter-sway my grieving sphere. My initial crying mainspring long ago stopped though,......
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CayCay Jennings
Categories:
mainspring,
absence, death, father daughter,
Form:
Lyric
Winding Our Way Through Time
...The rising sun marks break of day Its zenith, we call noon. Its setting brings the evening chill And ushers in the moon. The sundial charts its burning rays. Its pathway plotted out Predicts ......
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Dean Wood
Categories:
mainspring,
time,
Form:
Rhyme
Unwanted Violin Solo
...UNWANTED VIOLIN SOLO She wrested notes from unwilling And resisting rosined string. The rhythm struggled to assert control Over her strained and anxious soul. Mother shushed her resistin......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
mainspring,
music,
Form:
Couplet
Start
...My origin was unknown to me, No mainspring in my mind; Mesmerised by mundanity I blanked the grave maturity Of growth, and stumbled blind. I met the light and it met me, Erupted in my e......
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Tony Bush
Categories:
mainspring,
life, love, passion,
Form:
Verse
The Time Is Nigh
...Rotate of hands, the time is nigh, cleaves the fading digits past tense; and never will I turn back the clock, mainspring of what I once was, all that unfathomable consequence. Existence purlo......
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Tony Bush
Categories:
mainspring,
history, lost love, love,
Form:
Verse