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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...

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'...

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...

Categories: mainspring, halloween, horror,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Categories: mainspring, history, lost love, love,
Form: Verse