Flotsam
...He was a Professor of Difficult Sums,
Always kept a writing pad near,
Just in case of instant revelations,
With pencil parked behind one ear.
He could quadrate equations
With consummate ease
A...
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Categories:
mechanicals, culture, irony, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Melancholy and the Pale Machinery Part Iv
...Of pale melancholy
And the infinite fall
Of broken machinery
Cast upon vast shores
Decimation reservation
The prodigal son returns
Jagged reigns of jaded egos
Amber suns stretching upon...
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Categories:
mechanicals, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Akula
...AKULA
Mark and I caught the last plane from Ft. Lauderdale to New Orleans to escape Hurricane Andrew, leaving Akula ,our boat, tied up at Rolly Shipyard to face the wrath alone. The next few hell ...
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Categories:
mechanicals, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Strange Be the Comparison
...Of her and Thee,
Strange be the Comparison!
The Mid-Summer’s Shine,
And the old-autumn’s!
That Pine in the peak,
And that by the forest’s feet!
The Romans were, or the Greeks,
And these aimles...
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Categories:
mechanicals, for her,
Form: Free verse