Oddments Poems - Poems about Oddments

oddments of a life lived

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there are fragments lingering
of my past
   bits and dregs
        the wreckage
the remains of what was once
          the ruins
                     junk
                         debr...

Revel In A Luscious Glimpse

...Deep blood red orange cloud’s,
ethereal dream float,
Satin wind carrier of luscious mint,
green hymnody’s deft transport,
Spring hues random loitering,
between gray peeled branches,
Chirpy echo...

I Dream

...Written: September 06, 2023
I dream poetry                                      Sponsored by: Ink Empress   
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I wander i...

The Collector

...Pens, and pen knives,
minor gadgets and gizmos,
chopsticks
old zippo lighters,
motheaten books
that crumble an old-fashioned wisdom
into the mush of a quaint twaddle,
words to muddle over
on ...

Rising Thoughts - Collab With Jo

...High alpine meadows are dusted with wildflowers,
And the faraway horizon is outlined with craggy mountain peaks,
Half-asleep lights blink through the sun-painted mist,
The sunrays dip at varying a...

He Reimagines

...He records the works of his life, the ephemera
he once scrawled onto the tissue thin,
thinking them indelible blueprints.
Most were fables told to a dying legend,
Pastimes, that were chariot whee...

A Poem

...Poem
 is a patchwork quilt
tacked up with emotions
with words, oddments sublimely
selected......

Peepholes

...I find that if I cut a lens-size whole
in a cardboard box then place that box
over my head the stars
arrange themselves
into, not the named constellations,
but ordinary oddments once lost then f...

The Poet

...Her mind accumulates oddments and curios,
contrivances with strange linkages,
attachments that bolt unlikely parts together;
the mechanics of metaphysics.

Pieces of something she is sculpting o...

The Poet

...He accumulates oddments and curios,
contrivances with strange gears,
attachments that bolt unlikely parts together.

Pieces of something he is structuring or
assembling, a mechanism
too intrica...

Incompetent's Guide To Gift-Giving

...I was in a bookshop the other week 
(I’m a bit of a second-hand bookshop freak.)
In the crafts and hobbies section I spied
an interesting Home-Made Presents Guide.
Now, I’m not tight-fisted but w...

Haberdasher's Thoughts

...Haberdasher’s Thoughts


The haberdasher has
that season of the year
he rids his racks, his bins
of oddments.
I have no season of the year
like that. 
Today, or any day, a derby, 
spats or ...

Moving Day

...Musty boxes
Resting belligerently in forgotten corners
Gathering dust
Waiting to be dissected
Eviscerated
Purged of their jumbled bits and bobs
The oddments of a family of lives
Muscled arms h...

Before I Sleep

...O, look how I shake the clouds
Not to dust the oddments of 
Dreams, but to wish them back, sweet 
As your prurient lips!...

In a Wink Its Past

...It begins in innocence,
 
 The world greets,

 Wraps its arms tight,
 
 Welcomes!

 Honey sticky sweet childhood drips, lick.

 Dreams bloom, flourish,

 Wild hope rampant, vision sharp.
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