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Pistons Poems - Poems about Pistons

Seed
...Days have gone by since the moon passes through the sky I thought it was going to rain but it was just a little drizzle beating against my window pane and the stars move swiftly beneath the cushion ......

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Categories: pistons, age, america, appreciation, business,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Steampunk
...In the copper-clad cradle of time where gears whir fugues to forgotten dreams..... the fog—a somnolent specter—drifts..... veiling the calculus of progress a manuscript etched by steam and soot. ......

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Categories: pistons, literature, mythology, technology, time,
Form: Narrative



The Labyrinth and the Gardener
...A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation a......

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Categories: pistons, abuse, allegory, corruption, extended
Form: Free verse
M4
...M4 Lightweight— “You are so skinny, Trainee! You’ll never be a soldier.” I squeeze my eyes shut, tightly, each word heavier than steel. Magazine-fed— “You need to eat something, son. He i......

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Categories: pistons, death, soldier,
Form: Other
Victorious flirtatious foreplay
...Victorious flirtatious foreplay I awoke early - now my body will sleep, though thoughts rise like the Azores of snuggling next to such an adorable atomic bombshell of a beauty - boars into my ......

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Categories: pistons, 12th grade, absence, adventure,
Form: Rhyme



MAELSTROM II
... In the maelstrom… Black inferno machines are one. In the belly of the maelstrom, they rise, And nothing is compromised Black inferno machine Shadows against the night, Engines of hunger, ......

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Categories: pistons, anger, art, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Postmodernist Exhibition
... Last night's storm has left its artwork on the beach, a postmodernist exhibition of brown seaweed strewn in clumps like hair on a barbershop floor, broken seashells and a fallen rainbow of......

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Categories: pistons, art, sea, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Said
...Mother said to carry Dad's little green luggage, Godzilla my foe, I can do a step not a hundred, Mother said to put in you--that, it's all bronzed, Ugh, zip-phew Godzilla you stink your breadth. ......

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Categories: pistons, appreciation, character, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Marathon of Life
...In the marathon of life, we run with grit, In the sprint of moments, we dash with grace. In the relay of generations, we pass the baton. Our legs pump like pistons, hearts our engines, Ou......

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Categories: pistons, courage, life, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Horse Rider
...An expert rider, a solid horse, what greater pals can there be? To stretch the land amongst the hills, to charge past the wind and be free. The horse's hooves slam to the earth like an auto's fie......

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Categories: pistons, horse,
Form: Rhyme
The Aviators' Alphabet
...A is for Airspeed who graduated from Oxford B is for Bristol with their whispering giants C is for Convair and Canadair also B recalls Boulton-Paul who built many Defiants. D for De Havil......

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Categories: pistons, conflict, flying, history, howl,
Form: Abecedarian
triptych
...Hydraulic system, heart made of pistons Every co-ordinated mechanical manoeuvre My heart served to you on a platter, your hors d'oeuvre I look into your eyes, a deplorable disguise Retina......

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Categories: pistons, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Driving in the Snow with One Windshield Wiper
...Diagonal snow Glides effortless through the countryside of the Amputee windshield For the passenger side Has always had a reticent view Steam rises loftily From a topless treat Of gas stati......

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Categories: pistons, loneliness, memory, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgiven
...Held captive and caged in a tin shed, an old steam train sulks in its own stillness, a relic from another age. Its skin is cold and hard and has the smell of vintage grease. The fire that......

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Categories: pistons, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hissing Swishing Rumbling
...Hissing cars Swishing trucks Rumbling bikes Life is a highway Really? Combusting cylinders Pumping pistons Turning crankshaft Spinning flywheel Engaging transmission Motoring drive Tranfe......

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Categories: pistons, life,
Form: Free verse

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