He Rides By Night
...A polished metal skeleton
gleams under a porch light.
He slides a silver tube
beneath skinny legs,
pivots on a straining fulcrum,
meshing gears rattle,
knees unlock.
He rides by night.
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Categories:
polished metal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Judd
...Sculptoe Donald(Don) Judd
made a name with quite a thud
Objects in glass&polished metal
simple& so minimal...
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Categories:
polished metal, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Odyssey From Africa 11e
...Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 11e, The Island Kingdom (continued)
Matto, Lisa and their parents
Contemplated now a journey
On the ocean that was longer
Far than any in their memory
One wh...
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Categories:
polished metal, adventure, africa, history, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Mirror, Mirror
...I pass by, as I eye, my eye;
I see something nearer, nearer;
On the wall a reflection of myself, myself;
it isn't clear so, never clearer;
As I look upon the mirror, mirror;
Mirror polished meta...
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Categories:
polished metal, analogy, anxiety, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Exclusive Birth Rights
...Exclusive Birth Rights
I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose wit...
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Categories:
polished metal, humanity, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Memories Mirrored
...Memories Mirrored
by Odin Roark
A Boy Scout essential
The polished metal card mirror
The unbreakable monitor
Made to master Morse code
Used to measure wanna-be whiskers
And such
S...
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Categories:
polished metal, war,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Cometh
...Christmas Cometh
by Ingrid Showalter Swift
Through a wind that never stops blowing
the house holds fast to the light
flickering candles in each window
hope calling out over a canvas of landscape ba...
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Categories:
polished metal, christmas, devotion, faith, home,
Form: Free verse
Metal On My Knee
...I can see small pieces of metal on a knee
and I walk into a shadow
and puts me down
because my pants
black and worn
not shall gleam as polished metal
over the knees...
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Categories:
polished metal, lifeurdu,
Form: Ghazal