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Polished Metal Poems - Poems about Polished Metal


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

Premium MemberClerihew 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

Premium MemberMirror, 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

Premium MemberExclusive 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



Premium MemberMemories 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

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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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things