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Puttering Poems - Poems about Puttering

Premium Member Fiddler Met Twiddler
...Fiddler met twiddler on his way to church fidgeting and diddling, their fingers in a lurch Fiddle-sticks and Fiddle-faddle stopped to watch and stare puttering and muttering, one day in autumn’s a......

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Categories: puttering, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scoundrels Living Loud
...Two birds like mischievous teens skipping, giggling as they cross the pumps, dodging car scenes through the oily and Oldsmobile dross. Scoundrels living loud in their little world chir......

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Categories: puttering, bird,
Form: Personification



Premium Member The Impotent Poet
...sputtering poetry, the impotent poet tells me, she was “…puttering around Pittsburg.” potent poetry. perhaps, alluring alliteration potentially portends ......

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Categories: puttering, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Seraphina
...Whatever happened to Seraphina?— precious doll of Caroline, a present for her seventh birthday in April, eighteen-eighty-nine. Her body was of softest cotten, her hands and face from china mad......

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Categories: puttering, cute,
Form: Rhyme
The Broken Record
...The only lesson I have learned is that everything was meant to burn . Leaving in it’s ashes the repeating rueful record that’s always stuck on one track. Puttering out th......

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Categories: puttering, emotions, heartbreak, sad love,
Form: Alliteration



Recordings
...The house and barn have surrendered, burrowing under the loose dirt of the sun. Echoes run from house to barn, from barn to house, a ritornello hurried along on the skirts of the wind. Dust muf......

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Categories: puttering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Nuances of Daily Life
...I miss the nuances of daily life while weeks are frozen in this quarantine. I miss the lost normalcy of my days in all aspects, obvious and unseen. I miss turning my head to read the spines of t......

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Categories: puttering, animal, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wonderful World of Bubbles
...Feeling very trapped Dungeon canary getting ready to be zapped Proceed down a level Only giving a quotable shovel Building a winning case In a better place Riding in a vehicle to transfer......

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Categories: puttering, destiny, drink, fate, food,
Form: Rhyme
Only Past and Future Moments Exist
...Impossible mission to pinpoint present such fleeting moment instantaneously spent according to yours truly i.e. this gent mind boggled, intrigued, stymied... courtesy unseen minute (mine hoot, m......

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Categories: puttering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Recordings
...The house and barn have surrendered, burrowing under the loose dirt of the sun. Echoes run from house to barn, from barn to house, a ritornello hurried along on the skirts of the wind. In the r......

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Categories: puttering, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Defining Truth Defies Das Democratic Thinker In the Age of Trump
..."FAKE" assertions unstoppably bandied with beef, (sans doughty deeds done dirt cheap) courtesy of commander in chief trumpeted as a way to backout, embarrassment analogous to the thief of Bag......

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Categories: puttering, anger, anxiety, bullying, crush,
Form: Political Verse
While Climbing the Rocks
...While Climbing the Rocks Through trees and rains and Lakes I have lived, but today I shall remember, Remember the child who climbed rock mountains, Shutting out the city sounds and, Music of ......

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Categories: puttering, love, mountains,
Form: Romanticism
The Hen House
...Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant dwells amongst an elder net of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque of old folks, only a portion of population I met which achey, flaky, kooky m......

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Categories: puttering, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Mister Stanley
...Mr. Stanley died today. His nurse had been puttering around in his room, straightening his bed clothes, taking his vital signs. He decided to let her have one more go at it. “Mr. Stanley,” sh......

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Categories: puttering, death, farewell, goodbye, grief,
Form: Free verse
Puttering In the Mind
...Today I thought of thought itself, of all its joys and failings to be sure, but mostly of the wonder that they take me to, the countless things that open to my sight in ways that I had never se......

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Categories: puttering, allusion,
Form: Free verse

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