41D North-49D West
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In April of nineteen twelve, a ship set sail so grand,
A tale of wealth and power, a journey well-planned.
Warnings were ignored, the ship sped through the night,
Men on duty sleeping, Calif...
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Categories:
rivets, boat, death, sea, water,
Form: Couplet
Light
...Trickling water, a natural bell
flows in rivets with carved rock.
Lush ferns spring up in the crevasses
rather alike the children of the water.
I hear the wind call me,
as I step onto the grassy...
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Categories:
rivets, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Water
...An ancient substance,
circling from the sky to the ground,
in its earthly home,
it flows profound.
With a body of jade blue,
twined with occasional rivets of light
it carries the thread of hi...
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Categories:
rivets, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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:
rivets, literature, mythology, technology, time,
Form: Narrative
Let the happy heart sing
...“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” -
Silent One
let the happy heart sing out loud and clear,
let air vibrate, reach angels in heaven,
golden rainbow awaits in rain to hear,
glories that ou...
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Categories:
rivets, birthday, celebration, earth day,
Form: Rhyme
HEART BEAT
...Soars beating is my heart
as it flex it's muscle so in part
it's flat Like an Eagle abreast
breath hovering over its nest
Elder Statesman and women sleep depressed
Nonchalantly inadve...
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Categories:
rivets, allusion, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
...I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough e...
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Categories:
rivets, abuse, america, anger, animal,
Form: Free verse
Bridges
...Eventually they all fail,
especially the ones made of blood
and ambition.
Then there is this:
there are trains pulling ghosts,
the drowned and crushed
reflected in a puddle of sky.
Despite...
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Categories:
rivets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
American Odyssey
...I watch you go quiet in mid-chatter.
You look up and inward,
your eyes deep-set and native,
I glimpse you,
not as that Irish girl brought up in the projects
but as an American legend, a promise
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Categories:
rivets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
...Ronald Rump reasonably roasted
Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled -
rickettsia re:itch ruler.
Rap...
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Categories:
rivets, 12th grade, america, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Poetry
...A poem is a conduit,
Like a cable or a wire.
It just provides a pathway
To communicate, inspire.
A way to share our inner self
Our psyche or our soul
Those feelings that we can’t express
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Categories:
rivets, emotions, pain, poems, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
The Riveting Woodpecker
...Gleaming golden ball revealing pines
Dark silhouettes against the jet-streaked sky
Roosters crow the sun up as doves coo refrain
Life seems simple salubrious as fledglings fly
That ...
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Categories:
rivets, animal, weather,
Form: Rhyme
The Woman With the Metal Bra
...She came in all flirty and dirty
attractive and active about thirty
all open jaws in the bar
a neon light, all eyes on her bra
made of metal rivets; they inhale,
pants out of shining chainmail.
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Categories:
rivets, dance, men, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Weak End Pay Check
...About any girl walking by
Can pop rivets off a man's fly
So what can we do
But make eyes at you
And hope your response is thigh high?*
*Inspired by an elderly woman basking
on Kuhio Beach...
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Categories:
rivets, relationship,
Form: Limerick
Dream of the Chair
...Stroking wrinkle and skin
Of his rivets and skinny legs
On top of a hill
An art school on the other side
He must had been one of the chairs
To support the students for generations
Their tri...
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Categories:
rivets, age, art, dream, flower,
Form: Free verse
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