Imagination
...LC
I bought an eighty-inch TV,
just for the box—
set it up like a teepee.
Jump in like tee-hee!
Throw the screen out the window.
Let it crash.
Now there’s an 80” stuck in my lawn,
and peopl...
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Categories:
screen out, adventure, art, boxing day ,
Form: Narrative
The Report
...The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light,
Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night.
It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen,
and then blasts into the iris of my eye, half...
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Categories:
screen out, work,
Form: Free verse
Woe and Wonder
...Questions exist
with no answers
In my quest for origins and ends
I see others like me, sociable
open to beauty, struggling
to know divinity- Yet in
all my quiet contemplation
I cannot screen o...
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Categories:
screen out, anger, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Antiques
...I go about my daily tasks that are necessary
to keep a household humming along smoothly
like the works of the antique clock on my dresser
over a century and a quarter old
The little teeth of the ...
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Categories:
screen out, history, loneliness, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Passing Through Airport Security
...Passing Through Airport Security
By Elton Camp
A sign on the wall had this to say:
New security measures begin today
Due to terrorism they’ll commence
To be done a way much more intense
M...
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Categories:
screen out, funny
Form: Rhyme