Short Clamps Poems

clamps down on joints,
a cold brokenness —
how pale are leaves this fall?

10/20/2019
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Bridges connecting lines and dots on roads where people pass
Edges and rims dissecting flaps and humps, cones and tones that rap
Clamps and bolts, braces and thongs, hashtags and pegs, anchor holds...

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Alligator attacks prey
Lunges out of the bayou
Loud head slap
Intense jaw clamps down
Gripping death roll
Another muskrat say good bye
Tail spin immobolized
On it's way down
River bottom cries....

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A
jar now
mutely holds
washers and clamps,
nuts, bolts, screws, buttons, and the oddity.
It once held the dreams I dreamt and jangled
with hopes, desires
I’d saved, lost
in one
life....

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BOXED LIDS  © Haiku +

fear
Don’t enclose me in 
Boxes come with four walls sealed 
 Seals me inside out! 
 

fear
BOXED IN!  ©  HAIKU +
A well fitted ‘box’ closets in
When the lid clamps shut
Capturing me in darkness!...

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Sparrow

“You are just a sparrow Honey Chile “
“I’m not” she said to him
“You sort of sometimes drive me wild”
She said “it is no sin”
“So shut up Chook I’m gonna talk”
He clamps her beak so thin
She squeaks an something, squawks
And then  she does him in

Don Johnson

For Francines competition 2nd...

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Sometimes I want to scream
and curse
and yell what I really feel
I want to just be able to express
what I feel
But I can't
It's difficult
like clamps are squeezing my vocal cords
and my fingers can't type 
what I feel
it all comes out a mess
and nothing gets fixed
I want to communicate
but my body disagrees...

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My mammogram is due today
Twill be mammorable, I’ll say
Both boobies will hurty,
When squashed at 1.30,
Oh bother it’s on my birthday!


I’ll stand at the booby machine,
It clamps me, oh boy it’s so mean,
They’ll check for breast cancer
Scans provide the answer,
Then birthday lunch in the canteen.

25th January 2021...

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Ollie, born 1997, plays for Chester football club, 
Having made his way through Chester juniors;
The club were delighted and chuffed for Ollie, 
To be going to Rio as one of the competitors. 

As the youngest person to play for England,
Ollie added much to the CP World Champs, 
In 2015 at St Georges Park, practice ground,
Because after this he was chosen with clamps....

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Physically ill after mentally drilled 
It’s one or the other
I have one shield

Laying in my bed naked
the room shakes my head
as walls begin to cycle
Eyelids cover eyeballs

My stomach says hello my friend 
My mouth immediately clamps shut 
but the aim is towards the other end 
I’m going to puke out of my butt 

I make two fists clenching my colon 
Unstoppable now flowing strong
i start to growl as inside I rumble 
a very loud fart hurts my bum hole...

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Words prance off shelves 
and hit me in the head
Trying to land in my mouth

Little do they know my mouth cannot use them
My mouth is afraid
of the wrath of others

But my fingers can use them
Will type them up quickly 
and make them a poem

Still they try for my mouth
Trying to make it “man” up
but it clamps itself shut more tightly than ever

Fearful of the wrath of others
Try for my hands I want to scream at them
as words prance off shelves, landing on my shoulders...

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