Short Clockwork Poems

erasing twinkling galaxies
like clockwork
wipers...

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In machine kingdom,
thousand minds work in chorus
smoothly like clockwork!...

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Clockwork drudges
Luther Maxwell,
Turning into progressively more advanced 
Scarlet kink...

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sunrise resets time
as regular as clockwork
few markers standing


posted on April 11, 2025...

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a.m. and p.m.
like clockwork we’re greeted, Chris.
he’s cuckoo for love

1/14/2020...

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Clockwork Cat

Pats my sleepy cheek.
Hits my eyelids, boops my nose.
Yelling please get up!

-by Edlynn Nau
©April 13, 2019...

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Lights Out

By Nathan Hannen

Shadows creep and time ticks
Babies weep and clockwork clicks
Night turns to day, Onward marching

The End....

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no rain brings no weeds 
grass ceases to survive 
like clockwork it rains 

rain brings many weeds 
grass becomes green once again 
daily mowing starts...

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the tide like clockwork rushes in
reeling in summertime memories and such
joy comes in all shapes and sizes



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on March 24, 2025...

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you've sailed away
and left me behind

still much like the sun
i go through the motions
regular as clockwork

inside i wait



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on November 17, 2022...

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our hearts are in synch
spiritually beating
a physical rhyme

tempo increases
fluency arises from
movement so sublime

our quiet rhythm
a lovely clockwork
without space and time...

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The lonely is looking, 
The hungry is hunting, 
A scared little girl is missing her heart.

The dreamer is dying,
The fearful is flying,
And her clockwork teardrops are wound, but won't start....

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There is a sweet lady named Rose,
who has a very distinguished nose.
When the sun does shine,
her face it will tell time.
It works like clockwork til she blows.





12/24/18...

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Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
There is nothing I could say
That would ever make the ticking sound
Ever go away
Tick
Tick
Tick
Tick
Can't pinpoint the start
And will never know when it will end
My ever-ticking heart...

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The seasons come and go                                                              
Like our lives
We are bound by time
And as our end draws near
Just like clockwork
We will draw our last breath
And fade away with time...

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pleated mountains peaks
     clockwork waterfalls
       chiseled crevices
  pressure etched artwork
      cascading timeline
         gliding the dial

3-25-2021
Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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There are teenagers knocking and ringing
  the bells of the elderly nearby at night
  waves of stealing  cars and items of homes,
  Clockwork Orange returns installing fear
  but now it real and  beyond belief
  Armageddon near?...

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At rising dawn of man we were acquainted with the flame
Then our clockwork devices channeled nature's force made tame
But there is one more energy which flies in a realm higher
Once love is harnessed we shall have again discovered fire...

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Count the seconds everlong
Linger with the turning hands
On and on we twist and turn
Calculating the time of our next step
Keep the pace

With every tick we flinch
On every tock we run
Raving about the steady ways,
Kept under the pendulum...

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pristine forest just behind you
lost where no one else will find you
off across the vast domain
of your childhood you remain
don't reveal your clockwork crystals
whirring,spinning
in the mist all
things will right themselves
in time
never 
consecrate
the crime...

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Tomorrow is here,
the reckoning of another day gone.
Rushing at the open door of now,
spent before I can wrap myself around it.

A wave of time that crashes with surprise,
slips away without looking back.
Hands that cannot hold it,
point at the door through which it has gone....

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Iv been looking for a place to plug into
Levels are so low 
Way below the line
We waited 

For years it rained
Every morning like clockwork
The trees shook
And the birds took off

Later I dragged my shadow 
through the mud 
Betrayed by the sun
I no longer followed...

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april brings us
its share of miracles
of life that sprouts
in shades of green

every year the cycle
like clockwork
rejuvenates yet
we are always in awe

spring give rise
to our sense of salvation
and of hope that
we have not been forsaken



posted on April 7, 2025...

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Have you seen a golden morning 
With dew kissed grass
Long shadows slowly receding
And the sweet hello the birds sing

The day renewed across the sky
As the world awakens again
Slowly the clockwork creaks and groans
As well rehearsed life energises the day.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Out of all this murder and rape,
we never once stopped to listen to the basement tape
telling us to live our lives with God
even though it was rather odd.
We never stopped to think
that's why the ship has sank.
We will just keep going with our useless lives
pass around another drink....

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