Short Contraption Poems

Drinking contraption
He staggers to bed poorly
Puzzling headache...

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Once upon a timelessness,
a ripple wrinkle,
night and day begot.
The rest is history....

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The Detective Found

cheese
camera
squeaky needle
a contraption with a spring
smelling salts
a high chair
vinyl playing three blind mice

6/30/2018...

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The craziest gadget, widget, gizmo contraption.
Gave me immediate happiness and satisfaction.
I love this machine I told anyone who would listen.
It is sparkly with bells and whistles and it does glisten....

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thingamabob
unreal, unknown
maddening, bewildering, puzzling
doohickey, widget ~ gizmo, contraption
entertaining, guessing, laughing
funny, not funny
whatchamacallit


August 15, 2022...

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Henry Ford mass-produced the Model 'T' Ford,

A contraption the unwashed masses could afford!

'Twas the latest and greatest to include a crank and jack,

And he offered a choice of colors as long as it was black!...

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I heard the clicking
The ticking
The winding
The whirling
As I watch the gears turning
Clicking into place 
With each turn of a gear
Moving together
In a chain reaction
Causing something to happen
Within the little contraption...

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I had a piece of contraption
A funny pen, a source of distraction
Words came out in a snap
In one of the best kind of wrap
One day I wrote something so funny
Made my friend a foolish bunny
Funny pen died of stroke 
Erased all the lines I wrote...

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This man was a sleuth by profession,
for belated honeymoon session
reached on moonless night eerie
lodge in mist of mystery,
searched the room for bugging contraption.


July 31, 2019
Syllable count 9/9/7/7/9
Checked on howmanysyllables.com...

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I'm sorry,
Maybe we are missing something
But who is this?
This                                                thing
In the mirror.

This

Contraption.

For it is not me.
No my eyes were never that black
That dead
That
Broken.
I'm sure
I'm sure
I'm
Sure....

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(Written in the voice of the Bride of Frankenstein)

Where did you get your hair done, Cruella

My beast fancies a streak of vanilla

  Flames from your hair dryer?

  What brand? I won't buy 'er!

That hair contraption could be a killa



Written for the Techno-Limericks Contest...

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Peacock sports a hat with a rah rah rah
For a male bird, he is a kind of dawdy-dah
We tried not to stare at the contraption on his head.
He is crazy, this cuckoo bird, a designer said.

He’s a model, it’s not his fault argued his mother.
He wears it on the runway threw in his brother.
Getting no choice at all about what he has to wear.
The rest of us averted our eyes, trying not to stare....

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Lee rides a silver fish all day long was the report.
We call him Silver, and he is a good sport.
What is a silver fish? I asked my friend Tike.
Not sure, he answered, but it looks like a bike.

Silver Fish is a customized contraption made by Lee
He must purchase a car though, if he wants to date me.
I am not fond of pedaling, I have a bad right knee.
So, Silver and I decided to never a couple be....

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Our favorite reindeer, Donner was way too old to fly
He had arthritis in his ankles, his knees and his thigh
The rest of us reindeer built him a contraption to fly.
Now we take him along, and some ask us why.

He cheers us up and inspires us with barely a try.
He spurs us to do our best, and won’t let us cry.
We cannot give up, for he is our cheerleader guy.
Donner makes the trip pleasant, said new reindeer, Cy....

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He masterfully portrays
Under an old umbrella
Stopping no rain from falling
Shows how moist life is

Lifting the stem higher up
Trying to keep rain away
Nothing seems to stop it all
Rain lands on his head

To his chagrin it rains hard
Beading down to his wet brow
He desires to throw it out
Useless contraption

Now the rain pours on his face
He debates life’s irony
How his luck has fallen down
As the rain descends

Russell Sivey...

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What kind of car is that? My eleven grandchildren scream.
It has driven by slowly, and it is my childhood dream.
a 1957 Chevy, sleek, black, full of chrome, I say.
Coveting the red leather seats as it drives slowly away.

It doesn’t look like any contraption we have ever seen!
I know this is true, I wave to the driver as if she is the queen.
She is driving my dream and I am out of words as I watch her go.
Adding this much chrome is something today’s car designers do not know....

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