Short Electric Power Poems

I sit in the dark, electricity gone
pondering options, will we have lights by dawn?
storm has taken out power, pink electricity in the sky
a monsoon-like shower, cannot help wondering why.

other people have lights;
we have not had ours for hours
this blackness gives me frights
where is our electric power?...

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For all the work you do,
those daily chores beyond the norm
in a pinch you come through,
a vacuum cleaner built so strong.

For you my electric power broom
on dust and grit do raid.
You chase dirt from any room.
So very thankful you were made.

A vacuum cleaner, dust buster machine
this is an ode to you
Can't just say you're a woman's routine
a man needs a sturdy one too.

10/6/20...

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Lined up
they perch in spaced formation,
ready to take fright and scatter
should a roving hawk approach too near.

I don't know why
they seem insulated from the deadly current,
or why
they make such a reckless target
for the raptors.

A cat looks at them
from a city pavement.
I do know what it is thinking.

The differing spaces between the starlings
could be musical notations.

A language just for cats and hawks,
played loudly,
on a blank sheet of sky.


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