Short Levers Poems

Emotional Intelligence
  'hits Pause'
before it cripples
  the levers of laws...

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Baubles and bangles
  doo-dads and what-nots
Trinkets and knick-knacks
  don't stir my pot...

Excitement, adventure
  discovery, peril
Launch me over Niagara Falls
  pulling levers in a barrel...

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Giraffe at the watering hole

	
She splays her forelegs one at a time
levering, leaving dignity 
behind, easing down to a 
half sideways split; then bends
to drink, hoping no 
lion arrives
blood-blushing
head rush
up...

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Excited steampunk creators
Designing in dastardly studios and attics
Working with fascinating gears and copper levers
A whole new world envisioned in a collective remembrance
Jules Verne watches from his heavenly seat and smiles
Admiring his octopus box from 1869....

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As water slowly falls onto
...tiered bamboo pipes,
like gently tipping levers
rhythmic sounds induce peace...

Light breeze astound the senses
aroused from scent of hyacinth,
wafted as a swath of silk,
caressing the skin serenely...
as purpose contemplated.
.....without distractions.......

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Odd beasts and creatures they are
Part human or animal, some have a scar
Some have ears, whiskers and toes
Others have levers, and hair that glows

An odd band, they have found each other
Acting as each other’s sister and brother
The rest of the health club stays far away
Giving them leeway each and every day...

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Ghouls raid the graves, dressed in disguise  
And coffin lids with levers prise...  
Disturbed in sleep the dead arise.  


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30th October 2018 
Contest: Three Lines-Writing Challenge-Oct 2018
Sponsor: Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings...

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Oh Syracuse, Syracuse,
A bright star born to you.
This genius of three was touched by a muse.
Pi, levers, bringing a king great mirth;
With his brilliance this man moved the earth.

Oh goddess of the moon,
Indelible event!
Your festival doth give cause to swoon.
Circles, a shadow, slain dead in the sand;
A horror to mask even an enemy's land....

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Lily livered lint of a lizard, let him be called
In pious protest of his primevel name
He who in the spinning sun our death installed
Made history mere cinder for the flame
Why mark me with mortality for your material rage
What treasure in life's flesh yet I cage
He slithers between lines scrawled  on a creeping page
And leaf by leaf levers love with lurid rage....

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The robot fancied he could write,
And so he scribbled through the night
And without fail sent off each tale—
Soon the world would know his name!

His levers clicked, his motors purred, 
His gears and little wheels, they whirred—
But all came back with printed black 
Notices that read the same.

At last the robot hired a “ghost”
Who fixed his manuscripts till most
Of them were placed, and soon they graced
Magazines—for cash and fame!...

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Sometimes get stuck on a solo mission 
As the only ticketed passenger in sight 
But alternative routes are available 
We just need to book our return flight 

Begins by checking in with ourselves 
To take inventory of our baggage 
Choice in claiming what we keep
Option to offload damaged luggage

Purposely piloting our own plane now
Pulling levers to navigate any weather
Time to maneuver back into formation 
Since life is better when flying together...

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Europe won't survive a cold winter
  Israel's and Saudi's ties to us grow thinner
Latin America now under communism's spell
  Iran, India, Turkey among Russia's clientele

Mr. Putin's grand strategy now nearly in place
  Come say a prayer for the human race
Ukraine can't hold out forever
  After that, watch Vladimir pull his levers

Either the United States grows a spine
  Or soon on potatoes and cheap vodka we dine



 ~ Bone up on your Russian, Comrades! ~...

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Dust settles 

Vibrations loosen
the dust on my piano,
releasing tiny particles
into a rectangle sunbeam
dancing about the glass,
as I play compositions
on freeform keys,
fingered imagination
frantically moving
levers in never before
heard melodies
with a locked
sustain pedal
holding each note
to gradually evanesce
into the silence
awaiting your return
as the dust
once again
settles


3/22/17
For the "Dust" poetry contest
Sponsored by: Shadow Hamilton...

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