Short Rims Poems

trying not to roll
car skidding out of control….
bald tires take their toll...

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Tentative sunlight
Playing with turning wheelspokes 
Fast hands spur on rims  
Early morning race with dog
Joyful barks mix with laughter 

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February 1, 2017...

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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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Reading the pointing map
Oozing sweet fumes 
Amazing natural landscape
Driving on oil and gas.

Trails of accidents
Rims here and there. 
Inscriptions old and new
'Pure Town' is just few metres.....

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With a pull of the arm
the eyes started to roll
Sweat poured from the pits
as if nothing at all.
Tears smudged the rims
from the pull, roll, and ring
When the fruit salad face
Showed a lop-sided grin....

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How about you?

Shaken
Stirred
Crushed
Mixed
Shot
Spilled
Topped off
Set on fire
Rims salted
Served over ice
With a splash...


Oh, you mean to drink;
Give me anything.


Dry.




***...

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The word nobody dares
to speak.

Red rocks tower
over dry pools.
White salt crusts the rims.

Pathless,
the canyon maze
is a fractal landscape.
Self similarity deceives.

Panic
nests
in my stomach.

9/30/2017...

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Mighty behind desk and beak,
teaching chemistry earrings.
Glass rims speak of test--
new eyes flame begins.

Some books peek with hearings,
some hide their giggle as best,
while others lean out to confess
the test they'd like to take....

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this mystic arc
above the bridge
fogged rims
from river’s edge 
alluring eyes
to wind down
the fragmented
edges and plunge 
upon its icy depths 

my eyes 
cast off
like shadows 
towards
an ashen sky 
instead 

(Bus scribbles)...

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How do I pick up after this long break
The melee of mute thought and emotion
Rims of paper, vials of ink would take
To fill hiatus of this proportion
Nights of lightning, storm and shattering quake
Giving the fallen foliage a shake

Written on:02/01/2017
Syllables:60...

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With lighter
And a cigarette
In your palm

You sparkled
With theatrical show
And we smiled

At those rims of desire 
Billowing thru the noonday air
Though it was too thin to last
 
And the repairman 
Falling behind schedule 
Still, I will be dancing--
 
Your last dance....

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Magazine ads and newspaper obituaries
skitter across the streets
like tumbleweed in the desert.
Rims the size of carriage wheels roll by.
Everyone's holsters are filled,
even the children carry pistols.
The schools are ghost towns
but the saloons stay occupied.
This is the Wild, Wild West....

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Paraplegic 

Wheelchair, catheter

Racing, dancing, maneuvering

Colourful rims and frame, colourful little person,

Singing, rhyming, mischievous

Surgery, bedridden,

Me

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6th place in Diamante contest
Sponsor Janis Thompson
October 15, 2016...

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The car was painted mat black
With red rimmed wheels
The windows were tinted
There were no plates
It looked menacing
Even if it was driven
By a girl...

...Who flew the plane
An F-35 Aggressor version
It was like her car
Mat black all over
With red wheel rims
A tinted cockpit
And no markings......

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High cloudy gloomy
Head; unseen; in wispy bars
Of skies; shaking rails

With closed-in thunder—
For miles. Lightning's bare fingers
Fall limp after so 

Many strikes. Peak of 
Sun— blue; cataract rims stung;
The rain sliding down

This dam in my soul;
It slams like me, my pain's pound—
Where I'm now stormbound....

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bounty bicycle belched
in crimson crest
wielding moaning wheels
of saucy spree:
taunted tracks moan
tainted tyre's moor

fiery feelings fondling
per punctured pills
merging mystic mist

hideous hood hankering
with halts shuddering
like triturated tits

"roll'n rustic rims
felon wind riding."
     '20:01:21:05:33...

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eerie earth belched
callous creed's crest
nocturnal nature nauseated
dark dribbles cremated
hoisted hankering cruised
sassy soil puked

rusty rims yawned
puncturing pulpy pawn
tactic trend torn

bruised bark bent
mystic moaning etched
saucy seal spent

lofty lids lurched
vying voluptuous verge.
    '20:04:10:19:20...

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Did I see a flicker, glimmer, ray of light or hope in some far-off stained glass window,
where pillar candles melt upon mosaics,
where rosehip stearates clutch at fragile perfumes,
where wax encrusted drips turn into cherry blossom plasmas of the mind,
when hardened tallow rims are all that’s left for those who clingfilm second chances!!...

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concentric circles clouds 
mushy mists growl
tainted tarred twain
epileptic ensconced spray
rustic rims raved
adapting aura's aid

mystic mood swung
lurching lousy lust
taming torpedic tongue

callous Cherub called
vile veins' gores
dripping damped draws

scrunched syllables smoothened
haggard hierarchy heightened. 
     19:11:14:11:30...

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By no mistake my name is Richard
And I am chauffeured in a rickshaw
A rickshaw that comes first in a row
With others that roll on shining rims
As I desire to get to the riches

My way to the riches is a riddle
But I will straighten up the rickets
And scoop the material that is raw
And then shake it until it is ripe
And then become that real rich Richard...

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With suction cups on its body,
It clings to rocks and such
So tidal currents really do not
Bother it too much.

Its teeth, as sharp as needles,
Line the rims of bulbous lips
And spiky studs, like armor,
Fend off anything that grips.

If this awful-sounding creature
Makes you frightened, you’d be wrong
For this lumpy little sucker’s
Just a mere 3 inches long!...

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Those crimson rims I still taste,
Your pretty thoughts I constantly chaste

Hunted by those orbs filled with certainty,
One I’d be blessed to gaze till eternity

Lingering touch I feel,
That portal of another thrill

Hollowness I can’t articulate,
In this coldness I’m intoxicate

Wistful for the warmth of your voice,
Doubting if patience was the right choice?...

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this storm of paws
on gangled limbs,
lead questing noses
above counter rims,

a whine, a bark
or playful yips,
those rough house days
of tumbled flips,

a world so new
so wonder wide,
eager running leaps
to nature's call abide,

now at dusk these settled storms
slept as dark falls like the dew,
a twitch, a snore, a growling dream
anxious yet for morning new....

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when life has gotten to be too much
for me to handle
and I feel like a storm is coming my way
when the sky seems like its falling
and the my heart is beating fast because all
my worries are quickly building up
and the weight on my shoulders is crushing me
tears are brewing on the rims of my eyes
and my lungs become tight
I close my eyes
put on my headphones
and go to a place only I know...

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Distant dogs bark
Rain clouds
in the internal weather
of the yet unknown
~
Did we, like satellite moons,
on the outer orbital rims
of a blind universe
just collide?
~
She brushes my long hair,
the hair is a ghost
long fallen.
A barbershop chorus
modulates its harmonics.
~
A deaf television blares
out of his coffin.
He has changed channels;
gone are ears of the watchers....

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