Short Tinkered Poems

Have you ever
Tinkered with a crowd
You have to speak up loud
Ring a bell or
Toot your horn
Blow your whistle or
Beat your drum
Sing a song or
Just hang out
Enjoy your laughter or
Kick box your way out
To meet the unthinkable
Another great Sumo Wrestler,
In this crowd...

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NIGHT OF THE UNFORGOTTEN


     Tinkered with the moonlight as it danced upon her face
 
     Imagined touching hidden places draped in endless lace

     Swept aside the trace of curl that sheltered tender ears

     Memorized this moment for the coming lonely years.






Victoria Anderson-Throop...

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It came to Earth
In a firestorm
Yet, it barely reach the ground
It came in the twinkling of an eye
It barely made a sound
To summons' 
Gods' people directly to the sky
And as the world tinkered and
Toiled along it's very merry way
Their wasn't a Soul to be found
For the Lord had carried the day
Come this Judgement Day!

GF...

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Monday madness mauled my meandering melancholy mind
Tuesday tinkered tactlessly through tainted thoughtless taunts
Wednesday went without wonderful words whispered willingly
Thursday tempting taunting the tigresses to truant
Friday frivolously featured fruitful freaky fun frolics
Saturday simmered signifying sumptuous sultry spectacular scenes 
Sunday slow slovenly siesta singing sunny songs...

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[for a country doctor]

Here’s another beige plastic do-hickey 
busted. We’ll buy a new one, 
throw the old away.

But you would have tinkered it back 
till it worked. Thin physician hands 
adept at hammer, shovel, trowel, 
you could fix anything, or turn it
into something else of use.

These days, we can’t find a fuse.
Everything’s expendable.

After 87 years, you knew it was time 
to recycle yourself, to turn in 
your hands, your wrinkled gray eyes, 
your gentle smile....

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Someone has tinkered with the 100 Community List
And it appears that you are still at number thirty-four,
Down a few notches, I have not booed or hissed
‘Cos I’ve been much lower on lots of lists before!
In fact, it’s delightful not to have the pressure, you see,
Let others get “put down” for their success for a while,
For I get no thrill from checking where on the list I’ll be,
But seeing you haven’t come up a notch makes me smile.

Written October 28, 2022...

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