Short Typewriter Poems

Typewriter Symphony

Borge played
with fingers splayed.  

Not one key stuck 
Or gone amuck....

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my can opener fiasco
typewriter eaten up by word processors
computer cookies but can you eat them?...

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a typewriter has certain cachet
if owned by a writer with sway,
will a PC go down that way,
once it’s had its day?...

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What made them think it was wrong...
For typed lines left unfinished 
Are lost thoughts untold...
No love letters, no poems, not a song
One day the rusted keys fell cold...

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Modern world with modern modems,
AI, Wi-Fi, modern day totems,
keyboard nostalgia, a typewriter App,
mind that modern knowledge gap,
discord, discourse, modern day omens.
...

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I sit in my writing space
Pondering what to create
In a poetry form
My inspiration a typewriter
A photo on my new mug
Filled with lemon tea
Now I am inspired to
           write...

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I feel like writing silly tales
About a typist who had long manicured nails
She tapped the typewriter so slow
Until her boss told her she had to go
To employ her was beyond the pale...

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Tap, tap, clickety-clack
Thoughts vigilantly stamped
Trademark of transcription
Technology's prologue
Twain's famous "Tom Sawyer"
Time etched black and white scene
Tinted with grandpa's dust

4-27-2021...

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'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''   Scrawlings


            What did you expect
            a monkey with a typewriter
            can rewrite Shakespeare 


           GINSU - KNIFE   EASTPORT , MAINE   USA...

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Snoring dog on a bed of velvet
Making so much noise
I can barely hear my typewriter

Sounds like a loud angry bee
Happily snuggled up in my best comforter
I have half a notion to get in there with her and take a nap

So I do....

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Some writers sit in front of a typewriter

I sit in front of a notebook

when the urge hits i caress the words

on paper dotting i's and crossing t's

everything comes together in a beautiful

poem that captures a readers eye...

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It feels like home.
The click of keys on an ancient typewriter,
The perfume of ink and parchment.
The knowledge and words of those before me.
I believe it is getting too much,
The realization that I am
Holding history in my hands....

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Thumping away at his typewriter
With the speed of a kung fu fighter
He writes letters, I guess
To complain to the press
He is a most annoying blighter.


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Contest: Funny Limericks
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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T he
y ears of
p ounding words
e ndlessly through
w ee hours of the
r  esounding nightfall are
i  ntertwined in an era of
t  inged smokey rooms where creative
e ntrepreneurs like Hemmingway took
r ecesses for caffeine and stronger brews.

4/24/13...

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Bright black uniform letters
Popping onto the stark white page
Loud smacking satisfactory pops
Pop T
Pop Y
Pop P
Pop E
Royal
Smith-Corona 
Olympia
Brother
Typewriter magic of the 60’s. 
Predecessor of the Word Processor and the Computer....

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a blank page is screaming at me
fill me up
dance across me
play a signature song
listen to the spirit world

how dare she?
I am in charge, right?
I put her into a typewriter
Type “I don’t have to!”

What is a typewriter, grandma?
Good grief!...

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Good Old Earnest. 

Thanks to internet 
Novels are getting longer 
But not better 
A jungle of unnecessary word
A machete comes in handy 

Earnest Hemingway 
Used typewriter and slowly  
Paused for a little drink 
Being economical with words 
So he could go out fishing...

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An old manual typewriter
sits on a hill of dust.

Is that hunched ghost
your wordless self?

Does that self
with its thick fingers
still hammer out a silence,
upon a borderless page,

one that you now interpret,
adding thin strips of madness
on a skin of light?...

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As a young boy named Bob
I was a bit of a slob
As I did my sweet chewing job
With typewriter teeth cleaning corncobs.

Many years have flown past.
I have grown old at last,
But dentures don’t force me to fast.
New typewriter teeth are having a blast.

Date:10/19/2019
Picture 3...

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My typewriter has seemingly enough ink
I'm ready to start a poem about sanguine hills
and trusting in angels 2313
but the ribbon has ran dry
The lost longing licks my lips
jerred past the emerald typewriter
gaslighted with fear
I haven't a realm
and hell why not ?
frail and dim I give up...

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My nerves are like a typewriter
pressed on bones of keys 
wrecking deadline hours after beats
of caffeine throb on soiled manuscripts.

Boss says, " keep the news more harrowing
than the murder." I steam the facts,
boil it into water,and grate lines
but only perspiration flows; the scene too common.


For A Contest...

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Thoughts that were formed
so very long ago
frozen in time
on a smooth, glossy piece
of black carbon paper

Memories
through written word
sentiment seldom heard
forever embedded
on a typewriter ribbon

Carbon paper and ribbon
messages of life
hidden amongst the chaos
encrypting everything
our hearts need to say...

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So
tired.

Up
from the
car, in-
to
the building,
stairs,
open the door and shut,
I trudge
past
the books,
typewriter,
junkmail on the table,
through the dark hall,
into the warm light
of the 45watt-equivalent LED bulb next to my bed.
I undress
and burrough
under
the comforter.

And sleep
creeps into the room....

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Black Ink
 Always a deep thinker.
 Old fashioned typewriter.
 Black ink on paper.
 Stay inspired.
 Through creative writing.
 Read in between the lines.
 The love of poetry.
 You can write freely.
 With a pen, this is your journey.
 Looking Outside the window, glistening city lights.
 Alone I may be.
 Writing with black ink always....

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This is the longest word you can write using only the top line of the keyboard
It describes the device that the keyboard was made for.

Do you think you know the answer to this riddling rhyme?
Or do I need to give you a little more time?

If this weighs heavy on your mind, I can make your brain lighter
And tell you the answer – the word is “typewriter”....

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