Sprocket Man
...The space race, now racing with rockets
Though cheapest, wore the deepest pockets
I hope that they're hiring
Soon after a firing
Need a job at Spacely Space Sprockets...
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Categories:
sprockets, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Last New Poets
...We are the body heat
of an endangered species,
the shattered hammer and forge
of an archaic workshop.
Gone are the rhymes and chimes,
gone all reason to be,
gone the prophet, saint or devil,
n...
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Categories:
sprockets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
MARRIAGE
...Once upon a time ago,
An act of marriage was made so.
Film and sound both intertwined
And made a movie when combined.
At first, colour was not in sight...
Merely greys of black-and-white.
Cerem...
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Categories:
sprockets, appreciation, color, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
- Admit The Age -
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The clockwork
the most complex
Older sprockets, need
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Categories:
sprockets, age, life,
Form: Verse
Crazy Poem
...Johnny jonquil jerry justified jilly’s jeu jeu bee
Dilly dally Doolittle dodged debonair simon legree’s degree
Freakish freddy frogmouth forever frolicked footloose and free
Michigan mike’s handy ...
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Categories:
sprockets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Stand Up To Cheers
...Don’t just raise your glass, stand up to cheers
Until each and every one gets audibly clinked
Repeating Ike-ism’s stretching memories years
Keeps the good ones up front and spirits linked
Not s...
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Categories:
sprockets, memory,
Form: Quatrain
He Reimagines
...He records the works of his life, the ephemera
he once scrawled onto the tissue thin,
thinking them indelible blueprints.
Most were fables told to a dying legend,
Pastimes, that were chariot whee...
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Categories:
sprockets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Eyes Out Sockets For Budging Pockets
...For the unusually bulging pockets,
Eyes pop out of their sockets:
You’d think their owners had been handed lockets
Or once again America remembered rockets!
A Mechanic whose wife floats a versa...
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Categories:
sprockets, beauty, business, car, money,
Form: Rhyme
The Fixer
...O' woe, begone betwixt machine,
Breathe clowns galore this Halloween,
Lay tricks played game, device for fools,
Be sprockets, chains, and things learn I,
What need be fixed, of me, they vie,
Den...
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Categories:
sprockets, allegory, encouraging, work,
Form: Rhyme
Perhaps One Day
...Perhaps one day the world can change
remove this grain from the gears
those sprockets seeking to rotate
have no need to compensate
an irritation that few admit
except to step around the grit
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Categories:
sprockets, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Rattling Rhyme
...The Clockmaker
The old clockmaker sat at his bench
In the shop where he'd lived all his years
With a monocle lens on his eye
And his desk filled with sprockets and gears.
Everything h...
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Categories:
sprockets, humorous, time,
Form: Rhyme
Some Time
...I feel the clock
as it begins to unwind
Tick tock, tick tock
another second behind
Springs and sprockets
intricately interconnected
Tick talk, tick t a l k
My slow down unexpected
Pendul...
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Categories:
sprockets, age, anxiety, psychological, time,
Form: Quatrain
Rackets of Lies and Rockets of Truth
...Rackets, rockets and sprockets of lies in their sties fly fast
Treasures and pleasures of truth offer orphans wisdom to last
Choose to cruise in lies and perish
Cruise to groove in truth and prune...
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Categories:
sprockets, poems,
Form: Free verse
Time Will Tell
...Time will tell, just gently listen,
to the sound of gears and sprockets
conveying a concept quite complex.
ask it a question and watch the position,
of the needle telling you what you want to kno...
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Categories:
sprockets, time,
Form: Sonnet
Hello Hate
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hello hate
say i say sayd hello hate
contemplatory emotional tags
these sites drag lips womb walls are stretched
my eyes have been sifted through sculptors
beyond castles dreams
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Categories:
sprockets, art,
Form: Lyric
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