Wonder
...
Listen……hear
the distant hum
of early morning traffic
on Westgate Bridge,
a chorus of birdsong
and that eastbound
aeroplane flying high
overhead en route
to Wellington
or Christchurch....
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Categories:
squeegee, morning, sound,
Form: Free verse
Stop Light
...The sound that the rubber blade
of the timeworn squeegee made,
swiftly scrubbing my car’s screen
in a familiar routine;
was more obnoxious to me
than the stuff, resembling ghee
that the soul, s...
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Categories:
squeegee, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Another Genesis
...Listen, do you hear it?
That NORTHERN FLUTTER that,
radiates from a distant galaxy;
it’s a blood-laser
just a crappy piece of
fringe software
that acts like a
squeegee;
inducing ...
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Categories:
squeegee, planet, poems, poetry, space,
Form: Free verse
Arial Burial
...take my ashes
throw them to
the wind where
they may be
spirited away
taken places
randomly took
take a look and
see where the
rambling winds
have taken me
from here to
Timbuktu i
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Categories:
squeegee, muse,
Form: I do not know?
BB
...Push it right there,
it's schematic addictions dismantlement in prisms,
push it all along the way-
rotation of grapes,
push it into the grey-
for we cannot fake our face...
Slow the born ...
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Categories:
squeegee, age, appreciation, baptism, confusion,
Form: Ballad
Minimum Wage and Sand King
...two old poems
from the book
2000-2001
Minimum Wage
Pigeons coo
as Seagulls fly
in spiraling swarms above
(universal?)
Birds in anticipation of an unknown purchase
practice aerial a...
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Categories:
squeegee, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Legend
...I walk this earth, unbeknown to human kind
an heir to Legends, men of mighty deeds
who through the force of fire and stars we find
those such as I the offspring of their seeds.
Hercules, his powe...
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Categories:
squeegee, humor, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Whippet
...It’s the phantom window cleaner
He’s a man who’s built for speed
You should see him cleaning windows
He’s extremely fast indeed
If you watch him climb his ladder
With his squeegee and his scrim...
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Categories:
squeegee, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Easy Listening
...when screams of children being bombed &
women being raped to the sounding drumbeat of war,
some trip over their feet to turn the knob
to click the clicker, change the channel
to
run
run
run away
f...
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Categories:
squeegee, life,
Form: Free verse