Thermos Poems

brown paper packages

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FAVORITE THINGS Poetry Contest, a Seguidilla
Nette Onclaud
8/16/2025

brown paper packages

While getting the noonday sack,
This storyline goes.
A handpuppet gets too much — 
Girl eats w...

As He Poured The Wine

...You are such a tool  go back to school 
they yelled at him without hindsight 
You got nothing between your ears  
pack it up Joe, walk only by night 

He took his thermos and left for Rome 
fee...

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...I shall read you a poem in my drunken state,
if my speech is slurred, forgive me mate,
it is a cocktail of rum, vodka and cognac,
if boss finds out I will surely get the sack!
so am i drinking at...

Nightbird

...An unhurried sun slides across the horizon
Preparing for slumber behind distant waves
And daylight’s last seagull rides thermals in search
Of a late night fish supper - the herring he craves 

A...

Any Moment Now, It Will Come

...The angel works the tollbooth
Exclaiming commands for change
They are a barber on the side
with faded tattoo arms
Holding shears made of fire
coated in silent pious rage
Hiding blood in their t...

How To Mellow

...Catch tugs towards their berth
  Little yacht traipses triangular trail
  Cottage clasping slope admires bay
  Fisherman’s wife swells, eon enamour
   

   For his boomerang voyage, she brings
...

The Fishermen

...In the early morning, as the sun yawns and lets out her first light ray  
two fishermen walk through the flooded bushes, searching for fish. 
Inside cooler waters a silent lake says, " Take your ti...

Storm

...Storm 

The waves in the storm raged Pacific Ocean waves became 
deep ravines and tall mountains; in the binoculars, I saw 
an American hangar ship, its massive deck was glistering iron 
swept o...

Tears Will Console

...
He went to war each morn
Armed with thermos and lunch pail
Gearldine wasn’t his firstborn
As a girl – just a tomboy with a pigtail

He knew her from her first breath
Prayed for her wh...

Pebble Beach Day Out

...Beyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.

Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stain...

Humid Thermos

...I see us
cowering within
our safety walls
of sterile
nonorganic comfort

I feel us,
almost smell us,
struggling
vacillating between pungent stink
of fear inside
and acrid
acidic anger
ab...

Clearsighted

...Epiphany 

It was an incredible summer in 1950 the war was over things were getting 
back to normal, mother's new boyfriend who worked at a factory had 
a rowboat and paid holiday leave. A Sunday...

Small Powers Everywhere

...This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,

Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infes...

One Night Alone

...I wake to a monochrome world and I yawn
The reds, greens and yellows awaiting the dawn
Out on the water, my luminous float
Rides unseen ripples in fear of no boat

This morning my roof is my fis...

Deep In Our Thermos

...Somewhere over Thames River
condo fees fly high,
So do taxes
and maintenance expenses,
My
Oh my
Oh why?

We chose to co-invest
in this former industrial mess,
I must confess
I don't know w...

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