I Can't Love a Machine
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A collection of transistors and wires is all I see.
You are something fabricated by Fantonucci.
I see a vague resemblance of a human being.
However, you are not a person; just a thing.
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Categories:
transistors, fantasy, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
The Stanzas By the Sea
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I
when the world had no headsets
the sunbathing crowd
fell asleep to the sounds of
transistors played loud
while the deckchairs and windbreaks
kites, beach balls and...
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Categories:
transistors, beach, england, holiday, memory,
Form: Free verse
Traditional Clothes
...Loyalty symbols to one’s ancestors,
Who never saw yesterday’s asbestos,
Heard not of China’s radio transistors,
Let alone U.S Trousers Investors…
What one puts on and with every passage
Relea...
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Categories:
transistors, celebration, change, clothes, people,
Form: Rhyme
Free Nightengale
...I saw your light deep in the valley of my mind
Against the backdrop of fecund canopy stillness
With Dragon trees and other pines of Dagon
Shivering wet from the Spring
Yielding to June
Band warm...
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Categories:
transistors, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Old and New 2 : Boardroom
...OLD AND NEW 2 : BOARDROOM
Jackal preyed on dimpled dolls
smiling gold on slender wrist
nosing down a slippery path
scowling schoolboy promoted
beyond his mediocre castle
Mammals sat on...
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Categories:
transistors, africa, allegory, confusion, extended
Form: Political Verse
Harris Fortitude Went Awol
...lest ye seek alms
with outfaced palms
just imagine
how the lantern shone
against the knees of Archelaus,
and lit up the check-board pattern
of the eleemosynary trousers
Fatigued civilian...
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Categories:
transistors, 12th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
The Baby Boomers of Paradise
...Those were the days my friend, how blessed we were
Although, in past quandam days, knew it not.
Home to us was warm and dry, sound and safe.
Not called on to fight, we had years to play,
Free o...
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Categories:
transistors, cool, crazy, innocence, music,
Form: Blank verse
Transistors
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Vacuum tubes made a radio too big.
The huge size was something I didn't dig.
That created a problem that was easy to see.
I could not carry a radio around with me.
Besides, the tubes bu...
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Categories:
transistors, history,
Form: Rhyme
That's One Small Step
...For a man....
A calendar marks fifty years
since an audacious mission,
a rare moment of global unity,
a leap forward.
But there is no leap, no grand
accomplishment without small steps.
B...
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Categories:
transistors, earth, flying, moon, science,
Form: Free verse
Untestable Time
...I tried to beat the clock as I run forward…
I tried to dry my tears and be less awkward
I still have a tiny bit of pride in me fortunately
I will survive society's labels of predictable conditions...
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Categories:
transistors, angst,
Form: Free verse
Write On
...Deep within the machine that I write on
is a poem waiting to hatch. So I will
write on each evening, even at dawn,
in the early light. I will write on till
the day I can get in there among
the ...
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Categories:
transistors, allusion, analogy,
Form: Sonnet
Notes From the Future--A Tale In Two Forms, Free Verse and Rhyme
...“I am in a desert place in my life
I had this dream the other night:
Comfort came to me in two forms
Dark and Light
Remembrance and Anticipation
There was a sweet taste,
Not on my tongue bu...
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Categories:
transistors, destiny, dream, for her,
Form: Narrative
Set Afloat Upon Waves of Air
...Those days are gone, set
afloat upon waves of air-
that in which we dreamed, for we
were dreamers...adrift in the water
that took us to wherever
the currents flowed-
into weedy patches-
weedy ...
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Categories:
transistors, change, childhood, growing up,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
All the Ghosts
...All The Ghosts
Families hushing
Around crackling transistors,
Like the sound of rushing
And muffled whispers,
And all the ghosts enter
Through a heart-shaped door
Where a nervous presen...
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Categories:
transistors, war,
Form: Rhyme
Call of the Wild
...Wild are the free ones
Freedom's no place for the timid
The free ones live wildly
And the Wild has no limits
Fighters are the free ones
Never squelching what they've earned
Rising from the ash...
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Categories:
transistors, freedom, journey, life, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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