PBS and NPR
...Entertainment on TV
Or radio depends
On funding from the government
Or ads for private ends.
Both PBS and NPR,*
With Public in each name,
Provide such joy for tuners-in,
With years of much a...
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Categories:
tuners, america,
Form: Rhyme
A Fine-Tuned Machine
...Calling all tuners!
It’s time to convene
To evaluate Trump and
His “fine-tuned machine.”
That’s the claim that he’s making
But most seem to feel
His machine might be missing
A cog or a wheel...
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Categories:
tuners, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Grand Piano
...She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they touched her ke...
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Categories:
tuners, analogy, love,
Form: Narrative
Remote Viewing
...Piano tuners and honeymooners
skipping to the music of the offshore ballet
sea-side sunshine coordinates the rhythm and timing
waves in motion and gulls
wide-eyed and whispering
vi...
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Categories:
tuners, summer, sunset,
Form: Imagism
The Story of the Grand Piano
...She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they touched her ke...
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Categories:
tuners, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
A Hopeless Task
...A Hopeless Task
By Elton Camp
If humans to a machine are compared
To understand “she,” no “he” is prepared
A man needs a simple switch to operate
Many tuners and dials a woman does rate
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Categories:
tuners, humor,
Form: Rhyme