Turpentine Poems - Poems about Turpentine

babysitters never came back

...babysitters never came back a second time
it’s not our fault we lied, we were not bad
one of them got stuck in turpentine
but the worst sitter of all was our dad

they were no trouble at all he ...

Loretta

...She might have painted the sea—
or a golden field of wheat
beneath a hazy summer sky—
but he took her brushes,
left the bristles splayed,
the paints dried out,
and the turpentine cloudy.
And t...

Fragrant Fumes, Pungent Memories

...
      Ah, the fragrant fumes of paint drying on a picket fence
         followed by the grease-stained smell of turpentine on the brush

      Though doubtless matched by the aroma of oil spills...

The Scream Painting by Edvard Munch 1893

...Turpentine waters of paranoia
  ripple beneath an opaque surface,
    merging with the burnt umber sun,
      ravenously setting
        over the savage distance.

Did the earth just crack ...

Zephyr Oxidation

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Written, March 24, 2025
For Contest,  Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand

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hands aegis
        sculpting lullabies
 cradling
    ...

2 Minutes to Midnight

...Inspired by the song of the same name by Iron Maiden

In nineteen eight-four, a heavy metal band
made a statement about a minute hand. 
The Doomsday Clock was ticking down,
telling us we might n...

Rats in the Cellar

...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.

When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.

Such an inj...

Let's respect our two homes

...Time to be respectable
I live in two homes in my mind
I’m both Frida and Diego
Like me, they lived in Twin Houses
The tortured me lives in the blue one
The elephant in the red and white
...

PASTELISTA degas chardin

...PASTELISTA  degas chardin
manner &
    movement
investigating light
broader
  freer
soft fragility
layered
  superimposed
turpentine
  sealed...

James' Feminine

....

amin
amine (i'm losing it people...lol; it's pronounced amin)
lin 
line(can one imagine, english lit teacherz, instructing their students to draw a 'lin', down the center uv their note pads) ...

Betty

...Betty  didn't came to her own wake
said she had other things to do
Didn't share the news with the mourners
she hadn't heard of her own demise

Wretched wet warm summers
clouds of turpentine
Go...

The Future Is Here

...The future is here
    AI is its name
  It too is concerned
    with the gender game

  A feminine name 
    like Alexa or Cortana
  does not pull its weight
    in the state of Montana
  
...

Belly Fat

...Pu Erh tea = shrinks fat cells & help promote weight loss (mornings)
  low-caffeine

* white tea = blocks fat absorption & increases metabolism and boosts
    slimming  (lunch time)  Caffeine

...

Epicure

...He ate a caterpillar sandwich
Just to prove he could do it
He just gritted his teeth and
Chewed his way right through it

He washed it down with turpentine
Which he preferred to any wine
Ate a...

Mouse Hairs By Moonlight

...Out-built, humped, and beached, breached by moonlight,
nothing comes out of an old barn unfound.

Engine oil, the fungal fur of time warped wood.
Weather-eaten iron coated by rusted smears.
mous...

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