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Typewriters Poems - Poems about Typewriters

Spools
...I am an inked ribbon fed through an old manual typewriter. Like all old typewriters, the machine originated in the belly of a behemoth steam punk engine, one already equipped with an Artificia......

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Categories: typewriters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Manual Clunk
...My typewriter was not a good typewriter, its keys were weighty, you had to use brain muscle to work it, nobody wanted it. My son unpacked a home computer. I stood by and watched as all the e......

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Categories: typewriters, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Treatise on Newspapers
... Newspapers can be logs for the fire or non-functional rolling pins Obsolete as white-stockinged town criers along with typewriters ~ has-beens ......

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Categories: typewriters, farewell, fire, funeral, today,
Form: Rhyme
I miss
..." Tortured metaphors spilling from tequila lips, t i p t o e on my pulse ~ breaking in an arced smile of the......

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Categories: typewriters, dark, deep, emotions, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MusEcology of Peace
...I would like to see and hear and feel a peaceful day and silent night When guns are as rare as typewriters When partisan hate is as extinct as flying dinosaurs When ranting out of anger......

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Categories: typewriters, earth, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member busy office
...The Busy Office In the busy office, where the papers fly And the typewriters clack their endless song There is no room for beauty or for joy But only for the drudgery of the throng The worke......

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Categories: typewriters, anxiety, car, city, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Sea Goats Allegory
...Aquarium realms of anointed fools masquerade as sensibility Typecast foolscap tired typewriters ribbons don't have a prolonged head Between the streets where the drunkard spins his tales ......

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Categories: typewriters, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
So Long Buddy
...dreaming friend like the chancing days of wind if i could draw his breath so sad to watch my friend growing older growing colder don't forget your feelings spare a thought for me i am not ......

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Categories: typewriters, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Discontented Decade
...Dustmen were dirty Shoes had holes Typewriters qwerty Clothes were old School was tough, kids were rough Summers were always, quite cold Three-day week No power at night Week after week ano......

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Categories: typewriters, childhood, community, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flipping the Bluebirds
... “Flipping the Bluebirds” There’s no point playing Norwegian Wood when your keyboard’s like a gun calling murdering all your darlings for other meaningful glori......

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Categories: typewriters, muse, mystery, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unsustainable V Sustainable
...Moulded electric plugs, go to landfill the earlier ones were sectional and re-useable, Copper tanks kept water Hot all day; maybe two days, if they were bigger.' They were removed in the interests......

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Categories: typewriters, assonance, conflict, confusion, wisdom,
Form: Verse
Fire Engine
...Fire-engine Now that it is autumn going towards winter I often think about morbid things to avert this I think of what I liked as a child. The sound of the fire engine rushing through the town......

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Categories: typewriters, best friend, birthday, history,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member In Name Only
...give monkeys typewriters and enough time ~ they’ll spell out a god or two # scientific not religious # By David Kavanagh......

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Categories: typewriters, allegory, creation, time,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Annoying Pop Ups On My Computer
...pop ups appear on my screen annoying me who are you voting for? This is America I do not have to tell anyone new pop ups Can we ask you a question? no And please stop popping up The more I......

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Categories: typewriters, computer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Life On Line
... Oh, latest iPad, may I hang thee, From the nearest garden tree! A Grinch, thou art and nothing more. Causing me, endless problems galore! As always, Safari is to blame? Almost a t......

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Categories: typewriters, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

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