“Say Wren” by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Rivulets slide across the abdomen

Uneven caresses to a forgotten song

Rivers run

Rivers rage

Where floods the words when it rains

Aches leaving stains in the daylight

Rivers run

Rivers rage

-Thomas Typewriter

“The Poetics” by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Blind to the times

Witches work their rhymes

Old words linger

Within those castles carved from sand

A reminder to all who remain

That a  litany of words written by many hands

Speaks in a voice raspy and sublime

-Thomas Typewriter

“Crossword Shovels” by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Break the shovel

Little do they care

Shouting voices

Lose a puzzle

Five lines make a square

Shouting voices

Gurgle a lost tongue

Know little is undone

“Vapors” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Your box of taste sits on the table

Next to the silverware and dishes of high importance.

Please, if you’re able, make room for my unique flavor.

Only if your capable

Because soon the day will come

Where I am unwound

Lost and first through the exit

And at that time, let me take solace

Finding a measure of reassurance

That on a table

Next to the dishes from our wedding night

Next to the silverware we meant to use

Sits a box

Holding the smile you claimed

At the smells I would emanate

Cause and effect – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Hypothesis and expenditure have their own rhythms.

The bridge is built before the blue prints.

Listen deep as the message repeats

The Assembly is the prism.

The Effort is the schism.

The Scattered Light bent into self fulfilling scripts.

As you go your way, making your day

To you what can I say…

except,

Balances explain checks and Figures whisper facts.

“It Seemed so Important at the Time” – a poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

It seemed so important at the time.

 What is left to say when the words fly away

 When yesterday seemed so important today

 Words and phrases arranged into such elegant displays

It seemed so important at the time.

 Imagine my dismay at Time’s lack of stay

 The moving hands always revisiting, always in sway

 Catching nothing, letting the pieces of me stray.

It seemed so important at the time.

today in the studio: November 26th, 2023

today in the studio

“There is a pain in my thigh” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Pain is a pin

Piercing pages of the calendar

A moment that never gives in

Existence without structure

Till it ends

With frantic hopes of never again

“An Ounce of Nothing” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

An ounce of nothing refused to play

An ounce of nothing refused to say

The words that make up a day

Of hope, of joy, of foregiveness, of exchange

To think the effect of something which does not exist

Would affect a life

Yeilding a direction change

“Stillness” by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

In this moment, stillness surprises me

It confidently strides across my afternoon

Clearly living the better life

I follow, traveling short paths to long thoughts