“Get Out of My Stove” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Neighbors, kindly and good

Get out of my stove

I will not with your birchwood

I will not with your soup bones

That which once moved 

breathes long

rattle thin tones

I will not with your oakwood

I will not with your ash or thorn

Of this world I’ve had my fill

And all the others too

Where be the silence and stone

Crumbled from gilded thrones 

Now get out of my stove

-Thomas Typewriter

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“Blindfolds Off” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Blindfolds off, eyes unfettered

As I ask true, expecting no reply

Can you unwrap my heart

A trail grown cold

Can you unwrap my thoughts

Wind passing through fingers

Blindfolds off, eyes unfettered

As I ask true, expecting no reply

Can you unwrap my faith

A sunbeam in an empty room

Can you unwrap my hope

A house with doorways removed

-Thomas Typewriter

“Irregular Gears” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

I STRESS

In a world powered by irregular gears

failure is a good place to live

A GUESS

Constant and stable

A brochure of multiple volumes

IS LESS

Plenty of room

To stretch our voices beyond

moments that fail to line up

THAN YES

Failure is a good place to live

In a world powered by irregular gears

-Thomas Typewriter

“Dig Below Yourself” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Spell caster, melody maker

What you bring when you sing

Invocation, realization

Doorways that ring of many things

Toe tapping rhythmic gyration

Upswing, Wellspring, Worshiping

The movement’s a shovel

Digging below the gravel bone

A wing from this sting

To a realm of

Seeing the you

Unspooling like string

Across from you

-Thomas Typewriter

the next assignment…

My next assignments..., The Great Works Project assignments

“Accelerant” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Breathe in deep, while you can

Accelerant, Ignition, Conflagration

Melting flesh extinguishes bonfires

Long after cities carbonize.

Accelerant, Ignition, Conflagration

How could ash piles ever bring rain clouds

-Thomas Typewriter

“Silence is Unfaithful” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

Silence is unfaithful

Fleeing when needed most

Every ring of the phone

Leaves me feeling alone

Is today the day

With words too fragile

Did it hurt

A body going inert

Where do screams migrate

When flesh goes cold

-Thomas Typewriter

“A Humble Seed” by Thomas Typewriter – a new poem

poetry

A humble seed

Lost in crack and crevice

Rooms of shadow

Ponders and asks

Slivers of sunlight

If enough 

To strive

To thrive

To survive

Until bloom

-Thomas Typewriter

“The Weight, The Layers” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

The weight of the years will never leave us

No matter how we pray

No matter how we hope

A lightness is not ours to be

Together we sink

Two grains of sand

In a clam

Please hold my hand

I love you

-by Thomas Typewriter

“Ask A Plastic Flower” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

Asking a plastic flower

To describe the smell of lavender

Is like

Moving back home 

After traveling roads of my own choosing

Encountering dead ends

And closed for repairs

Realizing I have no sense of direction

Asking a plastic flower

To describe the smell of cinnamon

Is like

Finding your childhood bedroom

Untouched by time or therapy

Under-filled by a bed too short for sleep

Next to a hope chest

Filled with innocent requests

-by Thomas Typewriter