Category: Free Verse

Most everything that isn’t a haiku or tanka falls into this category lately. Subject to change, of course.

Memories of Metal Shop 

Carl Setzer

​Sitting

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p style=”font-family:"”>Metsl tsble 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Vice gripping 

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p style=”font-family:"”>My victim 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Bending 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Shaving

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p style=”font-family:"”>Scraping

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p style=”font-family:"”>Demanding 

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p style=”font-family:"”>It fit into 

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p style=”font-family:"”>My will.

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p style=”font-family:"”>Resistance

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p style=”font-family:"”>Solid

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p style=”font-family:"”>We find

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p style=”font-family:"”>Detente,

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p style=”font-family:"”>This soul

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p style=”font-family:"”>Longing

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p style=”font-family:"”>For the

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The Pain Of Choice

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It’s so easy to spin
Tumbling over, over
Losing my focus
In this maelstrom
Of possibility

For a choice requires
Leaving opportunity
Sitting in the sun
For another to grab.
What if that one
Is better than this one?
Too much of this
Is a table full of gifts
Where nothing is opened
And all potential
Evalotates into the day’s heat

Thursday Morning

Carl Setzer

​Slowly waking 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Against my will 

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p style=”font-family:"”>For life’s demands 

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