Short Antiques Poems

Remember your friends  
       Are valuable antiques   
             Always be faithful...

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collectible things
tweaks our brains
and pleasure it brings
its odd but still
the antiquing bug
got me to a thrill...

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TV host, Tim Wonnacott,
About antiques, he knows a lot,
In hat and tie he'll always dress,
Are you ready to Bargain Hunt? Yes!...

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aisles of antiques
corrugated with named streets -
cups, saucers and book bindings
…stomach’s churning. i’m paying,
booking with dog-eared treasures.

7/27/2021...

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She collected 
his every phrase 
like an assortment 
of antiques. 
She realized 
she could also 
sort them by date.

2/21/2021

Credit: Someone You Love Is Gone by Gurjinder Basran, Page 21...

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Antiques gathering dust on hidden shelves.
Bits and baubles from kinder times.
Can you hear their stories amidst the silence?
Do you care to learn from the past?
Each day the dust gets thicker as the memories thin out....

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Antiques in the attic,
amazing oil paintings
are coated with thick dust.
Albums of photographs,
await my teary eyes. 
Auntie has passed away
and I must clear her house. 

Inspired by Pleiades A contest

10th August 2016...

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Antics  dealer

I dealt  in antiques as well as antics
Once chased a  sterling  ‘bronze’,  very  unique
It  stood  its ground and just blushed
Till, by and by, I felt  bushed
And chastised,  quit things risqué and of  risk.


03 jun 12...

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an old lady sweet
with much clutter of antiques -
the cookie is burnt

_______________________________
March 17, 2019


Poetry/Senryu/I went to visit
Copyright Protected, ID 19- 1125-538-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym....

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A politician from a town outside Dallas
is cruel corrupt, mean and callous
He takes funding from schools
builds his friends swimming pools
and buys antiques to furnish his palace

A STRAND (1072)' 
Sponsor: Brian Strand
First Place Winner
2/12/22

Written 2/11/22...

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she used to have skills
at a telephone switchboard
today she is scared
of cell phones and computers
my mom is one sweet antique

writing poems by hand
and reading hard cover books
I know little of
the functions of a smart phone
I’m becoming my mother...

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Antiques


He is there,
Grandfather Clock like,
a throwback to another era.

His finely chiseled and polished edges,
the scrapings of life,
the worn, faded, varnish.

His value
should have increased with age,
as with the clock.

Their timeless presence
sweet mementos
of a dusted past....

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We do it to Live.

We set out to find it, 
In our own ways.

We search it
In places, in people
In liquors, in antiques
In words and in drugs,
In marriages, in walks
In food and in paintings
In oceans in deserts
In love and in death
We learn how to laugh
as a way out of our pains,
We go and seek it
To live....

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I love to write
To express
To find myself again and again
Through these words
These forms of expression
Creative trials
Far from tribulations
Because it's evident
That I'm rewriting narratives
Hashing out lines of craze
That could help me survive
Survive times of growth
Turning antiques into diamonds...

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The best thing you can leave your children
Is not money, antiques, a car or a house
It is the ability to generate hope and enthusiasm
If they have that, they have everything

The best way to generate it is to give it to others
The more you give, the more you receive
A simple formula that works
Try it today if you can...

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THE CANDLE

candles gulp and flicker
in a new altitude 
old caves of crazy
waxed out warning
stars 
plummeting to their
dark new address
less stressed
than before

in absence I revolve
shrouded in my resolve
of deceitful sheets
a constellation
shattered rainbows
and chandelier
antiques

© Kim van Breda...

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THE CANDLE

candles gulp and flicker
in a new altitude 
old caves of crazy
waxed out warning
stars 
plummeting to their
dark new address
less stressed
than before

in absence I revolve
shrouded in my resolve
of deceitful sheets
a constellation
shattered rainbows
and chandelier
antiques 

© Kim van Breda—11 December 2015...

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Gold Doesn’t Tarnish

Gold doesn’t tarnish
and the pinky poesy ring
which grandfather found
while plowing his field 
is as bright as the day
it was  first slipped it 
on her finger.

But the promise 
of love inscribed within 
still shines though their
fingers are long gone.

(Inspired by an episode of 
the British Antiques Road Show.)
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If a man won't come
             to life if he doesn't integrate
             the landscape,
             if he doesn't share the
             humanity and the
             nature he will be condemned
             to be a fossil,
             and will live in the collection
             room antiques,
             or museum turn
              one piece... !...

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He liked new shiny
Wanted everything chrome and fresh
Everything modern

She was old-fashioned
Lived life surrounded by antiques
Her dress had lace

He drove a sports car
’51 T-bird for her
Nothing in common

Married thirty years
Their true love was amazing
Ask their six children

If you don’t believe
Ask their sixteen grandchildren
Opposites attract...

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If the man doesn't come
             to life, if he does not integrate
             the landscape,
             if he doesn't share the
             humanity and the
             nature, if he will condemn
             to be a fossil,
             and he will live in the collection
             room antiques,
             or museum turn
              one piece... !...

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The Passion

It was a burning need
the desire to hold and hoard
not cars or rare antiques
but small and natural things

coloured stones from a beach
pales driftwood’s sculpted forms
parrots’ feathers of every hue
and discarded skin of a snake

such wonders of diversity
a bower built of treasured finds
until they overwhelmed my home
overtook the room for me.

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Distress!
Driven by time
tension, traffic, turmoil,
Washington D.C. drags me down.
Taking the train to nearby Kilmarnock,
antiques and art shops fill my day.
At KC's Crabs and Cues,
food and pool will
dis  stress!


April 26, 2017

Sponsor	M. L. Kiser
Contest Name	Give me a Rictameter! 

Kilmarnock is a place in Virginia about a hundred miles from DC....

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These are antiques the old lady said.
All of them?
She nodded.
Even these?

I held up a Fisher Price toy barn.
Especially that! She said.
I left feeling bewildered.
I had just held up my children’s favorite childhood toy.

Are my children also antiques?
And if they are antiques,
Where do I stand? What does this make me?
I got into my covered wagon and put a comforter over my head....

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There’s a not-so-fine line
Between antiques and junk.
Some objects of “value”
A pro may debunk.

While others, so old
They are covered in rust,
Seem worthless, so passing
Them over’s a must.

Still, it can be fun
Checking out all the wares 
At various flea markets,
Shops, booths and fairs.

It takes a keen eye
To uncover some treasure,
But poking around
Brings a “Look at this!” pleasure....

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