Caveat: Poem #3586 "Looking out across the parking lot"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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The small town was filled with milling crowds.
A new social experiment:
let's welcome random cruise ships,
drive the tourists around,
and see how that goes.
Mostly, they're nice.
They're confused,
aimless,
lost.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/06/02/caveat-poem-3586/

Caveat: Poem #3579 "Ode to the guy in the car in front of me"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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Yo! God put turn signals on your car
having a clear purpose in mind;
so let's meditate on that,
and think of what they're for.
Possibly they are...
inert objects?
blinkinlights?
strange signs?
bling?

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/26/caveat-poem-3579/

Caveat: Poem #3577 "Stand your ground"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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The tree was committed to its bit:
to stand firmly, tall and stoic,
facing the sea, which sometimes
was roiled with driving rain
and other times, flat,
a green mirror:
the tree's shape,
doubled,
seen.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/24/caveat-poem-3577/

Caveat: Poem #3567 "Getting tired of the sales calls, honestly"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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the paradox with cold-calling sales:
if your product requires a pitch
where you extol its virtues,
maybe it's not so good?
if it's quality,
i would find it
and buy it
without
sales.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/14/caveat-poem-3567/

Caveat: Poem #3560 "Endings and beginnings"

#Poetry #Nonnet #Photography #SoutheastAlaska

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There is a moment of peace offered
with two signs thirty feet apart
along the drive home from work.
One project ends. One starts.
But the signs are old.
The brief respite
means nothing.
Just drive
by.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/07/caveat-poem-3560/

Caveat: Poem #3559 "Unstory"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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The mythic frog guarded the grey wall.
Over time she tired of waiting.
She never blinked her black eyes.
The strange monkeys passed by.
One of them stopped, stared.
"I must have this!"
The frog, then:
taken.
Gone.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/06/caveat-poem-3559/

Caveat: Poem #3558 "The embiggening"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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I dreamed my gift store became immense.
The familiar, homey workplace
unfolded like a vast maze:
an aimless labyrinth
of long passages,
cluttered levels,
stairways up,
tunnels
down.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/05/05/caveat-poem-3558/

Caveat: Poem #3549 "The travails of the apocalypse jeep, part the first"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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The jeep spent last month in a snowdrift.
Now revealed, I tried starting it.
It failed to start. I felt sad.
A solenoid problem?
No... electrical.
I hotwired it.
And later,
I must
fix.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/04/26/caveat-poem-3549/

Caveat: Poem #3546 "Remnants"

#Poetry #Nonnet #Photography #SoutheastAlaska

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along the trail out to the treehouse
there lingered a small patch of snow
finally it got so small
and shrank away at last
and then no more snow
so the birds sang
to tell us
such a
tale

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/04/23/caveat-poem-3546/

Caveat: Poem #3544 "The perils of composition"

#Poetry #Nonnet

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Lately, I have been so uninspired.
The writing feels desultory.
But then, looking back on it,
at least I can follow
the waning of moods,
the waxing dooms,
the random
swings of
life.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/04/21/caveat-poem-3544/