Short Packet Poems

How many more finches will fit?
In the red french fries packet shaped like a mitt
Tried four but it did not work
stuck with three and one who lurks...

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A packet of fizz the Jack Russell 
Full of dashing and daring and bustle
With engine on race
And the world left to chase
Any wonder he makes such a fussle?...

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" Cut from here" are the words printed on the chips packet
with image of the scissors but irony is that 
one is carry the scissors if thinks of having the stuff...

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The contents long consumed, discarded; 
the packet stirred in the gentle breeze
before rising, dancing, escaping;
an ersatz yellow-red autumn leaf;
wind chaser that will live forever....

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A Crisp packet skips across the road,
Like a ballerina on her points.
Sounding like a kid dragging their heels
Along the ground
Blown along by a wind strong enough
To tease leaves from a tree....

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a packet of seeds
with great picture of flowers
a garden waiting


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11/4/2015

Contest  - Verse a Favoured Form

Sponsor - Brian Strand

3rd place win...

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A stained teacup sits sadly in the sink
Ashes of a past fire grey the hearth
An unread newspaper, old man's spectacles
A packet of mints lay on the scratched surface
Of a beeswaxed table
Waiting for Thomas Ryan to return...

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Peppermint leaves to chew on
chocolate kisses brew
  every thing that I own
bottled up in you

  pour me a passion 
of moonlight
  sip all the
whispering tears

  tell me about
that June night
wrap me a packet
 of years...

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Funny bunnies, Honey,
Costa lotta money!

So do pretty posies,
Panties, chocs and roses.

If I had a packet,
I could really hack it … 

But you can’t buy prezzies 
If you don’t have readies.

Nicer far than this is 
Hugs and kisses, Missus!...

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You can't put a better bit of butter on your platter because a martyr did shatter the packet of your butter as it did welter in the gutter,  but that waiter did cater you this later,  muttering about an utter butter-hater from Gloucester with bitter hauteur....

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Discarded torn corner of salt packet
Word alt still visible in faded red letters
Last bit of freedom, feeling the wind
Heading toward the mountains
In eagle’s sharp beak
Will soon be intertwined in twigs
Softening eaglet’s nest
Enjoying wind while she can...

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attention fixated in quanta of time
each packet a hypnotic trance
gluey friction inbuilt in duality
it's been fun but we're done

or so we imagine
as a subtle desire
mirroring aversion
signalling bondage

the rabbit hole goes in deep

04-November-2022...

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My new year's resolution is I’m going to get thinner
So I purchased  a 'Weightwatchers’ meal as a  TV dinner
When I looked at the ingredients I discovered it’s a racket
There is more nutritional value if had I eaten the blinking packet!

25th December 2014...

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I started out with a few sweeteners in my coffee
And half and half
And then the experiments began

I am up to five sweeteners
A hot chocolate packet
Cinnamon and a pudding mix

I should exile myself 
From coffee making except
I have my eye on the 
Marshmallow creme...

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The last one in the packet,
You blow it up, hold it aloft,
Admiring the transformation
That you have brought about;
The kiss of life
The gift of hope
An air of grace
Your life, your hope, your air
So easy to damage
Burst pop bang:
Hear your breath escape,
The silent song it sang....

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Cigarettes and milo
A sweet art work combined
Milky and soft
loving and willing united
Is it lasting like a packet of frizzies
Dancing under the stars in between cards
Laughter echoing 
Laughter that was lost

So now i look at frizzies and milo
Hoping laughter echo in the stars forevermore...

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From China came a large packet of seeds
My garden bare;  it would see to my needs 
I put them all in the ground
And when they sprouted I found
I'd only planted Japanese knotweeds.

Written 8th August 2020. 

For "Mystery Seeds" "Poetry Contest 
Sponsored By Carolyn Devonshire....

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Chinese New Year
Spring hurls fine cheer


Custom works best
To forge fine fest


Red packet gifts
Watch cash uplift


Glimpses of smiles
As blessings style


Fond festive cheer
Draws each soul near


Fresh touch of spring
As joy now sings




Leon Enriquez
19 February 2018
Singapore...

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secrets in grandmas purse

There were hidden depths in Grandma Kates purse.
Children,  gathered close when she came to stay, hoping
 to partake of some strange or exotic tidbit.  Everyone tried 
to look nonchalant but were bursting to peer inside.

humbugs with creamy stripes
sen sen in a paper packet 
red turkish delight...

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what is love to you
a term to sign with your name
a hollow box of empty promises
a packet in your purse to smooth over
your sharp comments
who do you love 
other than yourself
in reply to everything you weave a story
of yourself
love is the selfless giving
not expecting anything in return
and rejoicing 
at reciprocation...

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I got buzzed by a pesky blue bottle
To evade it I started to tottle
I reached for the bug spray
But the fly dodged away
Then dive bombed at my head at full throttle


I purchased a fly swatting racket
So cheap it did not cost a packet
When I hit a fly
One touch and they die
It saves me from having to whack it!


06~03~17...

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Out on the front verandah
We'd share a bottle of silence
And watch a twenty-eight in the dead Jarrah tree -
Neither of us thinking of the death that was to be.
I'd produce a flask of wit
And you'd follow with a chuckle -
The low, breathy kind,
Like a 'packet-a-day' kookaburra
Just beginning to wind up.
No, not much to say,
All said in our glasses
As we sit
And wait...
For the long, quiet night....

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A sign that casts the longest shadow
It reads works sets you free
Nether a politians  prejudice
or a capitalists pay packet 
these  will not set you free
The cremation chimmney 
will still burn bright 
Whether a life cut short 
by genocide or work
theres no escape
for you and me 
the language of persecution
Knows no borders 
colour nor religon 
Arbeit macht frei 

Arbeit sieht dich tot...

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I live in a mixed world called earth
The day where a packet of gum doesn't cost $1.25
Is peace for me.
Teenagers like me, are unknown
"coming out the closet" is a different language
that doesn't need to be said
I am one of the closet people
Just because I kiss a guy
I'm different than the others
I am not a what, i am a who
A person, just like you
No need for discrimination, just opinion 
Anger...

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Festus bought a car
Quite cheap but second-hand
The horn button broke when he
First pressed it with his hand.

His local paper he did scan
Until he found an ad
Directly from a factory
Horn buttons could be had.

Any car without a horn
Must surely soon be dented
So Festus ordered one
But when it came,lamented.

Sent direct and by return
In a little packet
The article in question was 
A button for a jacket!...

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