Best Close Call Poems

Their day at the beach was much hotter
than usual. Soon Gramps would totter
right down to the ocean.
We warned him his notion
was bad. We’d seen sharks in the water.

Alone, he was happily splashing,
but soon, barely clothed, he was dashing
to shore. He was screaming,
though no blood was...

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Death whispered my name today,
a soft seductive coo in my ear.
Proceeding onward to invade my very soul;
And over my body,
I felt the creeping cold take hold.

I closed my eyes to join the dance,
the romance of the dead;
Leading me from what I used to be,
into where...

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God wasn't ready for me to join him. . . 
       any more than I was ready to make the journey....

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Constant jeopardy is something we must accept.
An asteroid whizzed by on a near-intercept.
Two million miles is not a distance that is far.
It was a reminder of how vulnerable we are.

The close call happened to be just last night.
Many around the world are startled with fright.
There...

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CLOSE    CALL   IN    IRELAND



I once had an affaire de coeur  with a foxylady, in fact a randy colleen
In Ireland with a tough older brother looking to punch me out.
But I cold cocked the rambunctious  hooligan,...

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William Tell 'tis said

     Split an apple on son's head

          Son nearly dropped dead

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 9 in Carol Brown's "Apples? Oranges?" Contest - May...

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I'm running, panting.
I feel hot breath on my neck.
I turn, nothing there!...

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It seems she hangs in the air
I brake - I see her eye - her form
A deer in perfect freeze frame 
She’s gone as abruptly 
as she appeared 
from nowhere. 

Bite Size Poem no. 5 Poetry Contest
Line Gauthier
Written June 3rd 2021...

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As I read todays Sunday paper,
it brought back a lot of heartache,
it'll be 5 years this coming Wednesday,
when there was a terrible outbreak..
I remember when I was little,
and for the first time saw
The Wizard of Oz,
thought the twister in it looked so real,
thinking Dorothy really...

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Sitting in the basement
Two friends were fairly wasted
With an idea, both of them could taste it
So they decided they would make it

They tried to pull up the internet
With a computer not even turned on yet
So they smoked another doobie and
Came up with a master plan

When...

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Call me anytime, anytime you aren't busy

You can call me when you get around to it

I tell you every day, yet never hear anything

Never get a call return, because you are busy 

Didn't get a call the last time I tried to stop breathing

But I...

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My wife and I enter a restaurant across the street from the airport, our kids in tow. There is quite a crowd with little room to maneuver. Our name goes on the waitlist. Ugh.

Carol and I are taking turns holding our 2-month-old son while the...

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Canoeing in shallow waters
Sunny calm and heavenly
Till ever so suddenly came a squall
That’s what they call crazy storms
That come out of nowhere
Without warning
I really thought it was all over for me
Thought I’d be meeting my maker
Somehow panic gave way
To a cool level head
A rational inner...

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Cop a feel
Cop a lie
Copulate

                       She's fourteen; Pop's a cop
             ...

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You are a spoiled child.
Your puppet lost the election.
Like an angry child you strike.
If Trump won the election,
America would be yours.
I thank God everyday we
have elections so your dream
died before it became reality....

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