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Dangling Short-Lines Over Water-Falls

Oh, dear reader
of short-line
poems,
are you, like me,
short of breath?

Have you tried
to read
my short-shift stuff,
with ever so
short-lines,
Aloud?

It's sad to say
it sounds
a tad choppy!
Like it's,
ridin' on
bobbin' seas,
sailing into 
a head-wind
over the air-ways.

It rollicks along 
with carriage returns, 
unwinding, 
flowing freely 
from margins
set tight,
to waterfall.

Sad to say,
I'm done with it!
For me personally,
a poem
is just a thought,
a heady 
daydream fling,
until its read, 
Out-Loud!

Dangling Upside Down

When you travel and you’re on a plane,
Attendants must always explain
What to do in a crash
But the words they rehash
Most on board think are spoken in vain.

Yet a Delta flight recently dipped
As it landed and suddenly flipped.
Every seat belt held tight
As each one on the flight
Dangled upside down, very off-script.

Flight crews got all the passengers out
With some injuries scattered about
But they all did survive,
In one piece and alive,
Though quite shaken up, there’s little doubt.

A payout from Delta proposed
Thirty-thousand for each one exposed
To this harrowing turn
(More than some people earn)
But not worth it, as many disclosed.

DANGLING

I am out now dangling
But you leave me hanging
Holding on to nothing
Wishing to hold on to you
Wanting and awaiting 
Your touch once more
Your absence has been 
Too long for my taking
I am out now
It is me I would
Like to give to you
Not just some small fragment
Of my being essential only to the
Level of your selfish indulges
I am out now
Take hold of me and penetrate my mind
Subdue my body with the raptures 
Of yesterday's forgotten dreams
Persuade me with the sweet nothings
Caress me with empty promises
You dare to whisper in my ear
Lift my soul with the truth of
Your lies that you want me to believe
As you knew it to be
When we became as one
Give to me all of you
If just for one more night
And if perchance
We shall meet in the sun
Let only our smile tell

The Dangling Decameron

Some kind of Boccaccio 
they open The Book, 
borrowing thoughts 
and stories from muses,
for it is a tome 
in its entirety,

each muse, a Page, unamused,
to be plucked from tomb,
those sepia petals thrown up in the air, 
unravel, the yarns like confetti, 
land at the feet 
of others 

weeds and rows of perennials,
who bend like willows
backwards, they watch 
unhooded falcons soar up 
against the sky, 
all shades of colour 

the ever-moving clouds
like music, divine,
pull them up as if on strings
threaded through needlepoint 
of a sharper mind, 
they are carried away, drugged, 

making wishes, like dandelions

blowing each the other, 
they become - more - storks,
each a story, undone,
sewn and seeded 
for the larger Ovid
in exchange for kinder souls

they dangle, each and every one 

their spines entitled, 
The Decameron
opened up, 
lives fluttering,
they are read
as the in-betweens 

some Prencipe Galeotto
engaged with Dante’s trust


Candide Diderot. ‘24 





Page
stork, stalk
the Decameron
Prencipe Galeotto
Dante
Ovid

Dangling Dwellings

Dangling thoughts
Of your brilliance 
Dream about the days of destiny.

The wondrous slots 
Of due diligence
Fill their chairs with the pace of scrutiny.

Dangling Dandelion Muse

Dandelion puff clouds
tickle the air with their flossy flights.
Other weeds cannot fly
they are deeply rooted, their seeds
flop low.
Landscapers grind the ground grimly,
mowers grapple and growl
but the low gravity and the fluffy,
the wind-walking dandelions
sneeze up their fuzziness
and care not
as they ride the sky, their
high-flown wispy pedigrees
waving goodbye.

Dangling

There is a site
just here,
yes, here. Somewhere.
I hover, dangle, hang about,
just here.
You can hold a mouse,
press it just here, or just here,
and you hear a click.
It may even squeak.
A mouse does so, so much.
Such a sight
on this site.
Sometimes it’s light
or often a fright.
But such a sight
on this site.
Oh, such a site!

(February 2022)

Dangling Participles

in the silence
of the night

ring loudest
words unsaid

the gaps
the hesitations

admissions left
half hanging



AP: 3rd place 2021

Posted on July 19, 2021

Cigarette Dangling

her child
she spanks
cigarette
dangling
baby 
turns away
she inflicts
real 
pain

Delicate Draw Dangling

eyes etched'n mystery
wielding wanky slips
on epileptic drips
centered on clips
hanging on hits
punctured per clip

delicate draw dangling
lousy limb lustrating
pulling chaos's mist

vying courage gulped
in mystic mist
punctured passion puking

lusty lips leak
dyed-in-the-wool demon creeps.
      20:01:15:16:55

Daring Damsel Dangling

smirk seeped'n acme
damping dainty drips
of salient scrunchies
punctured puke pitched
on callous crest
pluming pulpy pests

hoisted aura hankering
fostering flattered feelings
callous contractions crumbling

la-de-da limbs lurching
aiding cranky catastrophe
on prurient priest

costly commotion vying
daring damsel dangling.
    20:01:06:11:55

Note: A lady passing by...

Daedal Dusts Dangling

eerie earth moaning
tainted soles trudging
salient strife smirking
lofty lust lurching
damped desires drooling
heightened hoisted hankerings

daedal dusts dangling
callous contractions cussing
smothered zeals scrunching

apt auras oozing
spooky silhouettes sealing
rustic rays belching

whosing wind wielding
all tiers tearing!
    19:12:07:10:12

Dangling Contemplation

What's a necktie 
dangling for?

     Too stiff, too thin 
     to be scarf, a bib 
     or an apron,

Too smooth to be 
a hankie,

     too short to be 
     a suicide noose
     to contemplate on!

***** Trump Is Dangling

***** Trump Is Dangling

As usual ***** Trump again is dangling,
And several deals he  will be wrangling;
Deep in  debt;
Suitors upset;
Minds of many more has been mangling.

Jim Horn

Dangling From My Butt

Alright, okay, enough is enough
It's supposed to be warm, what's with this stuff
Still wearing woolies
Protecting my goodies
Without 'em, icicles would be dangling from my butt

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