Gawky Poems - Poems about Gawky

Enigma

...Missed links
Clawed wings, blue cheeks,
Rufous crest, maroon eyes
Gawky gait, baffling diet, odd
Bird stinks*


*Hoatzin bird...

Environmental shots

...Unique
Elite swimmer
brown, tailless, Pied-billed Grebes
can float, dive or simply submerge
graceful

dark eyes
cinnamon tone
heard but not often seen
rear end feet, lobed toes, poor flier
...

Ode to the tallest mountain peak

...O thou world’s tallest mount of might, 
Like a gawky adolescent,
Added hast thou to thy old height,
I bow to thy quickest ascent.

Thou, with thy siblings so many
In the abode of hoary snow,
A...

Schizophrenic Portrait

...Written: May 09, 2024

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A diaphanous shroud on my cranium.
It's worn down to the cram
It's a reprieve from my madness.
& now I clench my ...

Adolescent infatuations never consummated

...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ...

no one wanted me either

...no one wanted this unusual canary
I related totally
no one wanted me either

I will take that one, I told the shop keeper
That one!
He was incredulous.

I said that one, I said, nodding.
The...

I South Africa I Woman

...{August is Woman’s Month in South Africa. August 9th is Woman’s Day. August 8th is an opening of the Lion’s Portal to Cosmic Strength. This poem is for all the Lion Hearted women who have crossed my ...

Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber

...Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine ...

Politicians

...Ham player  that by
                             strength of
                            DANGEROUS LINKS,
                           performs
                            the best roles...
      ...

Melon Rind Green

...Life was hard when growing up cus I was poor.
Farm work always needed doing, chore after chore,
wearin' hand-me-downs, never gettin' new toys.
No time for playin' with friends, like other ...

Too Polite To Say No

...Morty’s feet were as graceful as a gawky giraffe on ice.
He asked Morgan McMillon to the dance, not one time, but thrice.
She could not refuse him a fourth time, for it would not seem nice.
They a...

Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine

...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021 

No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ...

Route 66ish No 9

...Route 66ish No 9

There once was a girl from Milwaukee,
Who was terribly thin, even gawky,
Her brother, called Pat,
Was exceedingly fat,
So she always addressed him as "Porky"!!...

Gift of Glory

...God gave me a great gift of glory
A gift of a good gracious guardian, 
Gifts of Gaiety, Gumption and Grief
God’s gift grants no gates for groveling
Nor are they gimmicks, glitches, nor guilt
Thu...

Unable To Bid Papa Goodbye

...Nonagenarian father afflicted,
his body electric awry
with congenital heart failure,
before long twill bid existence bye
whose physical well being -
corporeal essence inevitably will die

unav...

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