Long Pint sized Poems

Alexandria, Egypt is well known for being the city where Cleopatra once ruled her people and both she and her famous lover, Mark Anthony met their final, tragic fates.  It is where the "Pharos...

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Imagine a small frail girl,
Sitting in the darkest corner of a poorly lit room, 
Only lit by the cautious sunlight that rebelliously shines through the crack in the curtain – if she dares
And thank God...

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Here is a tale of the runt, in the land of giants
Bearing the brunt of her size and growing defiant
This pint sized gal was a mere 23 feet tall
Compared to others at 30, seemed like...

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Estranged to a lonely room
Littered with trash and splattered gloom
Fettered and sentenced to early doom
Distressed and distraught to a sordid mood
Creeps and crawls and stalks at night

To make sure the windows latched
To make sure the...

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Ah, the glorious damned winter
and the inviting  
gray chill in the air.
I meander 
ever 
so
slowly 
past lawns
strewn 
with a cluttered array
of pagan snow zombies -
staring blankly,
as I obliterate pint-sized
snow angels 
failing to don halos
that...

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See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all...

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Once, 
About ten minutes ago in the year 
2006 or 
2549, depending upon which avatar or
 Messiah is consulted, I  
 Tumbled out of my bed to the 
Untranslatable 
Predawn
 Cackle of 
Frantic voices
Descending.
...

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Harpoon Loouey - Pseudonym Pen Bukowski

although just a pint size Notre Dame 
hunched quarter back 
     with rock solid state frame
Pen (short for pennilessness), 

     a generic...

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You swear your word is solid
as a silver serving spoon
Well, why does it always feels like
another mis-spoken dog day afternoon
		Hotter than July
in the middle of June
		Cast iron sky
	making fainting hearts swoon
Butter pecan words
all dressed up...

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(Although this was inspired by Olusequn Adelana's poetry challenge about betrayal, it is 
much too long to enter it; but I'm thankful for any poetic inspiration I can recieve!)

What Finally Set Me Off

Sometimes Mom would...

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Listen up, y'all, got a tale to tell
'Bout an elephant that time almost forgot
Not your average jumbo, this one's special as hell
Sicily's very own pint-sized lot

Evolved on an island, cut off from the rest
Shrunk down...

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Mattie was a gentle soul, weak in body yet in spirit bold,
touching lives profoundly with his words of inspiration.
A mature mind, though a child, with a poet's heart of gold,
living life fully as a gift...

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The equivalent of a cosmic flat tire, the star collector overheated again.
Should've topped off the subzero heat transmogger back at Stuckey's.
Yep we have 'em too.., who doesn't need a Pecan Log Roll, now and then.
Two...

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Long ago in a land not near,
There was a young man whose looks made people sneer.
Through the whistling forest he went to find a sorceress out west,
“Sorceress please make me look the best!”.

He shot up...

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You see them all the time,
bogarding their way through a crowd
You hear them ever so loud,
bull horning their voice like a bad weather report
Whole hearted fools into half stepping,
pint-sized thinkers with big ten-gallon heads
They’re always...

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A misted view of a bedroom cloth is really a cloak having a smoke. A range of fathomable feline feminine is felt and smelt. In a blood arch turning twisting. Take take take. Trapping then....

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An Appeal Sent Through Time

By Elton Camp

Homo sapiens sees it was a mistake
So corrective action he tries to take

Into the past, his voice does send
To the ancestors of modern men

Go back, go back and save...

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A teensy weensy lady beetle
A bitty, pint sized bug 
Seduced by the tune of an old man’s fiddle
Had went inside and gotten stuck

Her little, feeble, fragile limbs
Supported her spotted frame
Until she found a place to...

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Mrs Potato Head
Mrs Potato Head's image surprised 
That can't be me it's someone else I see
I still feel young in my heart and pint-sized 
The mirror tells lies, it’s true believe me.

That can't be me...

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Nature's divine creation is flora
Although there are numerous breeds
My favorite flowering plant is Ixora
The most beautiful flower indeed

Since Ixora has attractive colors,
It is also called as Jungle flame
I am magnetized to the pleasant odor
and would...

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To have my cake and eat it too
The best of both with no adieu

Pint sized comforts, nestled in
Where personal space is growing thin

Amongst the city that never sleeps
Behind four walls, no one peeps

A Consistently unconventional...

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Have its lobster claws times two pincered off
One way sticks of this crustacean’s underwater trap?
Eight leggedly it gallops off among arthritic, bulbous trees.
And waves its spiny tail to cover up its tracks.

Dogs have joined the...

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Twenty Pints of Sunshine
David J Walker

It seemed to be the only thing 
In abundance on the farm
The light and heat
	The shine so bright
Long days 
short nights
And work doled out in the mornings

Today we will bottle...

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Sweeps down over the school yard

Suddenly, totally unexpectedly.

At once, 

Squeals of delight,

Exultant laughter from

The cruel children there.

They suddenly look up from their bullying of

Their helpless, disabled class mate,

And letting him be, instead the bullies smile,

Up...

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Children cheerily carousing,
Hilariously giggling with glee, 
Immersed in impish imaginations,
Living life abundantly.
Daring darlings darting about,
Relishing rumble-tumble play,
Enjoying their energetic endeavors,
No thought of slowing down today.

Picture perfect pint-sized playmates,
Laughing, leaping with all their might,
Activating creative juices,
Youthful...

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