Nook And Cranny Poems - Poems about Nook And Cranny

Sisyphus’ Lament

...Sisyphus’ Lament

I took each hard punch 
And swallowed each raw pill. 
But you said it wasn’t a fair fight
And I agree, 
But you didn’t watch 
My tears each night, 
No, they weren’t 
For yo...

Babbling Brook or Dirty Harry

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Michelin star cricketing cook…by hook or crook.. so canny..will find every nook and cranny…if you took a look at the record..score or text book ..won’t have forsook ..our dutiful..beautiful babblin...

Gonifs and gossips revisited

...Gonifs and gossips revisited

since originally being crafted
approximately half dozen
dirty deeds done dirt cheap years ago...

Abound and lurk
within every nook and cranny
analogous to some ...

Quiet Power of a Chair

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Written: April 26, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand

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It comes in sizes
                    small
                        medium
                     ...

Goats The Luck

...In the pastures where the tall grass sways,  
My luck roams free beneath the sun's warm gaze,  
With nimble feet and playful, bounding grace,  
They jump and dance, their joys we can't erase,  
N...

Dreams Wrapped in Fairy Dust

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Written: January 08, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon 
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Creeping softly through the iron gate.
I can't belie...

Happy 70th

...Some days I am twelve or thirteen
Other days I am eight or nineteen
Age is nothing at all, which I have now seen
Glad to be an artist and poetry queen

I have no advice for you, for I do not liv...

Twosomes

...
Owloysius met Owllison and they fell in love.
Their wedding was a hoot and a holler!

Owlice told Owlan she wanted to wed.
He said, “No! I don’t give a hoot about THAT!”

Owlex hid from her a...

Don ta Ask Me Bout Exacerbation Of Trumpeted FAKE News

...Don (ta) Ask Me 'Bout Exacerbation Of Trumpeted "FAKE" News

written September 19th, 2018, and following words still ring (more true) today – exactly six years later. 

The then forty fifth prez
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Breath

...

   Facing my other
   Your breath strokes my face
   Gentle whispers across nose and chin
   See every line and crinkle
   Shared pillow
   Helps to hold our embrace
   I see every nook and...

Irish Coffee

...Irish coffee Sunday
 ...soft sweet 
buzz
rolling around in my mind
there's her--
a thousand miles away
and me--
stuck since Christmas 
preparing to leave
a bad man I am
to be restless as wa...

Betrayal's Harvest

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I couldn't believe the word on the streets 
It ran through every nook and cranny
and with urgent feet.
The news of a daughter's unkind heart was told.
A calculated wanton cruelty unfold.
The s...

DISCOVERY

...DISCOVERY

Every nook and cranny I must comb
In my school bus, at the end of the ride
And I found her nestled under the seat
Now my thorough search was complete
I asked if she was alright, then...

Building Tension

...That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to death

I ...

Absolute deafening silence

...Absolute deafening silence...

during and after a moderate snowfall
today January 19th, 2024,
within Southeastern Pennsylvania
and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard,
whereby blanket of whit...

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