Short Short Poems

Meeting Myself

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           if I ever meet myself

  I probably wouldn't recognise me

     I've changed a lot since then


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In The Nick Of Time POTD

...the day I died
was a rainy one
but the sun came out
in the nick of time
I can laugh about it now
but it was a worry...

Let's Escape Tonight

...let's escape tonight
leave this drum behind
without packing
without our phones

just take our scars
and sculptured bones
we notched upon each other...

A Buzz

...I broke my personal record for days alive yesterday. Yea me. I feel great today. This morning I swear my hair looked shinier and more lustrous and there’s the slightest glow to my skin. I’m just sayi...

Blue Shotgun Lantana

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"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire

"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." 
Charles Baudelaire

"Smell is...

Meet In the Spirit

...We will be together once again;
Lining mongst heaven’s host;
Meet in the spirit;
Presently future tense terrific;
Hallelujah;
Eventually in a little while;
Meet in the spirit;
In a...

An Abecedarian Poem Keeps Me Fresh

...Why do I write poetry?
It is something that helps me relax, like painting and cartooning.
Most of what I have written probably isn’t poetry at all
Just really short short short stories
When peopl...

A Prayer God Did Not Answer My Way

...A PRAYER GOD DID NOT ANSWER MY WAY

We’re told that God will answer each time we kneel to pray,
And yet that very answer will not always go our way.
So once I prayed and fasted about a dire need,...

Mediocre Son Me Crafts Letter To His Papa

...Mediocre son (me) crafts letter to his papa

Impossible mission to escape end of life woe
visit courtesy grim reaper 
inevitable for every mortal,
whether he/she alive
yesterday, today or tomor...

My Dad Wasn'T a Tall Man He Was a Loud Man-

...My dad wasn't a tall dad 
He was a loud dad to me 
When he spoke 
Up to Heaven struck 
He was a loud dad to me

My dad the Earthly one 
I had 
Was a short short man 
He was only f...

The 1940's and 50's Movie, Radio and More

...Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC, From just before my first grade in school to the end of my t...

Micro Panache

...Short short story
Wit not whimsy


Very short takes
Crisp tale you make


Brisk word count here
Watch magic steer


Choice in brisk strokes
Mint poignant yoke


Think in warm feel
Wo...

Distant Shores

...the road travelled like a momentous mountain,
the end game on its peak of distant shores.
a matrix of bubblegum ready to drop with coins
or a complex crazy quilt with lazy and diligent dyes.

a ...

Rapacious Itch

...Rapacious  Itch 


It felt things coming, 
The undeniable bottom feeder reality, 
Where thought had no credulity, 
Where irrational emoting ruled, 
Void of mind’s prep, 
Blind of light’s reve...

Sexiest Legs Ever In Her Short Mini-Skirt

...Sexiest Legs Ever In Her Short Mini-skirt

Sexiest legs ever in her short mini-skirt,
new teacher's sexy appeal made we young boys hurt.
Sixty-nine and seeing more was a young lad's dream
we wer...

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