Short Adjusting Poems

Summertime
Grandfather clock
Slowly adjusting...

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The truth
of scripture,
seeing in part-
like eyes adjusting to
the dark....

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gloaming of the sun
stuns when it opens its eyes
— ever changing mind

5/29/2018...

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Alternating, adjusting accuracy.
Allowing, accepting alarms.
Announcing, albeit alluding to
Actions, of arrivals arriving....

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heads bent together
son adjusting the computer volume
father hearing music
playing the guitar
showing his son
how to hear
how to play
magic...

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A glimmer of light
stocatto blinks
puzzling
observatories
frantically
adjusting the focus
a junior Einstein
tears out his hair
Hubble 
in trouble...

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What? I'm not eating your roses.
I am adjusting my whiskers.
I don't care for salads anyway.
Just watching this pathetic
Excuse for a plant self-destruct....

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Need help adjusting to an old charmer
Just like yesterday I was full of viss and pinegar
Lost all my zip
Losing my gtip
What's up or down seems I need body armour...

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Key to Freedom

Truth needs neither adjusting nor altering; and when obtained, there’s peace and freedom

02042016 (PS Contest, Theme Solitude, One Line poem #4; Poet Destroyer A)...

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Careening down the freeway
   adjusting   watching
   my rear-view   mirror
Checking to see 
   if death
   be closing in
Lurking there
   in my blind spot
of a blinded   life.
...

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Listen to poem:

he rose from ashes
with a trace of renewed hope
adjusting to the idea

that maybe

maybe some day
he'd be ready
to make new memories



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on October 1, 2021...

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Out of my mind, back in a few minutes
Adjusting my parameters, can't find 'em in a thicket
Happens now and then
Probably out feeding the hens
My name is Gertrude and my stockings are fishnet...

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I saw her beauty standing there
In her cherry brick made house..
Strolling up as asking for a light
Arranging my blouse amid hope
She might like,  what she finds ?
Thirty-sevens adjusting my skirt
Swaying my hips wetting my lips....

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A daily puzzle
7 clues
Adjusting letters
Which to choose
Some clues are easy
Some are sly
Some await
Others reply
Numbered solutions
Many or few
Completely solved
I am told "Well done!"
I bid it "so long"
And  'yes' I had fun....

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Thunder much like a Greek God
It resonates through my ears,
It causes me to bear a grin
Deep sapphire lies out like the land,
Wreaking of aged salt
The crescents of impure white disintegrate,
When adjusting to the actual level,
The level of the sea....

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The faded vibrancy of your smile
Through the exposure we set
Knocks the breath right from my chest
Life through the viewfinder keeps focusing on you
Unsaturated love turning shades of grey
I'm still adjusting to the light
of a life with you nowhere in sight...

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In October when we are adjusting to
cool temperatures and changing leaves,
Nature fast forwards into Winter,
sending us freaky weather,
Tales of snow, winds and storms,
makes everyone shiver, thinking
of the pending mayhem,
when the weather creates bedlam....

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Extreme heat, mild hail at night, questions
But at dawn, those venturing at 5, see signs
That autumn is rolling in like a ball of yarn
A challenge to equanimity, healing Shalom,
For the human condition urges overthinking
With God's gift beside me, I breathe, I breathe...

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I've never seen a silver lining
emerge from a dark cloud

All I've heard was constant whining
turn into rage in voice too loud

Your flaws need adjusting and refining
Stop acting so damned proud

A little polish will have you shining
so you'll stand out in a crowd...

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Beetle crawls up out of his

deep dark home in

the ground to

see daylight,

which does nothing

to make his day,

while his eyes

are adjusting to the

light, Mr Hawk

flies down to have

breakfast,

talk about a bad

day for Mr. Beetle.


Written 4-14-11...

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Listen to poem:

Born is the night 
Again we can sing in
Showers of rain
And tears.
And dance on the light
Again near glens of green.
Born, is the night 
Again we stare and beam
At leaves pasted on a wet 
Black bough.
And tear through the starlight
Adjusting our gleam
Born is the night
Again....

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Once there was a plumber named Cletus Leaks,

   Who when working 'neath sinks exposed his cheeks!

      While adjusting his britches,

         He left ladies in stitches,

            As they all giggled between furtive peeks!

Entry for Joseph May's "Limerick" Contest
(4 Jan 2019)...

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With a preacher's fire and zeal
plus a sprig of sex appeal
I'll venture to make my bold contribution
to duly adjusting our great Constitution.
thereby installing a Republican rump,
all for the cause of President Trump,
in whose service I humbly labor
without the least thought of incentive or favor.....

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Wonder how things will go
in these times of trouble
some fail to express feelings
pretending all is well
others fall to pieces
letting anxiety show
adjusting and facing fears
for fears can be conquered
we are stronger than we know
we are stronger than our fear
we are stronger than this 
in these troubled times....

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He lives with dive bomb dog they warned me
I had no idea what that meant
They shove him off rooftops
Hoping he can get his paws to the gear lever in time

I soon learned what it meant
Are you okay with this? I asked dive bomb dog
I was adjusting his goggles at the time
He licked me in the face, so I guess we are good...

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