Short Alternate(A) Poems

Alternate location,
Wrong situation,
Only sensation,
Lonely fascination....

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From days start till end
Loud housebound kids cause concern
Your dreams undisturbed...

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V-ictory
A-nd 
L-oss
S-eem
A-lternate

Topic: Poetess (Valsa George) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The only reason to tune into mainstream media news,
is to see the corporate network's biased point of view....

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Sensing the future
Out of reality's reach
I had to take flight
Breaking the sound barrier
Into alternate timeline...

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Remembering
The wedding day
Talking that's all  

Alternate ending:

Aging, takes toll...

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Alternate forms times

Illustration expressive

Bye shadowed.. instigation



For rick Parise's shadows & form contest.....

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One Way
Haiku: by Tom
1/7/2021

God's map to Heaven,
doesn’t show alternate routes.
Jesus is the way.
...

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dread
vibrates
echoes howl
left right left right
walk into the gloom
tunnel vision
sky obscured
candle (no more)
light (sight)...

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space ship hits Trump’s wall
goodwill trip ends in pieces -
"tea party" justice

alternate ending...

aliens handled

Long Tooth
September 1, 2016...

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D-ay
I-s
N-ight's
A-lternate

A-s
R-ay
I-s
L-ight's
L-ovely
A-ssista nt

Topic: Birthday of Dina Jean Arilla (May 4) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes
Alternate male and female names
Derechos included too
Winds that make us feel blue
Serious and deadly, playing no games....

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A hit tune off 'Rumours'
Artists are Fleetwood Mac
Amazing musicans!
Also a sea bird with
An enormous wing span
Airborne beauty in flight
Alternate name - Gooney...

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Need to acknowledge you,
to grasp your lovely brittle self.

Somehow..
doesn’t really matter by what means.

Just GET THE **** BACK INTO MY LIFE.

Logging for your inner alternate sanity....

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Candle maker Iva Bentwick's
business couldn't take a trick,
So he changed his name
to one not so lame,
Now business is pretty slick.


alternate last line:     Now many candles are being lit....

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thunderous applause

alternate reality...

five people have died


(senryu)


01/13/2021


Senryu - Humorous, Satirical or Dark Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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I'm sick of standing on my hands and knees!
The image speaks to the wall.
Why don't we alternate?
The Frame is your outer casing.
And we pierced my chest with nails....

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embrace silence--inside its quiet realm
lie secrets and mysteries
waiting to be disclosed

silence is the key that unlocks the door
to an alternate reality
just beyond the earthly plane
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Heightened heartache harms my soul

Torturing trends leave me Trembling

Monumental moments are now memories

Forever forgot its function

Never known by noble means

Always assumed to be an alternate...

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Different mindset
Taking things from
A much different
Perspective
Viewing life in 
New and vastly 
Alternate forms
Of reality
Experiencing the 
World around 
In a much clearer 
Fashion
Gained clarity 
Though closure...

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Ima Risk a flim-flam man,
Was always looking for a scam,
Selling his useless diet pills
And passing phony money bills,
Until a judge incarcerated his can.


alternate last line: Until a judge incarcerated his can in the can....

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I sleep
on the side
to keep the devil
inside
but I need to turn
on my back
to sleep
in my thoughts
i'll alternate
Hail Mary and the Lord's Prayer
block out all other
subliminal noise
if it wasn't so serious
i'd laugh
instead i'm crying....

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I walked in to my least favorite words,
‘Last call.’

We didn’t have an alternate plan;
What now?

So the streets will meet our mayhem;
Inflamed;

Should have given us your refuge;
Reap this! 

Now we burn what you told us to write;
Riot!...

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He waits impatiently, intent
Across the stream, the prey is meant
Alert ears seek signs of life
Eyes scan foliage, no movement
The light dims on his grand event
He let down his wife

Or alternate ending--He laments his strife---  Which seems better??...

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Jeanie wore a beanie
To protect her from the cold,
It was really good in winter,
Or when the wind blew bold.

It had a little scarecrow,
Knitted right on top,
To scare those pesky birds away
From a little birdy plop.               alternate- drop/stop...

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