Short Backed Poems

Small rock church backed
By a massive mountain tall
Relic of the past...

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Car wash running hot
Backed up around the next block
Car in front just clunked...

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Staight-backed grass sentries
Guarding the night and the air
Bowing to the wind...

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without
a rival and
ten lengths clear at the post,
the well-backed grey became the toast-
in beer....

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The heart and the lungs 
To bridge 
The neck stands high 
Getting sick of this neck 
Backed by a neck tie...

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violet-backed starlings
know how to
shepherd the sheep clouds
with 
their 
sprite wings
somehow, somehow...

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           i gazed at hern flush 
whilst her's backed on the bed spread
              az i fed her love...

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Your eyebrows are like 
wings of a black silken-backed 
swallow; flying high 
above on your forehead of 
almondian white heaven....

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on summer's shoreline
powerful hump-backed grizzly
turns boulders over--
ask him what morsels he is
finding at morning's low tide...

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How'd you like to borrow some sorrow
  I've plenty to give away
You say you'll come back on the morrow
  ~ But there's so much backed-up here today...

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A young girl backed into my zipper
On a bus too crowded for kipper
With pressure exerted
My little thing spurted
What seemed to be from the Big Dipper!...

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I've hoisted too many Haikus
backed by several Senryus
My Questionku it would seem
where to point Monoku stream
and where to dump Dodoitsus...

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Trump Mourners Horn Haiku

They are Trump mourners
He has backed them in a corner
While bothering her.

He called Hillary a bigot.
Can you imagine.

Jim Horn...

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Am I in the groove or on the right track?
My record player goes clickety-clack,
The lyrics I hear are all in pig-Latin,
Backed by the sounds of downtown Manhattan....

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its can be you see
you feeL alone
hard to carry on
don't 
won't do wrong
get a hold of you
tho you feel blue
and walking as aloner
cause your
BACKED IN A CORNER...

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A female butcher who knew few borders
By accident caused several disorders
When not looking behind her
She backed into her grinder
And got a little behind in her orders!...

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Atrocious breath on the brazen trout,
My dachshund backed out without a doubt.
Photo filled me with glee,
I’m so glad I could see,
My honest dog with his eyes bugged out....

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most wanted lost list —
shy silver-backed chevrotain
this little mouse-deer
imagined in Vietnam
ungulate with hooves and fangs

11/13/2019...

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Biden Backed By Buttigieg, Bringing Base
Bernie Betrayed But Blazing
Warren Wallowing With Wavering Well-Wishers 
Tulsi Tours To Test
Bloomberg Banks, Basks, Blusters, By Brand...

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Listen to poem:

The long-legged lass in ruddy tights
struts her stuff like high-heeled stilts.
Each step a flouncing prance, 
an elegant dance on heel-up stance,
that flaunts the body to pose, poised....

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Bowed my nose to the caps of my knees
with the spindle fingers raining on the summer breeze
laughed under breath while you played diseased
and backed my way out of your life - basically....

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Gem is gem though there is no lustrous
Stone is stone though glittering express
Love becomes lust
When mind kills trust
Shame is backed loaf veil in gentle dress


08.09.2020 Chattogram...

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she had that contented look
you only see every decade or so

the look of a woman who has gnawed the leg
off of a shrieking tiger

we backed off quickly
and without comment

fearing her next move...

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Soft heart shaped face,  
Piercing eyes speckled head, 
Running out of control, 
Pacing ahead.

Straight backed chairs, 
Hard wooden desks, 
Permanently inked on my heart, 
Their looks have such an effect....

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Language has limits
when backed to the wall

Its truth self-defining
by sages et al.

Language deserts us
as meaning retreats

Its light self-diffusing
—when destiny speaks

(Villanova University: January, 2021)...

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