Short Belted Poems

My own laughter could get me killed if bad guys

robbed me dressed in pants belted around their thighs.




... CayCay
December 2, 2019...

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Wiggley jiggeldy
Beyonce Giselle
Belted the blues but
Got rich instead.

“Dreamgirls” was successful
Supra-astoundingly
Like her baby within
Surprise from bed....

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The belted kingfisher is a cool dude,
But his girlfriend is even brighter hued.
He's loaded with dazzling features, but
What I like best is his spiky haircut....

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MICHAEL JACKSON


As Michael performed his routine
and belted out hit ‘Billy Jean’
When he grabbed his crotch
His voice rose one notch
Some critics deemed his moves obscene!

Limerick Contest

8/20/18...

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She belted out an electrifying song
Knowing she could do no wrong
Making a win her life mission
She blew away the competition
Everyone was so impressed
They didn’t need to hear the rest



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on October 18, 2018...

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As the heavens sang
The choirs belted
And the birds chirped
America went up in flames.

As boots marched in lines
Towards the sea of rage
A sea of people who once fought
For the land they now destroy.
  
It’s been a long time since I heard
The American Dream....

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Expectation high...
Means low...
Then with a sigh
I took a bow
With a fixed arrow
Went a shot to the row!

Target missed
Boos, effort greeted...
Head high again
Instrument kissed
Another shot belted...
Effort not in vain!

Bullseye hit...
But not till the second bit!...

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boisterous beekeeper was bathed, bound and belted.
besieged by bevy of beauties whose beeswax was melted.
fickle, frantic, frolicking friendly freedom, freshly felted.
persnickety, lickety-splickety personified, pointed and pelted.
On a sweaty, snarly summers eve swiggled, swayed and swelted....

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How her VOICE, in Our ears like
a bell would be chiming
As she belted out the lyrics like
KANYE be rhyming
To the top of the charts, was she
as a result, climbing
Until, she came to a catastrophic
end like the late Frankie Lymon
Talk about FATE and its having
bad timing
Such was the life of the great,
Phyllis Hyman
(May She, RIP)...

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Tie-in-the-back butt-baring hospital gowns are humiliating. According to patients, wearing a belted loin cloth would be far less embarrassing. Some say the hospital gown strips self-respect from patients who humbly come to the hospital for help. Surely, fashion designers could create a hospital gown with dignity and compassion in mind....

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Through gossamer skies so low

And over the blue glass sea below

Peppermint stops

Ginger schnapps

Eight Reindeer hops

His jelly belly skips

over belted hips


Dashing through the snow and sleet

All night he rides

Weary, dreary

Down the chimney he slides

No sleigh ride's complete

Without milk and cookies to eat...

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Place Like Home

Girl and a guy
And the friendly other
They can all say hi
And be around one another
And not be judged
Or discriminated
Feelings are budged
That harshness cannot be belted
All are welcome
To come and stay
In a home, you can come
At the end of the day
Because you cannot have it now
But you will later, do not ask how

Written on January 31, 2020...

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dry white snow rasps the asphalt
attempting to reclaim the purity
of a metropolitan morning

coating the concrete pillars
brushing with tender touches
the grates and allies

dusting the bottom lands
of bordering belted swamps
with leggy aplomb

the icy shavings take flight
on the whoosh of winter
in hushed whispers they move on


First Published by The Tishman Review January 2015...

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Up but down…part-3

In my errand for a fill of
Hilly air, I can’t forget its 
Kicking present, its woes and ills
Carrying that down-to- earth ache

To sooth which I run up and down
While the days worryless and dour
Don’t dither in their flow. And I
Turn to musing on these hills

Long after my bus had belted
Down its narrow, winding slopes
Tearing away its dry and shy
But superbly high-flying air...

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Crow lines wrinkle the sky.
Bare trees pole dance with a naked wind.
A clattering rain washes winter's watery eye's.

A man walks with himself.
His great coat belted tight,
a frozen bonnet of thorns
upon his chilled head.

Only the empty graves of yesteryears
can see him.
Only tombs and crypts
may greet him.

Only the long lost, long forgot
may follow,
as they walk within themselves
one step behind....

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Getting connected through rhymes;
Lifted by our collective energy 
our outreach exponentially increases;
Beautiful belted voices 
a cappella synergy 
letting the distance fall
out of the shadows together as one;
Under a pen name making a statement
to the readers;
Rondines, couplets,or senyrus 
every letter moves as our souls align;
Alphabet magic 
connects us with it’s universal language
helping build bridges around the world....

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Panoramic collision with stories poppin
Off like rounds from a .90(cal.) machine gun.
Demented shrapnel shooting out in every
 direction:
Wiping out all that scoff.
Luxuriant antipathy of all things
Intrudes at times.
Crashing every lousy star melted sings!
Summer begins its end & fall starts
Its chimes.
Carving into stone, the message once
Muses belted.

What lonely streets, veins become
As if her touch felt like a spent gun.

_...

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Put down, placed down, thrown down
The resilient child keeps getting up.
Torn down, smacked down, belted down,
He makes plans to eventually get away

Sure he is stuck until the age of consent
but if he still has his resolve and his wits about him,
if they have not been beaten out of him,
he will not only be swift in his departure 

He will fly to the greatest heights imaginable,
so he never has to live under these circumstances
ever again....

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