Short Bleat Poems

Goats
Frolick   Bleat
Playing, hopping, jumping, kicking
Laugh  dance play hop
Goats...

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a minute silent . . .
the cackling of a child
in the hall


the cow feeds 
on grass sprout . . .
goats bleat...

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A lady from Burton on Trent
Would never have sex during Lent
Her husband would bleat
So how do we eat
And how do we pay this weeks rent...

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Blue sky
Birds fly

Lambs bleat
A treat

Awesome 
Blossoms

Grass grows
Breeze blows

Heart knows
Love grows

Suns rays
Great days...

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A Digger who came from Down Under
Was disturbed by Donald Trump's thunder
It seems that a tweet
Incited a bleat
But who can blame Ewe for the blunder?...

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in the dire of garbage I sing a song
do not want to ride the truck to dump

but today I sing a song with no flag
no baa to bleat but a puzzle to achieve...

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Across the heath
A misty veil
Of millennium lost
And the bagpipe’s wail

The bleat of a sheep
The boom of a drum
Relinquish the present
The past calls you
Come…....

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In a city you are a sheep
among hungry wolves 
and mighty lions.

A prey, who prays
for a better fate,
but Nature hears not
the sheep bleat,
It favors
howling of wolves
and lions that roar....

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What tune do politicians excrete
Upon their plank to please?
                                    Manana !
What response do husbands bleat
From a chair,at ease ?
                                    Manana !...

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eyes seek the light of day... waiting for the sunrise
sheep bleat... the night is done... not cloudy wise
not recognising reds warning... 
a shepherd stirs groaning
red sky stormy
weather...

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roots 
    gone prodigal
  
    an astray
    penetrating
    the laterite
    beneath

    while a bleat
    splayed on an altar
  
     where a bare oak
     nailed to the sky
     sheds blood and water...

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There once was a nanny,* lived in New Guinea
She's spot her billy, O would she whinny
   She'd kick up her feet
   And then she would bleat
She'd curl the hair on his chin-chin-chinny


*A nanny is a female goat...

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~ downbeat ~

   cold feet
   seek heat

   they meet
   hot seat
 
   no treat
   they tweet
 
   these feet
   mincemeat

   we're beat
   they bleat

   complete
   defeat

   drumbeat
   downbeat...

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For centuries, families in India for reasons of luck
Have tossed their babies from a 50-foot tower, they've run amuck
These guys are “bleat”
Babies land on a bed sheet 
A custom to which these newborns are blessed as they chuck...

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Not a sheep
Nor do I bleat
Yet you ask of me to follow
What it is you say
I quietly push away
Begrudgingly however
I appear to walk the same way.
Afraid to speak
For anger rises to a peak
Therefore I reluctantly pretend to be a sheep
And it seems as though I bleat....

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Percy pig was feeling quite shaken -
He'd heard pigs were slaughtered for bacon
Turning white as a sheet
He then started to bleat
As a sheep could he be mistaken!

Entered into 101 in a row contests ~14 
sponsored by PD Linda:-)

17th June 2016...

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I live on poetry
Instead of money
Means and ends reversed
To alter the curse

Lifeblood runs thick
As stoic veins bleat out
Their passionate terrain

I will die knowing
What life means
So while money hawks circle
Chasing beer and dreams
I will float along
Making food out of song...

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The beast of winter

crept off after Spring's first week.

Sun now strokes my cheek.

I can almost hear a bleat.

March will go out like a lamb.


An oldie revised for 
Rick Parise' One Tanka- Old Or New - See Title Requirement Poetry Contest...

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Plussed and flummoxed,
The hundred sheep.
As I tossed and turned
In my sleep.
They must wonder
If crafty wolf
O'er the fence with them
Did leap!
As I counted
Droopy-eyed,
I must've let a one
Slip by!
Loud the bleat
Of troubled sheep
And I tossed and turned
In my sleep....

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Bloom
of green 
leaf cascade
spring citrus whiff
bird cheep and lamb bleat 
madrigals swirl
snowdrops on
winter
blight

Date originally posted on Poetry Soup
 ; 17th April 2021

 Date posted for this contest ; 13th August 2022

This work has been howmanysyllables verified...

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Unfinished sandcastles repeat 
in visions encountered in dreams. 
The planning of them was so sweet: 
unfinished sandcastles. Repeat, 
unfinished; and rivals would bleat 
with joy as they clutched their ice-creams. 
Unfinished sandcastles repeat 
with triumphant besiegers' screams....

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Grunt, grunt, grunt, bray, bray, bray,
I couldn't get my nap today,
Cluck, cluck, cluck, bark, bark, bark,
I shut my eyes when it was dark,
But- moo, moo, moo, bleat, bleat, bleat,
How can this farmer get to sleep?
I know, I'll put some ear plugs in,
Snore, snore, snore, grin, grin, grin....

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Covid-19
Humor
By: Miracle Man
6/20/2020

I dare not shake,
and mustn’t hug.
Too much at stake,
I’ve become a slug.

I shouldn’t stand,
within six feet.
That too is banned,
I’m left to bleat.

For bygone cheer,
so much i yearn. 
But today i fear,
they won’t return.
...

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spring ~ unbelts


                  snow fields turn to melt
                tulips open sunshine’s felt 
              lambs bleat where ewes knelt 
                  
                  
Spring Haiku - Traditional Form Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin 
Syllable counter PS 5/7/5
27/03/2021...

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Even if it doesn’t bleat,
The sheep you beat
Reacts to the heat,
To in the end give you ‘bad meat’
Or everything but a nice treat…
Because your own treatment of it wasn’t neat

To be kind and tender is a feat;
Already in heaven earns you a seat
While on earth everyone shall you greet
And keep treasuring like US wheat....

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