Short Boarded Poems

she boarded the train
her heart racing



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on July 8, 2021...

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A Midwestern small town
  Her lone tavern shut down 

The Motel 6 boarded up too
  We'll keep the light off for you...

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A vulture boarded
A jumbo jet
Carrying two dead
Marmoset

The stewardess said 
"I'm sorry sir, 
Only one carrion 
Per passenger"...

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there was a young man named Dennis
who staggered from a pub in Ennis
he thought he boarded a train
but woke up on a plane
and found he was headed to Venice
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She returned to savor her childhood dreams
    the flowers by the brook, the trees by the stream

  She found a paved road, a boarded-up cabin
    her depth of despair, no developer imagines...

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 We boarded a flight to Hong Kong 
Our pilot was called Sum Ting Wong
I’d a smile on my face
As his flying was ace -
His parents sure got his name wrong!

09 04 17...

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Time travelers
who drews routes
those who leave the logbook empty
journeys in a misty wheather
we are among the ice mountains
pirates once cut our road off

we boarded descend and ride at every dock...

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A house in motion near an ocean ... cautious one to leave.
A highland house owned by time affects one ... wakes to a place in whites.
A house boarded by healed one ... one's beach house welcomes New Year....

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     The train’s pulling out of the station now
     Not everyone’s boarded the old cash cow

         The POTUS got left behind
         A sign of radical times ~

     'Wheels of progress' just ground him into chow
...

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Jolly Santa boarded his magic sleigh 
And told his reindeer, “Up, up and away.”
They hauled his round jellied girth
Many times around the earth
Without gifts to bring - supply chain delay.

12/20/2022 
howmanysyllables.com...

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There's plenty of goodness out there
but it's been fanged by the puff adder DJS
now goodness is slowly dying on media vines 
behind boarded up windows and riot fire
with pistols and rosaries at the ready
awaiting the fires of salvation...

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Me Myself and A Moron

Me, myself and a
Moron who we wish were gone
And quartered and drawn.

Trump is allergic to 
being water boarded.
He even still bares the
scars from his bone 
spurs he had to avoid
the draft with.

Jim Horn...

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Long back, a lottery ticket, I bought
Won a small sum which was lucky I thought
I boarded a bus with that cash
Lost five times that win in a flash
To a pickpocket, which left me distraught.


For: Susan Burch’s Lottery ticket limerick contest,  6 Jan 11...

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With a loud hoot it alerted, with resounding clangs it boomed
The people were informed, that it had arrived
A lot in its stomach it carried,from far away it transported
To the city it  headed,when all at the station boarded
The Express Train was soon gone....

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An overweight lady named Annie
Has got an absurdly large fanny
Since she boarded a plane
That is destined for Spain
She's wedged in the seat in Miami!

Thanks to Andrea for helping me with the meter for this one

Jan Allison
12th April 2016...

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the windows of her soul
the ones smudged
from people peering in
have clouds passing by them
the windows of her soul
the ones boarded up
when people wander past
have cracks in the glass
the windows of her soul
the ones painted 
in a black that peels
are tightly sealed...

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When the money runs
out.  Silhouettes of
shadows.  Abandoned
buildings with boarded
windows.  Crumbling brick
-facades.  The gray sky
hides the wind.  Every
-thing expands.  The eye
-s see far into the
distance.  No more touch.
Words lose meaning.  Empty
train tracks.  Electronic
music beeps and fades....

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Skyline of rowed houses
Rolls past and
So do the greys of labour, 
Conservative and otherwise
Are boarded on the decks of
Oil tankers; hollow
Hulking HMS something
Sleeps in the docks
Of the town once red
Now muddy brown
And sick, 
Labour wise and 
Reading Caledonia.

Aberdeen 2012 on route to Shetland...

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gray clouds drift slowly
gathering in southern sky
Ian is coming

windows are boarded
emergency sirens loud
winds coming faster

southern sky now dark
Mother Nature is angry
Gulf waters churning

traffic flows northward
palm trees are bending over
Ian is screaming

Written September 26, 2022...

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FRIGHTENING THINGS

i’m in the chapel
       it’s night    the room is empty
                              loud c minor chord!

old mansion
    boarded-up
         chimney smoking

ruined mansion
    boarded-up
        window lit near the top

piano recital
moonlight sonata
mouse!

my roommate 
    weird smile
        unusual eye teeth...

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mi Musa uses
a translator to
express her
words to
me

typing what she
wants to say
rapido makes
for the words
of inspiration

as i write this
she has boarded
an airplane to take
her cake and eat it too
birthday vacation 

so she wrote and
who more poetic than
a true Musa would breathe
inspiring me with her words
"I'm already mounted on the yummy"...

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boarded train at birth

journeying endlessly
with little possessions
amidst noisy clickey-clack 

stopping at stations
meeting new
bidding adieu to old

through pleasant surrounds
and dark tunnels

pondering about 
life and destination

trying to make some meaning
of this meaningless journey
by reading scriptures 

seeking to end
this journey forever...

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After a tired
labor of love day
got on the Trane
and after a few Miles
I reached Monk
later laying 
back travelling 
towards Sarah
and Nina 
and after
getting Dizzy
headed West
boarded Bird 
flying onto Art
leaving me
to ink
this poetic flow
I’m sharing with you
before my melatonin
MJQ disembark
to peacefully Cannonball 
deeply into
poetic gigging…
...

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       A cold, comfortless park bench
          an empty subway train

       A bed of leaves, trending damp
          a knoll of grass behind an exit ramp

       Long-abandoned shacks
          or railroad tracks

       Boarded-up homes
          no-trespassing danger zones

       All these serenade me to sleep
          echo the music, all night I weep
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Standing on the wrong side of the platform
  waiting for the train

Remembering the mistakes I made
  but not the reasons why

Listening for the truth beyond the excuse
  feeling what my thoughts would never allow

I boarded in the dark….

Ticketed, to a new and unplanned destination
  —fated, to a distant terminal unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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