Short Bone Dry Poems

Went in bone dry
       Came out all wet

     Before my next shower
       I'm placing a bet...

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fields of buttercups
thistle and daisies
   the well gone bone dry



posted on June 9, 2018...

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Counted to ten
Then dove in again..
Oops!
My ocean of love,
Bone dry!
Sorrow, 
Thigh high!

Cynthia...

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the temperature rose
the skin cooking from heat
slow roasted lobster

prairie fields bone dry
the crops refusing to grow
from seeds to dust...

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  The steady beat of rain on my head
    I glance at the sidewalk
    It glances at me
      bone dry as can be ~ 
   Are we alive or dead, verily
    
...

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Lie low, as the noise whizzes by
overhead, side to side, undertow
Echoes reverberate ‘cross the canyon
plunge into the bone-dry riverbank

~ Lie low, as the noise whizzes by...

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Politics
Are just politics
Used by politicians
To drain citizens'
Blood bone dry....  


Second line 
pronunciation 
Pol-le'-ticks(meaning multiple)...

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Whiskers of time brush up
    'gainst gossamer silk web
  Slow down, slow down, they said

  'Til forces impure
    back off their attack
  Faced down, turned-around
                         bone-dry bled...

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Too many kabobs
to skewer
plus bone-dry ribs.

Me?  I’ll stay
with pink lemonade

and watch 
       the turbid sky
and watch
       the stars reload

And so study 
serious stockades a
stick up their collective...

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Trees were rushing past
bent against the wind
roots literally screaming for water
parched, bone dry and barren
she endured the test
40 days of hot wind
this vision bent
on revealing
what is to come
for now
we are blind....

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From God’s Palette
Miracle Man
1/6/2022

Evening sun escapes from an overcast sky,
that provides a ceiling over huge round bales.
Summer's searing heat has rendered ground bone-dry,
a multicolored sky sparing no details.
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The sun is shining on High
Whilst every throat is bone-dry
Though water is sought
There's none to be bought
Our eyes are too dry to cry 


*Much of the nation's fresh water
resources will be spent this summer
extinguishing wildfires...

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I walk quickly in circles without hurry
Thinking in panic without thought or worry
As rain hammers down from clear blue skies
Soaking me to the skin; leaving me bone dry
I cross a road without progressing
Whilst rushing slowly to keep from digressing...

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Went to the creek for inspiration, bone dry
                                                          where is the spring?



One Amazing Line
Contest entry for Constance La France's latest contest
Written by:
Sara Kendrick
December 6, 2010...

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Through strawberry fields,
Path back to school,noon day sun,
Bike push slow,heat haze.

Through strawberry fields,
Pass pickers toliling near soil,
Jam nose up nose.

Through strawberry fields,
Solar wave break on hot back,
Bone dry soaked to skin....

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We are the withdrawal
on  a dappled day
White Vultures Swarm
bone dry is the day,
Now our lives are hasten
We are cheek by Jowl
Giant lies interlude
Secret tunes of cabbages and Kings 
burgled routes to strawn away
In the last peek of love
A giant hope glistens to espy...

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Metal’s dust, dancing woman, soul of night
Bone-dry, wrinkle hairs, see the face
Not ash of safe surface of the war
Voice of universe , more dead body
Lost, difference suffering
Blood flow this wall of heart
Same time die, wound of arrow
What people, they hate that cases-s-s-s 


Thwelt Di Nwe...

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Don’t misunderstand me,
You just try to deny.
This I could never see,
You left my heart bone dry.
This pain is so unreal,
I am just rotting away.
This is not what’s ideal.
Life’s now in a delay.
Realize this is fake.
Nothing, I was left here.
You are the black rat snake.
Why did I shed, those tears?...

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Scoobie found a ruby in Devonshire
                                    And he put his frying pan on the fire
                                                 Ruby began to cry
                                           And she soon got bone dry
                               Scoobie yelled Ho Ho you are booby dryer...

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My Quiet Time
By: Miracle Man
2;10 am 3/5/2021 

As an early riser,
I feel the breeze that whispers through dry grass,
and I’m surrounded by God’s peace.

Still none the wiser,
the world around me wakes and what I hear, in mass,
are wagon wheels, bone-dry of grease.


“In quiet places reason abounds.”
Adali Stevenson
...

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No excuses... I plead
To beg of a right 
Now that I have paid 
For it with my life

Give me a seconds chance
To explain in detail
The reason in existence
For my stance

ExcusSSSe Me! I'm just
Torn apart inside
The world I found out, 
Is a bloodsucker in the night

And I am its victim
Being sucked bone dry
And drained down the alley
Left to die...

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Half expected inspiration to fill the air
while I endeavoured to write a poem.
A curse responding much like a veil
reigns over the moonless night while
out my window no stars come into view
and the silence feels perceptively eerie
~ my pen bone dry.



Submitted on March 27, 2025 to contest YOUR CHOICE F sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  Honorable Mention...

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Who done it? Where did you go?
Why do you want to injure me so bad
How cannot I not live without the cold, refreshing, caffeine
drizzling down my bone dry throat, making my body roar
with pleasure and shake with pure delight. Who took the last can?
Oh, I found you. Now my tongue can tingle with my head hanging back
as the gratifying Coke proves, Its the real thing...

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The high diver climbed the ladder over 100 feet high
and then proceeded to perform a very graceful swan dive.
Plummeting to the bottom quickly he plunged
into what was supposed to be a slightly dampened sponge.
Upon impact the high diver instantly died
because his girlfriend's jealous husband rung the sponge out bone dry.
The husband has been charged with homicide....

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Sloping hills roll nearby     
Sliding scree, drops awry    
Slanted rock face bone dry   
Slipping boulders, sweep by \\•,,,
Shelves break off splinters fly \\\\\••,,,
Sprawling dust blocks blue sky \\\\\\\\•••,,,,
Skewed landscape forms hereby\\\\\\\\\\\••••,,,


Written April 22 2021
for "Pleiades "S" Contest"
sponsored by Kim Merryman
Syllable counter PS 7x6...

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