Short Breadcrumb Poems

Left behind and rightfully replaced.
Engulfed in down tempo while falling up.
Breadcrumb trails lead to sought out place.
Care for self and ignore the schlup....

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Seagulls talking
what's the matter?
fussy squawking
seagulls talking...
Waddle walking
pavement patter-
Seagulls talking
what's the matter?

Birds discussing
“Took my breadcrumb!”
Angry fussing
birds discussing
seagull cussing
“Hey, I want some!”
birds discussing
“Took my breadcrumb!”...

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When the biting slap of recognition impacts, unbridled eternity springs forth, as Emily Dickinson's "Wild nights" rides the wave in front of me. 
He's back again, this time with whiskey breath and redneck vehemence, revved up to conquer. 
Maybe this lifetime, a breadcrumb in the Sahara of the souls incessant trial,
just once the twins will meet as one....

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Perched on a limb
High above the ground
Sat a little birdie
Looking all around

Peering down among the people
He cried with glee
I see a tiny breadcrumb
Just waiting for me!

Soon the little birdie
Flew to the ground
Pecked at the breadcrumb
But failed to look around.

Then one of the people
With a gleam in his eye
Stomped the little birdie
And watched him die.

The moral to this story
Is always look around
And never eat your dinner
Sitting on the ground....

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Molly was a ghastly child, with spiders, slugs and snails, her room was always messy, with
jam sandwich breadcrumb trails,

Her hair was always knotty, and her dress was never clean, she was quite the little
horror, with her super sonic screams,

Yet Molly had a smile that could melt the hardest heart, at least until her temper came
and tantrums then would start,

In every little girl there's a Molly somewhere hiding, and behind her back with angelic
grin, a slimy snail is sliding....

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