Short Bred Poems

Oklahoma bred,
By the Wichita Mountains;
Gracemont is my home....

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rafter bred for food
	a family torn apart ~
		turkey putt and yelp...

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Thought, said, sung, written
Words bred civilization. 
Words made us human....

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Thought, said, sung, written…
Words bred civilization. 
Words made us human....

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All prophets are Imam
All Imams are not prophet –
The prophets are pure-bred!...

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They crossed
 a Nursery Rhyme
  with Dr. Seuss …

What did they get?
 ~ Mother Goose!...

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Strange creatures we are,
Like lemmings at dawn.
From the failing stars,
To sunrise at morn....

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colors

people -
born and bred
in a bias world-
will one day-
unite
in a rainbow of colors....

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Echoes
Of timeless deliverance
Bells sway involuntarily
The rust temple had known
Every holy saint…
I bred them...

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Harry Horsman in poesy clad
a white rose bred Yorkshire lad
A PoetrySoup stalwart many a year
always true and sincere...

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Giovanni Antonio Canal
of the famed  waterway mall
Canaletto,Venice born&bred
panoramas thereof enhanced his 'street cred'...

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A most painful day
He is gone never to return
Harsh; thus beat my heart
Wishing to have a last glimpse
Of him who bred me, granddad!...

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THE GRASSHOPPERS TALE 

It was not my ambition to be born and bred
Just so that darn flamin’ Gecko could be fed

Indiana Shaw . . . : (...

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pilgrim turkeys sensing dread

scurry into an old shed

farmer hear our plea

nest we in a tree

and dear friend we are ill bred.
...

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A native known as, "Prettycock"
Wed quite young and bred a flock
As children wed
The tipis spread
And now their tribe is known as "Squawk"...

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going
slower
then slow

i cross bred
a snail with
a sloth and

so 
taking two 
to make one

the 
sum total
outcome

is
rush
hour...

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"You do these things to shock me"
One of many absurdities
That mouth has hurled at me
While mine its lip is bit
Bred to holdfast like a pitbull....

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Some words forever born inclined,
others bred in shadows

Verse conceived and left unread
—to wander lost and fallow

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)...

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My fate to be a watcher…
“Regarder Les Autres”
and write from alleys dark but real,
salons for words ill-bred 

(Le Grande Hotel Paris: May, 1978)...

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Artist Chagall once said,
harsh and heavy was the colour red;
For Marc,colour,sensations bred-
Blue,so spiritual and male
Yellow,bright,sensual and female....

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B  orn again,from above
R  everes his one(&only) love
I  n  England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N  ovel verse...his 'street cred'...

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B  orn again,from above
R  everes his one(&only) love
I  n  England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N  ovel verse...his 'street cred'...

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B  orn again,from above
R  everes his one(&only) love
I  n  England,proudly raised and bred
A forties child...enough said !
N  ovel verse...his 'street cred'...

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You think you have problems? Romulus said.
A woodpecker made sure we were well-bred.
A she-wolf too
Ask Remus, you…
Forgetting he had struck his brother dead....

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Poem Number Twenty-One Hundred
A true man of rhyme born and bred
Started quite late
Guess it was fate
Eventually my fire needed to be fed


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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