Short Canny Poems

Poor people posit that cupidity 
Is synonymous with stupidity,
I argue the incessant zeal for more
Is just a canny craving to keep score.

June 24, 2022...

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You are quick
And so spunky  
You are witty 
You are a goof-off (everyday) 
You are silly and crazy  
You are whiny and wary 
You are childlike and canny  
You are a show-off (in a good way) 
You are pretty 
And quite tidy  
You are slick!...

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With a cool frosty wind 
He came calling 
Swiftly drifting inward 
With a  fruit 
Stretched as a reward 
For every word
Subtly tearing the branch 
From every trunk 
With a canny laugh
Tethering the head
Roping the man
Sounding the beginning 
With a bit
For every bait....

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C's
Clumsy chubby chimpanzee counts cherry cheesecake cases covering corner combined clear ceramic counters.

Canny cat catches canary 

Cunning cat chases crazy chattering chipmunk clumsily can't close chubby cheeks 'cause chaotically  cramming chocolate covered cordial cherries...

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A poem
canny,
talkative,
voracious that
intends to innovate ...
invokes,
flames, screams,
fusses and
no one
reads it ...
A poem
manipulated,
sexed,
rapacious,
mushy,
smelling
incest ...
does nothing but
to spread the
pages,
legs ...
for soon
all come
, enter into
and read ...!...

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There’s nowt so canny and nowt so deep 
As the musings of the highland sheep
They’ll talk of this and talk of that 
Of what they ate and where they shat
Or ponder on life’s mysteries 
Like, is the grass beneath the trees
Much finer than the one that grows 
Down beside the old hedgerows


© John W Fenn  18-09-2009...

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There’s nowt so canny and nowt so deep 
As the musings of the highland sheep
They’ll talk of this and talk of that 
Of what they ate and where they shat
Or ponder on life’s mysteries 
Like, is the grass beneath the trees
Much finer than the stuff that grows 
Down beside the old hedgerows


© John W Fenn  18-09-2009...

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Standing still head's up
Retrospect greatest pitfalls 
Mass consciousness whim 

Wandering till dawn
Waiting brave for the result
Less breathe heartless beat

Until the mind soar
Now is inexplicable
Sufferings indeed

People grim anew
For the best of all Juries
Render canny nod

Continue service
Captivating voter's wit
Last laugh never ends....

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Lord Could Afford to Be on Board

Love our Lord who had been on board
I adored and where my sins are stored;
God did forbid and had flipped his lid;
When outside had gone away to hide.

God could hardly bare having love to spare;
After being there he handled me with care;
From what we heard he flew off like a bird;
By my canny cat he had eaten up his third.

Jim Horn...

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The facade of your election;
Brings no accolade to the nation;
Your ambitions lack honesty;
And your actions are a travesty.

You travel abroad to collect honors;
Yet you ravel the region with horrors;
Some describe your style as canny;
Yet all ascribe your rule as tyranny.

With only your candidacy;
We have the ascendancy of autocracy;
We lack the decency of democracy;
We observe the supremacy of idiocy....

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You left in boldness, your ears flicker unnoticed
Aren’t you a canny one…?
I said “Oh…”, and you said “No!”
How thwart art thou?
Remember the Gate? How he spoke the words…
In context, He was a parable about love
He said “For God so…”, and some said “Woe!”
If I said “Oh”, and you say “No”
If I said “it was too quick for you to say…”
And if I said “I can show you another way…”
But you say, “You’re too canny, per se…”...

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Why is the World losing value in family 
It's like we are all so canny 
Divorce is a thing 
I wish it would grow wings 
Just fly away and disappear
Maybe then family would be here
All we value is material 
While some people are just worried about when they will get their next cereal 
Take a look around 
Tell yourself what you found 
Look at the sadness 
In this world we possess
How do we lose value 
When family will always be around you....

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Surd and absurd are – at bottom – synonymous!
Absurd? 
Yes, of course.
So are canny and uncanny.
Sub- can mean high or (be)low 
Post- can mean Post- or Pre-!
Again, in Tamil, naatram once meant fragrance,
Now it's its opposite.

Antithetical meanings of primal words,
As noted by Freud,
And as endorsed by Bloom. 
Maybe a linguistic universal for Chomsky,
Freeplay for Derrida,
Language games for Lyotard,
And a mystery for us!

—	R. V. Ram...

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Meows and Purrs

Have heard more than just a few
Of what you might call a cat's meow
And suddenly to me it did occur
My canny cat has a continuous purr.

With both eyes seem to stare at me
What is it that he expects to see?
Perhaps toy to play with or some food
Have you seen a cat that is tattooed?

It could be me with all my charm
He again rubbed up against my arm
And I always knew from the very start
Of me, my cat has become a permanent part....

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One day you get hit by a bus 
and roll around in pain 
but people didn't see the bus 
and say stop acting lame 

bad things will happen to you 
and nobody will see it 
they will observe your reaction 
and judge the way you're being 

ignorance towards the cause 
dismissing the reality 
aware though as emotions pour 
questioning your sanity 

focusing on your behaviour 
not calm not cool not canny 
the cause of it remains a stranger 
they judge on what they can see...

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