Short Challenger Poems

Difficult and distressing
       living in this defiant world
       it becomes a super action...

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He was prone to anger
for he knew no challenger
so he fumed for days
Rolling himself in relays
until he got himself in danger...

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those brave pioneers
lost their lives after take off
seven in heaven









Written 28th January 2020....

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Happy birthday, dear Nico Shy, 
The challenger was at his best; 
The winner was just flying high 
After winning the kite contest. 

Topic: Birthday of Nico Shy San Jose (March 15)...

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In the Mariana trench 
Surrounded by holothurians 
Jellyfish and white octopuses 
We plumb the Challenger deep 
In search of Megalodon. 


                 W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018.

                  2/11/18...

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P-acman
A-nnihilates
C-hallenger
Q-uickly
U-sing
I-mpact
A-s
O-pponent

&

B-ecomes
R-unning
O-bject
N-eglecting
E-very
R-ound

Topic: Pacquiao-Broner Welterweight Title Fight (January 20,2019)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I know the highest Mount Everest like the back bone of the Earth,

I know the deepest the Challenger Deep like the arm pit of the Earth,

I know the highest mountain,I know the deepest Sea and depth,

I don't know the women's heart no,not know it's depth!...

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CALENDAR
I am celebrating the new month of both calendar
It's rare to have lunar and solar month coincided calender
We should go beyond our extinguished challenger
Life is tough, it is sometimes just pure deceiver
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando September 1, 2016...

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Sometimes love is like a rose
So nice to see
But it hurts to touch 

Love make things to be happy
Excitement is inevitable 
But prone of sadness when it fails

Love inspired you to challenge 
A challenger without fear 
Because you fight for the sake about love....

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The Challenger Deep.
The deepest point in the ocean.
What bizarre creatures live in the murk
Of this part of the Mariana Trench.

Creatures that never sleep
In the sea's endless motion.
In ancient hollows they lurk
Deep in the Mariana Trench.



*Inspired by a wikipedia random article*...

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Always changing strategies
when i think we're stalemate
your manipulating mind
I'm almost in checkmate

Have me on my toes
your proving very clever
worthy adversary
a challenging endeavor

But see you've overlooked
a keen eye I have for detail
youth is so impetuous
almost hate to see you fail...

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Said a man returned from the moon
“I fear I have come back too soon,
For I left about seven
On my journey to heaven
And here it is now only noon.”


written, Winter 1972
edited June 29, 2021
[first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972;
republished in ByLine, Summer, 1989]...

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Strange, 
But I've seen you
Everywhere lately. 

Caramel colored
Girls, either you
or your daughter.

I'm not quite
Sure. 

But I laugh inside. 

The Challenger may 
Have exploded, but 
We didn't.

The cassette tapes
May have been lost. 

But not the smiles, 
the cupcakes, 
the ruler, 
and what was most important....

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A weird old woman loved cats
And outlandish broad-rimmed hats
Why should we think it odd
The old dame is quite mod,
Why she even dines with her bats.


written, Winter 1972
edited June 29, 2021
[first published in The Hoosier Challenger, 1972;
republished in By-Line, Summer, 1989]...

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Flippity Floppity
Billy Jean Moffitt King
master tennis player
career legend

Never a thought of her
ephemerality
troubled, infirmity
record destined

Slippity Sloppity
Robert Larimore Riggs
Hustler, tennis gambler
major success

Credible challenger
overambitiousness
Battle of the Sexes
Bobby’s excess...

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Asking if simply prima facia, would be sufficient ?
Today, tropical storm Flossie spotting their Hawaiian Islands
Rushing towards a Pacific's embrace as, the British are coming..
January 28th, 1986 and her space shuttle Challenger; seventy-three
Seconds of flight seven priceless lives kissing His sun with wings to fly....

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Dare challenge me? 
Then be my guest …

The stags enter into a jousting quest,
No time now for antlers to rest,
The challenger locks his horny crest,
With focused stare and forceful zest,
A testosterone and power fest,
Nature at its Darwinian best.

Into the gene-pool 
He wished to invest,
Can he suceed,
Survive this test?...

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He was my pigeon
My dupe, my believer, my toy
I could see that he would follow me anywhere
And everywhere

He was my minion
My admirer, my inspirator, my challenger
I took a better look, and learned his ways
He was rather magnificent

Now we are each other’s pigeons
Flying the same direction, into the sun,
toward Shang-ra-lah....

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She was playing against the top player
    Now she hoped to be the giant slayer
The reigning champion stood at six feet
    This diminutive  challenger was the one to defeat
As the match went on it became clear
    That the reigning champion's defeat was near....
                Victory .... "Short" and Sweet ....
                                      ~...

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Pushes moves objects
Carries flowers lovely scent 
Partner's rain snow sleet

Can touch can't be held
Presence not visibly seen
Complex paradox	

Cooling blowing force
Invincibly powerful 
Surfer's challenger

Nature's friend or foe
Unpredictable movement 
Storm's mischief maker

Breath of life cries out
Energy generated
Cycle continues...

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Poet Destroyer!
Billy the kidster got shot.
My draw is quicker!

Poet Destroyer!
The Joker was the punch line.
My slams entertain!

Poet Destroyer!
Your words have earned my respect,
And earned my challenge!

Poet Destroyer!
Do not underestimate
Your new challenger!

Poet Destroyer!
Tell your "boyfriend" that I said
"Do not miss a word!"...

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champion

                undefeated, excellent 

       defending, protecting, ensuring 

 fighter, superior, opponent, competitor 

       facing, confronting, contesting 

                 ambitious, intrepid 

                       challenger 




Date written: 12/27/2022...

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His retirement the champion announced,
After he was in their fight trounced,
And like a tennis ball bounced…
On him had his challenger pounced,
His strength not letting him use an ounce,
And forcing him to hit the canvas, not once!

Soon, the press,
To painfully address,
And meekly renounce,
All that he did archly pronounce…
The cruelest punch finally goes to rest,
For being no longer The Best....

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I'm down to my last tiles, I got a T an I and E
also O, N, A and L but words are beyond me
I could try NITE or NOEL or even NOTE or LOAN
I know I need to use more tiles but no word sets the TONE
My challenger is winning, I cannot let this be
But all I see before me is LANE, LATE and ANTI
Imagine my ELATION after such delay and lag
I put my letters down and pulled TOENAIL out the bag


27th October 2011...

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marble structured game-board;
deep thrombosis veins -
of deceit witted paths;
beckoning its challenger
play

pre-meditated strategy;
an absolute must in-
cluded trust to move
forward

jagged-edged curses bite
on frayed nerve endings;
encouragement to beginnings,
continuous quality checks
of absolute decision
credibility

vertical advances permit-
backward tactics
disqualify mankind's majority
too little ground at top...

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