Short Chameleons Poems

See chameleons on the ceiling,
Marching coloured-patterns moving....

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Please do not think I’ll stay the same 
only chameleons change the game....

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spiraling footsteps
chameleons retreat
fiddlehead ferns

June 14, 2020...

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Lawyers
Politicians
Chameleons
Deceptions
Pharisees and scribes
An ocean of lies...

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I watch them as the conversation shifts, chattering chameleons, changing the shades of interpretation to suit their "narrative"....

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Airborne chameleons

in the snow-blown morning:

dull white, grey gulls flying,

silently disappear 

against dull white, grey clouds....

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Once there was a man called smoke, the great
this fellow changes color for his survival, no heat!
in danger befriends enemy for good!
otherwise got his strong opinions for good!
bloody these good chameleons will rule for sometime!...

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Cool October air 
playfully tickles the leaves
making them sway with itself 
before each drops down   
Ha! chameleons feel naked
they quickly change their color 

Date: 6.10.2014
Andrea Dietrich's contest
October Bliss or November Dreams...

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To have a better understanding,
Peoples in my view; mind; and heart
Are in three categories: faithfuls my beloved,
Atheists whom I do not hate, they express their inners;
Last category are hypocrites: the damn humanlike lizards and chameleons....

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Bright lights always attract the moths-
moths can't come up with their own lights. 
Star fishes always have an empty mind
but survive in their own strange ways. 
Chameleons have their own minds 
but use mimicry to survive. 

September 29, 2022...

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Be wary of a narrow faith
that chokes the Mystery dead
Be careful of a promise made
that hides beneath your bed

The strongest bade, a deeper jade
from yellow mixed with blue
To mock the wonder heaven sent
—in weaker shades of hue

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)...

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i was a pest on the wall
i was an electricity aardvark
i was a refrigerator raider
i was a bumby bill increaser
then the door left a mark
the locks became cunning chameleons
the reality became a badly bitter truth serum
time card growth became forever tattooed in my mind over time...

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cracking and peeling
                                 
                                   the skin of cool walls crawling

                                             chameleons sigh







October 1st 2018

Composed For Anthony Slausen's
The Paint Mover(s) Poetry Contest...

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Bravery and fear
  not either or

But versions of…

Valor and shame
  brought heretofore

Mixed pieces of…

A riddle to confound
  the poet’s mum

As glory weds disdain…

Courage and fear
  not zero-sum

But oft times look the same

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Freeze frames in colours as those of a charcoal chameleons....

Chain reactions; from old and welcome unto the world ordained

Amid continuums about temporal dimensions; confirmed afflatus

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....“Afore These Learning Curves; 'Psychoanalysis'” ~...

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Every year in late November
the fourth twilight between equinox and solstice
transpire
the sky becomes pale and blank
the leaves around the area
act like chameleons
water stars fall gently to the ground
a beautiful two in one sight
worth watching from the window
putting on a scarf and jacket
I open the portal
and join the party
in the outside world...

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HAIKU #12,084-12,087.............................................................EYES

Have you ever seen
Iris of an eye so black
Its pupil is knight

I know a small boy
Bestowed with one cat pupil
And one most human.

Brown skin brown iris
Irises changing colors
Like chameleons.

Mean eyes sexy eyes
I have seen sad eyes singing
Tugging at my heart.

*...

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The yellowing
of winter
flows out
into the yellowing
of spring;
kissing chosen roses
with its hued sunshine.

Seasons,
like chameleons,
change;
and paper yellows 
as teasing tinting time 
mellows itself.

But
truth’s color
knows no shade;
remaining 
the same
in all seasons
favoring
neither night nor 
day.

And 
is unchanged
by the yellowing
of time....

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Chameleons calmly disguise. 
Hiding can always be a surprise. 
Anywhere it can be, but nowhere to be seeked. 
Mindlessly changing, so that it'll never be peeked. 
Even during the day, no one knows where it may lay. 
Leaping away in their own little way. 
Every chameleon invisibly walks from color to color. 
One other animal like it? I believe there's no other. 
Never do they abruptly arise....

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My
Mind
Melts
Orange

Scattering butterflies
Singing with iridescent
Chameleons
First aqua green, then
Revolution

Clubbing twilight with both
Fists, gulped by gallons
Of planets

Parading
As thoughtless trees

Overbearing junipers
Crowding the galaxy

With shrinking
Wisdom

Unafraid of red
Ants

Colonizing advanced
Mountaintops

Millions
Of miles

Inside

My

Mind



08/08/13
© All Rights Reserved...

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Fresh, Tinned Or Frozen


Father was a snap bean, 
that’s all, Sis,
nothing more.
Fresh, tinned or frozen, 
the greens of snap beans vary.

Neighbors in the yard,
clerks at the store,
folks at church, 
you and me and bawling Ma,
for years we fed his strange chameleons

so we can swear, on the Bible,
Father was a snap bean,
that’s all, Sis.
Nothing more.
Fresh, tinned or frozen.


Donal Mahoney...

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OPEN IYZ C SUNLIGHT 
EARS HEAR VOICES FROM MOUTHS' LIPS 
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS NO LIGHT, NO MOON, NO STARS, NO 
SUNLIGHT 
EVOLUTIONS CHANGE LIKE CHAMELEONS IN FOUR SEASONS WEATHER 
IN THE SAME INSTANT THAT IT BEGAN, IT CAN END JUST LIKE THAT 
THE END WILL BE DARK JUST LIKE IT BEGAN 
NO ALIEN, NO LIFE, NO HUMAN 
NO CHAMELEON! 
EVOLUTION EARTH WILL END 
REVOLUTION HEAVEN WILL BEGIN 
BECAUSE EYES BECAME BLIND AND EARS WERE DEAFENED...

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People who have no backbone like jellyfish.
Unsurpassed, adapting to various environments like chameleons.
People of this caliber come more than one in a million.
Prancing and dancing graciously to the very, very, every, every
Every beat and singing to every command of the puppet master.
The popping and chopping of their wooden frame puts shame,
Shame, shame, shame, and blame, to their much unknown name.


wrote in college @ ULM 
Summer 2004...

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Music has a special taste
feelings lost in sound
Touching heard across the room 
vision by the pound

References left unto themselves
choir boys in tune
Trading what they never had
tribute to the loon

One last chance to make the grade
masks come flying off
Darwin leaving Born in chains
climbing through the moss

Menageries have come and gone
kaleidoscopes diffused
Nomenclature chameleons
—confounded and bemused

(The New Room: January, 2023)...

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If you are going to arrest me please put me in kiddy jail.
I will sing songs about frogs, chameleons, two toads and a snail.
I will make up marches, and we will all sing and dance.
We will have a great time, laughing at the tower in France.

If you are going to arrest me please give me some food.
Let me take extra for the others, so we are all in a great mood.
I will do my best to get the others to not riot or worse.
If I have to go right away, can you please take my purse?...

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