Short Chitchat Poems

Incessant chitchat,  prattler, non-stop chatter.
Mouth kept going. Kids asked what was the matter.
Her own children knew
They laugh at my two.
Gossiping and gabbing makes her face fatter....

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Gossip?  Not I…

Does everyone do?
A little high quality 
Neighborly sharing.
Chitchat and tittle-tattle
The latest information…

 Poetic form:  Tanka
©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     11-14-09...

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I dig, you dig, she dig, we all dig, it makes us weep
This may not be beautiful, but it's certainly “deep”
How tricky was that
Such clever chitchat
Surely could make it in showbiz, though a little offbeat...

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Deprivation is a great teacher
Empty cupboards and growing weeds

Cause the soul to stir
To disdain idle chitchat and merriment

Lessons learned transform the spirit from sand to granite
Conversely, dissipation and luxury turn lives to shards

Always getting one's way leads to the house of destitution
Too much milk and no meat...

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Socializing, all day, until the cockcrow appears
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, with his peers
Brilliant suits, perfect look, for the lovely dears
A busy body…......here and there, lots of cheers
Rich in emotion, poor in action, everyone hears
Interesting life….....champagne, wine and beers
Tick tock tick tock, says the clock, lo......., it gears
It’s first to arrive, late to leave, some disappears
Chitchat….chitchat….the hosts, almost, in tears...

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Silence, thick, impedes forward motion
Feelings of sadness that cling
Shoulders bent with depressing emotion
No wonder my heart can no longer sing!

Silence is more than the absence of sound
When two people choose not to speak
Manners, courtesy, cannot be found
An hour, a day, then, finally, a week

Lonely is different than being alone
When spaces are shared by a pair
No one to greet when arriving at home
No chitchat is given, nothing to share....

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