Short Chop Chop Poems

Chop , Chop

On the double

You are not in the army now sonny...

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Perky Green
Climbing up trees
Chop, chop, itch, itch,
Poison Ivy...

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Chop chop chopping down the trees in the forest                                          
 there goes a deer by the door                                                           
because they are          
chop chop chopping down the trees in the forest...

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Lance Out I Strike With Line LICKETY SPLIT GIDDY UP HORSE


L-   Lingeringly lively
I-   Instants in a jiffy
C-  Chop-chop
K-  Kwikly plodding
E-  Expeditious struck wit whip
Y-  Yippee ki-yay, giddy up horsey 


04/08/18  2018©

For contest Lickety Split
Sponsored by : Debbie Guzzi...

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OFFICE BOY
the class
   of summer fifty five
left to ply
   their business lives

the office     partners just two
pens   pencils nearly-new

clerking the lowest
                of the low
daily drudgery
  reality soon shone thru'
down the cellar
    my steps did wend
scuttle filled   fires to tend
the 'old man ' yelling
      'ere lad  chop chop
get me baccy
   from t'corner shop...

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Snakes hurling, as smoke is curling.
Chop, chop, no need to shop. Gizzard,
Snake and clam bake. I tried to pray,
But I cried today. I am safe, a waif.

My tent is weathered as my face.
No grace for the poor and hungry.

By the sea, I see ships afar. I cannot
Travel far, as I have one leg - a peg.
No cause for alarm, I have two arms.

I have fire, desire. I carve. I won't
Starve, at least not today. It's ok....

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A helicopter hovered
In the east side New York sky.
It looked just like the hummingbirds
I spot in mid-July.

Its headlight darted left and right,
Like it was on a quest.
I wondered if the search was real,
Or was it just a test?

No boats were in the river
Over which the copter hovered;
That made me think that there was nothing
There to be discovered.

Some minutes passed and then it slowly
Chop-chop-chopped away.
Another New York mystery
To supplement my day....

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Tree canopy
Thick and green
Full of singing birds
And chattering monkeys.

Thick underbrush
Rustles at a touch
Be careful what you eat
It could be deadly.

Rushing rivers flow
Thousands of plants grow
Animals right where you can’t see
A wonderland to me.

A distant whirring sound
A tree drops to the ground
Where I once heard monkey’s chatter
Now I hear machine’s clatter

Chop Chop Chopping
More illegal logging
Don’t they understand
This is my wonderland?...

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