Short Chortles Poems

see how he chortles?
          his merry grin    s p l i t s    his face
   as if cut across with a dagger

and he has    g o n e    and dissipated 
       long             before            his Laughter....

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A clown I am 
on strings not of my own design
pulled gently some days
thrown into a box other days

The puppet master chortles
as he slams the lid 
forgetting me for days
not caring that I am afraid of the dark...

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20th August 2021
Diamante Poetry for Fun contest
Sponsor - Karen Krutsinger...

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Additions and retention,
Achievements and parties,
Blessed and cherished,
Benevolence and empathy,
Chortles and roars,
Diligence and success,
Family and friends,
Fortune and endeavour,
Hale and hearty,
Magnificence and power,
Memories and rerun.

Hey all! Have another year, 
Ecstatic and savoured!...

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I heard the magpie chortle
On a blue sky sunny day

She must be so pleased
In the Australian native way

Then smiling she looks at me 
And chortles again – will she stay?

Black and white proud you see
Spreads her wings and flies away

The queen of what she sees
Do you wish it was you today?

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Like millions of eyes they shine, 
Smiling sparkling laugh lines;

Huddled together so tight,
a plain old day but a lovely night;

Glittery chortles in the breeze
warm you before you can freeze;

Blanket of stardust holds your gaze,
Just as bright as the Suns rays

Nothing is quite as it seems,
Starry eyes heat your dreams


Melani Udaeta...

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Each new baby, at the moment of birth,
is weighed, measured, and gauged for worth.

Grandparents, their happiness cannot hide,
while parents beam and swell with pride.

Our Father sanctions each new creation,
smiling at the joy, joining the celebration.

Lucifer, also, smiles and claps with glee,
chortles with evil intent, This one's for me....

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A sweet cocophany of laughter
So irrefutably audibly pleasing to the ear
A peal of innocence imbibed     
Each note so casually perceived 
Mere words so impossibly neglect to accomplish
A few delirious chortles resound
Awakening childhood delights so contagious I find
Stealing a glance impishly rewarding
I retire quietly myself unquestionably, irrefutably sated...

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              t'wuz mom'z huni
                   (chortles)
                        her
                 widdle piddle
                    mons'er

          "put your teeth in dad"
                "mom's what
                                what
                    monster"

                       yep
                 i'll get them 
                       huni
                        


...

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Laughter soothes the soul
Giggling makes my day,
Chortles will improve
My mood, so they say,
Smiles are so groovy!

Silliness beams
Grin big, my friends
Chuckling at memes
Snickering trends

Guffawing
Gleefully
Mimicking

Joking
Funny

MIRTH 

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written June 7, 2022
submitted to "Diminished Hexaverse - Your Choice" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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With lilting tongue and glittering eye, the Celtic potter chortles by.
His clay-browned hands delicately placing, kiln God's on shelves and window facings.

Minute figures of Sun and Moon, mystical men with beard and rune;
sheep wandering on grassy hills, all on clay placards for windowsills.

And tossed about through roof and rafter hung, pink and purple, from pilasters,
were all the glorious flowers' of Spring, saved, dust covered, on dangling strings....

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