Short Clam Poems

cub whiskey
stream noon pebble
clam amber...

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beautiful painting
young clam digger
wife's work...

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Manhattan Clam Chowder

Warm and wet a real delight...

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alone and empty
lack of friendship and talking
closed up like a clam...

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trout haddock catfish
clam chowder and lobster tail
seafood is a feast...

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OLD clam
For my daughter
It's safe.














10 Dec/2017...

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"Prufrock's peach"


pearl diving

i'm going down

dare i kiss her clam...

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the quahog clam shell
for chowder and wampum beads
...Iroquois treasure

8/17/2018...

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The water begins calm
I think I saw a clam
It was hard to see
With ripples in the water...

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Calm and quiet 

No stress or worry 

Soft sounds of nature 

Calm, quiet, and relax...

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CATCH YA LATER

my bitter cold blues
“it’s all in your head,” he says
then kicks a beached clam...

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a mist the guard in
clam or ring of two lips ~
you rose for me



AP: 1st place 2020

Posted on June 29, 2020...

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though rocked, tossed I am

             by waves of spite, swirls of sham,

             I'm the cool, calm clam....

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Olive and anchovy bites
empanadillas
chicharrones and spiced clam
seafood paella
tortillas and herbs
rioja
Best !...

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Half of clam shell sits deserted
Scene's purity threatened by storm
Gravitational force pulls sea ...

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Animals just know
The praying mantis looks above
The clam closes down
The turtle’s head hides inside
The spider seizes the fly...

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A thief in search of clam chowder
Instead encountered a clowder
A pussy is nice
When its chasing mice
So the thief just took a powder...

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Keep it light and stay in plight
Things will work smooth
Clam the fight 
No fighter of the real war 
Gets mad
Love, Hope Charity 
Thinking life...

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Would I be able to write in Slam
To attempt it I would just totally clam
    For me it's rhyme
    It does me just fine
If I tried, it would end up in a sham...

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After taking a new poll in southern Siam
She locked the papers in a vault, tight as a clam
When they asked her why
She said with a sigh,
"Because a poll vaulter is what I am!"...

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How wil i weave tapestries, 
When you are leaving the pearls in your clam shells? 
My gypsy heart
Can't stay at one place,
Unless inside the kaliedoscope, 
Which you just broke...

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Benny B was well known as a crowder
And today he craved a bowl of clam chowder
The waitress with a frown
Said "the chowder's all gone"
Ben threw a tantrum, whining all the louder...

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on 
   the menu
crabs
clam
      alfalfa
      salad
lasagna
pasta
    salsa
with
tramasalata:
carp
sprats
&prawns
parma ham
     jam
       tarts
and
banana
  flan...

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What's all this about, why are we here
Time's much too short till we all disappear
We're having so much fun
Many challenges to be won
We're happy as clams, year after year...

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Looking back on the past.
Delete ..................... Keep.
These things remind me of who I was.
The person shut away.
~The pearl of the clam.
~~Diamond in the rough.
~~~ Too vulnerable....

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