Short Cleanup Poems

last years leaves
against the fence
warm winter day...

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Senryu 6/18/2016

shoreline cleanup
slow footed predators
chasing plastic prey


John G. Lawless
6/18/2016...

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Mass Murderer thought about changing careers;
the chase was still chill, but the cleanup, too hard.
He bought him a backhoe, and oh, what a thrill!
He’s burying bodies all over the yard....

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Frank Castle, a vigilante grim, 
Whose methods were rather quite slim. 
He'd blast with a frown, 
Then paint the town brown, 
And mutter, "They all had it comin' to him."

©bfa031725

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I looked at the heart-encased initials on the table, 
a couple's lifelong promise turned  employee's weeklong cleanup project, 
I wonder if it's gone yet,
Love is set in minds not etched in someone's regret...

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Cats called Carl, eat 'Captain Crunch' for cereal.
Cats called Carl, have cunning plans to collect Crystals.
They take taxis to the park.
Then they come home to find their mom tearing through the pillows.
She was angry at them for making a big Macaroni-man.
The cute cats called Carl now had a cleanup job to do....

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In the sand
	plastic beach
	balls beached
l
 e
  a
   c
    h
     e
      d
into the sand

cleanup
	summer season
	footsteps
			ping
		a		on the sand
	e
l

ecologists
	preached 
	beseeched
			o u t r e a c h e d
to teach the reason
of the sand

f
 e
  l
   l
	flat
	deaf ears
the sea searched
		screeched 
a silent tear
for the sand
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I'm in a dream,
Peeing into a stream,
A snake peeped out,
Some on its snout.
A frog close nearby,
Came out to pry,
It got some too,
From me it withdrew.
I found it funny,
The way a bunny,
Growled near a tree,
Far from my pee.
Then I woke up,
 I rushed to cleanup
Another bedwetting today again.
Dry night in vain....

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As consequences must and do accrue,
Redolent foamy crests in oceans blue,
That rise and fall when pulled by lunar cue,
To muddy dust on shores of sandy hue;

Where toes thrust deep when comes the morning dew,
Beneath grey skies where once proud eagles flew,
But now limp idly by grounded and through,
Watching memories fade to residue –

That stain the steps of unforgiving shrew,
Blaming nature demanding a cleanup crew.

10/23/16...

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I should have let it go,
   theunkind words they spoke
the phrases unjustly, hurtfully said
   but you know me...
My mind thinks and mulls the words
   over and over again.
They churn like whipped shakes and malts
   until they begin to overflow.
Before realized, they spill over
   onto counter tops and make a mess.
Cleanup doesn't serve me well
   as the disliked stickiness is spread
Soon, everyone around sees and knows
   that thing they said  -
I should have let it go,...

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