Short Courted Poems

First day, they courted,
Next day,was an accident,
Third day, they broke up....

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One Chinese lantern
Courted to her heart’s delight
      By a thousand moths...

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The moon courted the night sky not to hide her
For the candle's burning low.
Lovers' face all aglow.

2.21.15...

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I courted a British lady
Whose name was Sadie O'Grady
She took off her drawers
I exclaimed ‘Oh good lord!’
You sure ain’t no LADY, matey!...

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When I courted my Valentine
Frilly knickers hung on the line
But now that we've wed
Its bloomers instead
Although starkers suits her just fine!...

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There was young lady named Hannah,
Courted by beaus from Savannah,
As a real good Southern girl
Didn't surrender her pearl
Even when groped on the veranda....

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My peripatetic parrot went to sea
  where he met a perspicacious chickadee

He courted her a bit too parsimoniously
  For this peccadillo, she ensured he couldn't pee...

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Danger and Darkness Courted

Much danger and darkness courted;
What I could do is have it thwarted;
Never love;
Get rid of,
Or transported away and be aborted.

Jim Horn...

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Blue
Divine 
Shine
Madonna and Child
Suffocate the Papal decreed 
Sowed the seeds 
Indoctrinated godly status
Art distorted the power courted 
For Church convention 
Hidden shackled 
Never to tackle...

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An Italian once courted my Aunt

Who was bitten by ants in his pants

     So he screamed, "Mama Mia!"

     "I got the gonorrhea!"

That's when he learned the frying pan dance!



                            Timothy I. Brumley...

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Hortense and Gertrude
   Priscilla, Imogene
Once-popular names
   no more to be seen

Isadore, Cornelius
  Cyrus and Mortimer
Back in the day such
  names courted her

You never know though
  when a name may return
Such as Ambrose, Edsel
   Penelope or Fern...

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Listen to poem:

You cried at losing, as some do;
Not I. Determined to accrue
That credit to my name
I courted and called fame,
I steeled myself and stood,
Rigid -- upright -- and would
Not deign reveal what graced
My form: two faces,
                              both mask-encased....

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Moon

                                       Night's bride

                                      Shining bright

                                       Is courted by

                                              Sun!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
       02 May 2017...

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Were you invited
to the party
Do you paint
 or write or sing
Have the voices
come to visit
Did new feelings
lodge within
Were you courted
by seduction
Has your soul
become entranced
As you sit alone
and wonder
Will this be
—the final dance

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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Narwhals, Is Chivalry Dead?


Narwhals cycle arctic coasts
amidst the icepack
ancient seasoned routes

swordfights, competition, Spring
female conquests are courted
mystic spiral tusks

alphas chose the heartiest
basking in the sun
coastline guides the species well



									Sunshine Williams...

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on waves of 
sheer exhilaration  
for those summer
  worn bodies  
hungry for horizons
enveloped in  
  colorful palettes 
fall is courted 
with the best 
of intentions
clearly
 a moody lover
   who year after year 
whispers goodbye 
in piles of leaves        
         among rapidly
vanishing vistas...

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Trust is a rose
to be offered to the courted woman...
The sage offers a wise woman,
But fools offer the smart women...
The fake ones offer the faithful brides...
The faithful to the jealous wives...
All offer roses to their favorites female...
 Thanks God there's no shortage of roses
at the  rose bushes...!...

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Merging threads of fate, our lives
Attached to one another. Gold, fame,
Jewels pouring like knights ramming the gates, 
Entering, and conquering foreign, feeble lands. I
Surrendered myself to his love, hoping in
Time I would become his only Queen.
In love am I, fell have I by being
Courted by the King-- my King....

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Zuni and Zulu cute twin gorillas
They loved the most insane hairy fellas
They courted them expertly
Fed them sweet chamomile tea
For they were such conniving bellas

Jake and Jim went to their hut for tea
Both fell for Zuni unfortunately
Zulu was so mad
She called them both “Cad”
So neither were offered matrimony...

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Look familiar
Where you started from
Shoes laced you up
Made you come

Walking unknown streets
Stepping with future's feet
Mapquest to different times
Memories calling out
Like weathered chimes

Courted future and past
Strolled in the present
Shadowed footprints cast
Changed all directions
That will always last...

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My grandfather put up the swing when he courted grandma
I know it had a history only known to the two of them
It was always there, in the thirty-seven years I knew them.

The day grandfather died, I watched the swing fly up in the air
Grandma materialized briefly and smiled at me.
That’s how I knew he had made it to heaven....

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In every sense I smell his love 
When the pure-scented moonlight bathes my window
Reflecting its tresses inside and the night-breeze
Spills a bouquet exploding of wonderful colors
Of evocations to mind which stroke perfumed
Warm touch on my glowing skin courted
By lavender whispers of memory… hmm…there
In every sense I smell his love....

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I met UFC and she courted me.
She made me wanna hit!
But I stood back from the ring,
Not battered, but better I became.

It's no life worth livin' to get 
your bell rang.

Or worse, to punch a good man
to his death,

Just to get the gawkers to 
sing your song!

And move up the rung
to where you think you belong.

The escalation seems so wrong....

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Milady Death
~~~~~~~~~~~
For years I've courted her
Oh my love, The Lady Death
I've begged her affection on endless nights
When only she could hear my pleas
Danced in her warm embrace only to be spurned
Deemed unworthy of more than that it seems
Although many times I've tasted her bright and blissful kiss
She chose me naught as a lover
So now I resign myself simply to be her consort....

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He'd have been a baseball star, but he couldn't hit a curve
  A Hollywood celebrity, but never got the break he deserved

He's start a company, make a few million, but his nerve did fail him
  Join the army, win a war, but his fear of death did slay him 

It seemed wherever he did turn, his dreams were always thwarted
  Until he married the girl next door, the girl whom he'd first courted...

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