Short Coyly Poems

I looked coyly - our gazes now holding steady 
with a smile.




26.08.2020...

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Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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Imagining that first kiss
Butterflies dance in my soul
Coyly you invite me in
Our lips seal the deal...

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Shrewd Awakening


Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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Dog's arch nemesis
coolly lurking on tree branch
protected by glass

coyly mocking dog inside
sinister plotting next move...

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That sheepish smile
disarming a gruff poet
coyly offer hope

my Bridgewater seraphim
kick back wine like a sailor

 for K.C....

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Summons

drowsing, most coyly, 
just beneath a placid mind
yearning, stirs a soul, 
tearing it from all content
siren from afar…Petra calls....

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They promised me a magical pill
Said it would provide a royal thrill
My lady did coyly wink
But I missed it in a blink
And my desire we don’t fulfill...

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This life of retirement sure is a blast
But can never remember when I went last
Tried to act coyly
And not to be noisy
Then bombs away like a huge birthday bash...

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Five fingers of joy
slyly, coyly burgles; he's
absconding with koi.
As you like it, as you wish;
carpe carpum: seize the fish!


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POTD 0/28/2022
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Crisp metamorphosis of color
Tempestuous leaves tap dance on
Tangled wind's insouciance
Wayward sun's scarlet wink
Feckless orange flirts
Fey cinnamon
Coyly bold
Feisty
Fall.

8/23/19...

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Breathless Kiss

Sweet lips
Pouting woman
Head dips

Red hot
Quivers coyly
Sexpot!

Lust fills
Passion temptress
Kiss kills


Created by: Earl Schumacker on 11/25/14
for nette onclaud- Whispers Of A Muse – Poetry Contest...

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Ha, like a shy bride coyly blushing
the moon veils behind the earth's shadow
knowing not what this night is flaunting
before showing her amazing glow!


~10/01/15
~"Supermoon Eclipse" contest by Eve Roper...

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Tingling
my spine moves slowly with each sound
"Ssshhh!!!"
you speak 
again my spine quivers...shudders even

which is it?
A running horse or walking fingers?
I care not!!!
slipping into an abyss of...
well!
Coyly I smile.
Who's first?....sigh!!!...

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your melting mouth, quite coyly callow

          softer and sweet, as pink marshmallow

               oh love, a rapture tends your scheming

     upon those lips, so drips my dreaming.







Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, October 17, 2022...

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When I grow up I want to be a conquistador
Seven is adamant always
Once they fall in love with a career,
that is it.

What is that? I asked.
You know, she said coyly. You had them back in the day.
Not in my day. We had no conquistadores 
in my covered wagon....

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Peek-a-boos winking coyly,

Ruffled by young love’s spell…

A nectarine touch, a candy-cheek kiss

Breaths scattering on moonbeams;

Wrapped in a daze

of lost innocence. 



Casarah Nance's Contest: Micropoetry
Ain't that tweet
8/3/2015
~ about 129 letters, et al...

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the limericks can’t be eschewed
my muse seems excessive imbued
they seep through the pores
they flood out in scores
seek nuance to coyly allude

It’s not just a trek through lewd grit
perfection is sought for, to whit
there’s meter to wrangle
inference to dangle
infinitives to boldly split...

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S he coyly looked at me that day
E yes beckoning for an approach
D are I venture on my way
U nnerved by her reproach
C autiously I introduce myself
T errified her glance was misread
I nstinctively keeping my desire stealth
O bsessed with the sexuality she bled
N ot realizing she was the seducer instead...

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When Kermit the Frog
Found love at his synagogue
It was unexpected
How instantly they connected

The lovely Miss Piggy
Posing right next to Twiggy
Strategically waving her doily
Batted her eyelashes coyly



Submitted on January 12, 2019 for contest CLERIHEW COUPLES FOR VALENTINE'S DAY sponsored by CAROLYN DEVONSHIRE...

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Virga
Your impression beckons me
as you slumber coyly
through the day.

I, too, can play
chords up in the jetstream
during your unfathomed dream
I can find a secret and
lock it in my pulse
until the storm.

And when the gale, vespertine,
roars and carries mountains
forth
Humbly, I deliver you
my caring vision
from the shore....

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We fence
Forward and back, coyly with words 
Laughing and flirting 

We fence 
Evenly matched, strong wit, strong hearts 
No masks, epees glinting, no protection 

And just when I think I am gaining ground, 
You wound me 
quickly, and with no mercy
 
Wounded with silence 
Wounded with withdrawal 
As swiftly as if you pierced my heart...

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SILHOUETTE OF NIGHT


Skulking in the fleeting light
as if mocking shapelessness
blended colors, mottled grey,
coyly dance on dew wet streets.
Silently dread’s shivers raise,
dark against a faded day,
fears that live within the soul.


John G. Lawless
For the Silhouette of a Heptagonet – poetry contest
Sponsor – nette onclaud
11/8/2014...

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a mate

silver and grey hunger
sleek beneath a Spring moon
rolls coyly, playfully
in a shrouded glade

she cries out
long, low, ululations
reverberations caught,
in the silence of pine.

her need is great
she rubs her belly
across cast off cedar

brown aromatic scents
join pheromones
rise into the night
carried far.

random breezes pass
unaware of messages carried....

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The famed archer perches on the minaret
While the waxing moon disappears
He studies the dancing silhouettes 
Waiting on the reclusive premier 
The scant light of a torch coyly dances 
And soon the moribund ruler emerges
The bowman knows where his allegiance is
Soon the realm will be singing dirges 

The arrow hits the heart and it is rent apart
And so departs the tyrannical tetrarch...

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