Short Crash Landing Poems

On my first day in a car factory
A simple girl threw herself at me
I guess I was standing
Too close to the landing
Of the car filled with crash test dummies...

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I swim and sink
Cry and laugh
Converse, unlearned, crash landing

My mind it swirls
Anxiety builds
I hate I'm so demanding

Close my eyes 
To wake up
Surprised when I'm still standing...

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A cowboy is thrown from his horse
Crash landing in dense prickly gorse
He's screaming so loud
It draws quite a crowd
The ‘bucking feast’ - shot dead of course!

8,8,5,5,8 per HMS
Checked with Rhymezone

High Noon Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Joseph May

05/03/22...

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newly born sparrows 
oval blue broken eggshells~ 
feathered brown and white   

ready for take-off 
mother watching from treetop~ 
first flight- crash landing

second flight better 
siblings curiously watch~ 
empty- is the nest

Songbird Haiku Poetry Contest 
Tania Kitchin- Sponsor 
8/13/2021...

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Four hours now we'd been in the air
And soon we would come in to land
Then over the tannoy 
The captain calmly said
"Landing gears stuck the wheels won't drop 
Brace yourselves for a crash landing*. 




Written 24th May 2020. 

For Hexastitch it poetry contest. 

Sponsored By Nette Onclaud....

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I see you honey bee 
on humming erratic flight 

on route to the garden bed 
crash-landing on petals bright 

burying head first into a flower 
tumbling in the pollen white 

vibrating noisily with purpose  
then launching out with pollen tight 

weighed down with your sweet cargo 
buzzing loudly in delight 


9 August 2022...

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day’s light quickly fades
rumbles from mighty jaws near
bitter winds utter their last gasp

my arms are in a flurry
bare branches lash against the farmhouse
struggling to avoid the chimney’s embers

“Snap,” the sound rings out
pain I bear as I split in two
crash-landing on the horse barn

sunrise comes again
displaying carnage below
nearly lifeless, my tears fall like rain...

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Lost in a dark vaporous pit
Suffocating in the fumes of you
After you went up in flame
I tried to extinguish you for good
Still you hang around 
Like a broken parachute
Trapped on a tree limb
What does it matter
We won't be taking off 
Or crash-landing ever again
In the vast and vacuous
Space which is your soul
I have been too many times
I'm climbing out now
I think I've seen the light...

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High above clouds
You flew
Radar focusing beneath
In search of prey.

Image fell on screen
One walking in  haste
His head bowed down
Wondering at
Mismatching arithmetic
At home, office
Breaking his back
To meet ends both
Nebulous mind.

Flare in your eyes
Like a diving bird
Impertinent crash landing
Sharp claws clung
An ascension with prey
Into unreachable heights
Vanishing into thin blue.

A quill is shed
Life drops dead....

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I see trouble on the near horizon--
A nation divided just is not couth,
Unfortunately, reason is wizen
Frivolous theories accepted as truth,
Intentionally misguiding our youth
Disgraceful political grandstanding,
Foundation institutions crash-landing
News media is shaping opinions,
Honestly, journalism notwithstanding
Common folks now political minions.


written August 13, 2021...

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