Short Creaky Poems

In an old creaky 
house, roaming and talking flow-
silently waiting....

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She Sits

She sits as set in her ways as the creaky old rocking chair....

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creaky wooden chair 
 two legs smashed just one good pair
           an old crutch repairs...

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a relived stroll
down a creaky wooden walk…
screams of hatred

Russell Sivey...

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that creaky old door
    just keeps swinging back and forth 
            it tries  ~  my patience 

By
David Kavanagh...

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on old creaky chair 
                               dandling old man thinks the past
                                      will never come back...

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Feet propped up,
creaky chair,
worn blue jeans,
sweat dripping off my nose, 
flick of a lighter,
long drag,
let it out, 
lipstick stained cigarettes,
and a good ole summer day....

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Ivy is a climber
She climbs up on ladders and chairs
Creeps into an empty house
And climbs its creaky stairs

She just loves climbing
And never falls
The best thing she loves to climb
Is up all garden walls...

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A nightmare, a living hell,
An echoed cry, a whisper in the well.

A ghostly wind, a creaky stair,
A black figure, a haunted air.

An empty mansion, a low growl,
A dusty chill, a midnight howl.

An endless night, a new moon,
My heart is haunted, death will come soon....

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Harrowing, scary stories 
Abundance of ghosts
Laughing jack-o-lanterns
Lots of candy treats
0ld, creaky stairs
Witches on broomsticks
Eerie sounds
Exciting adventures
Naughty tricks

Written September 28, 2022...

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There once was an old car that was quite spry,
It had creaky joints and a sputtering sigh.
Its engine would wheeze
On the road, with such ease
Yet, if I now had such car, I would be pleased
Newer models are no match for a car of that batch
A real classic- though rusty-'neath the sky!...

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The old woman sits
in her creaky, tattered , rocking chair.
She drifts;
as her mind floats,
Back to heart tamed memories of when 
she was free.
The worry lines on her face read back
like a book.
Every curve, a new pain.
Her eyes tell a tale of pity;
as she sighs,
and drifts into a new world....

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My, he really is something, my egotistical friend -
Enigmatic and choleric he will be till the very end;
Youth, the loss of it, causes him no alarm, he's just so cool,   
Outwardly, creaky bones and all, he still acts like a young bull.
Keep going, old boy, I pray, till the next grandchild comes your way....

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It's Dark.
The heat of the day lingers through the night.
I'm lost in this old, creaky house.
I want time to stop.
The thought of losing her keeps me from ending this day with rest.
I think of you.
The still frames of your beautiful soul flash through my mind,
keeping me sane, 
safe from the madness creeping over me....

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Empty rooms and lonely walls
Silence that fills empty halls
A single man roams from room to room
Trailing fingers fill with dust
A distant memory glows and washes away the rust on a creaky stool
Memories fill a now empty pool
Memories bring a smile to the mans gloomy face
A smile for a childhood taken for granted...

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My foundation has cracks-
My frame is bent-
My walls are shaky-
My ceiling is slant-
My floors are creaky-
My roof does leak-
My front door open-
And there isn't a back.
The grass overgrown-
All flowers are dead-
Sidewalk has faded-
My gate is broken-
All friends have left-
I have become-
A condemned house....

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My head is stuffed, my brain is fried
and still the poems wait inside, 
They leak out of my eyes and ears 
and laugh at me with grumpy jeers. 
I am a wreck, I feel so sick 
and still the poems leak and stick.  
They glue me to the creaky chair 
until I write them in the air 
and freeze them down, forever be, 
persistent friends, my poetry......

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The queen of the birds Sari was a menace to the village
                  She had the prying eyes and ears for every act of spillage
                           She saw Tara's husband in Sara's bedroom
                     She called out all birds and her creaky bridegroom 
               Out came the villagers when they yelled pillage pillage pillage...

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the edge of the universe, the milky way, the sun, the planet, the continent, the country, the city, the apartment building, the old concierge friendly face, the creaky elevator, nobody's home, the elevator, the friendly face, the building, the city, the country, the continent and so on.

going far away,
make sure you did not forget
documents and keys...

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We have imagined a place like this,
sun-bleached,
prairie comfortable,
creaky,
chewed mellow by light.

We have hammered together
a structure of
easy happenstance.
A wickiup somewhere
between your homelessness
and mine.

We are inside this steeple of fingers.
A make-do space that serves
for what we have not cared
to cling to,
but love now to enter....

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Poetic injuns snarl
The deprecation of land
Defacing of meaning
The grappling with cold
Hospitalized truth, creaky tiles

Curling sand from loveless fingers
Exactitude measured from fininitude
All consuming chains of being
You will be digested as chunks of matter
The law in the same
As for a grain of wheat
There's no special deviation 
For walking tonsils with big brains...

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H oliday set aside for the evil who
A wait their turn to celebrate
L urching in the darkness
L onging to meet their imposters
O wls perch on creaky branches while
W erewolves sharpen their fangs..and watch
S pells turn children into creatures
E vil await for the clock to strike midnight
V ampires will arise to satisfy their thirst
E ve will soon turn the key to dawn of the dead....

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Mister Sun - it is time.
Summer battles old winter sentiments, 
leaf death,
winds in the flowers to scatter seeds.

Before the leaden fruits ripen, 
give each night to sweeten them.
Arrange each row for harvest
and gauge their worth 
in honeyed wine.

In the still gray of an autumn day
when your rays break through,
the creaky bones of forests know
time will be their friend-...

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Creaky bones,
I must be getting old.
Creaky bones,
But I will not be told.

Creaky bones,
Those stairs are hard to climb.
Creaky bones, 
I will not moan and whine.

Creaky bones,
Bending to tie up shoes.
Creaky bones,
Waiting in those long queues.

Creaky bones,
Once young, now aging fast.
Creaky bones,
Soon I’ll have that free bus pass.

Creaky bones....

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The green grass sways
While the melody from the lone piper plays

And the crickets and the owls patiently wait 
For the intro to their stanza by the old creaky gate

The blue summer skies reach up high without a care
While the earth worries incessantly and is constantly aware

But, the cows are hardly moving and the flowers are still
While time passes slowly out here on the hill...

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