Short Cunningly Poems

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

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Shrewd Awakening


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

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ALCOHOLISM

Alcoholism
Cunningly 
Debilitating

15 August 2018
For the contest sponsored by Maureen McGreavy...

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Deviously   Duplicitous
Earnestly  Evasive
Cunningly   Coarse
Elusively    Entangled
Inspiring     Illusion
Tingling      Tale...

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To him all women are hallowed
minus those that hustle themselves.

How instantly and cunningly
they commit truculent acts
yet never bribed by mischief

except by rendezvous....

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In the covert rendezvous of reality
My heart habs motionlessly.
Tranquilly, yet peace-less
In the very art of loneliness
I crave for a minstrel
Endowed with mastery of the timbrel
Cunningly curing the blisters of emotion
And poking my pox of dissatisfaction....

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The raindrops sparkle,
cunningly on your lashes,
jewels in the mist.

The wetness of silk,
reveals a woman's beauty,
only once just imagined.

As the sky pours down,
little beads of ecstasy,
a kiss warms our lips.

Your soft, warm, damp skin,
riling imagination,
in the pouring rain....

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TRUMP IN THE NETHER NETHER

If irate American born Mexicans were to rally together,
Around the world, they could perhaps cunningly tether,
Possibly calm, an uncaring, inhumane disliked leader
Maybe curb the actions of this Mexican bleeder,
Or, banish him forever to the land of nether, nether!

2nd Limerick of a trilogy...

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Sleeping while sitting is the sweetest sleep ever

It comes in an unexpected fashion, in an unexpected time

It tightly grips, stealing any other extra curricular-s 

Smoothly it closes those heavy eyes

Cunningly it takes the mind away

Soothingly it relaxes every muscle

Magically it touches...but swiftly it's always interrupted...

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my digital self, how it seems such a bother
how i surely inherit the name of my father
so cunningly crafted, resembling mine
it makes me do anything chasing a dime
this feeble existance, like rats in a maze
has left us all wanting, and stuck in a daze
how truely i dread these hard binds on my feet
when all it would take is a simple delete...

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Gaslighting is and does cunningly deceive,
A twisted dance of falsehoods spun around,
Doubt blooms, reality's roots unbound,
Truth Is doubt and doubt is truth world round.

Emotions frayed, like fragile threads they fray,
Confusion reigns, as truth gets led astray,
Yet in this darkness, strength shall rise anew,
Empowered hearts, the gaslight can't subdue....

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White Jasmine
pure white soft jasmine
birth of a new tender love
thorns silently sleep

behold this glory
that enticingly lures
some fun loving bee
tasting delicious nectar
green danger cunningly lurks

true love never had a chance
green thorns blew their prickly horns
old black shadows danced along
white jasmine turned red
31/05/2011

By Tahera Mannan...

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January

January pouts like a petulant child,
Crying with rain and dreary.
“Why is fun out of favor now?
I wished for more attention and approval, 
A relief from fury and fever pitch of perfecting,
A time to revive and renew, and now
Rest and relief have cunningly come, and yet
Suddenly, hollowness and longing,
Not for the flashy and flamboyant past,
 
But for the manger....

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I fail constantly my lord,
I make promises buy have no word.
Day to day I stumble over pebbles,
Knowing it's my fault and not the devil's.

Day to day I am weak to temptation,
I take it smiling like an invitation.
I ask that you not leave me,
Yet I dissobey you daily.

I know where I'll be if you leave,
Temptation is a cunningly evil thief.
Without your grace where am I to go?
Father please don't leave this foolish boy....

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Steadily and stealthily
Was the approach 
Witty, cunning was the device
The succulent custom velvet
Was the aim
Craftily achieved
Without any remorse 
Without any shame 
Without any thought
Of the first line drawn 
Not necessarily out of love 
But out of unease
Considering the greater need
Steaming from a human heart 
Now cunningly achieved 
You now plot your larger scheme
Whereby rendering away 
Your fleshy heart
Revealing your heart of stone...

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A flower rejects the chill of winter's icy constrain
to bathe in harmony with the heavenly spring rain

A princely frog on his lily pad chains
awaits his mate and descent of fertile spring rains

A sly fox trying to survive his hunger pains
cunningly awaits the lifesaving spring rain

A farmers precious crop would be sown in vain
without the arrival of blessed spring rain

When harsh winters leave us desolate and drained
we embrace in the bosom of the rejuvenating  spring rain...

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she asked
please undress
me and i did but

i did so
slowly that
she asked again

please
undress me
so i did taking

her wig
eyelashes
false fingernails

just a shell
of her perfection
i cunningly guessed

her golden 
ratio by the sum
total proportionally

to her
asking once
again to please

undress me
but i digress trying 
to redress her position

knowing
she will follow
the curves that make

up though
she wears no make
up of her forever universe...

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If I find one foolish for the job,
Was E Musk’s cunningly lofted lob—
A lob in no man’s ground,  
Rare if such a fool's found,
And Tweeter’s stuck with a stuck-up knob! 
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Happenings |17.12.2022| Humour

Poet’s note: Elon Musk though committed to quit Tweeter’s top job, still seems stuck there as a sore door knob. For, as he said: It won’t be easy to find one foolish enough for the job— a clever tennis lob from Musk, and as lethal as an ace!...

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From the heat of the light I retire
The mind eager, drops the clatters of the noon
For great is the dark’s breeze that cuddles the soul
Ah! Joy of haven the body dreams

But a betrayal, the soul to the body
That lifeless the mind wanders about
Lost in the midst of the past souls street
For hopeless the body is being left to lie

Yet the distant song from the cricket
Joined with the frog’s band music, silently and-
Cunningly lures the soul back to the body
Giving life to that that once wandered...

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Forgettable are you
Unforgiving and blue
Cunningly speaking words untrue
Killed my heart so true

Your words said I was your boo
Only I was played like a fool
Understanding a love now I never knew

I always feel I’m a bit askew
My pain you gave to me to accrue

Never wanting not to ensue
Only I must make do
Tearing into the skin like a tattoo

Deconstructing me into nothing new
Overwhelmed by what you put me through
Nothing I’m made in lieu
Everlastingly forgettable are you!...

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