Short Curfew Poems

unrest in the street

curfew in place

ghost town

8/28/2020...

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We will keep electronic device 
Switched off at night as we close our eyes....

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Ding there goes the clock
passed my bedtime curfew 
please dont tell my mom...

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My conscience is stained
the curfew gull it glides
bent over in guilt I quiver....

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ding dong there goes the clock 
its is  my curfew 
pretty please don't tell my mom...

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Coronavirus is like in curfew 
Can’t go out

In search of themes for my poems
I do go in!...

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past curfew kids play
then they collectively groan...
"come inside!," mom yells.


Date written: 12/16/2021...

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Confining to homes 
Curfew comes 
To know a few,why?
Still curfew 
How to bring cure curfew for Corona?
Nor cure even a few 
Not cure but can curtail some
Go,stay at home!...

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A curse 
This Coronavirus 
Beyond cure

At Worse 
All at homes like in curfew
Annoyed

Virus 
Less than a piece of hair
On Nobel heads
Defunct 

Enough is enough 
Walk up
Deliver!...

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I was off to a terrible start
A first date with odiferous fart
    'til she made it quite clear
     as her curfew drew near
That a fart's not the way to 'er heart!

Inspired by Jan Allison......

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Crows gather
in beacons of Blackness
Any subterfuge of despair
marvels their flight
A curfew is needed
for their sorceress

They are the harlequins of the night
on a mindful mission
of sequined tricks...

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cold curfew lifted 
eager wings spread, feathers plumed... 
sweet song susurrates 

tweeting awareness 
of burgeoning beginning... 
springtime harbinger 
 
February 10, 2023

Sponsor: Tania Kitchin 
Contest : Bird...

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Testing times for the masses
Testing surprises? wrong passes
Friends on paper turned foes
WHO was there and knows

Sellouts in for the kill
Digital tracking at the till
Liberties lost, the new normal
Curfew and lockdown now formal...

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Imageries of tribal stench
Streets stretched in stray bullets
Carcasses charred in church
Women slit in the dark
A conglomerate of conference table
Littered with  coffee and curfew
Monkeys mourning
Centre crawling
Sentiments sighing
Jos, a shadow....

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They claim they care
How their bank accounts fair!!
As your health, to paramedics, they leave
Their next loan tranche to sieve

From curfew to lockdown we flit
As on their ample behinds, they sit
While the masses hunker down
The deep state's in town...

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I'm hearing natures winds
Blissfully roaming through the trees
In hope I wonder I
To be graced by such breeze

As I close my eyes to curfew
Self sedation closes all around
Looking back from my inner dark
Suddenly there's no sound.



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a neighbor’s water hose sent
a roaring rapid down the sidewalk curb

our popsicle sticks navigated
through the rocks and raging current

street lights with ominous hue
implored our curfew

we ambled along cheering
those popsicle sticks on
far, far, far into the night...

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Midnight strikes the bewitching hour
Earlier, if she wants to not meet her father's dour,
When a virtuous daughter is expected to be home
And the young man not to be considered a gnome,
If not, all the relationships are likely to sour.

written February 1, 2021...

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your eyes burn brighter than the stars
no force of gravity could pull as strong
or fall as hard as I
transfixed and made to gaze
on sundials keeping tabs and time
I would make the planets realign
eclipsing, shutting out the sun
I would plunge the world in darkness
just to stay here past tonight...

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My soul flew to church
roadside beauty blocked it

Charity work it embarked on
hot mouths intercepted goods

Prayer to God it made
no response from the heavens

Ascended to the heaven
black clouds built a fence

Desperate soul mine is
curfew on earth, curfew above

Where will it find solace?
where will it find a friend?...

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(in Memory of W. Houston)

After all that I've been
through
The trials and tribulations,
tried and true
PEACE, I ask of you, for
My curfew
Because I've done ALL,
that I can do
This I would grant, "if on
the other foot was the shoe"
Although, My Baby, "Bobbi-
Kris", it'll make her blue
Yet, it's over and done with,
"that Bird has flew"
Now, LORD, do "I LOOK TO
YOU"...

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I give up in despair
The damage to repair
Second hand theories abound
Seeking to keep me safe and sound

The laws are changing fast
Communal activities now in the past
Quarantines and lockdowns they order
Virtually sealing the border

We must all get infected
Some practices we have rejected
Morphing into copy cats
While waiting to become laboratory rats...

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Terrazzo, Terrazzo!
Keep me satisfied
She curfewed all
With an artisans
Doing of work
A world shall envy me
That my floors shall
Be works of art
Clean enough for people
To dine
I shall stand before them
And brag that it is mine
Those novice wishers
Who wish to how it was
Done
Shall hear the stories of
This artesians labor and
The price of the contractal
Science we had begun....

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Bratkartoffeln,
 narrow mindedness
 ( and there is lots of that unfortunately),
 baked schpeck kartoffeln,
 bigotry and lust
 ( and there is lots of that),
 bienenschtich,
 bread and wine,
 the sweat of the brow,
 Schweinehacksen,
 oppression, guilt 
(and there is lots of that),
 gluttony, the curfew gull it glides......
 not many of you will get this,
 but that is,
 what is on my mind........ ?...

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Because I decided to make a bad decision.
Because I just wanted to get something to drink.
Because it was really late at night.
Because I was hanging out with the wrong person. 
Because I needed a break from life.
Because my parents are disappointed in me.
Because there were not a lot of people out.
Because I broke curfew.
Because I was supposed to be responsible.
Because I sat in the back of a cop car....

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