Short Curiously Poems

Thousands of sightings
Curiously elusive 
Hallucination...

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My hands wander curiously
   through the buttons of your blouse
   and the open field flanks... your breasts...

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serendipity makes man
all the more richer
fine wine distilling and champagne
cultivated 
curiously imbibing fortune
robes the wino...

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I hollered hello - curiously the mountain echoed goodbye!

Entry for Silent One's "One Liner - Hello Goodbye" Contest
20 December 2018...

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Mystique petals two
Lovely looks and curiously naughty
Ethereal light shone
Lashes long, rainbow like brow
Glimpse casts a magical spell!!...

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Queerly
Quakily
Quietly
Quaintly
Questingly
Curiously
Quibbiling
Q
Quickly
Quartering
Quahogs
Quoting
Quay-like
Quiet
Curious
Q...

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I scratched my head
    my brain fell out
  It ambled 'cross the table

  Stared at me
    most curiously, grinned ~
  Then pronounced me disabled...

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Charlie's cartoon characters were afraid
`Cause Caren wants humor in her crusade
Only one person submits
Caren careens and retrofits
Curiously all have it made in the shade...

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A pen travels across paper; a line appears to follow.

Curiously growing eyes; anxiously follow its path.

Muscles and tendons taught; cat leaps and the sketch is gone....

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One day, a warty little toad
Sat on a rock beside the road,
And curiously observed the human beings.
She said, "I don't suppose they bite,
And I guess they'd be all right,
If they were not such ugly, creepy things."...

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A curious bird flew by today
Her colors seemed off
Dark on top
Curiously lighter on the bottom

Wings appeared out of nowhere
White tinged with gray
She seemed surreal

Disappeared as fast as she arrived
Maybe faster
I watched in awe...

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“Now, now,” said the priest to an anxious lady
nearing death: “Of course you’re going to heaven.
There will, however, be a temporary rest stop –
a little time to refresh the spirit, so to speak.”
“Coffee or restroom,” she asked curiously....

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unquenched thoughts on an empty plate
fail to fill the void
that the multitude hold so dear
as they contemplate the joys
of the breath ending silver
that sets japery up most curiously.
Yet truth concise shall reign most pure.
I am poem honestly....

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“These mashed potatoes are bleeding,” the six-year old said.
I looked at them, curiously.  
A white mound with a bit of yellow.
No gravy or ketchup.
A curious observation, I thiought,
pondering it.
“Just go with it, Grandma,” her nine-year-old sister told me.
So I did....

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White hat black cat par, enigmas...
Precious the innocent young child
Seven or eight; shyly,  as curiously
Peeking around,  the opened door
An image birthing wings of flight ?
Scrambling to unravel, this maze...
Recapture a purity which lived; try
Making sense; love's, what's why's....

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Translucent fishes in shallow water
Graze our nails curiously.
I nibble your bronzed neck...

Crystalline summer fantasies.

Polished pebbles ripple,
Curious shoreline gestures
Around our lazy afternoon dream.

***

May 23, 2017
Copyright © Darren White...

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It was a span-new experience.
Some relished it, rejoicing at the changes.
Others sat with folded arms and angry faces, glaring.
They were determined to not embrace or welcome change.
I ran between the two groups, fitting into both, curiously.
Trying to make a pact or peace, or something....

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a squirrel acrobating air stopped and glanced back at me
shaping symbolisms within a nutty day, there for all to see
if one knew to look, a hair’s breadth sourcing angles justly
enough to squeeze through into realms ajar, he knew, and
Nicorates nudging me, the squirrel, smiling curiously, goes
...

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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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The picture is perfect
All spackled and new
Under dim-lit forsythia.
The reflection is shone
In the new fallen snow.
And base to the corner
Its' curiously known.
Each texture, each timber
So hallowed receive.
All the grandeur and loyal
So effortlessly groan.
Always windswept and drifting
Carefully blown.
Spring....

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My clock ran away taking the time
There was no warning, just up and went.
I’d give a nickel, maybe a dime.
To keep track of the weeks I’ve spent

Feeling curiously bamboozled and stymied
By that traitorous clock sorely bent
If you see her, her face is yellow limed.
Tell her good-bye, I have moved to Kent....

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The pretentious rock 
Craggy and malformed 
Jutting brazen 
Upon the sandy shore 
Suffering 
The slow and steady onslaught 
of the ocean’s perpetual rhythm 
Eventually 
To become a pebble 
Small and insignificant 
Yet smooth to the touch 
And curiously beautiful 
In its own right 
A result of years of wear...

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If your Straight White God's
powers of love
are not omnipotent enough
to include Queer love
then S/He is too weak
diluted
polluted

For Me
at my humane best
as an integral part
of EarthTribe We

Curiously forgiving all
Straight White idolatries
of dark fascist powers
against green and fertile
integrity....

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There are ghosts in her closets, ghouls on her stair.
If you visit my grandma grump, it is best you beware.
I’ve seen a see-through body with half a head.
It looked curiously like my deceased cousin, Little Ned.
No one else has seen these ghosts, it is a fact, and true.
I know this is curious and peculiar to me too....

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At first nobody understands,
some blokes from far distant lands,
when they went to the dunny,
it seemed curiously funny,
they never bothered to wash their hands.

And that’s never our way as it stands,
to wash is what hygiene commands,
so I put it to to them,
and their answer’s - ahem,
because we don’t pee on our hands....

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