Short Dawdle Poems

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Aristotle Had No Play-Dough

Aristotle
Never liked to dawdle.
He studied under Plato
But by no means played with play-dough.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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Wondrous reigns the gift of your trait
To build future on strengths innate;
Knowing ticks of time rule your day
Don't just dawdle on aimless way
Strive now to mold shape of your fate.

September 13, 2021
Form: Quintilla
Eight syllables per line...

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leaves flutter like butterflies, 
dawdle graceful path zigzag 
down, down, down beneath trees shade 
long deep sighs. Settle and snag 
among collaborating blades. 
mutinous breeze tendrils rise drag 
and sweep away the dry leaves 
like wings fly and touch the sky.


7/18/2021...

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Medallion moments dawdle,
shading hints of ruby and brass-
grains of sand linger,
like lost sand in an hourglass. 

I feel the blazing embers of
heated passion in a lover's dream-
the sanctity of a desert landscape, 
feathering a vista so serene. 




July 24th, 2017  ...

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Darling Dolly liked to dawdle
down past Dooley’s Deli.
Darling Dolly didn’t dabble 
in Dooley’s Devil’s Delight.
Devil’s Delight, a donut dessert,
didn’t do it for Dolly.
Darling Dolly didn’t delight 
in Dooley’s donut dessert.
So Darling Dolly dawdled home
without Dooley’s Devil’s Delight.
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 Play on the fiddle and on your toes twiddle
For life may pass in a twinkle, no time to dawdle
Before your powers dwindle, with joy, your life kindle
Be helpful and save good memories to fondle


April. 25.2022
Killing with an Epigram Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Margarita Lillico...

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Down the hot sun,
I crumble down the snowflakes, 

One minute,
One tribute, 

Let's have a wintry solitude, 
Wrapped in a flesher's heartbrokenness, 

I derelict this relict calf love,
Squall on this spur,
Am peel in peals... 

Scuttle the fondle, 
Dottle the dawdle, 

Harbouring an everlasting embosom......

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Tell me now of your feelings
Speak then of your intent
My heart proves inquisitive
Of your heart’s sentiment

I request you not dawdle
But share now of your mind
Say thoughts that you have
Stay not so confined

I beg now, I ask of you
What is it you wish for?
Tell me then, won’t you?
Is there an us, in store?...

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There once was a lady from VanYoddel
Dreamt of extending mirrors to dawdle 
       Clung so long to that wish
       Made her feel feverish
Splurged for the wrinkle remover model



Submitted on August 9, 2021 for contest A BRIAN STRAND RHYME POETRY contest sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST

Originally posted on April 26, 2018...

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The Scuba Diver 

we look down
signal frantically
‘come up’,
though it is already 
too late

he dances wide eyed
with ecstasy
as the nitrogen 
tickles his cells

anemones
cling to the steep
rock walls
fish feed and dawdle
incuriously

we peer through
our tiny windows
into the ink black sea

as he goes 
free wheeling 
down, 
down,
a rictus of laughter 
on his face...

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The moment has come:
We have to leave now.
The zombies are here,
And after our brains,
As everyone feared.

They can't be killed.
They can't be beat.
Take my advice:
Don't even try.

Don't dawdle.
No gawking.
No yacking.

Come on!
Quickly!

Run!!



Date Written: January 17, 2019
For Contest: Diminished Hexaverse, sponsored by Charles Messina...

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Mystic River
lazy mists dawdle
 in sinuous rivulets ~
   fog surfs in deep dales

river of white clouds
 threads through alleys of tall pines ~
  fog garden slow dance

curly silver mists
 pale kisses on riverbanks ~
  swirling shape-shifters

flat bottomed clouds float
 wispy fogs tickle thunder ~
 joy ride for cloud ships

mystic tule songs
 gypsy brumes on evergreens ~
  forest singalong...

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You can't pizazz good poetry
It's more of a creepy, crawly thing.
How do you like my alliteration?
Stop snorting, good golly
(prescribing popcorn pureed in petulance)
okay, at least I tried... truly ;)
ps, am not into popularity.
just jivin.
don't dawdle
or drivel or drink much or dribble or
worry
stream of consciousness....
Ms. Mills taught me that
seems surreptitious to stop suddenly.
So I shall....

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A horse on the left
A horse on the right.
With us in the middle.
Tally ho, quite.

Walk through the park.
It's such a lark.
Walk, peacock strut, duck waddle.
Walk with the group, don't dawdle.

A cage of rodents at the zoo.
Baby goats and llamas too.
Finches, a baby pig.
A peacock with a tail so big.

And of course,
A miniature horse.

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for Barbara Gorelick's contest "Tales From the Zoo"...

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The young woman peered into the room
She saw a large legless blind man
Uncovered and naked on the bed
The nurse nudged the woman forward
And warned her not to dawdle
The nurse declared that the man needed a sponge bath
Had the disease of diabetes
Had not taken care of himself
So we have to – take care of him, that is
After a final push, the nurse cautioned the woman
Dear, be careful around his thingy
I do not need this man getting excited...

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Was it just a coincidence to have seen you,
On that fateful day.
Was it a misunderstanding that I loved you,
From that moment itself.

As I feel my thoughts now fading,
Into a deep spiral of delusion.
I can't imagine how long it'd take me,
To come out of this apparition.

Maybe my mind is too bewildered,
Since a long time, perhaps how long I can't remember.
Maybe my emotions dawdle awfully, so,
They're unable to settle on anything stable since so long....

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if i’ve missed your birth day
there’s still your birth week
or even your birth month
or would the celebration
of you dawdle into the light
of a new month — too much?
perhaps a year, perhaps
we pretend that your important
enough to celebrate
for an entire lifetime —
yes!
let’s go with that!
little surprises appear sporadically
forcing you to smile ear to ear.
do you feel my breath
so close to your ear
whispering
sweet nothings…
they’re everything…
i love you, dear!

3/1/2021...

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