Short Deft Poems

Testing my tolerance 
Torturing ears
Mic testing 
A deft?...

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Some lefties are chefs

 All righties are deft ~

   I'd lather bereft...

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Sneak around real smooth.
We are theiving in the night.
Stealing hearts for fun....

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that flirty eye
deft feminine wiles -
boy, are you seductive?



Date written: 03/31/2023...

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in an unseen giant's hands:

the deft squirrels probing,

penetrating lush leafage,

spanning tangled trees' branches....

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The dealer dealt the hand with deft finesse
Black aces and black eights
Felt the muzzle on my neck.

Written March 22, 2022...

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Twitter was abuzz all night
     at the breakdown of the right

   in the morning aught was left
     Who had played his cards so deft?...

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Dear means deft ear
No one to hear
But dear to dear hear 
Love isn’t only blind but also deft 
No one to hear 
Dear to dear only to hear...

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Deaf.
Hands fly.
Symbols whirl.
Nuance slips past fast.
Hand jive, succinct lines blur.
Blink, blind, behind banter, blither on deft fingers.

Primary Number Contest...

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Euphoria to be found
only in night's play,
I draft these dreams 
with curious deft.

Ebullient worlds lie
in wait of my stay,
My moon leaves not
a lover bereft....

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I have become ash
Decayed for decades
What happened?
To my lithe thoughts
And deft digits

That could churn
Heaviness into brevity
And paltry pursuits
Into wee nuances...

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Stolid, terse
Ferrous verse

Raw, crude
Pressing lewd

Fiery, rage
Warring sage

Wild, free
As the open sea

Clever, deft
Mindful theft

Longing, attentive
Yet pensive...

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Hard disk,
My bisque.

Doc files,
Spread miles.

Drum Tunes,
Spiked dunes.

Surf gem,
Turf mem.

Tough chat,
Loved stat.

Pict list,
Deft mist.

Top space,
Set face....

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Conscious confusion
Catered in this brain
A buffet of human duality
Left all to remain
Deft ears gather
Under a ladder
Oh so white
Till the end 
Becomes clear
We will begin again....

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Lozano's deft goal
Germany's defense stuttered-
El Tri shocks world champs






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com...

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surfaces
hand-planed and
dovetail-joined …

with deft hand
he pets his
creation

uttering
craftsmanship
ain't dead yet.



January 27, 2023
Tricube Poetry Contest
Sara Kendrick, Sponsor...

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Some act, sin surely meant, Ambition     entitlement
Some act, sincerely meant, And bit shun entitlement
Some act, unruly deft, Some tact, and duly left
One say, entire verse, some say, and tire verse...

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@honey,

Last night was fine,
But plz don’t pine,
4 I have left,
At love not deft,
But know you’re grand,
Cute #1nightstand.



March 13, 2017
Tweetable Poetry Contest
scott thirtyseven, Sponsor...

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There was once a pickpocket named Mickey
 
   Whose technique was quite deft and so tricky

      He would bilk you of cash

         And away he would dash

            Leaving you sobbing o'er yer gin rickey...

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Keeping it to yourself,
while giving it away

Only poetry is split,
and structured this way

Keeping it to yourself,
then passing the torch

A deft oxymoron,
as light is re-sourced 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)...

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Achingly
Beautiful
Courageously
Deft
Energetically
Frivolous
Gaily
Happy
Ignorantly
Joyful
Kind
Lovely
Magnanimously
Nobly 
Open
Preciously
Queenly
Rare
Splendid
Terrifically 
Unsuspected
Voraciously
Wicked
Yearningly
Zany...

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Dappled daunting dandy
 deft decentralizing defender 
deistic delphian deniar
 deliverable deflationary determinist
deny defer delude deflect
 divisive dissentious dualism
dogmatic dumbstruck duplicity
 dyspneic democratic disillusioned
Donald....

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Dangerously cunning,
dressed to kill, she plans his 
downfall, relying on 
debilitating strength.
Driven by greed she acts:
Deft hand of betrayal	 
dealt by a femme fatal. 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Contest: Pleiades - D
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 3rd
© 29th August 2016...

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Sympatric Aphrodite,  
wide photographic opportunity
We bow to our natural needs
Her glare, to all our hopes
The actresses' deft chin, glacial
A mountain of irses
Gadfly 1970s
Where blondes and brunettes
co exist
Dream on the fantasy
Brown boots, high heels
drifting in Autumns air...

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My bad habits seem to jumble
Burp and mumble
My goofy ease
At losing keys

Good luck giving me directions
My projections
Of right and left
Are not so deft

Yet I sort whites and wash pans
Recycle cans
Good habits grew
From loving you.

7/22/21

12 Lines in Rhyme contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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