Short Dicey Poems

It’s true!  I heard it myself! 
No academic learning tomorrow! 
The roads are too icy, 
and travel is dicey
try to contain all your sorrow....

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it's true tears come from onions ~
things can get a bit dicey
when you're trying to chop one,
slice the fingertip nicely
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Heard the word
Flags have unfurled
My double posts
Gone round the world
Have patience friends
For wayward signals
They are as dicey
As worm wiggles...

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The train was stuck;
The tracks were icy.
Weather cold;
Conditions dicey.

Stops and starts
Made travel slow.
Patience was
The way to go.

Home at last,
Relieved but spent
And wond'ring where
The hours went....

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Tell me friends, wot ya tink the word “antsy” means
Does it mean like somebody but with much bigger jeans
Does it refer to someone edgy
Who gets constantly all sweaty
When things get dicey do they throw tantrums and scream


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Be careful of an icy snow squall
It’s icy when Jack Frost comes to call
If it’s freezing and icy
Icy paths can be dicey
When icy, just beware you don’t fall

Same Word Winter Limerick Poetry Contest

Sponsor Charles Messina

1/5/19...

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yellow mustard, thick, spicy
making tongue quicken
a great amount is dicey
with the grill lid closed
lips like roses posed
larruping
good!


28 June 2022
Whats Cooking on the Grill this Summer Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by M. L. Kiser...

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Sugar brown, paprika dark,
salt, coarse, garlic spark.
Cayenne’s portion in our club?
Spicy heat is best,
dicey for our guest.
Aye, there’s the
rub!

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For the Whats Cooking on the Grill This Summer? Poetry Contest
Sponsored by M. L. Kiser
Written on 06/03/2022...

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              Two Silly Seals Limeridk
                       8/26/2023



Two silly seals were whooping it up.
Scarfing down,booze,cold ales and stuff.
Things got so dicey,
She,in the sea, icey.
His tears fall for her on moonlit nights.
He wants her back,to make things so right!



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All walnuts have shells
  Some potatoes have eyes
Apples have skins
  That's no surprise

A pea's in a pod
  Corn's in a husk
Store veggies too long
  They'll smell like old musk

Fish have scales
  Chickens have wings
If eggs had three feet
  Would you like them to eat

I find dishes spicy
  Make me feel dicey
My palate says food
  Tastes much better nude...

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I announce a decree,
overactive bladder, pee frequently.
I must haste to and fro,
because I just really have to go.
Gangway, vacate the loo,
or I'm going to splash all over you!

I wear industrial size diapers that
are pricey,
I'm a human waterfall, how dicey.
Aging isn't easy,
I know this poem is cheesy,
but I still can do a little dance,
as I've nicknamed myself, "Pissy-Pants!"...

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Strolling on the broke glass as a brace
With blood oozing from his dainty feet.
A heavenly soul sighs a sickly grin in glut.
Bestowals are ablaze with affection and trust.
They involve testing to guarantee healing.
The tearful eyes start eagerly to shimmer.
The street of life is paved with mystery.
Next, the breeze is incredibly dicey.

Written: April 1st, 2022...

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If I tell you that I love you,
Will you say you love me back?
If, instead, my words are hurtful,
Will you go on the attack?
Truth and love, a dicey combo:
To care, be honest, balance seeks.
But joy can be in ears that hear
When not found in a mouth that speaks.
So, bridle tongue, use gentle words
And find the joy in what is heard.

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H/T to Milton Hankins for his good reminder on a proper posture on both ends of a conversation in “Convince Me.”...

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she wrote using only her left 
I learned to write using my right 
the dark took her heart to the night 
I lived in sun and bright of light 

she would say yes to caviar 
to me it just sounded bizarre 
she ate things that were too spicy 
to me it sounded too dicey 

she loved taking to the blue sky 
I hated going high and fly 
I was always just her one friend 
never a word about boyfriend 

true love thwarts logic, so in life 
in time, she became my dear wife...

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Pieces of a shattered heart surround you
Your feet dance upon a broken soul
That night you said adieu
You had met your goal
Your strong, sensitive gaze
A smile that could set the world afire
It puts your victims in a thick haze
They don’t know their situation is dire
But something changes in a flash
That gaze turns cold, icy
You can only leave a long gash
Which was once pleasant has turned dicey
Yet, you claim another prize with glee
Why, oh why, did you have to pick me?...

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