Short Diddly Poems

the saddest thought -
to have lived for naught...

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dodoitsu diddly-do
dizzy dancing, romancing
pecking and a chicken wing
phat feathers flapping
...

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Time for a gushy slushy mushy lim
You ladies deserve such vigor and vim
Inspirational I is
Add Cheese Whiz
A recipe for passion and diddly-doolin'...

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Every treaty they make 
makes to cheat me
to
dislocate me 
from my
territory

and on the plains
it is so plain to see
that a treaty's not
worth
diddly squat....

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Five hundred channels and nothing to watch
Remember back when, we'd watch diddly squat
Didn't really matter
If the language was a clatter
We'd watch foreign movies not knowing the plot...

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Hey diddle-diddle
  Municipalities fiddle
Crime goes unchecked
  Voters' nerves are wrecked

Twee-diddly-dum
  Congress sucks its thumb
Inflation soars still higher
  Blue-ribbon committees enquire......

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Five hundred channels and nothing to watch
Remember back when, we'd watch diddly squat
Didn't really matter
If the language was a clatter
We'd watch foreign movies not knowing the plot


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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super talented frog had magic words like diddly diddle dight
when he did incantations, they always turned out right
we were in awe that he could always make the lily pad light
Amazing in all ways, this wizardly frog, Mr. Froggish McKnight...

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super talented frog had magic words like diddly diddle dight
when he did incantations, they always turned out right
we were in awe that he could always make the lily pad light
Amazing in all ways, this wizardly frog, Mr. Froggish McKnight...

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Oh foxiesloxly gruntbuggly
grembling against langnekly 
that diddly de facto fladerits 
He held up a haggyerlly paw   
halinly the anturazh
they hoofit their lurgidus paws
schelepping and yanking violently, cursing the door




5/30/2020...

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Eerily eager evil enigma elevated eleven renaming egg land.

Meager minis liked their initial idea eggplant ready.

Beefily blatantly weird in a diddly extra wiggly way.

I was ready, reved, relieved and willing my elevated eight.

black anklet twelve will enter evil eggland...

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Diddly Squat ain’t ‘not a lot’ for it’s nothing at all
Not a few, nor one or two, and it won’t fill a hall
For diddly squat ain't half a pot
It’s like the muse I’ve got
For diddly squat is ‘out of stock’, nada and sod all



16 July 2021
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
For contest: Bitesize poem number 13...

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Elvis-worm
Eternity comes when you’re out of breath,
breathless paralytic
 your stone deaf,
when the funny stroke is due,
your body melting too,
all part of the deef n deaf,
an overheated you,
is left, the flaccid blue,
Elvis worm the building left,
Bugger, 
No diddle-dum diddly too,
Bereft,
bay-lou…
Don...

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This crazy zoo
It makes us blue

To at least hike
Up the turnpike!

Same thing to eat
Needs to be beat!

What to do is pace
Mind is stuck in "race"

And the other thing is sleep?
About enough to make me weep!

How we want to find the wild
Stop being treated like a child!

Yesterday we all broke free
Whoppy-doo and diddly-dee!...

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(giggly apologies to Bo Diddly and Buddy Holly)

I'm tellin' you how it's gonna be
You gonna play tiddlywinks with me
Tiddle forever and one day
Winks are winks and so they'll stay
Hey, hey hey Mona, Mona, oh Mona.

I'm gonna buy you a tiddlin' game
You gonna buy me the very same
Watch as we go tiddly hop
Keep on playin', never stop
Hey, hey hey Mona, Mona, oh Mona....

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"my heart's keeping a Bo Diddley beat"


looking back at
yesterday now

i've got a back 
brace like training 

bra in place 
and a lumbar 

belt round my 
waist as i 

seem 
to be 

wasting 
away 

in 
my 

old 
age 

but at the very
least i can

say i can get
out my guitar

and play
just like

yesterday
and do that 

hip 
shake 

thang...

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What if the polar caps melted
revealing long comatose beings,
aliens that have remade the world many times?

What if those ancient entities de-frosted,
came to life
while we were all milling about
in our diddly little boats?

What if they declared
that we were also aliens?

What manner of upset,
what a huge wake-up call that would be!

What if we had to invade ourselves
all over again?...

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I read your glowing comment
My work was ‘the best poem you’d ever read’!
I had a huge grin upon my face and a swelling in my head

I proudly told my hubby and then he said to me
“Jan, I’ve read that comment on loads of poem -
it means diddly-squat … can’t you see”

I’d rather have one genuine comment
Than one that is for the masses
So if this poem gets any unique praise
I will get myself some new reading glasses


09-24-17...

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dead-diddly-ed

you can't live in a state
of vigilance like that 
waiting
for it to pop up 

you'd die of stress

one of them was just strutting through
the living room
like it owned the place

i'm now sitting upstairs 

i yelped and dived out the way
the insects round here have been
losing 
their damn minds lately 

skittering around 

but i found the body of the gejigeji 
this morning 

it looks like i'll have to burn the house down now...

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