Short Dizzily Poems

Sad ness and glad ness
Filling my eyes
Good ness and bad ness
Mixed up in lies
Sweet ness and sour ness
Family ties
Feelings uncertain to  lean on at all
Dizzily certainly ready to fall
Who can one ask if it’s
Worth it at all...

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The world rotates on its axis -- busily, dizzily spinning
  We humans are busily, dizzily spinning on our axes

Our planet's motion is purposeful, a wonder of Creation
  But what of our motion?  Where are we -- we wonders -- headed?...

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Diva devils drinking red devil drinks dizzily drizzle their drinks down the sink.
But divas that drink, cool drinks from the sink, never will drizzle or dribble their drink.


Tongue twister inspired by Deborah’s tongue twister contest.

© Dane Smith-Johnsen
March 2, 2010...

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I'll just step
very softly,
tip toe,
on this blank page.
My inner critic?
fast asleep!
Perhaps
I'll tap dance,
lightly,
while he snores.
For freedom
has a jazz band beat
...soon twirling dizzily...
Shhh!
The prison guard stirs.

9/27/2019

Yalto Poems Only Contest
Emile Pinet, Sponsor


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Perilously dangling, 
One toe over the edge
Dizzily drawn to hover at the brink
Eyes closed and arms stretched out 
Into thin air
I know that I am going to fall, yet I resist
Trappings of stability wrap tendrils around my waist
But they are frail and will not hold…
Leaning forward, against good sense, but unable to reason
I fall....

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A cool damp spring day
Jonquils shivered
Dandelions danced dizzily
Swaying slowly in a chill wind
Sensually strutting their stuff
Unashamedly celebrating their weedness
Bowing to the jeering crowd
The glow of their sunshine faces
Savoring freedom
While dreaming of a flower vase

I gave her a dandelion
                                 ... It wept

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Drummers are no paradigm you know
Sometimes changing 4 to 2 time

like poet's words, whether free or 
rhyme, can make writing a crafty
crime -- 

drummer's beats
dancer's feets (poet license)
guitar licks
needle holes and pricks,

Take 5 with threads sewn in the
cabaret

in the heat of the moment, coin tossed,
flip-side of a record, hearts can easily, wrongly~
dizzily be played -- 
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autumn's champagne light
                              dizzily dreamy mauve clouds 
                                     geese heading warm south


                                      

                                       August 12, 2022
                            Syllables checked by HMS.com
                     "Nature-themed Haiku" Poetry Contest
                                  Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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“What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.”    Oskar Schlinder

LOST IN A SEA OF WAR

daringly intrepid,
dazzlingly, dizzily
protecting the poor,
the unarmed, the kids,
those lost in a sea
of war — Schindler
and his musical score,
outscoring the hate
that seemingly won’t abate
but for God steps into
the shoes of man

Kim Rodrigues © 2019...

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Time circles endlessly
she leans on the hello-goodbye sun
and plays see-saw with 
the silly peek-a-boo moonman.

Wind, the wandering traveler, 
whips across our time sphere whistling
sometimes he gains strength, but
he always spirals and dizzily dies out.

Our mountainous earth heaves,
grumbles, rumbles, and crumbles
and spilling rivers pay tribute to
her majesty Ocean, ever undulating.

Man never sees the curve beyond the horizon
And for us mortals 
time marches on....

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