Short Doff Poems

when a tree desires
to doff its withered dress,
~it whispers to breeze...

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Everything today's a 'one-off'
                                    I doff my cap ~ my wig comes off...

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Footling Around

Shoes off
Clothes doff

Feet reek
Spray seek

Romance
Last chance...

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Natalia Goncharova well born you see
linked indeed to Pushkin family tree
Collaborated with Lasiono
progressive Cubism she cap did doff...

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At five fifty pounds he was fat
he looked silly just wearing a hat
Mrs. Clause was turned off
when his clothes he would doff
so no kids would inherit that hat...

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Such a dreamless sleeper was Dan Doff
Snoring each night, he slept like a log
Suddenly, it occurred to him
Just once, he needed to dream
But poor Dan knew not what to dream of....

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acorns doff their caps
and bow to winter's approach ~
spring will see them rise


09.11.20


Any New Nature Inspired Haiku Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin

syllable count by ear...

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Everence, most evenness scenes ever.
The cremated remains last.
Can I return it for a difference?

Zealous, jealous, and conscientious,
emanated outward, giggles and grins.
Can I re-petite tits?...

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Repulsed this heat's passion
Fanned a face, from off.
In diving, less demure
When half one's clothes doff!

Snubbed, scorned this archetype
Of burning kisses
From under leafed bough. Whilst
His, never misses!...

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A doff of the cap
  a tip of the hat
Nowadays 
  we rarely see that

It’s not that 
  men walk about
unhatted, uncapped

Rather, removing the cap
  reveals quite a gap



   gw       rhyme      June 09, 2022...

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Rough as in ruff,
Spelling can be tough
Though as in fro,
Just so you know
Bough as in how,
Seldom seen now
Cough as in doff,
Just laugh it off
Lough as in lock,
Spelling can rock
Enough!
Enough!
Enough!

written May 21, 2022...

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I will doff my ermine gown
and take off my kingly crown.
The day declines, the course is run,
on  fleece of gold reclines the sun.

I'll not  retouche the Mona Lisa
or straighten up the Tower of Pisa.
Further work in that connection
I leave to those who seek perfection....

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Evening bells chime in the steeple
  Merry villagers doff their workday masks
Like schoolchildren, not yet grown-up people
  Untethered from their joyless tasks  


One's a druggist; another a clerk
  All count the minutes 'til five 
Matters not where they work
  The hour of freedom's arrived...

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Sloppy Santa spent his Christmas jolly 
Until in folly he sat on holly
Yet Old Saint Nick laughed like a loon.
Bright eyes twinkling, his cap did doff
Watching a rich eggnog run off
With his dear sweet hot cross bun, soon
To a damp honeymoon spittoon.
Santa saw it, please do not scoff.

12/22/2020...

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Thanks Banks,
For being there,
When I’ve got an hour to spare,
To stay on hold without a care,
Thanks Banks!

Thanks Banks,
I’d like to know,
Why you’d let my new card go,
To a place I moved from years ago,
Thanks Banks!

Thanks Banks,
You cut me off,
Your service skills just make me scoff,
Forgive me if my cap won’t doff,
Thanks Banks!...

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Pulling chairs and holding doors
are gestures of respect
I cling to reverentially,
emotion, that beggars intellect.
 
In times long gone I'd doff my hat
and dress in spats and bow-tie
to woo a damsel with dispatch,
a wink, a nod, to catch her eye.
 
Nowadays, old-fashioned graces
often meet with glares askance,
with worried and suspicious faces
I don't get a second glance!...

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Pulling chairs and holding doors 
are gestures of respect 
I cling to reverentially, 
actions that o'ershadow intellect. 

In times long gone I'd doff my hat 
and dress in spats and bow-tie 
to woo a damsel with dispatch, 
a wink, a nod, to catch her eye. 

Nowadays, old-fashioned graces 
often meet with glares askance, 
with worried and suspicious faces 
I don't get a second glance....

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Some people call me Prof
But with laughter round it off,
Some garnish it with cough;
Their loyal but amused hats doff;
Better than to at me scoff…

The most shy cease to be coy,
The heart cruel games would buoy
Shyness in any case some ploy
By he who could with another toy:
By some Ray about to cajole a Roy;
My Prof Nickname, a delicious noise
By a false eulogizing voice
That soon connects a sneeze
Men flee from with “Gees?”...

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Our moveable house painted castle and rose,not a life we would have chose.Eighteen fifties harsh and mean,coal cargo so nothing stays clean.Doff your cap,touch your forelock every two mile at the gatekeeper's lock.
Clothes dry on a washing line strung,home for a time whilst the toddlers were young.As their number increased and grew ,places to sleep all too few.Family life impossibly hard so back we went to a tied cottage in Anchorage yard....

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Whoever came up with the bagel
  was a right-smart clever fellow
His brainstorm surely ranks up there
  with taste treats like pudding and jello

For I'd never put toppings on pudding
  like lox, tomatoes or cream cheese
And who would think of serving jello
  with an assortment of delicacies

So, a doff of the cap and three cheers
  for that purely anonymous soul
the centerpiece of whose discovery
  was quite an ace in the hole...

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After last night's thunderstorm
A heavy fog remains
Drip-drops from oak leaves a constant
Music entertains

Visibility maybe 300 
Yards, birds slowly awake
A gradual orchestra sound
Each his area staked

Waterdroplets upon the moss
Slowly slips, then slides off
At the speed of eons quietly
Slides, not a fast doff

Sunday morning enjoyment free
A few minutes with God
Let not Satan rob the spirit
Of its fill as through life plod  ...

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