Short Domino Poems

fats domino
atop
blueberry hill



posted on June 23, 2018...

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Life's a domino
One fall affects the other
Stand and fight back....

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DOMINO EFFECT

the heart bleeds its lifeblood, unfaithful in all

4/11/2018...

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black cows walking by
field covered with snow today
walking domino



©Donna Jones...

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he lives a lie,
she believes every word he speaks,
he believes every word he says....

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Black
Tiles
Touched once
Domino 
Spreading like gossip
In a three-way conversation...

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Harlequin

Steam on a mirror
Gas in a bag
Small face
Two huge ears
Sticking out sideways
Dancing on a
Domino...

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The Sunday School teacher May Crow
Wanted children their God to know
Alas her repast
Created a blast
That caused them to puke domino...

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When does pursuing knowledge
become undone
Letting intuition
take over the day

Why does raw intelligence
die zero sum
Factually blinded
—last domino played 

(The New Room: July, 2023)...

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"I hear you knockin'
But you can't come in
I hear you knockin'
Go back where you've been"
Fats Domino

not absence or noise 
can make the heart grow fonder 
when doors have been closed

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a master plan without a plot
feelings displayed, quickly dropped
not connected like domino dots
forming a thick and grievous clot
I said I do but you cannot
as inside it spoils and rots
it was always a long shot...

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Point to ponder

Can we not let go
hope for an echo?
Why not love outpour,
whilst keeping no score?

Domino effect,
an ego defect,
veiling light of soul,
as we play life’s role.

06-July-2022...

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‘ The Domino Effect ’

There Was A Young Woman, Named Domino
Who Talked … about Anyone and So and So
    Well… She was quite Shocked to Find
             All Her Victims in a Line
Ready to Fall on Her… Just Like - G e r o n i m o !...

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Cappuccino, dopamine kick
If made right, our face bright
Coffee beans many, we may pick
To our palate’s delight

Aroma that uplifts
Within our being drifts
Let’s partake of life’s gifts

Joy domino
Cappuccino

11-January-2022
Quietus ...

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To change one word and rock the world
   a new verse dancing free

Its weight unmeasured, breadth untold
  whose key unlocks the dream

The bottle open, the genie gone
  last domino to fall

One word pulled out or inserted in
 —new meaning to enthrall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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To change one word and rock the world,
   a verse now dancing free

Its weight unmeasured, breadth untold,
  whose key unlocks the dream

The bottle open, the genie gone,
  last domino to fall

One word pulled out, or inserted in
  —new meaning to enthrall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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Faith is the tethered ball on the play park
Tiny, but effective 
Serving its ultimate purpose day in and day out 
Faith is the connective tissue 
The bond that controls the domino effect 
A gamble with the possibility of winning big 
The ball bounces uncontrollably,
But has never met the likes of the bottom 
Tiny but effective...

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I cheated my approach to oblivion.
Making threats when the boat is breaking.
The years ahead of us feel like a riddle.
The path is hazy, and the result is unclear.
We shall all suffer the consequences.
For the fate of one is the fate of all.
A chain of failures is like a domino effect.

Written: March 11, 2023...

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A while in the past looking forward to me
Became an idea, not a plan.
What happens as I write this poem,
Is yesterday, last year, or what made up this "now."

If I looked forward, I would be with my child,
Get out of the house safe, safe from disease.
But the future fell like a domino game,
I long for those Christmas lights with a capital H

Hope...

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Limerick : Once a brave laddie at Lake Loch Ness

    for one who calls no one "Monster"
             when the truth may not be known:
           Domino X

Once a brave laddie at Lake Loch Ness
Kept vigil to catch Monster on lens
He shut eye just for once
Monster jumped in one bounce
Took pic and signed it: Loch Ness Goddess !

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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First, an uneasy silence,
         then a definite maybe;
I hope it's just tipping
         the first domino for me;

perhaps I misunderstand,
         so I won't miscalculate;
she might not give her hand,
         but then it might be too late;

feeling ridiculous and silly,
         I fight off this stupid anxiety,
but I'm a mismatch against
        old-fashioned sentimentality!...

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mother earth crawls
with parasites
sucking her dry
'they don't know any better'
last straw too much get out- 
but it's cold- don't forget
your sweater. about time,
we're getting old (our wings
withered, we wept our souls
out, into the sky) too
late to learn how to fly
how to die with style- just
a little while, we'll stand &
form a single file, sudden
flicked domino effect, one
two three go-...

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In this decade: pizza, soda, 
Colonel Sanders, 
burgers only fifteen cents;
"Tutti Frutti," 
sock hops, "mooning," 
Rock and Roll (monumental consequence);

Rosa's bus ride, 
suburbs, fluoride,
escalating sales, 
vaccine for polio;
Mickey Mouse Club, 
Haley, Hitchcock, 
Davy Crockett, 
drive-ins,
 Fats Domino;

Causeless Rebel crashing car, 
bouffant hairdos,
 "har dee har har;"
Elvis on TV

 and ME....

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The domino of fate

strikes down angels…

Their wings are heavy,

unfolded in the wind.

And here we are, tearing flowers to crumbs,

and miss out on pieces,

in the fall of the angels.

Oh, Lucifer!

Oh, people!

We have smashed our hearts against the darkness!

We have been blinded by perdition!

We have forgotten the essence

of life…

We are domino pieces…

We fall to dismantle the atomic bomb

of time....

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Chloe


Chloe's are the smallest hands
smaller than the hands e.e. cummings gave the rain
Melting the snow of my white glove
together we look out over the white domino tombstones
Chloe's are the brownest eyes
Wet and sad like a spaniel dogs
Tracing the shiny brass buttons on my uniform coat

Chloe is to young to understand why i clench her hand tighter
each time the guns fire for her Daddy

To young to hate me for not saving him....

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