Short Drabs Poems

Now ladies and gents, let's bring no offense
to the lads that wear tightly clad drabs
They liked the film Kinky Boots
And have watched The Full Monty
So now they dance naked and/or dress drag!...

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I suppose I did stretch it out fine - gossamer lines 
running from my mouth out of me in dribs n drabs

    in that sort of slow motion 

         you see before you really see it
                          
                                                                               coming.
...

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for compassion...

hate like silent venom flows
spewing forth in dribs and drabs

how will the wounds ever heal
with such vitriol tearing at the scabs

we shudder at the words of hate
and wonder will it ever cease

but hope springs forth for
we know it begins within us, now, today

with the simplest acts of human compassion
so that gentle love may banish the hate away...

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You make the minutes dribble
Down the meanderings of time
First drizzling 
Then dripping
In dribs and drabs
Then dropping 
In driblets
That drain the hours
And drown the days 
And I
With my drowsy eyes
My drifting mind
And shaking hand
Turn a deaf ear
To the hue and cry
To the whys
And the wherefores
of your fatal lure
For I have no time
To let go of you
And live my life
As you have already
eaten it up...

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ripples of water torture accepted
the wrinkle of time descending
mannahly marantic romance
torticollis dribs and drabs of syringe
honey’d seeds remain; cakes fade away
dawn will erase; placidity will forget
but the depths release their seamonsters
reflected in the honeymoon, between palms
with firework stars overhead; eternal bliss

9/25/2020
Sponsor: William Kekaula
Impact and Metaphors Poetry Contest

*mannahly - mannah turned into an adverb...

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Midnight
   and the darkened silence 
 dreams
   waking in shadows
looking for you.

Morning rises
  slow and steady in the sky
 burning
  inner passions
seeking for you.

Mid afternoon
  falls in dribs and drabs
 tearing
  in hot summer sun
waiting for you.

Mid evening shade
  cools and calms the heart
 beating
  tired of the day
wanting you still.

Midnight calls
  slip sliding to sleep
 dreaming
  pulling images and figures in
I'll be back for you....

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BITS AND PIECES

Bits and pieces they say makes the whole
A whole of what I can't help but ask
Bits and pieces of pain - despondence
Bits and pieces of lies - distrust
Bits and pieces of self - egocentricity
Whatever be your chosen assort.

So,

The bits and pieces you chose to gather
In mind do bear the responsibility of
that the bits and pieces you then do sow
To lend from the French "des choses"
Are the sort of dribs and drabs ......
You should feel no fear to harvest....

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