Short Droves Poems

Emerging in droves
Mercilessly attacking
Vampire with wings...

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Countless
gaunt faces
bewildered and pathetic
staring while passing in
droves...

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her need to conform us was overkill
we could not be persuaded
left her presence in droves...

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mozzie squadron fleets
roaring overhead in droves
dive to ear in waves
scream whining hisses so loud
that my swipes beats my brains out...

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I.T.s
replacing
old fashioned stuff
computer science
children exposed in droves
ahead of parents
private language
A new wave
I.T.'s...

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British found oodles of Vitamin C
In a place unknown by you and me.
Rose hip jam
That’s right ma’am.
During World War Two kept children healthy....

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"Queen Bee,” nurtured by the throng,
The drones in droves bring nectar.
Sweet honey in the nest, shared.
Each generation.

© May 22, 2011	
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen...

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The inbound faeries were landing too fast.
They came in droves from first to last.
They landed on Dexter and Hobble and Go.
Our outbound faeries who were way too slow....

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i closed my eyes and remembered christmases past
they flooded back in droves
the warmth, the music and the laughter



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on November 5, 2022...

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While Watching Golden Globes

Probably are watching the Golden Globes;
Long dangling earrings hanging from lobes;
No hims and haws;
Only loud applause;
Delightful entertainers were there in droves.

Jim Horn...

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The drone of birds in war offensive
hear the drone of war
pity the birds, amassing
way out there someplace,
they'll be back in droves to drone
the piteous drum of war...

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Gifts of a long life,
Graces an abandoned beach,
Emptied shells and vanished droves,

Gifts I made myself,
Faces, an album that stretch,
Empty shelves and vessel dreams.


Date: 08/28/2019

www.howmnaysyllables.com
577, 577....

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amazing loving feelings
antidote to pain
arriving in droves
confusing his grief state
his breathing shifts directions
he begins to feel calm

she is at a loss
he has turned to her
words are inadequate
he is beyond repair; his grief acute
she holds on to him with tight arms
not realizing she is healing him with every inch of silence...

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Hot City Days

Hot city days
summer's ablaze
in bricks of concrete
and flip flop feet.

Just keep cool
in a hydrant pool.
The block’s a bash
if kids can splash.

Great water fun
in scorching sun
can bring a smile
to any child.

Grown-ups look on
as though they long
to drench in droves
right in their clothes.

8/28/17...

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So it had come to this
Death, at a bullets hiss

Hot shrapnel from o'er head
More brave boys joined the dead.

Eager, so full of pride
On the barbed wire they died

In their droves young men fell
Damn the cause... war is hell.







Entry for
Alexandrine - Modified Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart
11/3/2020. Placed =1st....

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Used to touch my toes
Kick my legs in the air
Do exercises in droves
Like I did not care

Now I’m full of donuts
Potato chips and blue cheese.
My ankles are all puffy
I can no longer see my knees

Have not been swimming since ’98.
Weigh now more than a boxer’s weight.
 I waddle to my well-deserved fate
Have no one else to lambast or hate....

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peeling layers off
realizing something is left
the feeling so right

so lovely she is
time and life made me forget
slowdown so needed

once wanted to leave
lying to myself in droves
my heart was my guide

reunion kiss welcomed
hand strokes so medicinal
fingers expose truth

Love's Welcome Mat Heals
Vibe Easier When We Try
God's Foresight Teaching...

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"I am too busy today", said she.
No time to email, she stated.
With great drama, sorrowfully.

Planting petunias, washing clothes.
Good Lord~ I have heard excuses like this 
By the droves.

The years go swiftly by, we grow older.
Excuses like these, as fascinating as raw 
Perunian Pork shoulder!

            

                 May 27, 2020
                    4pm PST

                   Poem # 1301...

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Black birds in the sky
Tumbling in droves to the ground
Omen for last year

The grass grows greener
Where clouds hide sunlight in rain
The coming of war

I can write the day
However I spell the sun
Freedom is but words

Some search for old links
In new metaphors, poems
Like women change too

Here the radical
Is a root deeply breasted
On the milk of soil

Black birds fall again
From blue eyes of wonderment
The pogram threatened...

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Sponge Bob Square Pants must have originated with Boterismo
I can only imagine the responses by the socialized.
They would not have understood the blockish faces
Or the stocky blocky bodies drawn by Angulo

People with art in their souls readily understood it
Flocking to his shows in droves - duplicating and imitating
His art is not for everybody, but it is for those with soul.
Which is why it is recognized all over the world....

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Spring is back.
For hark!
The Eastern Bluebirds have returned,
Flying in droves from tree to tree,
Singing to their hearts’ delight.
No wonder they symbolise
The joy and happiness
Of gardens with fragrance love.

Yet I also admire The Swainson Thrush,
Aspiring grandeur with its fluting song.
A sure sign that Spring is back,
A choir of music mixed with skylarks,
Achieving a harmonious symphony,
A feeling that adds to the joy of bells.
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   Almost Halloween
   The candy is back
   Crinkling paper
   Lots in a sack
   Intended for children
   Who come by in droves
   The candy must stay
   But it tweaks my nose
   

   Every year we go through this conundrum
   What should I do
   What will I eat
   The thought of candy
   Tugging my tongue
   Melting chocolate 
   Maybe just one

   Then five pieces later
   Stomachs a roar
   Still looking forward to just one more...

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Dee was skimpy with her adjectives once again.
Whereas her twin Sue Lee was generous with them.
Neither of them had books that sold in droves or well.
Which twin's words do I like better? That is hard to tell.

Your words are insufficient, incomplete, meager Sue Lee said.
Dee said Sue Lee’s overuse of adjectives hurt her writers head.
I need my adjectives – lithe, lively, dainty, delicate and polite.
The twins disagreed, but both continued to plot and write....

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Witchy, with a big fat wart
so horrid not a man would court.

She could have shed it with a spell,
so handsome men would ring her bell.

But Witchy's not the sharpest tool.
In conjuring, she was the fool.

A spell to be craved and adored.
She giggled as her magic poured.

Now she sits upon a log.
Just a big old slimy frog.

Toads adore her big fat wart.
Droves of them hop by to court.

Handsome men, her legs do crave;
fried in a pan or microwaved!...

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10,000 vacant dwellings
In Manhattan are for rent
Which even a vaccine would prove
Too late to quite prevent.

For people left in droves, their reasons
Obvious and sad – 
No jobs or money to sustain
The lifestyle that they had.

The city, minus all the buzz,
Is lacking in appeal
So all those bare apartments
Don’t seem like the greatest deal.

If even I, a city gal,
With New York blood and mind,
Is questioning the urban life,
Will any lease be signed?...

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