Short Drumsticks Poems

The pot dancing,

When,

Cooking drumsticks!...

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The freedom has difficult way,
The drumsticks are playing cello,
Totalerance searches for prey
under your blanket, fellow....

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thin skin and taut thought

                                            cowering

                                  drumsticks everywhere...

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Pass me along 
a pair of drumsticks 
so I can create 
vibrating calypso melodies 
on the steel drums 
found within the bones of my collar...

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Drums 
Beaten by ladies fingers 
Sticks now, to do dong,dong

Drumsticks adding 
Ladies fingers 
Cooked into dishes 
Feeling tasty tongues...

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Stuffed with well cooked food
Turkey drumsticks do extrude
Undercooked statements are rude
Family members feud
Football sets the mood
Expanding bellies cunclude
Digestion sounds are crude...

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A shinning stone has left us 
skipping gaily toward heaven
tapping on Saint Peter's door 
with a pair of pearly drumsticks
leaving rift and ripple in our hearts
a million doors are painted black.
Rest in Peace-sweet drummer man~...

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My heart's sonata races screaming to a rhythm.
Fingers like drumsticks.
Lips frozen like a an ice-skating rink at Christmas. 
Voice howling like deep bass.
Eyes black and white piano notes.
My body, the band, is an empty auditorium after the stage blew down in a storm....

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Mum said the rooster was my christmas cock;
Serving me just the wing was then a shock.
Insisting on the drumsticks she called my bluff;
Beat me and said drumsticks were daddy's stuff.

Date: 25/11/15.
Name: Kayode.
For the contest: A Christmas Memory.
Sponsor: Broken Wings....

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I ate the rest of the ice cream drumsticks
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist
So cold, it melted in my mouth

I played on your computer today
I know you told me not too,
But it was so much fun, sorry

I broke your iPod yesterday
I dropped it into a bucket of water
I feel really bad, 
But I got a new high score on doodle jump...

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If Minestrone soup
Was a rock group...

The Beefy base
Would take the lead guitars place.

The Croutons crunch
Would be the drums - munch!

The Carrot bits,
The drumsticks.

The Onion's tang,
The cymbal's clang.

The Tomato infusion,
The keyboards inclusion...

Soup - Rock. Bread - Roll.
Minestrone for a musical soul....

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All
the 
world’s snakes
celebrate
the discovery,
Trimeresurus Salazar!

See 
the 
planet’s 
snakes sliding 
from hiding places
in our cars, gas stations, and stores. 

Snakes 
are 
shedding
disguises 
as drumsticks, long hair,
guitar necks, and microphone stands.

All 
the 
earth’s snakes 
boldly crawl,
eager to be seen
because they want to speak to us....

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Only turkey feeds Thanksgiving Day
the way a stuffing fills.
With drumsticks poking through it's ribs
like every hunger kills.

All basted through a buttered skin
you've sealed inside for taste.
Now sitting plump within it's juice
as flavor runs to waste.

A succulence of tight meat bird
enthusiasm boasts.
As spirits rise Thanksgiving Day
when this bird slowly roasts....

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BROWNED BEAUTIFUL BRONZE BROWN NATURAL WOMAN-

Soften tone medi
-um brown ever so her eyes 
Smiled all natural 
Skin fresh breast symmetric like-
-N grapefruits moisten lips speaks
~
 Softly tender breathe
 Arms like rubber bands chisel 
Stealth ears sweet legs as
 Turkey drumsticks firm moving
Melatonin golden brown
 


12/7/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Ekphrasis

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COPLA CINCUENTA Y CINCO: This Bad Guy World

Centre-half’s the heart of defence
Danger comes from the Right and Left:
Ball politics

When heart’s corrupt fickle sans sense
Enemy dribbles through with zest:
Goal posts drumsticks

The second line’s the general
Prince and people rally round him:
Alert spearhead

Goal keeper pulls skin over all
Defence cataracts make him victim:
Balls bounce dead ahead

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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In the magic of that Christmas night,
His entire heart lived in his music;
A poor boy, whose drum could delight,
Gave his all by using his drumsticks!

His love so great, he needed to give-
As great love is impossible to hide;
Like passive buds burst forth to live,
Their colors admired the world wide!

The spirit of Noel was in your drum,
As bluebird's song plays endlessly!
Yearly your anthem we fervently hum,
For at times we see ourselves in thee!...

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Remember us?
We were not invited to your plenty.
Remember us?
Our Bounty was far less than empty.
Remember us?
We tilled, we toiled, we too wiped our brows.
Remember us?
We sang, we joyed, we too danced our bows.

Have you forgotten us?
With what's left of our dollar thirty six.
Have you forgotten us?
A can of beans and toast for drumsticks.
Have your forgotten us?
Lifting higher than everyone does.
Have you forsaken us?
To burrow through time as Cicadas....

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