Short Dumbstruck Poems

Her repartee ~ caught him dumbstruck!


Cliche: Cat got your tongue?
Sponsor: Silent One
Monoku 5 contest...

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Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical 
By waking to find I’m without either testicle

[extract from Dumstruck Is Me for Your Funniest Couplet contest]

Sponsor: L Milton Hankins...

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Cast in to the den of lions.
amidst all hungry lions;
You pray comfortably, “Father”?
I could be dumbstruck in fear! 
Intellect could find no answer.
one needs to be a child, I swear.
never go by sight, a myth!
always go by faith, the truth....

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Dappled daunting dandy
 deft decentralizing defender 
deistic delphian deniar
 deliverable deflationary determinist
deny defer delude deflect
 divisive dissentious dualism
dogmatic dumbstruck duplicity
 dyspneic democratic disillusioned
Donald....

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Disguise I find myself ,
Deceit his vanity,
Diabolism doesn't work,
Devil can't cite scriptures ?
Distress is camouflaged,
Doing, only delight,
Dumbstruck why should I be ?






Written on 29/4/14 
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma 
Contest name- let's Pleiades 
Sponsor- Nette Onclaud...

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THE NIGHT HAS FALLEN
UPON ME
DREARY AND SULLEN
DARK AS ALASKAN WINTER
I AM LEFT
DUMBSTRUCK
EMPTY AS THE MIDNIGHT AIR
THE WORLD
HAS LOST ALL MEANING
THERE IS A SUDDEN MADNESS
DEVOURING ME
I CANNOT GATHER THE WORDS
I AM CEASING TO BE
AFTER LOSING YOU
WHAT'S LEFT?

AUGUST 2000...

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Words,  dumbstruck
Hushed, stuck
Seething, soundless
Tongue tied, speechless
Still, in a stupefied daze
Lashed by roaring waves
Of silence, pin drop
Strummed a mute song
With echoes across
The  entire cosmos

Date Sept14 2016
Name of contest 
Contest no201
any theme any form
Max 10 lines...

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blackbirds sqwark and cluck
hungry magpies try their luck-
fledglings hide,dumbstruck

leather sounds on bat
spectators,politely clap-
outfielders,idly chat

children,outdoors stay
on imagination's freeway-
hours in dreamland,play

pigeons coo like doves
the mistlethrush sings above-
hello,my lady-love...

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An eagle was amorous one day
wanted a little bit you might say,
a hen he could not find
a duck will do he whined 
I’m a Drake said duck but that’s okay,

realised he had made a mistake
by trying to make love to a drake
thinking it was a duck
our eagle was dumbstruck 
his prey was suffering from backache.


7/16/2018...

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DUMBSTRUCK

                All on a sudden loud thunderbolt struck
                Our ears! That sound causes phobia
                 on my dearest wife Emilia 
                Promptly she put ear plugs.
                I rushed to give her hugs.
              But road roller running leaving us dumbstruck.


 08/15/21...

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"Lovestruck" 

Wonderstruck on this cheerful midnight, 
I overheard the stars by luck. 

Starstruck, I pluck the aroma,
An art of white spirituality. 
Throw this bouquet off the riverbed, 

Refuge this wonderstruck heart,
Sheath ourselves, shuck the peart. 

Dumbstruck by this philosophy,
I fall dumbstruck back to sleep....

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Spring: Dumbstruck landscapes swept away by new green shoots ~
with much to say


Summer: Life-giving warmth that’s heaven made ~
Blondes live longer in the shade


Autumn: Vibrant landscapes I’d like more ~
alas they stand at winter’s door


Winter: So glad when it’s gone, yet snow brings us smiles ~
with woolly hats on...

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Billy Dean was a famous man
A country singer – I was a fan
It happened that I met him
He was all handsome and trim

When he embraced my waist
All fear of him was slowly erased
But when he smiled down at me
Dumbstruck, I would quickly flee




Dumbstruck Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles messina
August 10, 2021
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I was reeled in 
Not knowing if I was 
Swimming...or broken 
I swallowed your line 
Starving for what you fed me 
Dumbstruck and wounded 
There was no fight, 
No chance that I would not 
Succumb to your lures 
Maybe here was my chance 
To witness saviour 
But now I see 
You have chosen 
To fillet and release 
My heart. 

And there's plenty more fish in the sea. 
For those like you. 

© 2013 
Ruby Honeytip...

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In Japan, friends may send you good luck
Via an image of what I’d term muck
A picture of brown poo
Like you’d flush down the loo
Such emoji’s have left me dumbstruck

https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24687/1/what-does-the-stinky-poop-emoji-really-mean

The Japanese word for poo, “unko” contains “un“, which sounds exactly like the word for good luck, 

10/25/21...

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One day when a brave dashing young drake,
    Landed upon a coastal salt lake.
    He saw a pretty young duck,
    But, he was way out of luck.
    For the gorgeous young duck was a fake.

    Far too late, he found out his mistake,
    As he started to shiver and shake.
    When the wildfowler's gun stuck,
    That left the drake quite dumbstruck.
    He fell prey to a giant sea snake.

    8 / 3 / 2019....

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Listen to poem:

Telling Time at Midnight
David J Walker

reclaiming night bright elevations
rearranging parked stars 
in distant constellations 

i am dumbstruck	
		gazing up

at the answers to questions 
			we have yet to ask

the clock tower pinnacle 
points to the heavens 

Striking each chime			
on time

and lingers at midnight
hidden from
 the morning sun 
calling
revolving
		dissolving 
before the dawn...

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When they gave the diagnosis, I was a little dumbstruck.

I thought I was fine, but I had really run out of luck. 

They took me in, they gave me clothes. 

They gave me a slumber, but then forced me to rose. 

In panic, in love, and all in between. 

Stricken, I was, in the head as I tried to flee the scene. 

They caught me to my horror, lost and in shock. 

I’d rather be running through the streets without socks!...

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Sadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold... 

The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck, thunderstorms cloud... 

Love is an unloved harken,
The heart in me, a shrunken token... 

Fey reliquary in the sand,
Buffing the defoliated leaves off my land,
She lay her tears on my heartland... 

Miseries of the silenced one...
Tortured hell gone......

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Holy Days, Christmas, worship and pray;
Hallowed! our Lord and Savior’s birthday.

Hope's celebration leaves me dumbstruck;
Hectic plans take charge, running amok.
Hurry, scurry, flurry; tempers flare;
Hate these vibrations from hell's fanfare.
Hanukkah too can leave folks obsessed;
Hearts forgetting how much God has blessed.

Holiday delight, joys can increase
Harbored in love, in grace, in peace.


December 19, 2020...

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Oh, the pain of getting a thumb struck
Is not overshadowed by feeling dumbstruck
When a car door is slammed on a finger
There is no logical reason to linger
Taking a pain pill as soon as possible
In this case is perfectly permissible
Soaking in ice is always helpful, too
But I don’t know what else to do!


written August 12, 2021
especially for "Dumbstruck" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Charles Messina...

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My circular corner garden
Is a somewhat crowded scene.
With hostas all around the edge
And day lilies in between.

But within the flowery circle
The grass is growing tall.
I’ve tried, but there’s no way
I can weed it out at all.

One day while on my porch 
I glanced out at the flowers
And noticed feathery maidens
All dancing in the bowers

Dumbstruck, it just came to me!
Those uninvited lasses
Aren’t ugly weeds at all.
They’re ornamental grasses!...

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I mowed my lawn in my red Jimmy Choos
Now there’s dog poop on my new shoes
My lazy neighbor's got an untrained pup
It poops on MY lawn - they don’t clean it up!


The lawn’s dotted with piles of dog muck
I’m gobsmacked in fact I’m dumbstruck
So I’ve ordered them a pooper scooper
I hope they’ll use it on their pesky pooper

Fiction poem - but dog mess is a pet hate of mine!

Dumbstruck Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Charles Messina

08/14/21...

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