Short Dunking Poems

I tried dunking a basketball but it wouldn’t fit in my coffee cup

12/9/2015...

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late Winter sunset
sun’s dunking into the tide ~
ebony waves soothe...

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dunking one toe
into the lake
before jumping in



published in my photobook A TOUR OF ASHBY LAKE, 2020

posted on September 6, 2019...

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Butter melting atop flames
Ready for dunking
Sweet meat from grilled king crab legs
Open the spiked case
Remove flavor bombs
Of sweetness
My!...

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There was this old lady, drinking soup
She was also knitting, loop by loop
She ran out of yarn
Screamed and said- "Oh Darn!"
Started dunking needles in ball hoop!...

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chai tea in red cup
dunking bag like chapel bell
down and up to lips —
palms commune around the mug
chains of cold release their hold

2/28/2020...

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The Rideau Canal is not recommended
For dunking, it may be less than intended
Your body will reek
It'll reek for a week
Doggie and you will stink to high Heaven...

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Most love it with cookies
 Many like it with their
 Morning coffee, and it 
 Makes cookie dunking fun
 Mythology states that
 Milk from the wife of Zeus
 Made our own Milky Way!

 4/19/17
 Syllables counted with:  howmanysyllables.com...

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When fat people go skinny dipping it's called chunky dunking
Very appropriate I'd say, but kinda nasty such dubbing
Can't all be a skinny-ma-links
At least your body doesn't stink
Fat people don't smell too but I'll let you do the judging...

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Orange sky, tropical balmy night
Sun sneaks down into the ocean
Taking a much-needed dip
Sliding in first with her feet

Unsatisfied, she eases herself down to her waist
The cool cold water feels delectable.
She slides down to her neck
Finally dunking her head, gracefully disappearing...

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Without Malice, the blonde wee waif, with her banded hair and blue-white dress,
Shrinking alongside an insane milliner slurping tea, and dunking biscuits hard.
Frenetic and wild, the April Hare, late by 30 days, his minute hands I guess?
The Heartless Queen collecting heads, taking the fun out of Playing Cards....

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dunking into the water
dismally falling apart
dashing hopes of little boy
never minds says his mommy
we will build sandcastles now
beach is a wonderful place
it fans imagination


Written 5-15-2020
Contest: Finish Line in Seven
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Chose Prompt number 2 Paper Boats
Checked syllable count with www.howmanysyllables.com...

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Bouncing the ball on the court 
Air balls flying through this sport 
Slam dunking hard on the rim 
Knowing to guard her or him 
Elevating your feet up high in the air 
Tearing up the court but always play fair 
Bearing the tragedy of losing 
Aiming for the shot but still confusing 
Leaving the opponent to trip and fall 
Loving the game of BASKETBALL!...

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Ah! The delicious delightful delectable smell of a wet dog.
Nothing like it.


If you do not have a dog, you can simulate this smell 
By dunking a down pillow into a swimming pool for a few days.


Let it dry almost totally, but not completely and 
Then try sleeping with it.


Wet dog smell.
Nothing like it.

I ought to know.
She is sitting on my lap as I type....

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O dubious malicious horribilus
cunnigfilux goodfornothingfilux nillux;
go to hellishbellish boomboodydoomland.
Mean notsoclean bullfart smellitnot
go punking dunking blunking monkeying
jumpingjack bigfat*** fullofmethanegas
evilus spiritus devious mischievous
coronavirus getitis gastritis meningitis, 
run out helter skelter to wither thither
into a zypher cypher blither blackhole.

27.5.2020...

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Assuring breathing for seeing tomorrow
Seriously tick tock and tit for tat the scatted hands borrow
Unfanctioned hairs are shaved daily
Getting the forgettable minds
Lime dunking the flight feathers
Yodle provides core enjoyments 
Assassination involvements in the fields
Sometimes sin portray fresh partition
Segregated air taste the flavor
Impossible twist the nose end over
No one to believe the achiever....

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When you are dressed as Santa
The only way to convince your children
is to BE Santa

If you go about doing all the things you usually do
Sitting in your favorite recliner
Scratching your left ankle
Winking at your wife

Asking for a second chocolate chip cookie
Dunking that cookie into your hot cocoa three times
How do you expect to be convincing?

Do not be tempted to be yourself
When you are dressed as Santa
Be him....

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It’s well into the fall
Where are they now
Miss watching them bow.

They would paddle down stream
Get in line like a seam
Quack all along the way
The stream is empty, such a lonely day. 

I pretend to watch them bathing
Dunking and grooming and wings waving
I can hear them squawk
As they line up in a flock.

Seems like they went astray
I wait and watch most every day,
If only they would send me a note
But the raven said ‘never more’ in a quote...

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No ducks on the wall
It’s well into the fall
Where are they now
Miss watching them bow.

They would paddle down stream
Get in line like a seam
Quack along the way
The stream is empty, such a lonely day. 

I pretend to watch them bathing
Dunking and grooming and wings waving
I can hear them squawk
As they line up in a flock.

Seems like they went astray
I wait and watch most every day,
If only they would send me a note
But the raven said ‘never more’ in a quote...

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