Short Fingernails Poems

“The moon is a piece of you”
look no further than your fingernails...

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Beautiful garden
sign of whats to come in time-
dirty fingernails...

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fingernails
against the chalkboard
-my grinding teeth...

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How much I scrub in the morning
My fingernails are always dirty by evening....

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Fingernails gainst the chalkboard grate
Eat your veggies and clean your plate...

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icicles are cold-blooded -
         sharp dagger sentinels with fingernails

1/24/2021...

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Fingernails on slate
Anathema to the primal 
Brain…Dire dread unsaid
...

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Fantasy 
Only
Orange
Tangerine 

Fingernails
Exciting
Toenails
Inspiring 
Smile
His...

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Blood red lips and fingernails
She was as restrained as she could be
Back arched, breathing quick, expectant....

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She lays uncovered
Arms crossed tight she discovered
Hard fingernails scrape

Russell Sivey...

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I value the dirt under my fingernails
more than I value the Dow Jones average.

~~~~~~~~~

PS. I lied on the form again...

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Memories return
A persistent rash on the skin
Dirty fingernails
Whispers and echoes of mind
Represent care of some kind...

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I see the fingernails of a nine-year-old boy
at the end of my hands
They make me laugh.
How did he get them away from me?
And how did he reattach them?...

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Our hooves, claws, horns and fingernails
To pick up objects like straw in bales,
Made of keratin, rarely affected by ails,
Helps us to raise our boats with fine sails....

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Why is pain so painful
Body has other ways less insaneful
Like ripping out fingernails
Think I saw some angels
Delusional I trust, while enjoying a bagel...

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PAIN
may be
the jarring
of fingernails
across the whiteboard
on which your life is penned;
but what it achieves
is to fully draw
attention
to your
song....

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the dirt clung to them
creased by life’s endless struggles
broken fingernails


a scarred litany
of bruised, gnarled and calloused hands
the poor man’s mantra


©6/2/2023...

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The Rolling Stones were the bad boys
   Amped-up volume, lyrics semi-obscene
Jimi Hendrix -- hypnotic, Frank Zappa -- psychotic
   The Monkees? ~ Even their fingernails were clean...

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When they plot your death
escape is futile
so just go along
but get their DNA
and leave saliva
and fingernails 
and maybe blood
in the perp’s car
maybe you can save their next victim...

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fingernails cut
     with pocket knife
        dirt too deep
          to scrape
       his grandson
             held
       his thumb
         like a warm
               wooden toy...

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she mailed me her
exact words were:

Later today
i'm going before
the beauty salon
to regulate
my fingernails
and some eye
lashes.

surely they will
pardon her
for good
behavior
and sheer
beauty...

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There was an old man from Missouri.
Biting his nails, he tended to worry. 
Taping his fingers to stop the bad habit,
he switched to candy wherever he could grab it,
and once he was full, he always got purry....

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Distractions in eight grade homeroom are complete today
As I see the finger shaped glasses on my friend Gray
He always pushes the teacher near the edge of the cliff.
I see her biting her fingernails, her hair and her lip....

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Hummingbird tattooed
On girl holding a pillow
Braids within a long sweater
Fingernails with butterflies
Two blue swirled buttons
A large star necklace
Soft leather purse
In a downpour

Russell Sivey...

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There is beauty
to dirt and blood
to broken
fingernails
and loneliness
to a wheelbarrow in
rain
and ripe, purple
plums
to the hazy scent of
a life less lived
by a surrendered
book
and a left over
glove. 


© Gry W Christensen...

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