Short Fitting Poems

White 

Fitting slight

Not shirt

My heart!...

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a silent giant

i feel it wash over me

a corpses veiled breadth...

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Scanning piece by piece,
Fitting each one carefully
Then my puzzle's done...

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Seamus Heaney died today,
A fitting end for a poet,
The Rest In Silence.
©dbyrne Aug 31 2013...

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And what do you collect?
Freaks
How many of them did you get?

Barely fitting my head, babe...

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Light
fitting-
hinged upon
the lick of a
switch.


Ekphrasis -Untitled work by Dan Flaven...

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Grace, no name could be more fitting, 
Spring's first Magnolia blossom drifting slowly into the steady stream...

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• Loose-fitting clothes
• Socks with sandals
• The fashion police have solved 6 more scandals...

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Geese  snow  falling  leaves

          Warm quilted snug fitting sleeves

        Fires  ice  dark moon breeze...

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King, my ink quickly I buy.
Fitting to my lying frog.
It will confirm for I.
For I - not it, took you up off your turf....

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A secretary must control
A randy boss's rigid pole
Her knickers extol
A lacy peephole
A fitting end to his bankroll...

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How fitting that today I should don
the shirt of M.C. Escher paintings
shirt of confusion
shirt of the void
shirt of the self...

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Too bad practically no one these days has a three-dimensional mirror.
She would not wear those form-fitting pants if she could see her rear....

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Where job creativity's hated
We will weep and feel castrated
But after quitting
It's real and so fitting
Without bawls anymore we're elated...

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Who I think I am
And who I be,
Are one and the same
While you're looking at me.

Do you mind?
I would like to change.




2018.08.25...

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Sentry sits alone,
Amid fallen heroes graves.
He was their symbol.

Quietly he sits.
It is fitting he keep watch,
For they gave their all....

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Listen to poem:

bent like a grass stem
I fold, I yield, I twist, squeeze
between stakes labeled
'Been Done' and 'So Becoming'
buried, far behind the lines...

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Better look for many fitting stones than a gigantic monolith for to erect the tower of love!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     28 January 2017...

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the puzzle that’s life~ 
gathered bits and pieces
fitting more or less



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 3, 2020...

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Comeuppance is a useful word  
          when confronted by a beggar nerd

        Give him no more than tuppence
          a fitting and proper comeuppance...

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I enter the hall
wondering where to sit.
People stare.
I spot an open seat
and immediately drop into it.
Relief flows through me.
I’m a part of the crowd....

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Never flush
not tight fitting
a little bit out
not quite sitting 
right with the world,
I always was an odd bit of knitting,
two plain stitches instead of purled
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A battle within
I, simply, can’t win
 Forced in this ocean
I’ll sink or I’ll swim
I, too, shall learn
I’ll burn or be burned
Without casting stones
I’ll never fit in...

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Romeo was hiding in an alley
  And yet Juliet found him, by Golly
    They made love with passion
    Each with their blue mask on
  (Then) died of COVID ~ a fitting finale...

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Its not a book of diction
The common dictionary
Thus I propose revision
To our vocabulary

For the next edition
The fitting title will be
- 'Webster's Unabridged
Definitionary'...

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