Short Flail Poems

angry torrents flail
boisterous waves scale ramparts
enfilading streams...

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dented kite shields quell
from his mount swinging his flail ….
power pieces fell...

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Don't tussle and flail when the moment demands to stand still and wait.

Written:08/29/2016
Contest: One Quote by Rick Parise...

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Life goes on.
Nothing waits.
You may flail,
trip or fall.
But all along,
He takes your hand.
He holds you tall,
While with love he rules.
And will do past the end....

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Politics has always been rough and tumble
  a bare-knuckle fight in a concrete jungle

Those who preach togetherness and unity
  flail their arms at windmills uselessly...

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Trump Flop and Flail

Watched Trump flop and flail,
Like seal with hands and tail;
Had to post his bale.

Dirt caused him to sink;
After he raised so much stink;
Trump stole missing mink.

Jim Horn...

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Are you ever serious, people have wondered
Sometimes, if I haven't had a really good slumber
Not grumpy but be safe
Better cover up your face
Coz I might flail about if I can't find my uppers...

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Thrust a dagger into my heart
Thresh me with a flail
Lay me on a bed of thorns
Give me a chalice of hemlock
Burn me on a funeral pyre
Banish me to the Sahara...
And I will only smile,
Because I am in love!...

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To All Guys:

The more you flail your arms when you dance,
the more you look like a dork and won't stand a chance
of impressing any of the many fine young ladies.
You'll be going home alone and I don't mean maybe....

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Are you ever serious, some people have wondered
Sometimes, if I haven't had a really good slumber
Not grumpy but be safe
Better cover up your face
Coz I might flail about if I can't find my uppers


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Howels pain howlin veins
suddentary calming of the prevolent
scars pain for death all remores
calm and collaspe
definatly not about you
killer deallings
quieter storms
dreams of spiders falling  on you
dreams real but fake supersuspicion...

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July evening, ash and ember
Crickets croon a lullaby
Fire feasts on oaken timber
Smoke spirals toward the sky

July evening, ember and ash
Sparks below and stars above
Flames flicker, flail, and flash
And it’s all this poet’s thinking of....

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EUREKA

She found it — the fountain of life sans bliss.
Her wrinkles did hide with a gulp and hiss.
Though boobs it did lift,
she gluttoned the gift!
O dear — she does flail in the great abyss.

12/26/2018
Contest: Bawdy Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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I float
dance along
the ocean floor
 
I glide
move along
my aquatic hell
 
I gasp
float along
as I try to inhale
 
My lungs fill
I struggle
I flail 
 
The light dims
I sink down
deeper
 
Into the cold
unforgiving
 
grave
of
the
sea
 
Into the deep
where little fishies
will gnaw and nibble 
at me...

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All pretenders drowning slow,
lungs to fill with every breath

Casted off amongst the waves,
nothing spoken to redress

Treading water, spewing lies,
legs to flail in wasted states

Choking from each word unsaid
—trailing death within my wake

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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The wind is break dancing with the trees.
beating a rapper’s song.
Limbs flail on the tarmac.
Rain flies like sweat from corn rows
across the expanse of asphalt.
A barrage precipitates
against the window pane
with the rata-tat-tat
of a machine gun’s bullets
as the front passes....

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Adam, of scripture, dug our graves for it.
The advertiser’s magic guaranties it.
Fathers grind away their lives for it.
Religions point the way toward it.
The flail for it forms character.
The Poets labor to convey it.
Music seeks to express it.
Mothers simply feel it.
Love’s serenity and ageless value....

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Around, all around, 
the dark memories gather. 
My dread grows 
as the headsman's axe 
falls against my neck. 
It severs me, 
and darkly my blood drips 
to the cold, 
uncaring tombstones. 
In unholy terror 
I flail madly 
while the Reaper 
laughs cruelly. 
Now alone, my blood falls 
upon uncaring eyes 
  
This is your love....

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Abundant rain with nurturing love stores greenery and good life.

breeze whistles its praise
as foliage sway in grace…
 stalks flail golden grains

Farmers watch their fields with smiles
Toil their land… rest once in awhile
Birds sing as they guard their nests
Trees spread arms for a welcoming goo harvest....

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Sometimes life will put you on top
There are times where life makes you stop
Times where we struggle and flail
Times where we win or we fail
Try, or it will end up a flop


You say you are too scared to try
But failing makes you want to cry
You can not ever give in
Or you will not ever win
Don’t sit and watch life pass you by....

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You be my tick
I'll be your tock

We'll ring the alarms
of our inner clocks

Unchalk your heels
take a spin on my block

We'll put the rock
in eachothers sock

Like hammer and nail
our passion will wail

Like caught in a storm
our bodies will flail

Then we will ease down
and just fool around

Until we're ready again
to shake the ground.........

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   The unprecedented antics and double standards 
you see from the Left, are Satan's chain letters 
falling from their pockets, 
as they flail wildly, swinging their hatred for Trump 
and other dissidents, 
that challenge their cozy status quo. Forgetting in their rage 
that which was supposed to be kept secret,
including their reply love letters back."...

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Day's end ~ fiasco, near constant assail.
Discounting what's here, I crave what I lack.
In my own strength, I am set up to fail.
Regret for those words too late to take back...
Forgetting purpose, I thrash and I flail;
with each step taken, I'm further off track.
Thankfully, grateful I can again say,
So tender His mercies, new every day.
...

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There is something so pitiful in the flail -

a desperation of movement that gets you nowhere...
in your eyes 
I can see that you are lost

and though you flutter wildly to right yourself
you only turn in circles ~

panting -  
your fragility in a frenzy...

you now know 
that life 
is just an interruption before death.


Susan Ashley 
July 24, 2018...

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Something is a problem
if you need any solution
 earth is vast
and expanse
peace is a clue
and love is a state
power is her jewel
the world is far and free
no where is dull and dullard
no where is bad and flail
for truth is its constitution
beauty is known to
make up a part of
this universe
of course, nothing,  nothing, nothing
is naturally uncompromising....

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