Short Flanked Poems

Millions of Invaders are here. Our military is where?
                              By Robb A. Kopp...

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There was a man from Gloat
He snuck behind a goat
He had a bit of pot
Flanked the animals blind spot
Roger rammed it up to it’s throat...

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lounging outside
the nightbeams reflect
pictures of us---
about remembered dreams
flanked between warmth and pain




Tanka 2 Contest
20 March 2015...

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  Pristine, precisely clipped greens
    Rolling fairways flanked by majestic trees

  Water hazards imperil a golfer’s well-being
    ~ While in Saudi, sand traps greet the King 
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Hitler 
Swollen with evil pride 
As he stood in front 
Of the Eiffel Tower, 
Flanked by his nazi minions. 


         W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2019.

          25th April 2019...

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Flanked by four marshals, Ruby walked to school.
She was called names
yet she walked
and walked
tall
for
many
black children
who have a dream
to walk wherever, without four marshals. 

2/25/2021...

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Swingin' it in sunshine almost 
barefoot skippin' o'er the
grassy courtyard breathin'
freedom.

Smiles you flash
eventually catch
attention to unmentionables.
Air quivers

skin slithers through
broad shoulders dark
flanked supremely.
Wave and wave back....

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Forrest of faces
Flanked by rainment fine,
 Appear in many places
Up and down the line.
Stories beyond the scope are told,
Music from mindfull deeps,
Emotons handed down form "old"
Coming forth in leaps.
Energy from the ladies and sirs
Merge with flawless ease,
I feel the touch of many hers,
And I'm in love with these....

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when am I in a raging sea
when am I in a towerless keep
you see the armies flanked around him
labelled with exactness
when am I on a mountain ledge
when am I on a broadsheet
a dozen more of liberty
a number for the free
when am I by solitude
when am I by genocide
walking through my lonely streets
I ask 
when am I by me...

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Sweet, beautiful, innocent girl wearing 
new white sneakers 
strides proudly 
into 
school, 

Flanked 
by guards 
with weapons 
for protection, 
ignoring sick slur scribbled on the brick.  
 

SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written on February 5, 2021 
For Double Tetractys Contest 
(Picture #1, 40 syllables) 
Sponsored by Eve Roper...

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Sushumna luminous central funnel ~
Receives God’s blessings through the fontanel 

30-August-2022

Notes: Sushumna is the central triple layered energy conduit (nadi) from the Muladhara (root) to Sahasrara (crown or fontanel). It is flanked by the Ida (cool) and Pingala (hot) nadis. For further reading ~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadi_(yoga)...

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We held a lady in our arms
She was the highest in the land
We felt her cloth against our cheek
Her closeness in our hand.

We held that lady in our arms
She was the silent of us all
We took her down the longest walk
Flanked by soldiers tall.

If we live to oldest years
And on, until our death
Never will we forget
We held our Queen, Elizabeth....

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The Simplest of Pleasure

The glorious big television 
The cable box, dustless as can be be
Flanked by two flamess candles
Dancing ever so cheerfully
The mahogany table on which it sits
The flickering flamelike heater, right beneath it.
A cup of fresh coffee with a dollop of cream.
Making the experience heavenly





June 4, 2019
5:30am PST

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under the blue sky

over the earth's pie

one thru ten they fly

fifty five birds spry

followers not shy

a triangles ply 

on point, flanked they vie

I can hear their cry

I can see their tri

wings on wings they lie

as all birds comply 

and my joys sky high

yet I blink my eye

and swish they've  gone by

9/29/22

A Flock of Birds Poetry Contest

Sponsor-Julia Ward

N/A...

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CONSTRUCTIONS
elongated
but
accurate
in
preliminary

 aspects
 commissioned
determine
&
 inspire
gracious
emotion
lucid
yet
invisible

an
intended
reflection
languishing
unseen


CHANGES
identified
 pose
in
  unusual
&distinctive
  effect
complement
&
displace
 pictorial
remains
tempting

devotion
a
homely
delight
 flanked
by
the
unfamiliar
imitate
to
confront
prejudice...

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Flanked by violets and similes
   in a drafty den she pens
away fleet hours, pensive, concocting
   exotic brews of rarest essence

and scents, honey-tipped phrases
   in secret rhythmical chants  
known only to denizens of her
   innermost sanctum, where she,

perches, chin in hand, arranging
   delicate strands of sound, eliciting
murmurs from those gathered, who lionize her
   though she remains as the dust underfoot...

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Flanked by Dame’s rockets and Yarrow
familiar flowers that greet me
every spring with their breezy nods.
Their irresistible, subtle
scents never cease to captivate
my olfactory perception.
I swoon amidst their fragrant breaths
and for one imaginative
moment become their distant kin
with an alien hue and scent
commingling with them nonetheless
until their odoriferous
scents again sober my senses
leaving a feeling of gladness....

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The "speech" should have been on Halloween.
His props were a garish blood red backdrop.
Flanked by two concrete stiff marines.
This scarecrow of a president (who bellows about unity).
Just threatened to unleash F17'S on half the US citizens.
Because they don't think like him.
Will he even remember what he said?
His brain is about the size of a pumpkin seed.
 
For making terroristic threats against the U.S citizens...
he should be impeached-...

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Communal Holiday.
The holiday home for children 
was near a cold lake
flanked by two black mountains 
We children swam there
every morning at seven
before the sun warmed the lake.
Breakfast at eight, mainly oatmeal porridge
and stale bread.
Boot camp for children. 
Three weeks of this then we were let loose 
to roam a town of summer dust 
and trees in the park we could climb up
to get away from adults
who had forgotten their own childhood....

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He told me " the pain is all in your mind" 
So I hit him in the head and said "it's in yours now too" 

Deep breaths and bitten lips 
as I try to walk away 
one more pill to dull the pain 
how long can suffering stay 

opiate receptors relaxed 
there's a soothing in the air 
calm has flanked hostility 
and lies within the fear 

barren paths of crisis crossed 
where love has up and gone 
filing out in feeble steps 
no one's won or lost...

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