Short Flats Poems

in metro city
A-PART-MENTS, FLATS, COMPLEXES,
is any house "home"...

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Burlesque musical
a parade of top hats
flotation devices whimsical
bass notes undergirding flats...

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small car
by far...

entered
centered

big one
all done

backseat
athlete

four flats
congrats...

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welcome to lim’rik flats
where boys wear only spats
it's in a valley
called nonsense alley
(psst... they also wear hats)...

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from down on the flats we can see
high-on-the-hills poetry
sonnets like mansions
sestinas in stanchions
they fill our dulled hearts with much glee...

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An ancient voice upon the air
echoes "Clair De Lune" in whispered flats.
Debussy's spirit enchants the vines;
masters echo is never silent.
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I've written Sonnets in C Major key ~ funeral music to me

No notes on bars in flats or sharps ~ fingered morbidly sour on stringed harps
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oh the limerick it ain’t quite a sonnet
and the learned, they look down upon it
for they cannot grasp
its head or its ass
nor the cleansing effect of its tonic


John G. Lawless
6/18/2017...

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Jovial playing box
Jam-packed with jazz albums
Jump  in your flats and dance 
Just  let the music play
Join in the bebop or
Jazz without a partner
Jitterbug with a friend 



3/5/2017

to late for contest...

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Saltiest of flats
Plainly addictive
Bag crinkles open
We eat them in two’s
Not a bit healthy

Tiny pieces
Casserole tops
Picnic staple
Bring a bag please

High salt taste
Greasy too
Teen delight

Crinkly
Salty

Chips...

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Rearranging discordant thoughts
memories fall in place
Like keys upon a Steinway
awaiting my embrace

Sharp notes lead, the flats behind
as I replay the past
Chords when struck connecting all
—in harmonies recast

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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The new Mc Spicy is born
Can i have non vanilla non milk milkshake
shaken vertically then horizontal then metaphorically
Why isn't there a kft-Kentucky fried turkey
-----------------------------------  -------------tofu
whatever bloats your flats...

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Writing limericks is a fine art
Yes I write about poop or a fart
If you show me someone
Who has NOT dropped a ‘bomb’
then from poetry soup I’ll depart!

Inspired by Lim'rik flat's poem 'Collaboration can be fun'

06-18-17...

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fragile dawn   
summer bravado cracks
       splits the sky 

     duck flats freeze
flurried white fills footsteps
        frail adieu

          fragile dusk
ready kindling stacked strong
          storm rages


V Anderson-Throop  2014
Valdez, Alaska...

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Walk down the halls with flair
Walk down the street with your head held high
Walk into the room and make it stop
Walk tall in four inch heels
Walk tall in flats
Walk tall in sneaker
Walk tall in anything
Walk tall and keep your head up
Walk tall with
Confidence...

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There's a river winding gently through the pastures on the flats,
collecting tributaries of little creeks that the lower ground attracts.
'Tis the river that the angler seeks - the stream where pools run deep and slow.
I net the crayfish just for fun and there I let them go....

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Only live rivers,running in vertical directions,

Over the bone flats,

Numerous like green threads,

Between the layers of skin and flesh,

Flooding blood,

Not charming chilly,warming,

Via the curves of nerves,

A Wonder land running nerve rivers,human bodyies!...

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A Beach in Cascais

On the beach of Cascais
Human seals, jam-packed
Soaking up the sun.
Female seals
 are eying each other.
Who has the best tan?
Then they all go home
To dark shuttered flats
The fear of being seen
At home by prying eyes
sits deep in the mind
Of the Portuguese....

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mister inappropriate wore his tilted cap
in 4am gardens and warner brothers flats

misses indefinable held her mister choo shoes
he taught her some fassion,she played for him the blues

lady lately lawless,dead of all but style
died at half past farmer,had an heart attack on his style...

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They are closing the shops
the town planners
are leaving on the tram,
semi millionaires hoover
at the half a million flats
how did it get this way?
possibly i'm bothered!
ripping out the centre,
to make sure any indigenous,
person couldn't join the scheme,
when did you stop
being my town?...

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Lovely regal frogs from New Jersey are all that
Their swollen freckles puffed up big and fat.
Elaborate crowns are golden with emerald splat.
On lily pad thrones, they reside, true floating mats.
In the calm pond waters, they live away from big cats.
King and queen of the bayou, at Tornado Flats....

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Pirates, witches, dragons, castles, mats and bats,
Broomstick divas, a Dracula wearing red flats,
Huskies, and spider monkeys joining soulful frats, 
Raccoons, starfish, butterflies, a skull that chats
My imagination gives me enormous congrats
As we pencil out another painting of rat wearing hats...

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While they were living
in the same country,
in the same city,
in the same neighbourhood,
even in the same block,
but in their own flats
next to each other,

they never had anything in common
except for the graveyard
they were buried;

What a strange coincidence, 
I thought, it was indeed;
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On Good Friday after church we eat
curried pickled fish and hot crossed buns
and drink black coffee because we share
in the painful agony of the Lord.
On Easter Sunday after church we braai *
meat and drink like fish and rejoice
in the victory over death and grave.

* (rhymes with "bye" ) - barbeque / barbecue...

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As you go north, out of the city limits
the names of the communities reflect the landscape around them.
Mulberry Flats, Tar Hill, Mount Hebron.
And it is here that my family settled over two hundred years ago.
German and Irish immigrants trying to make their way in
an unforgiving land. 

chris lampton
4-1-15...

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