Short Floored Poems

Detective awards,
several cold cases solved,
missed socks have me floored.



3-25-17...

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Ollie the Ostrich forever floored
   No lift from his sticks

Dumbo the Elephant's Disney reward
   ~ Floppy ear tricks...

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Belle E. Danser tried some ballet
But Double D's got in the way
No one could forget
How her pirouette
Simply floored Maurice Chevalier!...

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The college student was real bored
After finding out that she'd been ignored
By some of her peers
Who had to many beers
After finding out, she was floored...

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The lonely housewife was bored
So, she hopped into her fiery ford
Drink and danced all night
Then got into a fight
She tussled and gourd until she was floored...

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And because she smiles
because she laughs
because she hugs herself
and looks so self-conscious
even as she speaks her mind
and speaks it so well
that I'm floored....

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I found a Valentine's card by my door,
it was a big one and hard to ignore,
as I read the cute saying
I saw this gal displaying...
Cupid's present knocked me right to the floor!...

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Bored 
I was so bored
so I floored 
the horrid board 
I was so bored
So I called upon the lord 
who with drew his sword 
And gored me to the ends of the world 
I was so bored
I was really bored :(...

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Love that floored.


Love that floored 
Love that soared
Love that finally snored
Love that today looks
Like a face smiling 
From the obituary page.

14/Nov/12

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

Entry on 24 feb 13 for PD's "Poem never entered in any contest"...

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All these little pale pink piggies
prancing through their straw floored pen
sniffing and snorting
with little smiles under their snouts!
Tufted, tiny tails bouncing in the air!
Sharp, dark, twinkle eyes!
Oh, can I love bacon looking
at these wee faces?!...

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'twas on a matopoeic morn
woken by the crack of dawn
fell out of bed
'pon my head
feeling floored
and quite forlorn
but yet again
all at sea
afloat on board a boat
by an ocean wave
my sleep was wrecked
when debunked
and then decked
...

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Encircled,
words shed gratuitously
from floored jaw.

Enriching,
ambit of deceits shroud,
wrapping your smile
in compliments halos.

Vixen verbs 
slyly ambush objections.
A tactic of precision,
to melt your innocent mask

and conquest;

A smile upon my lips....

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My mother was a gourd
                                            My father was a sword
                                              Father kissed mother
                                                He had to shudder
                                        My gourd mother was floored...

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everyday life,a tightrope walk
within country.a tug of war
civil unrest floors standing mango india

unconstitutional legislations
unconstitutional judgements
civil unrest floors standing mango india

power shifts to war era
third world war coming
civil unrest floors standing mango india...

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My wallet gone! The day is lost - I plan
A hundred calls. His message comes, I'm floored.
We meet, he brings it - taking no reward.
"Just pay it forward", says the kind, young man.


(...a true story. I asked him why he would not want a 
reward for returning my wallet and the young US Navy 
sailor said "just pay it forward. That's my reward")...

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My sister Lucille was extremely bored
She tried surfing on an ironing board
Knobby knees spread wide,
She damned nearly died
One imagined whitecap and she was floored. 

SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written July 13, 2020
10/10/5/5/10 syllable count
checked with PS
submitted to "Limerick" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Lisa YY...

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BROKEN TELESCOPE

Hung
from mouth
hitched to
Heaven by
this sleek steel 
blade bungee
jumping
over rooftops
apocalyptic
vapors of gas
fizzle and 
spout



Hung
broken 
telescope
stars have fallen 
from dark sky
floored
they lay where
I have no doubt
one by one they
will flicker
out


© Kim van Breda—4 January 2016...

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My first car was a thirty-seven Ford

   It would do all of forty-five when floored

      The horn played Little Bo Peep

         Had straight pipes on the old heap

            Cops not amused as about town I roared

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 1 in Carol Brown's "My First Car" Contest - March 2012...

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God I hate fear, 
It's such a pain,
It makes your decisions, 
Again and again. 

It's worse then my mum, 
It can't be ignored, 
It strikes any time, 
Yet its reasons are floored. 

It gets in the way, 
Of things that matter, 
And if you give in, 
Your life will shatter. 

So when it comes up, 
You should fully embrace it, 
Cause it always shuts up...
When you turn round and face it!...

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Wife was feeling neglected and bored.
Hubby hugged her. Her low spirits soared.  
     She cooed, “Let’s go to bed.”
     When he said, “Well, instead,
would you bring me some food?” she was floored.

Soon she came back buck-naked and bold
with a meal. Such a sight to behold!
     Hubby said, “Lunch can wait.”
     When he went for the bait,
She said, “Not now~~your food would get cold.”



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Listen to poem:

*Image of Mamie Surfeuse by Pinterest.

Wilma *Flynnstone Flip

Crazy chick half out of her gourd,
chose to surf the ironing board,
hair curlers wound up,
tube ride earns gold cup,
resolving laugh as she gets floored.

*A Flynnstone Flip is an aerial backflip on a surfboard created by Flynn Novak.

2022 July 17
*4th Place*
Limerick 
~~Lisa YY: Judged 2022 July 19

**RZ; aabba. HMS; 8,8,5,5,8....

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I wish she were my concubine
all wrapped in my celebrity,
draped, Dali-like around my neck
or me melded between her thighs,
not just a deity
who floats past floored-jaws
as if they were a guard of honour.

A virtual sniper
fixating her in a thousand yard stare,
firing bullets of desperation
hoping to pierce her heart,

but I am a candle in a flash bulb supernova
not even the burn in retina's memory,
just a mote in jetsam discarded....

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I am struggling today
That is what it feels like
The moment we saw came
Though never came between us

My progress feels shattered
Disjointed, broken and bruised
Lost in a moments bravery 
I am floored, lifeless and mute

Wrestling with guilt
Misgivings, abused by angst
I flight these bloody demons
I fight as I always fight

Still, I have not abandoned hope
Come soon I can let myself free
Where my moment will exist 
Not able to be eaten away...

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I went for a walk
I looked forward
To a book lying
Ready to read
Read; sitting on the porch
The road ahead
Clear as day
The sky opened up
The rain poured down
Poured down on me
The sun lighted up the rain
The bus driver floored it
As he passed me by
Wet; soaking wet
The rain stopped; suddently
I went by the stadium
The artificial turf shone with life
The sun hid behind a dark cloud
Now; I’m reading a book
Wet behind the ears
Sitting on the sofa...

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Infinity like royalty dressed in rainbow light.
Marvelous meetings of the mind of Christ.
Anchoring at the pearly gate, counting sufferings cost.
Gaining every bit back, healed, restored, reunited and floored.
Informed that you are a co-heir with the Son of God.
Neither eye nor mind had prepared you for this euphoric grace -
Everything you could imagine pales as a smile leaps from your face.

3/11/2019
Inspirational Acrostic sponsored by Dear Heart...

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