Short Flue Poems

 Artless Flow




The fount from earth’s natural flue

Sends white cascades to translucent blue





Crystalline Sept. 2011...

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Too many cookies for "Ole' Saint Nick"
he got hung up on a brick
wedged in the flue
his red cheeks turned to blue...

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Flew to stairs,
flew to stares.
Two stares flew
stares, too, flew?
to stairs flew.
flu stares, too....
stairs to flue?
Two stairs, flue!

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whadda lotta flu-flu...

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Happy new year 
Wake up dear
And forget your fear 
Everything is new
Be careful not to catch a flue
Forget your past
Finally at last
A year of joy
So be sure to enjoy...

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the start of a fall brings with flue and cold,
natural smooth air touches the skin-
in quite cool mood needs mild heat
the mind wants to be alone
yet the heart wants fellowship...

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I am called THE FLU
I came with those who flew

I have barely touched a few
And many are still Due
 
No body has any Clue
Of how to Subdue

If I am not there in YOU
It's just that you are in a Queue...

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Poor Santa Claus had such a fright
The open log fire was alight!
Descending the flue
The air turned quite blue;
His chestnuts were roasting that night!


22.11.19

'Holiday Themed Limerick Poetry Contest' sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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Grandma hid her ticket-where? No one knew

She hadn’t a clue what Grandpa might do

     When he lit the chimney fire

     Grandma wanted to expire

She was thinking ‘bout what flew up the flue





*Entry for Susan’s Lottery Ticket Limerick” contest...

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OVERWEIGHT SANTA

Father Christmas had been overfed
And could barely fit onto the sled.
When he reached the first flue,
Far too fat to squeeze through,
He made Rudolph go down it instead

27th November 2022
A Funny Christmas Or December Holiday Limerick Contest
Sponsor - Tania Kitchin...

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Santa can't shimmy down chimneys no more.
"My belly won't fit through the flue," he swore!
The reindeer hid a smirk
When Santa went berserk
Fatty Claus will have to sneak in the door



November 26, 2022
A Funny Christmas/December Holiday Limerick 
A Contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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THE NEST

One does not invade another’s nest
When so Lovingly placed
The string and twig entwined
in such seamless haste

No need for basement
nor sidewalks to
No need for windows nor a door
no purpose for a flue

The down be it’s furniture
The limb it’s only beam
Would God’s intention be for us
his most gentle scheme....

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A little bee flew across the sea, to see what he could be
He herd a giraffe with a throaty laugh : still continued on his weigh
This pour we bee had too pee  so he stopped on a Specific Ocean Eyelid
It took him severed ours to pollinated  Pollynesian flours and than he flue away
If Yew can reed this rite yore a better POET then Eye...

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A little bee flew across the sea, to see what he could be
He herd a giraffe with a throaty laugh : still continued on his weigh
This pour we bee had too pee  so he stopped on a Specific Ocean Eyelid
It took him severed ours to pollinated  Pollynesian flours and than he flue away
If Yew can reed this rite yore a better POET then Eye...

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Seek not for love,
love will seek you.
Feel not the passion
That’s left you so blue

Forget all that wishes
It then will come true
Loose your desire’s
That makes you so blue


Unreal is the myth
If only they knew
Cry not the heart,
Heart stuck with some glue

Dig deep inside
Get rid of that flue
Live in the now
Then hurt will undo...

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love 
Your genteel hand in mine,
seeing your smile,
in the middle of the night,
whispering sweet words,
falling asleep with the sound of your voice,
is it a love or what,

Covering my cold body,
in the middle of night,
making me feel better,
when I got a flue,
seeing  your face
early in the morning,
kissing you good night,
night after night

love
is that
and more...

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My fire has burnt out
I can’t find a match to light it
My coals are cold
My flue turned down

No sparks fly from my pipe
Burnt wood in the fireplace
No trees around to cut
The last wood has split

No more hot coco
No more wine
Just a bear skin rug
Laying by a cold fire

This last cord of wood
Has lost it’s harmony
I have lost my Match

I am Matchless...

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The happening 

On the balcony sat a raven it had yellow eyes
It crewed with delight.

Ill in bed the flue, a stream of transpiration
turned into a raging river.

Transported me to the sea which was cooling
and calm lowered the fever.

The raven had fallen to its death into the canyon 
of high rise flats.

A man picked it up his dinner of the day saved
he wore a feather on his hat....

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Whacky? Perhaps but extremely powerful too.
He’s a guinea pig wizard from north Kalamazoo.
We have seen him turn the windows both pink and blue.
He has commanded a crow to fly in from the flue.

We call him Mr. Tibblets Tanglewood Tony Treble Clef Two.
He likes the whole name, he says we simply cannot overdue.
His power and might terrifies my brother and sister too.
He is heading this way, so I suggest you be your best you....

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Whacky? Perhaps but extremely powerful too.
He’s a guinea pig wizard from north Kalamazoo.
We have seen him turn the windows both pink and blue.
He has commanded a crow to fly in from the flue.

We call him Mr. Tibblets Tanglewood Tony Treble Clef Two.
He likes the whole name, he says we simply cannot overdue.
His power and might terrifies my brother and sister too.
He is heading this way, so I suggest you be your best you....

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You are smoking hot
You have built up my
Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Inside my heart

Igniting these feelings
I can’t cool them down
I have called 911 they can’t help
The fire department

Doesn’t have enough water
The paramedics can’t slow this beat down
My heart has been beating to fast
Twice as fast since I have seen you

Please stop this vibrating and pounding
I can’t take much more
I am about to exploded
You have ignited my soul...

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WAVING AWAY THE MASK

      black-winged
   blackbird, flew
up the flue, flu season
a season away.
cooing cousins school
about the cruel world doubts,
dreaded days of spin-about,
old games of London Bridge
and Ring-Around the Rosies.
heated cheeks, sensor
defeated - it’s merely summer
plums - plump and hearty
incredibly edible.
savoring the sensation
as my teeth tarry
a wide-mouthed grin - insane
how happy that makes me!

5/19/2021...

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I keep thinking of what to do,
Memories of us flow like a river,
Although I hate you too,
Losing you is like losing a liver,
At times,I wonder if it's true,
Maybe we are really not meant to be, 
Your love still spreads to me like flue,
It's when I realized you also love me.

For you I can persevere,
All the hurtful and separating moments,
When the heartbreak is severe,
In the end love supliments,
Indeed this love is pure,
Because of it am willing to endure....

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I keep thinking of what to do,
Memories of us flow like a river,
Although I hate you too,
Losing you is like losing a liver,
At times,I wonder if it's true,
Maybe we are really not meant to be, 
Your love still spreads to me like flue,
It's when I realized you also love me.

For you I can persevere,
All the hurtful and separating moments,
When the heartbreak is severe,
In the end love supliments,
Indeed this love is pure,
Because of it am willing to endure....

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A tiny chimney has been given many a stare
by an enormous crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
Sequestered cardinals attempt to elect a new pope.
White smoke from the flue is what many faithful hope.

Four times, the emissions have been black.
Hopes for electing a pontiff were turned aback.
Will the results be positive on the fifth try?
“Fumata Bianca” is the loud popular cry.
So now a new pope has been elected.
His entry on the balcony is anticipated.
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