Short Follow Suit Poems

Rest of the things on this Earth to grow Mount Everest to follow suit to grow by the hight of a school going child or to the hip from the toe of his father Mount Everest has come up nearing the galaxy of stars by 2.8 feet....

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Terse verse – the tetractys
To rhyme or not, your choice.
Twenty syllable count -
The first line has just one
Two for the second and 
Three and four follow suit
Then ten will end  - line five

January 18, 2022

host:  Joseph May
contest:  Write About a Form

I used Poetry Soup's Syllable Counter...

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Positioning the lips is a problem
Other problems follow suit
Problems like shooting a tigress
Or an elephant
Or a silly bird
Or a monkey.

Myriad fish in the ocean
Problems.
They are fish, grilled, baked,fried
Sizzling hot.

Calling me in the dead of night?
Oh, I'm caught!


10th December, 2017...

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Noisy children
singing and clapping

Playful children
jumping and splashing

Quarrelsome children
arguing and fighting

When will their gourds be full?
So they can sit them on their heads
So one of them can take a step
So others can follow suit
So all of them will be gone
that I may be all by myself.

Here....

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We, the conjurers 

The USA wants Venezuela
And the worlds` press follow suit
demanding an undemocratic coup.
We have been here before
we remember the vilifying of Iraq 
and Libya those two counties were lied about
before being invaded and occupied.
Our compliance with this crime is staggering
and do nothing for peace in the world....

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"Drop that thought ego begot
Hermit, be thou thus self-taught"
___________________

an invisible tumbler falls
a hidden veil drops away
a bubble of delusion bursts
urging others to follow suit
unglued from tendencies

such eureka moments
lead us back to the source
where we are and were
but momentarily clouded
by thought now relinquished

15-December-2022...

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Ashby v White, if applied right.' With the script i do not
Comply' at the ballot will belie.) Remove misogeny from
On high..Why choose to be opressed?  Once this reality
Is addressed.' Other lands should follow suit? Then your
Fate will not be moot.' (The no longer to be trusted)
Shall then really find they're busted.' So be ready from this
Day give them the boot.' Send them on their un-merry way.!...

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My father’s death was from his heart,
My mother’s from her brain
And so I wonder which, for me,
Might just be on the wane.

Of course, there is no guarantee
That I will follow suit,
For in the future, we all know
There is no absolute.

So far, my heart is ticking fine
And even with some quirks,
My brain, despite some CRS,*
Apparently still works.

*Can’t remember spit (or its rhyming improvement)

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If any nation will follow suit that means we have 
     a long journey to go or ways to follow 
  and something like blue or black or yellow or white or red 
    shadows for suggestion
   the nation could have mourned some of the flotsam 
   grounds, at least somehow to damn?. 
     Or a little less the wall instead may turn gradienture?. 
  I think if there is any place so fieldier,  so magical and 
   so damnable?....

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It's a nomad attempting to mark his home,
Fitting himself where he doesn't belong.
Millions have attempted to follow suit,
Now, concealed deep, nourishing roots.
Grasping the desire born after desire,
Wanting more than what you require.
In an attempt to consolidate fragility,
Bound to vanish in a dimension of futility.
May look like it's all yours, but drifting faster,
The sun will still rise tomorrow and the day after.

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Some day we’ll meet on a street;
I’ll hardly recognize your face,
You’ll bow your head, I’ll follow suit 
And lower my eyes just in case.

We’ll stop for a while to have a chat
And try to recall the last meeting.
You’ll ask, “What happened after that?”
“Nothing special, I’ve been living…”

You will be very kind and nice,
I’ll touch nervously my glasses,
I’ll say goodbye, you’ll answer twice.
Again, my heart will fall to pieces…...

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I'm not giving in nor will I loose hope, 
I wont obey these demons I wont choose to use the rope. 

I'm not afraid anymore I've seen it all,
I'm stronger than ever I will rise from the fall. 

I'm an adult now I choose my own choices, 
I'm wide to you and your voices. 

I'm me and that's ok you may not like me, 
I wont follow suit I'll be who I want to be.

I'm over this you've ruled me for too long, 
I'm wiser now it's you in the wrong....

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Wooden floors creak…squeak, squeak, squeak
The languid cat naps on the piano 
Letting tumbleweed run its course
All the day long
No thought enters the desolate attic
Of decanters and hundred-legged pests
Those who dare to eagerly venture
Will follow suit and never return
Names are unspoken 
And pleas die unheard
As cobwebs hang into laughs
The creature below relentlessly strikes
Even grandfather clock loses count
Of curious dwellers gobbled astray....

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Mild August temps bring about to mind,
Memories of summer that have gone behind;
Fleeting days that lead to autumn are here at last,
Summer's solace has left, weeping in the grass;
Few girls care to show their smooth toned midriffs,
Gorgeous eyes reappear, out from dark sunglasses;
The autumnal, brisk winds that have a chilling feel,
Makes you want to slow down and begin to congeal;
The bleakness and gloom of winter follow suit,
Rendering the sun's heat moot.

8-25-13...

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To watch something competitive
You have to pick a side,
With someone you can root for
And with whom you feel allied.

It could be sports or politics
Or various awards
Or venues like Medieval Times
Where knights wield shields and swords.

For when we are invested
In the outcome and we root,
Excitement bubbles up and often
Joy will follow suit.

It’s fun to cheer our favorites on
For even if they lose,
Absorption in the chase replaces
Boredom or the blues....

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I know someone who buys books.
I also know where else he looks.
The books he buys remain closed.
The stuff he gets is hardly used.
A book is there for us to read.
We buy the stuff we badly need.
A closed book does him no good.
Unneeded things just follow suit.
Never buy a book to keep it shut.
You learn no tales and lose a lot.
Many buy things they never need.
They boast about the life they lead.
They think they are so very cool!
It is themselves they really fool!

30/4/2016...

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