Short Forked Poems

Duplicitous claims
Slithering between forked tongue
Juxtaposition...

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salvation to the rich
damnation to the poor
blindness to the author...

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Parents crisscross
Love overrides a sullen display-
My mind is not on time...

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We
ought
to keep all 
of our words 
soft and sweet, we 
might have to eat them...

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"the knifes are out to get her, she's always speaking with a forked tongue"
...

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The blade of a knife
     no sharper weapon
       he thought

   'Til his son's forked tongue
     anguish brought...

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the snow a clean plate
    trace rabbit tracks forked by wings~
              an owl’s repast served




2021.10.15...

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sweet  strewn cedar shavings
Layered bedding soft in stalls
Raked and forked daily
With tender compassion 
Companion care for a horse...

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The fabulous red kite - broad wings, mighty,
Built to soar, beauteous sight !
Red tail forked, in rooftop flight,
Silently swoops for the fight....

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We die-hards will never adjourn
From news stories t-rump can churn 
With tongue proudly forked
And a dick that's uncorked
He'll bone us cause we can't discern...

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laying
looking
for a rainbow

in Eden's garden
my snake finds
a forked tree

standing before me
sap running down
her branch

tempting me
to take
a taste...

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Lightning forked
Its long ivory tongue
Through the rain clouds
Tasting the air like a snake


Date written and posted: 07/19/2018...

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It takes a snake’s forked tongue to kiss and tell
My Blue Ridges turned a Bitter Eden 
Of all I’ve known Love is a Laurel Hell
The lowest limb’s fruit all bruised and beaten...

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S-nake smells everything
T-hrough the tip of his forked tongue, 
C-hecking the scent's point.






Topic: Birthday of Stephanie Joyce T. Carvajal (March 17) 
Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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Forked lightning strikes

Never on the same branch twice

Split second moment.




(January 15, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Warring kiddies hiss like snakes and stick out forked tongues;
They disagree on who started the fight first; both y e l l i n g..."Liar!"
Parents fish for the truth, sandwiched between the crosstalk.
...

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Graceful slow motion
         Russet ruler of the skies 
                    Soaring on forked tail.



April 2019 Premier,Any Theme,Any Form,Upto A Max Of 3 (T H R E E ) Lines Poetry Contest : sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Black as coal and moody as teenagers  
The storm steadily approaches home,
Rumbling, growing ever louder,
War-like violence above,
Shaking homes and raw nerves
As frequent flashes  
Of forked lightning
Light the sky
Soon to
Die....

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Your eyes on mine
mine in yours
kiss me
forked lightning
hot and white
from sky to earth...

Root of flowers
springs from the earth
beneath our feet
outside a tree is full bloom...

Our garden
our heart 
flutters...

We rebuild
shattered trust.......

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Existent justification
denial exceeds reason

egotistical and maniacal

golden tongue 
forked intellect 

controlling and powerless

higher self 
potential serenity
 
eden slumber 
conscious oblivion

mortal, healing, cavernous
self...

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As the political head snakes it's way
...........around the world,
it's tail,still lingers in the mountaintops
with a darting forked tongue,searching prey,
only one of two things can happen....
coil like a constrictor....or,
bite it's own tail,and cannibalize itself.......

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Darkness ensues as his forked tongue,
Slips his sweeten lies into my mind to form delusions.
Yet I manage to
Resist and pray.
Yet I manage to
Resist and pray.
And cast away this demons leather tongue,
Into its hollow pit,
 But can I truly cast it away when it is my own....

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He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed 
He enters the nave, mitre is doffed
He preaches a tale, to eager sheep
He fleeces their wool, his tithe to keep
He blesses the flock, they’ve had their fill
He slithers away, forked tongue now still

January 1, 2022...

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Harassed by forked tongue
Against treacherous rocks flung
Very nearly drowned
Eventually I found
Never-neverland~ Safe ground!

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Contest: Tankacrostic
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
      Placed 3rd
© 18th May 2021...

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High up in the sky the Red Kite fly
Gazing down upon me,
Searching for pray no matter where it lay
A carcass will do for tea,
With a long forked tail and black tipped wings
Its elegance is plain to see,
It's hard to survive but still its alive
This beautiful bird that fly's free...

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