Short Gape Poems

-- A yawning gape caught in a scream and heard by no one. --...

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reflecting rainbow
wide open gape haunts the lake…
a whippoorwill calls

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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I chase him round the hen house; gape on, 
hens.  I picture hot chicken soup on.  
I put on spectacles, 
cut off his testicles; 
now, use-ter be rooster's my capon....

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OUT FRONT
She’s an athlete in beautiful shape
With a figure that makes people gape
And success she’ll attain 
Her advantage is plain
When it comes to breasting the tape...

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Soon the curious swelled to a mob.
as they gathered to gape at the glob.
Someone prods with a stick.
as another screams: " Quick!"
"We must run for our lives! It's the Blob!"...

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Shades of orange shift
In the distance as I gape -
A passing train drapes my sight.

A grey skyline looms
I am thinking what’s better
A quick goodbye or nothing.

9.28.14...

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When you reach that over-the-hill age
And probably nearing that very last stage
To prevent causing harm
Bystanders are alarmed
Tripping them as others stand by and gape...

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Wildlife 14

An adventurous Barbary ape,
Would dress in his Spiderman cape,
He just flew through the trees,
With his head on his knees,
While the troop would just sit there and gape!...

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In the shadows, faces flicker
Some look merry, some look mean
Moving quick and moving quicker
Chills that creep along unseen
Pumpkins grin and gape and snicker
Through the night on Halloween....

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Scanning the sky, searching for intelligent life
     seeking creatures who wish to live, not die

   Finding earth, advanced civilizations gape in disbelief
     ~ avert their eyes, stricken with grief...

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Slow sways, it meanders ~
Sandy spotted mammoth
Sieving the shallow sea…
Still that dorsal fin fear!
Some jaws don’t bite or bark
Such is deep’s largest fish…
Sized gape, my whale shark awe ~

(3/27/22)...

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     Petrified zombies march
       past displays of potato starch

     Onlookers stop to gape
       at what’s depicted on their capes  

     The clue connecting all this 
       floats upside down in the abyss 
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scampering, scurrying
     rushing back and forth
   anxious looks, beads of sweat
     merge into rivulets

   the significance of the moment
     all boils down to this   
   the visitors from Planet X2Y*Z
     ~had forgotten how to gape....

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You see that snoutfair over there
People everywhere gape at him
Could it be his short wavy hair
You see that snoutfair over there
No one else will ever compare
He's chiseled, composed, tall and slim
You see that snoutfair over there 
People everywhere gape at him...

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Into the gape

          With not but wits and weary

               I shall find your muse

     Deep in the gut of Terra

Churning ... molten

          As my spirit.





~ 5th Place ~  in the "End October Premiere Poetry Contest", Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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At the birth of the Blues
Musicians wouldn't lose
When they'd have Cosimo tape
While the rest would just gape...

The hits flowed out fast
Some were lost, some will last
But had that golden touch
That we all love so much!

Cosimo Matassa
That cosmic "massa"
Left us a ton
From everyone!...

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      I’ve a home with a view
          lawns, bushes trees
      sidewalks, parkways
          an avenue

      I’ve got to tear myself away
          from all that 
      enticing as it may be
          to gape at the clouds 
          framing – and reframing – the world
             about me
...

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A great snowy owl
Sat on a cupola
Looking wise
But undoubtedly thinking of mice
Who might be down under the barn
To come out to be devoured

He had flown in from the far north
So large and commanding a bird
Hundreds came daily to gape
His head swiveled
His eyes were astonishing
His silence complete...

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LAZY TO LEARN SON AND READY MOM REPARTEE

"Mom, look -
Torn book"

"Here's tape,
Don't gape"

"Hand strain,
Feel pain"

"Use balm
On arm"

"Hungry,
Angry"

"See, I 
Made pie"

Eyes blink,
Can't think.

"Don't use 
Excuse,

Now turn,
Sit, learn."


03/23/17

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I carve and cut my quarters from a cork tree
Intermittently pausing to assess my progress
Young yet yellowing Yggdrasil on the Yangtze 
Getting grander but perishing in the process
Good God gaze at this gape and give a guarantee
Don't let me regress, digress, transgress, or obsess 








4-17-2020...

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Whiteout in my gape
Floating open space in forest glades 
The shadow is cast shape
Catch'ng images of silver shades
Facing the brouhaha as snow cas·cades

From the lots of God's cast
In the·at·rics with clime win·try 
Inside tempo garden of blizz blast
Sound of silence in graupel glows with glee
As it does now to me...

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I rolled my eyes,
here and there,
and everywhere,
to even the farthest clear sight,
I open-shut my lids several times,
my eyes were releived,
and stress free,
just then,
I saw an icicle melt,
and fall from a nearby tree,
it washed my eyes from afar,
leaving the world open,
for me to gape with fresh eyes,
totally ajar....

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Hunger has its claws:
Kitchens gape not doors.
One can't for long sit,
Whom ulcer has hit!

Just Red Tooth and claws,
A waging of wars:
Everyone a cat;
You'll hear Rat-Tat-Tat!

It's red tooth and claws!
Don't come here with laws.
Profit does us fit:
One from tricks and wit.

For red tooth and claws
I'll hide all the flaws....

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We gape at the sky
this Fourth of July,
as rockets ignite
to deal us delight,
while strangers unite.

I’m such a dope,
it gives me hope
that Nations torn
can be reborn.

Let God’s gifts
heal our rifts,
our esprit.

Let’s pray
we stay

free.


July 4, 2022
Diminished Hexaverse Poetry Contest Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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Everybody assumes

you like dogs

especially their dog

sprung from its tether

breaking for you

this morning

all a-scud over the gravel

propelled by yeasty, toothy

gushing grins

	homing in on you	  over there
	
	fossilized, frozen by 

	by the dumpster’s     Gape,

	one less

	cat person

the world won’t miss....

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