Short Gauntlet Poems

And thus Prince Hamlet
In suicidal reflect
Makes his own gauntlet...

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throwing down the gauntlet
he crossed his arms and waited
her vacant stare...

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And thus Prince Hamlet
In suicidal reflect,
Makes his own gauntlet
And by distrust and suspect
Must a murderer detect....

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Family is like running the Gauntlet and tackling the Gordian Knot.




~12/06/15
~"Family" One liner three contest by Silent One....

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The gauntlet run I stop dead, astounded.
How can the dreaded deal have been done?
Songs sung low by thin, wispy, wire lips
Carry the melody of my demise....

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Searching for ideas
necessary to our existence
from legends
We challenge
the future
—with voices from the past

(Rock Springs Wyoming: September, 2021)...

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He thought that they were fast asleep so he crunched on a carrot or two 
but halas they had created a gauntlet , poor Santa what was he to do ? 

Dec. 18, 2018...

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Throw down the gauntlet
We live precariously
And vanish in the wind

Love may never conform
To our swollen expectations-
Titanic shifts emerge unseen

But where there is a seed
Love must always grow
Opening more beautiful lives...

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The gods at war again
Throwing bolts of lightning,
Torrential pummeling rain
The sky is dark at midday
The gauntlet has been lain,
Tots find it all so frightening
Tearful 'til the beast is slain.

written August 30, 2021...

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Rondelet: Obama hear


Obama hear

Chance of an age to set right things

Obama hear

Abraham lambs call - you hear

Run the gauntlet before knell rings

One life may quell voiceless suff'rings

Obama hear



(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012...

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signal of approaching cataclysm?
we can't see the gauntlet
it's past the cunning poison
a villain of his own timeline

piqued by an illiquid New Moon
Level 2 risk for severe stratagems
Earth braces for an apocalyptic slap
this time it could break...

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C’mon Papa
The gauntlet tossed
The challenge…

Ten rounds
With a 2 year old

Speed vs stealth
Experience vs enthusiasm
Age vs agility

Castle builder vs the siege
Best two out of three cookies
Co-Co melon is not a fruit

C’mon Papa
Let’s go OUTSIDE…..

...

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A Kraken with a straw hat cracking jokes and slapping racist white folks. I get my Xbox gauntlet to fight jellyfish ghosts with my friend a talking duck in a Tonka truck. I am asking as be where the axe be "hey taxi". drive me to the bouncy house as I wear my wedding blouse that I got from my inflatable house....

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Run the gauntlet
Doomsday athlete
Amass wealth
Over own health

Kill for sport
Rot will eat
Kill for hate
Hell already ate

Love more
A lottery draw
Loveless
Chalk murder drew

Fast from the past
The future passed
Light years ago
Now let ego go

Race you home
You have none
Earth was blue
A hole we blew...

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Squinting into time
I grasp a distant folly
Slow dancing alone


It stares back at me
Shimmering in icy lust
This trembling pencil


It sidles closer
A touch of maple abides
Pancakes come to mind


The gauntlet is thrown
A motionless hawk falters
Its feathers ruffled


Adrift in the trees
The echo of lost moments
A dove high cooing...

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A natural instinct for the few
This word called Heroism...

A flaming fire
And O'how it grew
The others hunkered down 
O'but not you...

Stretched out to run the gauntlet
With nothing to prove
Unknowingly revealing his heart 
of love and truth


1~7~24
A Mark Toney Contest 
Mile 24 is Dedicated to the Memory of L. Milton Hankins (1941-2022)...

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In the breaking light of dawn,
in a photograph - we kiss.
It's to your inner light I'm drawn,
while cursing fate, and chances missed...
Wrapped in thought, and solitude, 
sweet lies trumped by bitter truth.
The road it forks,and one way taken,
now questions over dreams foresaken...
A puzzling gauntlet of how, when and why?
You were my favorite hello,
and my hardest goodbye...

Copyright © 2011...

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The Great Escape

I struggle to bring down walls
That my demons built inside,
I run through the devil’s gauntlet
Just to find a safe place to hide.
My demons enjoy taunting me
As my walls start taking shape,
I looked up to the heavens
For God to plan my great escape.
The Holy Ghost shook the walls
And my demons had no chance,
My walls fell down like Jericho
And my soul began to dance.
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In that calm before the storm
tranquility’s bittersweet,
though, no two tantrums are alike,
nature self-defends;
Never staid,
she rides her tides hanging ten
and reaps her reward.
The prize is not always golden
but the fight is necessary.
The wandering breeze locates her
opponents and she’ll throw down
the gauntlet; 
accepting the challenge,
we weather the storm.

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It's raining mud in Kansas,
200 miles an hour wind-hammers
broke Kentucky's heart.
Good people rush to help,
poets watch,
dogs bark
reporters report.

In the days of the Delta variants
children are left out in the cold
to eat lunch -
it's for their own good.

Meanwhile an iron gauntlet
grips the neck of the Republic
for its own good,
but it's all bad

and there is still no vaccine
for stupid....

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Sky scrapers posed a gauntlet across her neon waters....
Radioactive tides their evasive in stalking horse wavelengths
Walpurgis nights  preordained pentagon knife; planchette's point
Blank modern day Pompeii ? Neptune's, man of war; crimson's rabbit.






Just A Note: 6\7\2014...."Hey Baby, You Know I Love You: Your A Precious Creation
....Far Beyound Racing And This, These Man Made Things....'Sweet Dreams Baby Boy.'"...

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Embodiment of a sparrow

Deft hand became stifled
One man's life becomes a ripple
Gauntlet affixes a bridle
Proclaimed  a idol

Fist clenching low
Archer's imbued bow
Body quivered like his arrows
Embodiment of a sparrow

Anthem for a obscured soul
Wind is a bitter blow
Gauntlet's icy hold
Prolonged the cold

Events transpired,
Such that brought down an empire
Whistling tone of his arrows
Embodiment of sparrows...

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Gauntlet Of Time

Calling me forward
taking me back
Promising nothing
stepping over the cracks

A doorway awaits
 threshold of pain
Whose entrance is crumbling 
—to cross heaven gained

(Villanova University: December, 2023)


Over The Rainbow

No difference between
good and bad
when eyes
are caught between
What matters most
and matters least
the treasure
—sight unseen

(Villanova University: December, 2023)
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Crossing the burning barriers,
you take a fatal jump.
Brazenly, but giving little away.

Long shadows of ethnic clouds
were eroding the sun. Feeling the
wet lips you rub you sweaty
palms in vain.

Haunted, you would like to
kill the ghosts. You pull a silken
cord. A silver urn upturns the
ashes of your past.

Each truth walks without legs.
You are still incomplete. The
self-portrait will never hang
on the wall.


Satish Verma...

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Can you see it through...
fog
smog 
mist

Can you smell it through...
fear 
odors 
stench

Can you hear it through...
noise
racket 
chatter

Can you taste it through...
spices
flavors
bland

Can you touch it through...
pain
sorrow 
concessions

If you’ve made it this far through 
the gauntlet known as life

Take a bow  for you are alive with the big five
sight, smell, hearing, taste and feel are for the surreal

Andreas Simic©...

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