Short Gawks Poems

a lit Lucifer
falls from a fumbling fist
the burned oaf gawks...

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frightened turtle squats

         on its shadow, wet and yet,

                   gawks at zooming jet !...

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Cat
In box
Schrödinger
Giddily gawks
Meow?


*inspired by Clive C's "Annihilator"
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Herr Vilfred consults 
his mirror.
Gawks long at himself 
in horror.


His limp receding, 
graying hair,
no longer that of a 
debonair.


Gone's the tousled look
of long ago
that used to enthrall 
women so....

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O' slumbers o'er swarts realm rends the hawks,

Labyrinth town, lady o' night then gawks,

Man fumbles a hand,

Zipped lady attend,

Mouse scampers pass heels, a lady balks.



Date: May 22, 2019...

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Walk a mile in my two shoes.
Stalk days, while men spy through views
Talked. Stay! Aisles thin by new pews.
Balk! Weigh miles, when eyes, who choose
Caulked ways, file sin. Cry blue blues!
Chalk gray smiles, then try to schmooze
Gawks. Pray vile kin die. True dues!...

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folks can't help but laugh
                           funny neck of that giraffe
                         bent down for a quaff


                      yonder, turtle squats
                    on its shadow, scared and yet
                  gawks at  zooming jet !...

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I saw a beautiful great horned owl today while out on my nature walk
He was sitting proudly while snapping his bill and deeply hooting at me
And watching me so intensely from his predatory eyes with piercing gawks
I was delighted until I saw bloody skeletal remains under his tree


3/24/19...

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The thorns have come for me
Her deadly flower walks
There's more for taking me
to deadly hallow docks

What once was gracing me
now trecherous goary blocks
When now I come to see
her hoary marry mocks

That now  I know to see
more caring fair-thee flocks
So all I love to see
is sparing tarry gawks...

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With the chalk, 
Teachers' hearts knock
Students flock;
Goats, we overstock
And sheep, we unlock! 

With our talks, 
Teachers' mouths stalk
Lazy students' works, 
Discipline the ones that balk, 
And reinforce the gawks! 

With our walks, 
Knowledge toast to hawk
Teachers nighthawk;
Going days overwork, 
Reactivating students' blocks. 

Happy Teachers' day!...

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Sir Vilfred consults the mirror
  gawks long at  himself in horror
    his limp, receding, graying hair

no longer that of a debonair
  the tousled look of long ago
    that used to enthrall women so

now only makes him look so old
  at best, so tired, losing his hold
    he looks away hurt, disgusted

just can't believe he's this wasted
  he's still a stallion thoroughbred
    he tries to convince Sir Vilfred...

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She's split  amongst the two
One a girl unheard of,
Few see little from
  Who gawks at the slivered moon
through blotchy eyes,
Welled up tears as big as moon pies
  The other a girl who holds up her fibs
Conjurring by magic,
A cloak to mask the lies
  Who catches tears before they slip
Neither bangs or pursed lips
Can hide the sadness in her eyes
  Both are placed with broken wings
She pulls her head together and flies
ME; this one note she sings...

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Little Cartons, Little Sacks

 
The mug of tea I drank at six,
the tea that drives me to the train,
needs a refill. At my desk,
I don’t do much. I wait
for lunch when every day
I eat so much the waitress gawks.
She doesn’t realize the years
till supper. Then I’ll dine alone again,
bolt everything that I bring home
in little cartons, little sacks.
After supper she’s not there
when the couch becomes my slab 
till bed becomes my mausoleum
 

Donal Mahoney...

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