Short Gingerly Poems

Buried emotions
seep gingerly to surface
exonerated...

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spring
rose buds
robins nest
with spotted eggs
gingerly cared for
sun’s sweet smile
warming us
lovely 
spring...

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Beaten and scarred
Walking gingerly outside
Upon his release,
Jumping away from the warmth
Unknowns scare us all the most...

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Surging forward
like ocean swells,
the frog happily hopped
gingerly along its way.

Like stoppable shores,
deep and deeper holes awaited him....

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puffball bouquet
walking gingerly
slowing it down
tiny specks zooming off
i stand perfectly still, admiring the delicate beauty
pink dandelion magic...

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Rotund rhinoceros, short chubby legs
Gingerly walks between old ostrich eggs
She is full of sass
As she makes a pass
Please get me a rainbow tutu, she begs....

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Gray thickness coats all
Cool dampness penetrates morn
Mocking Bird chatters
Soon sun will chase away fog
Cotton clouds float gingerly  ...

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the fresh air wafts in
meandering exploring
curious and capricious
gingerly bobbing
candidly playful
announcing with much enthusiasm
summer's arrival 




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Come down gingerly.
The deep snow is melting.
Will wait at pass.

It was a toxic
snub unintentional.
Growing poppies.

The thinker thinks not;
in the poem of terror,
the blood will spill.


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The purple ground cover came up overnight
Miraculously covering the yard in blankets
I step gingerly, coaxing winter daisies to take a hint
Sidestep a teeny white violet, a motorcycle sound in the distance....

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What a silly nincompoop, hands free phony
Driving over everything in his pathway
His eyes fully occupied by the cute girl
Gingerly bouncing!


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Tiptoe gingerly she said.
I know, I yelled, irritated. Don’t tell me what to do!
These black holes don’t play! She warned me.
I just want to have a tiny peek inside, I retorted.
The last time I was heard or seen....

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accumulation
choking the room bitterly
an embarrassment
carefully tromping through it
side-stepping junk gingerly

My pack rack eye-tis
surrounds me untidily
disturbing eyesore
jumping over largest pile
not inviting company...

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Coconut, coconut
Brown and hairy
Trying to crack you 
Is bloody scary

Holding you gingerly
And fairly afraid 
I set to with gusto 
Wielding a blade 

And once I succeed 
I'm flush with success.... 
But I see you've shattered  
Into a helluva mess...

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Stepping in water, displacing the pool.
Walking prudently in body and mind. 
For there is no room for a squatter, 
forcing spillage over water’s bind  

Secure a space for your form, 
sitting gingerly at witness. 
One cannot see past the water's norm. 
Hence be one within it....

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ginger surmising
the mood while rising
a sip for me, Bach and tea
a bench for a throne
liberates my own
connection with ivory


restless eyes draw closed
moments to compose
gingerly to far off place-
fragrant steam escapes
wrapping rapture's shape 
in timeless, lyrical lace

~...

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The people lift their umbrellas
as they pass each other along Saint Giles.
I am not at ease in my own body
as I move toward Mass,
my limbs gingerly shaking out,
my jeans wet to above the knee.
I can't help thinking
how much better it is 
to be alone in sadness
than to be with someone else....

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A Dream For Maureen

saw her peeking hesitantly 
through the window  
shaped as a page yellowed
with age and scented of violets
and forget me nots, a posey
once given shyly 
and received with love.
I reached toward her
she stepped gingerly into
my world of words and wishes
for a long spring afternoon....

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Ignited within sound
A caressing hymn
Gingerly whispered
Delicately tasted

Fluid in movement
A perfect imprint
Intricately dancing
Sweetly forming

Burning in passion
A melodious familiar
Innocently calling
Cleverly convincing 

Flooding in truth
An overpowering realization
Comfortably revealing
Soulfully consuming...

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She passed through a portal, gingerly and then all at once.
Baby steps guide her through darkness, a symphony of shadows
There is beauty beyond brightness, beyond colored light,
Beyond happy and healthy and full of might.
There is beauty in grim words and eyes of tears,
There is beauty in facing your darkest fears....

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The woods were wet; there was a smell of anticipation that we only smell in August.  My feet sunk down into the damp wet leaves, and I began to feel the morels, watching me, taunting me. I could taste them before I found two large enough to pick.  


damp and gingerly
quite deep in the underbrush
morels show themselves...

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The waitress was clueless,
The noise level high
And two of us waited for meals,
While the rest of us, hungry,
Did gingerly eat,
Yet still, restaurant dining appeals…

For we all sat together
And ate what we liked -
I had fries with my sandwich and beer;
When you’re visiting family,
You gather around
And enjoy having everyone near.
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Pinecone mold creatures in the forest lurk
Dropped by elves and faerie on an autumn day
Collecting them should be difficult work
There is an underlying mist so light and gray 

From this enjoyable task I do not shirk.
Lightly tiptoeing through the leaves today 
Mushroom hunting is my happiest quirk.
Boots step gingerly careful of the fey...

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she had allergies to grass so we brought the garden inside
attaching one flower at a time to the wall, so she could see them
she was careful as she examined them one by one
giggling as she gingerly touched them in no order
she will eat them, her grandpa predicted
but she did not, she caressed them
a barefooted toddler ballerina who loved floral...

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Yonder weeping tears
Wondering and weak
Undefiled and tender
Straightway comforting
Clasping her gingerly

Strengthening the soul
Replenishing privily love
Nourish might of mind
Disintegrating past
Renewing the future

Grasping new adventures
One connection of two
Traveling new roads
Never restrained
Tumbling down blocks
Always as one...

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