Short Gravely Poems

the mourning dove sits

the grave gravely has been dug

e we are out tonight...

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Sliver of snow remains
No longer pristine or pretty
Gray and gravely, gray-scale ugly
Dog rolls in it, loving the cold wetness...

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Here lies what's left of Knobby Clark;
he didn't hear them shouting, 'Shark!'

written 13th September for Jesse's epitaph contest...

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Irrational views of all virulent kinds
Are among the slow-witted expected,
But often they mark more intelligent minds,
Making these the more gravely infected....

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Such an irritating act
When you're are gravely focused
And your brain in a snap
Comes up with a flash
of Johnny Depp
on the red carpet
smoking an e-cigarette!
Now, just WTH is that?...

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like feeling
the fall when
approaching
the edge of
the world

yet wait why 
would my 
own weight
pull me down

thinking i've
always been
an outlaw
but this

will be
gravely
breaking
the law of

gravity...

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Happy old Jackeroonie ain't so happy lately
The weather's a bummer, his psyche's suffering greatly
It's the same old thing
Where the hell is spring
Must hide all the knives for fear of events quite gravely...

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The heart has this hard-headed habit
of hoping against the dimmest hope,
of hearing but not heeding 
the head.


Though routinely it gets gravely hurt,
it is healed by time, enabled to cope,
unafraid once again to get 
wounded!...

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When the possum met with our tire tread
He lay still and we thought he was dead
So we scooped him right up
In a pot for our sup
Let’s just say we were gravely misled







12.13.18
For make me LOL contest
Sponsor - Nina Parmenter...

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He watched the show, sitting on the bleachers,
that author Lee Child,
as his creation, the great Jack Reacher,
became five foot seven, meek and mild.



NOTE: I'm sure I'm not the only one who was gravely disappointed at Tom Cruise playing Jack Reacher. *sigh*...

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After guzzlin' beer Gus needed to pee.

  He sought solace behind a nearby tree.

     Before the judge he was fined,

        To which Gus gravely opined:

            "Where e'er you be let yer water flow free!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...

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Graves for mariners,
leaning towards the sea,
a lot lop-sided
as if seasick

Gravely now,
we went towards the graves,
the sea churning,
then marinating green

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6/22/2015

Contest  -  Any Old Poem #7

Sponsor  - SKAT A 

1st place win...

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We need sorrow for our sins
Means turning away from evil and turning to Eternal God
Sins may be mortal or venial sins
Mortal is gravely sins
Venial is daily that pertain 7 Deadly Sins
Perfect Contrition arises from the love of Eternal God
This loving sorrow remits venial sin or mortal sins

04052014...

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After guzzlin' beer Gus needed to pee

   He sought relief behind a nearby tree

      Before the judge he was fined

        To which Gus gravely opined:

            "Where e'er you be let yer water flow free!"

Entry for Andrea Dietrich's "A Limerick, Old Or New" Contest

Placed No. 4 in the contest...

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Walkers crisps should be forced to comply
With trade description legislation
And stop disappointing their customers
With their artificial flavourization

When purchasing a bag of Walkers crisps
The refined palate of an epicurean
Would be gravely disappointed if they did not
Taste of Rambler, Hiker or Pedestrian...

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bald eagle circling bare fields

cropped grain in sharp focus -

hare fair game for nature’s call


waterfall refusing to rise above

climatic change to see for all -

central vision gravely impaired


cataracts speeding up shadows

snow fall veils scarred curtains-

crow cautiously picks bull’s eye


05th February 2020...

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Like the sight of Dandelions at an open venerate sepulcher.
Of the ardent touch, precipitously hailing two other's semblances to erudite tacit merit.
Voracious of the petal's vocation.
Voracious of the petal, so insatiably, so securely vulnerable, does she... does she not...
Delicate, denoted as such an inane, yet so gravely a significant....

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Firecrackers bursting tare, 
New years, new tear... 

Burst the durst,
Accurst in an outburst, 

Rainfalls witnessing the tough times,
Outfalls are the rough mistimes... 

A go to his ego,
Forego the flamingo, 

Bye to a lovely lover, my heart...
Eyes are gravely over, my harte... 

Broom, a bloom in his room,
Groom, a doom in his darkroom......

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this hell 
they say – ‘tis real
yea! in the best of its crude
real-ity!
when all the moons
in all the nights
past me like an hermit
… the nights were un-starry
& days mourn’d at best
whilst death-wishing eloquence
danced the dizzy hours
& their loathesome moons
a countryside lied
in a gravely cave
& forlorn mounts & hills
mixt with their dead
almost my … self!...

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I sit at my family’s empty table
Life’s feast is almost gravely gone
I am the final guest left in this familial fable
All within my bloodline have somehow succumbed
I recall the time of the sweet, sour, bitter and salty with zeal
Each gathering shared with love for each other at every meal


November 13, 2022
Bitesize Poem Number 55
Sponsored by:  Line Gauthier...

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Drowsy car rides no destination
Blaring music lack determination 
The glowing lights passing by
Miles and miles as we drive

Wrapped in blankets with soft hums
Jaws popping while chewing gum
Lazy Monday whiles it's rainy
Our smiles are forever gravely

And soon the moon rises high
Blocked by grays in the sky
And as we pass route 64
I want to stay here forever more...

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Born of ignorant sod
King of kings, son of God
Halo crown of thorn
Pivotal pinnacles adorn

Crucifix dogwood tree
Suffer so dire malady
Forge rugged cross
Convey sanctioned loss

Purest blossoms white
Pristine petals alight
Tips in sanguine red
Pierced divine bloodshed

Father's grief enlisted
Boughs gravely twisted
Ne'er again use malice
Hardwood most callous


3/14/2022...

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You seek us out and then you destroy our lives
You come into our homes and fill our hearts with lies
For you know the condemnation we so gravely fear
but you carry on striking us until our blood releases tears

Abominations we are called and to your power we must yelled
Forced to marry the opposite S e x to prove that we are healed

why.....well because in your eyes we are less than human...

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Chubs is gravely flat.
We remove our hats.
Her wheel deflated him—
Chubs, my cuddly cat.

Flounder is lying flat,
ambling on his back.
Her croutons choked him—
Flounder, my friendly catfish.

Gopher is resting back-flat,
striking position for naps.
Her diabolical chocolate gateau
snuffed him out almost.

Gopher rose once again,
my mangy mutt, back-to-life. 
Ma decried; she'd die
in a reindeer stampede...

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Deep pain 
    when a close friend 
 falls gravely ill 
   You must understand, 
reader
   As I know that
such things have 
happened to you 
    A sudden hole 
in your life 
   and you lose a part of the 
strength you have 
   Never pleasant 
when someone close to you 
  is in dire straits 
One can only 
pray for their 
   recover 
and light the proverbial candle 
   and not curse the oncoming darkness...

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