Short Grumbles Poems

The sun goes down
He grumbles about money
They will not eat...

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bear’s belly grumbles
so digs teeth in scrumptious fox…
pre hibernate treat...

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snowstorm in springtime
children’s smiles ‘bout three miles wide
          ~ curmudgeon grumbles...

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sky darkens
as fuji grumbles ~
signing last postcard




AP: 1st place 2020

Posted on June 4, 2018...

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Cold and silent night
as he climbs over the wire
his belly grumbles.


Olusegun Arowolo
Contest:GET YOUR SENRYU ON by Judy Konos...

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 tanka 

during the wind storm
Nature grumbles
trimming the trees 
disgruntled homeowners 
gather in much disarray


31 March 2015...

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Getting dressed he's much the aggressor
His restraint couldn't be any lesser 
He yanks on his pants
With grumbles and rants
That's why they call him a cross dresser!...

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A raven, so craven;
a bit like a raisen. 
Once sweet, now sour
with no source of power.
He stumbles and grumbles;
puking his guts. 

Oh man what a drunk... 
I better get home....

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An alternative bridge.

Under those same stars black the river grumbles 
below the dark cloak of night grumbling louder
howling in the stirring silted froth black pools
deals death hidden in the still, deep....

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Bells
with blues
play bent cup dinged;
discordant, dongs and dings.
Soft and raspy tones that mumble,
rings rung as fuzzy rumbles and grumbles,
rather than clear resonate rings.
Sad Bells
Blue
...

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Cranky crusty Codgers

Skeptical scornfully scowls

Youthful yearning Yonkers

Heartful happily howls

Spurned spiteful Spinsters

Graying gracelessly grumbles

Marvelous merry Maidens

Ravenous richly rumbles...

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Slumber mumbles, grumbles, banters, blubbers and blands
Loose lips leak trailers from secret dreams, slumber shorts
Blurted out with candid shout, trembling feet and hands.
Only the hearer knows what said when sleeper talks....

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EXUBERANT NATURE

              Thunder bolts
            Lightning tears away
             ground grumbles

               joyous chaps
             jolt worlds together
               pause—repeat



Victoria Anderson-Throop  2013 ©...

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As he grows old he just grumbles to everything.

On the other hand he curses his bad luck;

his vision on the affairs of the world is distorted,

he even doesn't know whether his own world is really darker

or whether his eyes are only deceiving him....

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Under those same stars black the river grumbles 
below the dark cloak of night grumbling louder
howling in the stirring silted froth black pools
deals death hidden in the still, deep.


Liberum Divisa contest 8.
Taken from “ An alternative bridge”
3/11/21...

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A moments heat escapes 
Savage grumbles no debate
Seeping out of my human instincts  
Flesh weakened, hearts sink 
Beating wildly 
Some call it love, mildly 
Reach higher than high 
Sigh
Then slowly cooling off to a bliss that bursts 
Quenching the human thirst...

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Simba's an ornery cat says the vet

  During visits both get greatly upset

      Simba grumbles and hisses

         Not at me or the missus

            But at the vet who ain't tamed him as yet

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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My world grumbles as it turns.
I hear the cries of nations fade 
into the night.
I see the moon looking down 
at such a sight.

The world that I know is going 
wrong.
But the world that I know keeps 
marching on.

How many more worlds must 
crumble as it turns?...

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gleam in ale,
a glass of dark brew happiness
served on a marble bar ;
frothy inebriant, 
a tickle to his moustache,
grown over moon's pass
juggled with solar heat 
across the heaven's street, blue sky.

gleam in ale,
a froth for drowning
mumbles and grumbles
of life
a glass of dark brew happiness....

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The house still sleeps,
Coughs, rustles, creaks
scuttle under my closed door.
The truck grumbles into the alley.
It used to be a barmaid 
trashing bottles near
the house where I grew up
making pops and clinks.
Now it's trucks collecting bins,
dumping glass in their broad bellies
huffing away down the alley....

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The sun was late this morning
Or was I early
At any rate
I waited
Tapping my fingers
Impatiently.
The appointment
Requested I show up
20 minutes early
To register
My shadow.
The receptionist
Told me
“the sun is running
A bit behind schedule”
Please be patient.
My shadow grumbles
It hates these appointments.
...

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EFG


Emeralds

elfin emeralds
exude earthbound energy ~
  essence escaping

Fiera

fiery fireworks fun
 fire flowers fauna flora ~
  festive fairground fetes

Gourmand

gourmet gastronome
 grumbles gets greasy gravy ~
  gleeful glutton gloats
 
7-20-20
Let the Pens Flow – Alliteration
Sponsor: Jenish Somades...

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Fixed above is a gigantic all-hearing ear
That listens to every cry and jeer,
A never-shutting ear that is set
To hear all inaudible moans of souls in fear,
And the innate grumbles of them that fret.

That ear is just and favors none;
It is of the Father enthroned on high,
The Omnipotent and the Mighty One;
The rescue of them that are left by the world to die....

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Busy breezy baby
Facelift funny fancy


Bubbly baby beckons
Rapture reaping reckons


Tiny treasure tumbles
Glimpses gaining grumbles


Lifting lazy laughter
Ample asking after


Bubbly bouncing baby
Sounding simply silly


Dreamy dazzle dangles
Touchy treasure tangles


Sleepy succinct spacious
Apt antics audacious




Leon Enriquez
10 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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Playing jigsaw with the clouds
Spoiler they just make one giant cloud
i know i shouldn't be allowed       
light reflected in the raindrops
on the window glass
like a fractal demon mask
frozen mist
hangs around frame
sheltering from the obsidian rain
puddles tremble
light scratches across the sky
cloud haloed for a sec
thunder grumbles
missed the chance again
never to meet
my friend...

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