Short Gulping Poems

As a fishless fish eater
Can someone tell me,
Is eating an oyster
Like gulping a big bogie?...

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Mother earth gulping
Slurping up every raindrop
Thirst unquenchable


Date written and posted: 08/15/2018...

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I came across a coral reef
a seahorse glimpsed
sudden taste for beef

a pregnant pause
'pon gulping down
that dainty horse
  ~ all fifteen pounds...

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gulping for air
when minnows swim
beyond their depth


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A Fish Haiku Contest
Hosted by Mick Talbot
Placed 3rd
19th April 2018...

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Life 
Stoops in
Awe of sea. 

The 
Sea yawn
Gulping waves. 

Life 
And sea, 
Twain depends.
        


Entered for 3-2-1, 1-2-3, haiku contest... Poetry soup....

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Acrobatic bats circle dark English fields gulping hairy insects joyfully,keeping lazy men 
napping on porches,quite regally snoring together,until various wild xenophiles yell zealously!...

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Enticingly juicy
Melting on the burning 
Lips of passion
Stretching tongues to lick
But soured drops long left over
Icings of deadly venoms
Ooh greedy zealots
Gulping to stupor
Concoctions for all such gluttons...

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I was who I was
When I did all that
When I live like
I wanted none of today:
Puffing
Sniffing
Sipping, gulping
Chewing
I was…

I be who I be today 
Changed
Educated
Say what you may

Tomorrow, I will
To be who I will....

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large saw-toothed tiger took a jagged bite
victim was juicy, tasty delight
we watched his mouth turn brilliant red
gulping happy, someone said
some ran off to hide
I went back inside
tiger loved his
strawberry
frosted 
cake...

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It comes in waves
One moment 
Drowning
Gulping for air
Wishing 
The world away
In an abysmal  of fear


Then, the tide turns
Currents change
Swimming 
Doing the backstroke 
Wishing 
The world to stay
With a blissful tear...

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A cameo-
  after the chemo.
Are you sure, it was a tumor.

          *

    A black hole
 in my bones, gulping 
    all the pain.

          *

    You were buried 
alive in the wall of patches.
    Stitch by stich.


Satish Verma...

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when holded Earle a too large cup
of water heapied one inch up
drankied drankied Earle guzzler
and wetted chin and all his beard
slurping gulping could be heard
‘til emptied was the too full cup
and Earle’s hair grew ‘bout one inch up



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Dog is washing her paw
Noisiest loudest grooming ever.
Gulping and slurping.
Chewing and chomping.

I no longer hear the ticks of the clock.
Or the TV set. All I hear are her incessant
Mouth noises.  No one has ever been
Happier to groom themselves....

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red ants are dancing
standing on the edge of the elephant's ear

on the carrion
vultures are swooping,
coyotes gulping down it in the watchful care

the elephant dies in unseen
and graves into the hungry stomach of scavengers 



-Monday, June 3, 2019 Chattogram...

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Every body in hall was surprised why she was rushing
to the table to grab the glass of water while huffing,
gulping down quickly to quench thrust,
asking for more, they were nonplussed;
Gulping quickly known as Xertz; its unusual but gushing.
~X~X~X~
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Seated beside a river, waiting for the sun to lay down.
Blonde hair rolling to all appearances
Gazing at the leviathan gulping the fish
A soul inside me experienced uneasiness
The moon pronounced the fate of life.
The missed cuckoo clock refreshed the memories, life is one-sided...

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I once had a friend
who swallowed the sea,
with a thirst so great
it was awesome to see.

Gulping down water,
in large mouthfuls he drank.
Then into the sea,
I was pushed and I sank!

Sitting on a sea turtle,
I yelled up, "Please stop!
I'm sorry I poured
pepper sauce in your pop."...

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Grog

Gulping down a flagon 

Gives one a gibbous glow. 

Gather 'round ye hardies,

Grab one and have a go. 

Ghostly foam and farting 

Gnomes bilge one gushing flow.

Garish gaffe...drinking Grog!


deborah burch©12/4/2016

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Form: Pleiades...

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"We are tubes." She says.

I think of fish
who are a basic model
for our tubular forms,
how they swim
gulping themselves up
as they move forward.

Most don't talk of their bodies
as cylindrical,
as passageways.
I look at her
sucking a milkshake
up through a straw.

I love her tubes....

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Swallowing songs 
Help the hungry bluebirds sing 
Gulping gasps of air 
With nothing there but Spring 
Time faeries with magic wands 
Go backwards to bury treasure 
Into the grey matter of my brain 
Where poems are locked up like gold 
Only later to be discovered 
At the end of rainbows
They go...

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Present, Future, Past
Mind meanders in time, defined -
NOW postponed by gulping stale wine:
Three vats: Present, Future - then Past!
Eckhart Tolle broke free at last
When recycled thoughts turn us mad
We gaze and chant; go gospel glad
Knowing Past-Future is fake time
Freed in NOWNESS, we re-tool time...

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I swallow in the sorrow
Gulping whole this soiled, bleaching pain
Carry a strained smile
Choked in my mid breath

It's almost never ending
It can almost be heard
The hurt is almost lost
Too lost for words

I bury this smile
Choked in my mid breath
As the hurt transcends beyond
Almost draining

Too draining for words...

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Free falling - wish I could stop
Trying to find my way back to the top

Fearful of what awaits me down there
Gasping and gulping, need a breath of fresh air

Praying each day, singing songs of hope
But no rescue in sight, not even a rope

Lower I go, when will it end?
But I know somewhere below
is a blanket of friends...

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silly sequoia smirks
gulping lusty lurch
bounty breeze bears
callous crest's peer :
haughty hankering hoists
felon fate's foiled

busty bellow blush
under taunted touch
airy atmosphere crush

dark dances drool
moaning melody brood
pulsing punctured pool

sequoia helpless be
feelings spell grip.
      '20:02:09:11:31...

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She could not eat any faster if she had three mouths.
I am in Paris.
Gulping petite delicacies into my dessert hole.
They might escape if I slow down.
AMERICAN! a sixty-five pound weakling says in a disgusted tone.
I give him my American sign of disapproval of his disapproval.
He gives me the same sign back in French.
We both laugh....

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