Short Harping Poems

Having heard the harping howls 

of a hungry herd on the prowl

I realized reticence is a revered gift

like the sweet love song of a swift...

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From strings miserably out-of-tune,
voices compose music, sung a cappella.
Writers join them prepared to oppose injustice
yet harping over the kinks in government.

September 1, 2021...

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"the take my wife please paraprosdokian"



harping
unlike
Harpo
honking

as if one
of a what
the flock
goosed

geese
i seem
to be
or not

to no
i am 
knowingly
continuously 

arguing
but it's
with and
within

myself...

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Horrific hound’s horrid hair     					            
Holding human hatred 					          
Haggardly hawk hones hooks 					            
Harping harlot’s whoring  haze					               
Mean mares manes maddens mind 				         
Marauders mane my mainstay  					            
Mobility moored most menacing...

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the madhouses of paris filled with retired teachers
got their point across
song of waterloo
this napoleanic labyrinth stearing
children to the brink 
madame martina martini
academia nuts cracked open wide

I see a few on the cliffs of burndom
harping their humdrum at the gods of charred sea eternity
and wonder about the love they made...

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Dickens Had A Quickie Meal
limerick
      






                                     Dickens had a quickie meal
                                   And chilled out on a harp seal
                                        Dickens was burping
	                               The harp was harping	
                              'Hey, you have not paid my hunch bill’



(C) Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
2014/12/03...

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Parallel parking on a private stow
For every row there was a foreign road  
Waiting for night, my thoughts roam
Straightforward, straight towards her

To...say.. find another, another home
Goodbye my lover, goodbye my love

A voicemail harping and a dial tone, 
Went to your door yet no one's home
And all my beliefs lay there on your wreath, 
Intertwined with stems and leaves
Fastened to a... ring

Goodbye Hanna, goodbye home
Goodbye forever, forever I'll roam...

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Oh, docile crescendos
Spiraling out from our hearts,
I listen.
Oh, I here them all:
The wake of our dreams
Trying to pave their way
On pathless courses in life.
I listen- 
To every toll harping throughtout the years.
We cannot delay and remain stationary
Where we are now.
No, we must journey away,
Pursue the symphonies within us.
Oh, docile crescendos,
Spiral out.
I listen in wait for every note
To come streaming forth;
So that in the end, all of
Our songs are one voice of the world....

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