Short Harpoon Poems

Heart-shaped harpoon
Carrying away my soul
Death and I just stare...

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he was excited 
learning harp
that night 
was his ideal
it was the idea...

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waling and
yelling at
the top
of his
voice

Ahab
stabbing
the air with
a harpoon says

that
whale
is a dick...

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As you take a deep breath
and sink within'...

When you return for air
.....beware....
of cunning hunters harpoon.......

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I pushed
to take the stage
past my talents merit
to an audience
of silence
and stares
icicles
to harpoon my heart
for daring....

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diver ship harpoon 
a calf alone in open 
the sea is quiet 


 
haiga-haiku-theme sea-ocean-5-7-5 contest
Sponsored by Mick Talbot 

5-3-2018...

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The koi soul flies
on wings of the wind
dipping in orange guise
painting his scales and fin
harpoon rays pierce and awry
as his eyes and dreams arise
To the ocean in the sky...

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Winter warmer
Sky forgotten
Eye glass frost
Rotten timber

Room for rent
Random guest
Renaissance
Heart from chest

Molten eyelids
Roman candles
Romantic end
Milk from breast...

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Breath in breath out, 
Something to write about.

Language flows across the page,
Poetry has no age.

As you fill the page with just 26 letter',
You start to feel better.

The pen : a harpoon, 
The page : immune....

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Rowed upon a pond today
At least in my daydreams
Cast a line for trout or bass
Life’s never what it seems

The pole turned into harpoon line
My trout into a whale
My row boat to a brigantine
With well set billowing sail...

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Through a bullet point
A harpoon was sharpened
By boom
In gloom

Switch on the button
You jump
I jump 
Into a Russian roulette

You look at me
I look at you
Cross one’s arms
Under arms
Sit together
With the masquerade...

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Harpoon rays melt from the sun,
A fiery furnace in the sky;
A shadow rounds the sundial,
the nonexistent hand tells the time;
It has circled into the abyss,
A vision portrayed and betrayed,
The mind is caught in a whirlpool
of time....

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In the unplumbed depths
of whales’ deep-held breaths
a singular shaft
fired with force from the aft
twists to it end.

Deep in the dark
where reality lies stark
a flittering thought
lies unexposed, distraught
awaiting the penetrating insight....

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It’s too soon to predict when the monsoon winds will start blowing.
We never eat until its noon.
Baboons don’t blow balloons.
Spoon-feeding is what students nowadays want instead of using a harpoon to fish knowledge.
In camp Lazlo cartoon, Lumpus came out of the large cocoon....

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Inside/Outside
Maze of life, Mirror of thought
Brain symbiosis on bureaucratic 
Check the bank 
The recognition dizzied, paralyzed

Come thunder to break the ice
Come harpoon to cut control 
Bring spirit underground
Where echoed sounds still resound

Love reigns in wet drops
Love conquers all shields...

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DICK
Big whale Dick
Poor soul red hollows
Death, harpoon, strikes
HARPOON STRIKES
Harpoon strikes
The whale wails
A little water added to the brine
SEA BRINE
Whale's blood
warm as your daughter
Your harpoon kills her sibling
SIBLING
My whale brother
Is your meat so soft?
Your fat lights Faroe.
MOBY
Mariners
Mars and Venus
Moby Dick....

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You're smile kept me afloat on the ocean,
casting my fears away,
but little did I know,
you were not mine to stay.

Our topic of love was exciting,
as you wiped every tear.
But,
you shot through my heart with a harpoon gun at start.

But as you made sure to fumble with my hair,
fixing every single curl,
you whispered the words,
"I like another girl."...

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Up bright and early with HORUS
Enjoying the sounds of the Morning Glory chorus

Feeling the energy and riding with RA at noon
Beautiful, warming rays piercing my skin like a harpoon

Coming down a bit after noon, moving towards SET
But still shining brightly 'cause it hasn't gone down yet

Now OSIRIS is looming very near
Cooling down, yes, going down, about to disappear...

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I woke up in a Saturday Morning
sleeping in too late.
It is a little boring
this is the mood I really hate.

I missed all of my favorite cartoons
its now 11 o'clock.
Maybe I should play with my harpoon
but I know I'll just be told to stop.

While I'm writing this poem
my brother comes up to me and says hey.
Then I go to my friends home
and that is what makes my Saturday.


Jakob Vaught...

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Lurking in fuzzy leftovers is seen
A quivering, crawling hairball of green
A florescent prune
Or cheese from the moon
Gurgles gastric, plastic alien spleen

The miser squire requires gluts of caffeine
To dissect this science project's gangrene
Harpoon on a spoon
Zoom to the saloon
Lunch ladies' supreme mystery cuisine.

3/15/19

For Green Humor contest
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire...

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what's an ahab to do?
hot to trot on the beach
salt crusting my mouth
baked and begging to take a stab at whale tail

harpoon in hand, i make a splash
diving down to the floor
an ocean undulating, feet flailing wildly
i breach the surface then gasp for air

unable to fight for long, the calf relents
writhing in a pool of her own fluids
she shudders, closing her eyes
sated by the bloodless death...

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There once was a sailor from Saskatoon
Who recklessly wielded his new harpoon
         He impaled himself
         Accusing an elf 
Crew replaced him by a smarter baboon



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on August 11, 2019 for contest A LIMERICK, OLD OR NEW: YOUR PERSONAL FAVORITE sponsored by ANDREA DIETRICH  -  RANKED 6TH

and July 21, 2019 for contest IMPALED sponsored by ANTHONY SLAUSIN...

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I am Neptune's daughter. I carry
Ancient salty sea in my veins, and all
Its watery wildlife. Daddy is an old git
With beautiful merman scales. He sails
Above the ocean squall while I squat
And watch from the cliff,
Wondering if the jet net and
Hack-harpoon of my heart
Will yet catch a fat whale, or holy haul of
Salmon, sunset pink. Obscured by
Needle-fish violence,
And the jejune juice
Of squid ink....

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My fragile hammock cocoon
The sunrays penetrate my skin like a harpoon
Lazily swinging between the branches like a baboon
Tropical heat rising like a hot-air balloon
Cooling in an ice-cream cone
Burning a natural tan

Summer is fire at high noon
Sweating an oily sunscreen
There in the mouth of a dragon
A swimming pool like ‘Hell Inn’ 
A tropical storm brewing soon
The smell of rain fills the afternoon...

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I see a blackish V
held so high,
but where's the other twenty-five?
I hear the buzzing B
as I sigh...
Yet another letter surprise!

In the woods you'll hear J
alluring,
in the midst of spring right on Q!
I toss this world away,
creating
Alphanature from A to U.

I long to harpoon love
on wild C's,
drinking sailor's T; distant stars.
Finding beauty out of
little things
is just the way we poets R!



For Kim Morrison's Wordplay Contest....

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