Short Harried Poems

Sunflowers, Van Gogh grows, on his canvas —
      proud sunny Hostess Sno Balls;
   half harried in unrest.

5/5/2021...

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Moon in my living room.
Our reflection would do the same.
Then your teal pulse,
Harried by a singing wind,
Elopes in your ears,
Right where I kiss you....

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Seth Brown had a popular magic act
everybody in town knew that fact.
But his rabbit got sick
with a display of I C K.
Seth fired the rabbit and got a new hat....

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When feelings stop,
 words take over
Emotion harried,
pen unleashed
Heart in limbo,
mind resurging 
Muse in waiting
—time released

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)...

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Oh Larry,
Don't get harried-
Lack of sleep you say?
Keeping your evil twin at bay?

Don't try to cheat,
we all know you are just too sweet
To be an annoying creep!...

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Where is my cat? Asked the harried mama
I am getting tired of her frazzled drama
I could tell her the cat is hiding in her hair
But I don’t like her that well, so I merely stare...

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When Christmas party is foiled by flu
What then, does a harried hostess do?
She goes to the phone
Says, “We must poshtpone.
We’ll reschedule when the dyear is dew”.




(the year is new)...

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Grandma Gertie's grandson's getting married
Though Grandma looks like she's a bit harried 
   Hey, Grandma, just chill out
   No need to cry or pout
New frying pan's for FOOD! -- Why you worried?!...

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Summer bird house with a tweet tweet tweet
Run by cardinals and chickadees, both too sweet
Is a hotel for the harried, the hurried and the healthy.
Every bird is welcome whether poor, indigent or wealthy....

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If you're harried, befuddled and flustered.
And your life tastes of pepper and mustard.
Don't abandon the field,
and remain even-keeled.
You will soon get a spoonful of custard....

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HABOOB

Harried sands joins forces,
Hurrying towards us,
Heavy with thud of hooves.
Horrified! Seek shelter!
Hampered sun does not shine.
Hope sought in praying hands,
Hapless in the storm’s core.

2/17/2017...

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TIRED WALMART EMPLOYEE

				harried
						married

				tarried

						carried

				she was harried, married to a jerk
				never tarried, carried on with work

20 January 2018

For contest sponsored by Kim Rodrigues...

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Vagabond drifters
meander on zephyr winds
   never questioning 'ere they rove

Kindred gypsy souls, 
undaunted by life's harried challenges
   xenophobia and judgement free
    ignoring yesterday's philosophies...

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I lose awhile the harried world's  hysteria,
Seeing you so winsome in Wisteria.

If only I could mend my mind with  mystery,
Could balance on the double edge of history,

I would tell the world how time may linger,
Lovely on a petal or a finger....

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Today the sky is full to bursting,
the air a cloak ne’er night.
The lawns so plump with chlorophyll
the world’s full of life.

A lassitude fills harried hearts
they slow their frantic pace.
The day is wide with wonder
and all are in their place....

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code red —
don’t come to school.
ignores - can’t stay away!
her own teenage son could be in trouble.
the drones circling in her harried brain.
a mother’s feeling sick...insane.
calm days have passed away.
texts her husband —
code red

8/27/2018...

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Not a wisp of wind
disturbs the willows
along the path I walk,
the silence
and the stillness
speak to my hurt
and harried heart;
let hard lessons
learned 
flow swiftly down
the soothing stream
to the sea,
evaporating into rain,
returning refreshed
to water virgin dreams.
...

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Another dream has come to me
(Most horrid of its kind)
It showed me all that will never be
In my present state of mind
A nihilistic, sadistic Curse-
Disease that eats my harried brain
Just let it be, there's nothing worse
Than popping pills to ease the pain

*I'll let you translate the title lol ;)...

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Miss Elizabeth Taylor
married everyone she met but Norman Mailer
Received many valentines day boxes
for she was sly as reddish foxes.

Princess Di met one nice guy
Having no idea he loved one who was married.
She is now an angel in the sky,
And he is with his soulmate, who looks quite harried....

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Life is lived in one breath,
especially when it is demanding,
through the rush and melee',
we miss the things that are
so beautiful and carefree,
One day rolls into the next,
The years go by so fast,
which leaves us wondering
if we lived life fully, or knew
how it felt to really have
a "blast"....

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Harassed,hasselled,harried
temporarily tarried
tormented and troubled.
Yet blessed !
Feeble,forlorn or friend-less
powerless,forsaken and distressed.
Yet blessed !
Beset,burdens to confess
suffering,perhaps oppressed.
Yet blessed !
Despondent and thwarted
in frustration and failure.
Yet blessed !...

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Creeping between bushes of hard realities,
Existence, difficult to breathe, like ice, does freeze,
Heart, as though affected by a massive attack,
Goes heartless pack; arteries of affections crack;
Feelings of faith and hope and fortitude harried,
Optimism, within graves of anguish, lay buried...!



25 January 2023...

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the last remaining vestiges of autumn
bitter clingers
parched and weary
shriveled in dismay
harried and harassed by an ill north wind
launch into oblivion
to join the sea of lifeless carcasses
on the forest floor

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for the Winter Storm Poetry Contest
sponsored by Kim Rodrigues
written on 12/25/22...

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Hoarder holds her hostage, heaps heavy history hysterics.
Her husband, horrific. Harried hugs humiliate. Hops, hits
hags — harmed honeymoon. Hiss harkened hellbound Harris.
Hysterical Helena hinted hate, harbinger hackles heightened, hot.
How? Hagfish homicide? Herbs? Homer helps Helena hack! 

12/18/2020
Alliteration Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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Cold snow covered all tombs and lanes,
Still he strewed the coffin with sprays
of flowers, to lessen his pains.
He uttered a few words of praise.
But snow showers
Buried flowers.

He recited poetic strains
Could only look down in a daze.
Hot tears fell upon her remains
Yet snow veiled all in a cold haze,
Irked and harried,
All sprays buried....

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