Short Haywire Poems

forty winks today
elusive sleep tomorrow
zombie forever



Sept. 11, 2010...

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Disstracted
Streched over quick-sand
Train haywire
Confustion starts
Nervous wreck?
Trouble understanding

Focused
Eyes sparkle
Defeat pain
Interdependant
Creative
Assertive...

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I went barefoot and stepped on a stone,
my gait went haywire and I was thrown,
while I was stumbling sideways,
police thought I'm in a haze...
"Honest officer, there's no homegrown!"...

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The white elephant castle of my desire,
Looms large in the mist of my fading stars;
The paradise birds of my refuge flew haywire,
In all my sprung spire,
And the fresh minty aroma of blue dawn;
Dim the waking lullaby sun....

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Triggered emotions,
ran haywire,
in veins,
pulsing all along,
the perfume,
gently rubbed,
at vantage points,
was jigjagged,
in seesaw,
told people around,
that it was my sound,
that I had arrived,
totally and fully contrived....

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The lady knows guns.
She's trained to run.
Will act under fire.
and not go haywire.
When push comes to shove
Get tough and saddle up.
She's in the right mind.
High-ready, open fire.
The lady knows guns.
Double stack, night sights.

....

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My tight budget for last year went haywire
Huge arrear tax due I needed to clear
Plugged holes of extravagance
For planned control of finance
Took utmost care, no sleepless nights this year.

December 27, 2018
Male
Syllable count 10/10/7/7/10
(Checked on howmanysyllables.com)...

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The bird chirping
My foot hurting
I heard a noise
Wish I had poise 

Frustrations chronic
Will need some tonic
The internet goes haywire
Nervous led to perspire 

Wishing for peace
Sending a gift to my niece
Praying for calm
Envisioning a palm 

Wisdom so elusive
No excuses...

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Every morning I see my dad in the mirror.
Same hazel eyes
Same round chin
Same freckles
Same bad teeth
Same straight up haywire hair
“Hi Dad!” I say
My eyes grin, just like his used to.
I am amused, but not amazed.
This morning I saw my mother in the mirror.
“Where is your dad?” she screamed at me.
I was too scared to answer....

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Spiritual juggernaut
blessed in angel fire,
pushed from birth, in virtue not,
into life blood pyre.

Sinister cloud haunts her soul
while the rest come and go.
Her blood, drained of most all hope.
Too few words left to sew.

The pages are left to blank.
Life blood gone haywire.
Wordsmith on extended break
to build her own pyre....

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She was agonizingly close
To winning the race when
Things started going haywire
They really played games on her
Some said her game was up
Many had written her off
Others said she was history

But they had to swallow their
Spoken-too soon convictions
She turned the tables on 
Those sticky things and at the
End hers was not only history
But also a simple sweet victory...

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Across the broken days of pride
unlatch the door for the boreholes
Her freckles shine in the emerald sun
Her hopes are the same as yours
She runs
solace is what she prays for 

A veil of tears ponders
ran naked through the flames
and burnt like you
until unbuttoned 2 became one
eyes to eyes
catherine wheels they span
now everyday is a haywire alone



...

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butterflys to me are an instinct animal and everything goes haywire when things 
go extinct or is it right by gods will?  that is the conundrum of society to me plus 
political parties.....who to pick?  or is it just the canidate!!!!!only the voter knows 
truely and only then came you make your own decision.  I my myself am a 
republican.  How beutiful the butterflys are....

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Poetry is for dreamers
A boat I no longer wish to sail
Of wishful love an dreams and desires
And things with life gone haywire 
I would rather now be a person 
Of astute cause and action
Change the things we dream of 
Shake off the protraction
As we look on the impending doom
Daily catastrophes that spread the gloom
Let us bend the winds that threaten to blow us
And make the world anew....

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I heard there were horns on an Iowan fox.
This went around the circle of kids wearing socks.
In front of a time piece that had out of sync tocks.
The circle was strange, most nurses wore crocks.

The gossip went haywire, ending down at the docks.
Bass fisherman parked to say this on the rocks.
Beware of sharks, they are arriving in flocks.
All because a unicorn had arrived out of a box.
words 75...

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Bees on beach, lost,
squirm in the waves
upside down, and trapped.

Antenna and eyes haywire meant
precious load of nectar and pollen
lost to hive as bees fell from sky.

Less beds of flowers, crops of grain
will be fertilized today
by bees dusted all over with pollen.

Buzzy busy bees behemoth benefits
lie belittled, mere specks on beach,
belies the butterfly effect of wrecked downed mobees....

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Haywire ghetto, lingering corpses, malingering sunshine,
Malignant malediction, staccato with disseminating stench,
Portending: ichor, insipid blood and wenches.

Juxtaposition of aphotic with aphotic; incognizant iniquity.

Noxious oxygen, attenuated jasper, jejune jardiniere:
Zion.

Smoke: implicative cornice,
Sherry or vitriol?
Ours, a world, that feigns polo in alcohol!!

-Pin Dew (30/04/2017)...

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Are there some people somewhat like you and I 
Who have been friends but whenever we meet
Our talks goes haywire, our tongues get crappy
And we sadly bring out  the worst in each other?

The blue clouds disappear, the warning bells ring
And the heart puts a barrier between our souls

Boldly we stop meeting and there is
Loneliness, tears, and unanswered questions

November 23, 2016
For Brian Strand
Contest 241...

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Troubled times,
Awful rhymes,
I cannot write,
Try as I might
Words won't come
Fingers drum
Look up in the air
No words of wisdom there

Fuzzy brain
Going insane
No longer sure
Of anything anymore
Spelling muddled
Mind befuddled
I despair
There are no words of wisdom there

Brain thwarted
Mind distorted
All senses have gone haywire
Feeling cold now
Getting old now
I need some strength to light my fire....

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The first day I met you,

My heart went haywire.

The first day I kissed you,

My soul caught on fire.

You're beauty is amazing,

Your smile fantastic.

But looking back now,

I know it was all plastic.

Fake as can be,

Everything that you're not.

The web you have weaved,

In which I am caught.

You're seemingly pure.

Your "love" is serene.

But I'm starting to realize,

You're not what you seem....

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5AM the haywire of light
you've framed the vista 
from your frosty window
Stacked sachets  of cos lettuces
ponder for an outcome growth
Whence the day of blossom

Salvation is always a cost
Once you rode the world
but now you're part of the pack
eager for their morsels

Talk is easy
like hanging fire
Blackened clichés parade
You straddle the foundations
for the fear of listening 
to your own sage
unfold in your mind!...

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How far
I have fallen
       from your grace.
The stone I dropped into
the breach last week has yet to
       find bottom.
Can you forgive the silence
      from my heart aware  ~
offering excuse and justification
       unending until I am ashamed
that I thought I could ever hide from you.
       Hear me, Father.  Can you forgive me this
detour into black lowlands?

I see your light ahead.  On humbled knees, God, will you
have me back . . ....

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Memory shrouded in time
Dim Face clouded by time
Fleeting Kiss so sublime
Residual embrace, pantomime
Tendered love a shrine

Amorous tryst longingly pined
Smoldering embers to remind
Fantasies, dreams slowly unwind
Fleeting affair left so far behind
Hopes, aspirations streamlined

Fond reflections kindle fire
Warm feelings run haywire
Emotional flashbacks spark desire
Slowly seething in passionate pyre
Until last cinder doth eternally expire...

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Writing is a way to express my feelings
It is considered a healthy way to vent
Until or unless it makes someone uncomfortable
Then you are crazy, or a troll, or a werewolf’s tongue or something

When you are too honest, things can go awry, 
haywire, you can land head down, feet first.
Do it anyway
Spill your truth.
Throw it out there onto the page.
Lay it out.

It can help you find your tribe
and also show you who the name-callers are
so you can avoid them...

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It is one of those times
Surely hard to do this rhyme
With plenty of things going wrong
Just trying to get by and along
Cell phone and computer break
Try to write, screen goes haywire and I take…
A deep breath, and another one
Then the wind blows my carport at 3am before sun
Onto my house and electrical wire
Fire department comes to help and prevent a fire
So, here I am with writers block and lack of sleep
I think I need a leap of faith, a big leap!

Heidi Sands...

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