Short Hiccup Poems

Hiccup irritates
Ribcage hurting critically
Many times a day...

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Such a fragile life
Inhale, exhale, a hiccup
A fine pane of glass...

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A brimming cup
Holding up tea
Hiccup erupts.

25.11.2020
Than- Bauk Me Poetry Contest...

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round and round
without a hitch
it seemed to go...
until that is
there was that 
awkward hiccup



posted on June 9, 2023...

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I’ll get to the pills with a twist
The scripts filled by my pharmacist
If there’s a hiccup
Delaying the pick-up
Watch out as I might just get pissed
...

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A drunk redneck fell out of his pickup
While in the middle of a big hiccup
When a needy dame
Saw the new fair game
And wondered how she’d pick up that hick up

2/20/16...

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Something eloquently refers
I have known rivers
stealthily nighttime
just dreaming.
A complex figure will stir you
Lofty brow swallows
Days to sleep bleed
of blunt instruments
a small hiccup...

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Do not fear the C-PAP;
though they get a bad rap,
they get life-saving oxygen
straight to your brain.
But there’s been a small hiccup,
so we will need to pick up
your model before you
drive your soup friends insane....

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Some people
like chocolate
like wine
like spring sale
like tivoli
like confetti
and then other people
like bedbugs
like hiccup
like the song on your mind
like an alarm clock
and the warm red shawls
in winter time...

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Murmur. 
Bloodflow. Heartbeat. 
Gurgle. Whoosh. Burp. 
Ma. Mom. Momma. Dada. 
Hiccup. Thump. Hum. 
Mommy. Daddy. 
Pitch. Rhythm. Pattern. 
Music. 
Movement. 
Mother. Father. 
Scream. 
Stillness. 
Silence.

10.10.2017...

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Some children arrived dressed as ghouls,
I asked don’t they learn dates in schools -
They’d come one day early,
Were rude and got surly,
I chided them as stupid fools!

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10/21/19...

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there is nothing cuter that I have found 
than a panda baby doing a pushup
except maybe a baby goat hopping around
or a baby fawn who has a hiccup

I truly have to retract my steps here.
A panda baby doing pushups fills me with cheer.
Nothing cuter I have ever seen
I pronounce her the cutest uplifter I have ever seen....

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Funny Robbery

Hiccup
Stick-up

Resort for Primates

Gorilla
Villa

Country Singer Sounds like a Bird

Trilly
Willy

Small Town Dump

Village
Spillage

The Party Pooper

Thriller
Killer

Frigidity

Chillness
Illness

A Deathly Calm

Stillness
Illness

Measure of Happiness

Smileage
Mileage...

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Blame it all on warm beer 
at the stoplight.

The inside of my skull throbs
with the drone of tired traffic.
And windshield wipers whine
with my CD's old rock metallic.

Then, jolting my line of vision,
is a strapping, suspicious cop.
His clipboard and pen, enough
to make my sour hiccup stop.

Blame it all on warm beer 
at the stoplight.

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So many times you have hurt me,
creating an emotional shrill
that disintegrates my joy
in a hiccup speed.....

It is by holding onto love for you,
that I have learned how to join pieces
of my broken joy again. I tried alcohol,
bungee-jumping, and sky gazing
to repair my joy, but alas! alas!;
I discovered that love was the easiest
way to my joy's pieces again!...

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A limp lamp post sags 
             beneath a groggy moon
                           within the blurred arc 
                                               of a yellowish neon halo.


I hiccup, I sway, I grin, 
             as my empty beer cans
                           clang and clatter drunken
                                                down a sober alley below....

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Deer crossing
Pulse quickens
There's one now
Drat it. Wasn't ready...

Deep breath
Good...Exhale
Again...Ready?
Ready!  
Where are they?
Tension builds
Dang. Had to hiccup
Timing is everything 

OK. Deep breath again
The old familiar drill
Hands are clammy
Settle down
Can't miss another chance
Steady now
Here come two
Pause
Aim 
Shoot!
Got 'em!
Perfect photo!...

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The way morning bleeds through to night.
My thoughts are a quiet park
free of whimsical birdsong and children’s laughter

on Saturday afternoon’s eternal summer.
From the bench you’re on a quilted ridge
sleek as a southern hiccup weaving through cedar 

where pine needles flourish by your dimming light.
I sink softly, a freshly formed puddle 
fallen below.  The sky unembroidered....

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With a rescue package that won’t pick up
Being steadily hit by a hiccup  
And prices jacking up
Should we still treat him like a hero 
Who has scored a shameful zero?

Still him obediently follow
And this taking to tomorrow?
Ourselves consoling with laughs hollow 
And him sparing a ripe bellow?
Or isn’t the disappointing Hero 
Some sort of Caesar Nero 

A name penned with common biro?...

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A baba baby beep beep bede beep
goofey bop
a bee I
in the fee I
a hooooo the wind blows
chomp chomp 
                   wiggle wiggle
a boo be dee boo bop bop
more more; all done
aachew . . . . .amphf
a dit dite a dit
a hiccup a ooh
a bu a dah duh
shake a shake
scootch
crash
        spill
              sip
twist
       twist
               slide
                       all done....

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We volley with sketchy returns
each moment of empathy mirrored
in cough or laugh,
toothy smile or nod
to prod hundreds of
muscles in chase,
scrambling for that
elusive reciprocal
that binds us in effort,

a hiccup of reactive
responses contrary
to conscience or will
to fill yawning mendacity
while locking journeys
in mutual discord
behind the mask
of ordinary compassion
banishing inner calm....

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Hip, hop,hip hop stubbed my toe OUCH!!
Exploitive. Get schnockered Stumble stagger fall down POOP!!!
Try to run trip hit the ground get a boo boo MOM!!!
This is nonsense ha ha hoo hoo hoo
Sneeze burp chuckle gurgle OH! NO! not that too
This is fun go ahead giggle it didn't happen to you 
Humming hiccup hiccup hiccup 
Ha ha hoo hoo hoo
Isn't nonsense fun to read 
Sneeze burp chuckle gurgle OH! NO! not that too...

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Ignoramus in art, you'll say of me.
I've tried hard, but still 
can't see

that Mona Lisa's mystic smile
known to bewitch folks 
even from a mile!

Seems she parts her lips daintily
to let a hiccup out 
gracefully

or a vulgar burp, hyperacidity,
or hide nicotinic teeth 
artfully.

None in her mouth's coy symmetry
remotely resembles 
a mystery.

Could it be dental deformity?
Y'see I took up ortho-
dentistry....

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A horses head can carry many beads. Triathlons are usually in triangular formations. It is wise to get hold of a prickly pear tree with a small spoon. And spear not a daffodil in a morning dew. Sunsets speaks specialty sonnets. And when a dinner is ready it is to be assumed that amusement can be created from a sauce. Lengths swam on football pitches hahahaha xxx a hiccup in a tea cup. How very quaint. Xxx hahaha qualifications xxxx...

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I've seen that look
The epitome of kindness
A special being who
Reaches out for mourning souls
While planting seeds of hope

I've seen that pair of peepers
Somewhere down the life line
Stunned by the beauty
Though it was just temporary
God loved that being more

I've seen that expression
Lies underneath the sea of love
Says hiccup occurs to everyone
Stays strong for the one
While being the precious being

-Emi L, March 9, 2016-...

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