Short High Strung Poems

A geneticist in El Cajon
designed his identical clone
They’re both narcissistic
high-strung and sadistic
Each one demands to be left alone

2/12/22...

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Is my life quite kooky?
Does seem rather spooky!

Tighter than a high-strung cat
What about nerves? Get rid of that!

Yet somehow I made it through
Become baptized you can too!...

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A high-strung duck on a ranch up in Maine
is best pals with a wistful Great Dane
One goes quack! Quack! Quack!
while the other lays back
Their friendship is hard to is hard to explain

6/8/22...

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Number 2:

FLATTER



Watch that extra sweet tongue
That curls and swings and stirs
Sweetening the high strung
In clever touch that spurs




Leon Enriquez
15 December 2014
Singapore...

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High strung  tight heart strings
A shy chord of melody
Fretfully slowly thrummed




To express the feelings and fears of new young lovers
in the context of musicly blended notes
within the haiku rules of conduct...

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she wakes as a cello
in the morning not
high strung but
mellowly tuned

i run one of
my fingers
feeling her
f hole as

the air makes
her shapely
boxed body
quiver in

sound and
breath as
she breathes
vibrating strings

just plucked
slightly an open
g seizes the beat
of my heart as 

it ceases to be
modulating to c
as i tightly wrap
her for a trip...

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My computer is congested
With all the stuff it's ingested -
The silly poems that I've devised
And the inane things I've surmised.
Yes indeedy, it's been force-fed
All my foolish nonsense instead
Of important things and the like,
Now it's told me to take a hike.
All I asked was for it to print,
It said, "Listen, bub, take a hint,
I can't answer when you call.
I'm not responding. That is all."...

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capabilities high strung
hung out to dry in rain
soaking up heavy dust
mighty winds a capability
not caged just free
free for the nothing i can be
nothing is the rain
without dust to blow away
soak it up led astray
naught comes for nothing
and stillness is all
did it ever depart or arrive
am i even alive
like glue to a tiled roof of silk
blankly setting eyes 
one way or another
nothing will happen...

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Felines with natural cattitudes
haughty, prissy, full of aloof and disdain
show indignant behaviors with regularity

Being high strung, anxious, and pouty 
has been inbred and ingrained.
They can go from happily purring  
To full out attack mode in an instant

Holding grudges? Yes, they are terrific at this.
Punishing their owners until the right brand of catnip
or the right color cat toy has been dangled in front of them....

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Please catch me a Ghazal
And don't even ask me why
It's something I've just wanted
someday before I die

More docile than a lion
More graceful than a giraffe 
More sleek than a hippo
Let me see you ply your craft

Not as crazy as a monkey
or as slow as a sloth
not as high strung as a zebra
now please give me your oath

That you'll catch me a Ghazal
It matters not in what condition
as long as you write it 
in the pure Persian tradition...

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SUNDAY 


 a lifting morning haze
 a lay in laze 
 a murmured rustle of
 times and guardians,
 voices, tea pot lids 
 and neighbours kids 
 arise 
 and set the drapes 
 aside 
 let the sunshine in 
 a rectangle of green 
 a frame of English flowers 
 lovingly proclaim, a 
 English Sunday morn 
 " ted is up " Lynne says 
 "a flirt with tenant "
  nubile young ,a
  blond high strung 
 does he impress 
 I take my coffee
 garden bound to
 see my older brother 
 and finesse...

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