Short Hoards Poems

Hoards nut-like jewels

  Monkey shines ~ chases up trees
  
    Beggar's statue posed...

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from mulberry tree
      hoards of butterflies in flight
            cocoons deserted
...

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Stuffed Cornish game hen
for the hoards of kin:
we’ll eat till we’re stuffed,
then do it again.
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Randy Hoards Brandy
Locks his stash secretly
Basement waterloggs
His animals go fuzz fuzz
Singing Glory to the keeper...

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child owns tomorrow

                                    grandpa hoards yesterday

                       both ignore today...

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A lion roars
And there is fear;
He scatters hoards
With eyes so fierce.
Provoked by lords,
His wrath will pierce;
Scavenger soars
When fools are near....

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Oh do they fall,
These leaves in hoards:
On greens, imploring, yellows
Orange, browns; The winds discourse
Believe in leaving flaws.
A force beholding needs....

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Sloth

Languid apathy - idle gifts
Hollow perfume of impotence
Hoards overstuffed bags of blessings 
Walks by fallen stars - indolence

7-7-22
Contest: The Sin of Sloth
Sponsor; Margaret Lillico...

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Some say “broken picture” instead of “broken record”
Let's get our idioms straight to avoid the literary hoards
Kinda humorous though
Turned my crank, don't ya know
Holy doo doo, this old duffer is really bored!...

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She's no Aphrodite, but sweet as honey-
not weak or flighty; she hoards her money.

She then turns around and Oh, Lord Almighty-
does something profound she thinks is alrighty.

She doesn't make a fuss, 
just hands it all to us....

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Ants in their hoards creeping, crawling
Ugly bugs swarm round their nest
Grubs eat my veg without warning
Under ground, moles are a pest
So okay, at least I won’t shiver…
Till we get that storm from the west...

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Larks parched on power lines
seem hoards of drowsy sheep. 

Soft eyes of child with tears
sparkle with stellar gleams.

Moon climbs on crimson clouds
like squirrels climb tall trees.

Fireflies descend from clouds, 
children think they are stars....

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The blue, blue skies of Manhattan.

Scores of bird's going off for the night,
hoards of flightful fancies,
singing through the clouds,
flying tall and proud.

Sea breeze,
chills and the big freeze,
the solidness and frost bite in my toes,
my goodness I need to stop moaning....

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October evening, gold and gray
Storm clouds gather up above
Winds will whisper, trees will sway
With barn owls and with mourning doves

October evening, gray and gold
Soon the lantern shall be lit
And hoards of specters, young and old
Like moths, will all be drawn to it....

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Oh those muddled webs some weave

     When folks get more than we perceive

         While truth hoards dust upon the shelves

          The gears enmesh to grease themselves

         Such myst'ries are left to dear Bo Peep

     How some 'round here e'er get to sleep....

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Be beyond blame
Set succinct show
Nurture nice name
Gain gracious glow


Prize profound plain
Live lavish light
Glimpse growing gain
Sense simple sight


Happy heart hopes
Humour hoards hurt
Clever charm copes
Dust dreary dirt




Leon Enriquez
03 September 2019
Singapore...

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black-water canals
where alligators patrol
and moccasins wait

where starved mosquitoes
invade in hoards at twilight
thirsty for fresh blood

at morning's first light   
dawn illuminates cypress
birds announce sunrise

perilous beauty
on display in the Wetlands
and all is at peace...

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How do we say “we” across the ages,
we jigsaw-pieces of a human fate?
As this man hoards, that one starves or rages.
How do we say “we” across the ages
of a history stumbling through its stages?
Here we are at eternity’s sheer gate,
trying to say “we” across the ages – 
we jigsaw-pieces of a human fate....

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Word-hoards fall from mouth-cups
out along roads, out along seas:
faith migrates; sayings run away; verbs escape; 
nouns meander as memes in other tongues.

Invaders’ words intrude on empires, spill 
cream that soaks our souls, leave 
bones of meaning
lying around.

Etymologists 
will tour 
and devour. 
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All work ethics and human virtues, he hoards
for twenty-five years, he has never stepped on mud
in him, civil service has a lord
every signboard shows he’s a man of his word
against financial crimes, his clothings include a sword
the spectrum of his fans is nowhere near broad
and has rejected any pen that has written fraud. 

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A gent from the South Scottish Isles
had terribly painful large piles
when he tried to sit down
he would grimace and frown
soft cushions he hoards in big piles!


syllable counter used 'how many syllables' 8,8,6,6,8
11~11~ 2014
poem revised for contest 18~11~14
Contest:Limericks Clean and Clever
Sponsor: Roy Jerden...

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Rustling pages welcome me 
Into a world of fantasy 
Magic Rings 
and Sleeping Kings
 Dwell within enchantedly
 
Dragon Hoards and a Wishing Star
 Are open doors to Near and Far
 Friendly Giants
 Evil Tyrants
 And giant pits of Steaming Tar
 
I say goodbye with a Dancing Elf
 Its time I go back on the Shelf
 Remember Me 
And Here I'll be 
Sitting here by myself
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Blueberries rushing down five at a time
			from loaded branches tom-tom the bottom
			of a coffee can until growing numbers
			mute the beat. Super pickers fill
			two cans an hour in bumper season.
			Pies and muffins march from ovens
			and cereal looks richer than a lapis crown.
			In blueberry time we reach to the highest hoards.
			On these gems of the Sun we feast like lords....

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Calming journey present travels
Daunting highways of dirt and gravels

Firebombing  businesses and homes unravels
Housewarming rebuilding from grounds battles

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Coming into life Victorian castles
Crawling toward the scrambles,

Daunting  hoards of freemen  shackles
Calming are the finish structures panels

2/9/20
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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The rain is falling down
high up from the skies above
like hoards of tarantulas
all over me

It's making me feel low and miserable
like the tiniest crumb left on the ground
from a loaf of bread

The rain is falling down
its making me desperate for a bright ray of light
but at the moment all that surrounds me is darkness

The rain is falling, falling, falling
and I wonder will it ever end...

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