Short Hoses Poems

One day I tried to write a sonnet

For hours and hours I thought upon it

I swear I'm not joking

My head started smoking

And firemen turned their hoses on it...

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Dandelions, butter, roses.
Sight of circus bright clown noses.
Plane where tawny lion dozes.
Shades displaying,
sunny days with sprinkling hoses.
Children playing....

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Playing With Matches

   We wired kids drank coffee
   in Kroger's and stoled fire
   and cigarettes. We were free.
   Hoses doused a funeral pyre.
   We kissed girls felt fears
   something like young desire,
   warmth we'd chase for years....

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climbing
running

laughing
sunning 

hoses 
spraying

outside, 
staying

till past 
sunset

Happy?
You bet!

~~~~~~~

summer 
swelter

seeking 
shelter

fanning 
sweating

sighing
fretting

turn up
AC

now I’m 
happy


June 14, 2022...

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Brushing
Air kisses
And water hoses
Misting
Never wetting
Soaking the skin

Blushing
Near misses
And questioning poses
Timid
Incomplete setting
Working without the win

Rush the lush
Outside 

And hide the sensitive 
Under the bed

So close and yet so for
Always a little......

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Red like roses
Running like water from hoses
Whoever walks in next is in for a thriller
It looks like someone was visited by the Zodiac Killer   
They may strike at anytime 
And soon turn any room into the scene of a crime
In the spring and summer they attack more frequent
It occurs so often, it’s nearly sequent 
Red like roses
God, I hate bloody noses...

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The fire brigade are on standby
With their hoses in their hand
For today it is my birthday
My birthday cake is on a stand
There are so many candles
It is a health and safety risk
So be ready with the hoses guys
And make sure you get here quick!


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25th January 2015...

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THE SPRINKLER  

Moving hoses
           Of flowing,
                   Flowering,
                             Movement.
Running in rills to troughs of sand,
Pressing passages through the stones.
Pools well with
         gurgles
                  splashes,
Thundering falls with mist skirts
            of pearls strung
                     on summer breezes....

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Vacumns and Garden hoses 
What can I say ….?
Well, they are the bane of my life
With their temperamental ways

Both are stubborn with a mind of their own
Needing to control the situation
They both catch, kink and “just”stop
Heightening annoyance and frustration

No matter how hard i try 
Without success or luck
To not let irritation get the better of me
Preventing me yelling out F**k !!...

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Those Poems, That Fire

I stood in the alley, still
in pajamas, somebody’s shoes,
another man’s coat, my eyes
on the bronc of the hoses.
Squawed in the blankets of neighbors, 
my wife and three children sipped
chocolate, stood orange and still.
Of the hundred or more I had stored 
in a drawer, I could remember,
comma for comma, no more than four,
none of them final,
all of them fetal.

Donal Mahoney...

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One dozen dead roses
A pocket full of red disposes
Fidelity, fealty their temporal wrapper encloses
Organic ode that nature's bipolar rhythm transposes
Trite requiem to all the brownnoses
A token gift that penurious love exposes 
Gone are the scintillating wax poses
The mirth, pageantry time hoses
Buried in the cemetary with Grandma Moses
Bring back the artificial supposes
To satiate all of the charming virtuosas...

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Tones blare
Heart pounds
Prayers sent
Station bound

Turnouts on
Nomax too
Helmet, gloves
And rubber boots

18-15
That is me
Sirens sing
Engine gleams

Airpack on
Arrive on scene
Cars on fire
Patients scream

Hoses pulled
Scene assessed
Flames put out
Jaws of life spread

Patient care
EMS on scene
Life-flight inbound
Punctured spleen

Patient gone
Hospital bound
Head back home
Til next time around

2/19/2020...

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Christmas lights on almost every house

And in the yard, a newer sight

Santas, Snowmen, and Penguins too

Bouncing about, as if to take flight


Tethered by air hoses and plastic spikes

They strain and dance in their plight

But in the morning they lay in a heap

Not such a cheerful or uplifting sight


Christmas cheer comes again at dark

A tribute to some decorating fun

Magical creatures again sit upright

Alive again until dawn has come...

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Pollen scuds in swarms and settles,
As the winds blow and calm,
From bees, trees and flower petals;
I feel within my palm
Upon autos, hoses and window sills
The signs of Springtime-
Birds on branches, fish in creels,
Sunshine and a bell's chime.
Yet, the groundhog sees his shadow
As the overcast begins to pour.
The rain streams not so shallow;
I see outside my door
Water to the end of my driveway;
Pollen within the flood
Clumps at the edge of grass and clay
And congeals into yellow mud....

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I like girls with long strayt orange hair .

And girls hoo smile at , unnoen boys hoo stair .

I like girls with lite yellow skin ,

And girls hoo wish 2 go wair no man,s ever bin .

I like girls with big round green eyes ,

And girls hoo wair jeans thick E-nuff ,

2 hide the bones in thair thize .

I like girls with nairroe nozes ,

Not ones as wide as fire hoses .

And I like girls with very thin lips ,

And girls hoo are 2 chicken 2 ,

Fly on planes or ships !......

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Men and their hoses
they just cant control
to aim the piss 
inside the big white hole

Women wouldn't mind
there wouldn't be an issue
if they just bother to stretch over
and grab a bit of tissue

It's all about your game
it's like scoring a goal
The football is your piss
the goal is your bowl

Concentrate, focus
keep your eye on the net
line it up right 
and the seat won't get wet

Well done men..
SCCOORRREEE!!!
Theres nothing on the seat
but what's that on the floor....

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Of all things to try
Oh heck, why not
An orchard in the desert 
Is what we've got.

A coupla years ago
We bought some land
Bulldozed it free of sagebrush
Dug 100 holes by hand

A tub of water
On a tower high
Was how we watered
Hoses spread wide

Planted more trees
Pumped water from a canal
Laying more hoses
Buying another trowl

900 trees and growing
An orchard in the desert heat
This is where we'll retire
Tree ripened peaches to sell and eat.

So proud of my parents....

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