Short Hunkered Poems

Squirrel
Hunkered habit
Hoarding and hiding
for a rainy day ~
Nuts!...

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dove hunkered down
upon birdfeeder rooftop.... 
guard    ...

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Elk
   slowly walk
      grazing off open paths
         a distant bugling call

Hunter
   hunkered down, still
      open sight


9/20/2020...

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Tom Turkey's doom again was kept at bay

   He wasn't picked for Thanksgiving entree

      Hunkered down to keep his head

         His pals were victims instead

            Tom survived to live for another day...

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The wind whipped
The bent tree
The tea sipped
The cut knee

The suffering reasoned
The brave hunkered down
The meat was seasoned
The stranded wore a frown

The water rose
The stranded were fearful
Citizens sowed...

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The wind whipped
The bent tree
The tea sipped
The cut knee

The suffering reasoned
The brave hunkered down
The meat was seasoned
The stranded wore a frown

The water rose
The stranded were fearful
Citizens sowed...

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The storm
The wind whipped
The bent tree
The tea sipped
The cut knee

The suffering reasoned
The brave hunkered down
The meat was seasoned
The stranded wore a frown

The water rose
The stranded were fearful
Citizens sowed...

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Snuggled and hunkered down in winter clothes

Nestled warm in a winter wonderland

Only parts in sight are their eyes and nose

Wee ones out to play who can barely stand


... CayCay
October 24, 2015...

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Reverie


smooth
sometimes I wonder
is this a living world?
no movement
no horizon
January
out on the bay
dog team hunkered down
like fur drifts 
they sleep warm 
as I,
laying back on the sled,
contemplate
the  glare of
nothingness....

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Can charity be only a few coins tossed
in the street? It is another day,
and we are all just as meek and poor 
as the last. Did God hunkered down
in the wet hollow of the soon to be earth
think, They will love me for this, one at least
will love me for this?...

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Skies are dark and foreboding
   Winter storm rolls in tonight
Commuters don't need any goading
   Hustle home before moonlight...

Now folks are back from the stores
   Hunkered down with their lovers
All comfy and cozy inside of doors
   Tucked in tight 'neath snow's cover...

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Dear Covid-19 vaccine
I am glad your on the scene
I hope you gobble up that bug
and kill that nasty thug
That kept us hunkered down
With a worried look and a frown
But with two shots in the arm
Your working like a charm
And now as we move about from place to place
we now are seeing a more smiling face...

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A natural instinct for the few
This word called Heroism...

A flaming fire
And O'how it grew
The others hunkered down 
O'but not you...

Stretched out to run the gauntlet
With nothing to prove
Unknowingly revealing his heart 
of love and truth


1~7~24
A Mark Toney Contest 
Mile 24 is Dedicated to the Memory of L. Milton Hankins (1941-2022)...

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Visibility's dropped to near-zero
   Thermometer's plummeting too
Ocean tempest tossing and turning
   Spraying the nerves of the crew

Deck swabbed by torrential rain
   Passengers hunkered down below
Afternoon's slipped into deep shadows
   Danger's pulse glowers and grows...

Back on shore, weather's sunny
   Gentle breezes, calm and warm
Ignorance is sheerest bliss
   When it comes to cruel ocean storms...

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The storm came as predicted;
It wasn’t a surprise.
We’d canceled plans as every
Weather forecast did advise.

With lots to keep us busy,
We hunkered down indoors
And even did some online shopping.
(Easier than stores!)

The snow’s still blowing sideways;
The roads have hidden ice
But in our cozy haven
It feels comfortable and nice.

Tomorrow we must travel;
I hope the storm abates.
We’ll wait until the morning
To see what trial awaits....

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Celluloid escape magic
to another reel life
perhaps with Sundance and Butch
or was it Mister Tibbs?

Hunkered down in the cool
darkness of an afternoon,
hands all buttery,
rocked within a theatre's cocoon
while learning the meaning of a Classic
or song and dance man,
the terrors of imagination,
mysteries of sea and sky.

Not a mirror of my life
but a myriad of human emotions
evoked by this still affordable luxury
that remains a great escape....

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Hunkered Down
Written: by Miracle man
3-26-2020

We currently are facing an uncertain future,
nothing like my eighty-one years has seen yet.
Wounds beyond closing with staple or suture,
providing the world reasons, for many to fret.

Let our faith assures us that “this too shall pass”
and until that happens we must all hunker down.
individually it seems worse for the aging class,
prayer won’t cause glower but reduces your frown.
...

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life interrupted by corona 


we live in a strange world
life interrupted by corona 
the virus spread throughout the world
disrupting everything

putting life on hold
as more people
hunkered down
waiting for the virus

to pass over us
like in biblical times
the virus 
will test us all

life interrupted 
on hold 
until the virus
spreads through the world

and then 
we will all
go back 
to life interrupted

writing.com Daily Dew Drop interruption...

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Listen to poem:

The eastern gale swept o'er the bay tonight,
As rising seas climbed up the sandy beach,
It pushed and forced its way beyond the bight,
And those who tried to stay, they did beseech,
They boarded in and hunkered down so tight,
Those need of care got aid if in their reach,
The stormy night gave way to calm daylight
Some minor damage said in Mayor's speech,
No deaths had been reported, shed some light,
A wiser lesson learned that storm did teach.


2020 January 07...

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Three little kittens who lost their mittens were mewing with a sigh
Don’t worry, kittens, said Mr. Smittens, Santa is on his way by.
Santa hung up some cozy warm stockings and put the kitties inside.
They loved their new home, it was a great place to hide.

During a snow storm and a mountain land slide,
They stayed in their mittens, and none of them cried.
Let’s hibernate, suggested a smart kitten named Clyde.
Great idea! Said his sisters, and they hunkered down inside....

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