Short Idles Poems

A spadefoot toad 
Idles on a pond border
A fall rain peppers...

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hummingbird idles

nectar lingers of passion 

 hangs on the birds beak...

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tiny pink petals
pretty the pavement —
beneficent tree

hustle and bustle idles —
present, the little things

3/21/2020...

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Tap, rack, bang
It's too late
The gun jammed

Wait

Take my aim
Breathe out flames
You are damned

Prey

You're no mate
You're a saint
Use your hands

Pray

I am fake
You create
For your sake...

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Ask me a question
don't ask to ask me a question
Tell me crawling little lies
that burrow inside
Squirming tingles
I can't keep the secrets
i have let go
Trust rusts and ruts
Lies idles slides ides
march...

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my empty car
idles as I shop. . . 
Why aren’t my keys with me?

(This happened to me this year on Black Friday.
Lucky for me, I had not locked the car!!)

For Richard Lamoureux's QuestionKu Poetry Contest...

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As distant moonlight idles
Nestled in unfluffed clouds
Escaping flashes ripple-dance
Among tall distant pines.

Soft tides erase a lover’s lies
As fog horns mournful wail
Consoles neither moon nor clouds
With rolling salty tears.

©1/19/2023

Pick-A-Title, Vol 34 – Poetry Contest
Edward Ibeh - sponsor...

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Your image, 
a malfunctioning promise
idles in my handbag.
I took that picture
when I took your word
never expecting both were
two dimensional.
I can’t breathe life into your promises
any more than I can infuse it 
into your photograph
but at least I have something tangible 
in your picture.
The promise remains a myth....

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The van idles: inside its cage
she hops like a starling
from dashboard to counter.

Lady seer, shuffling the motley,
the significant and trivia.
revealing now, the stamped
and foreseeable.

A flick of her wrists
between each numbered box -
we open that tin mouth,

reach in hesitantly, for bolts out of the blue,
or just news from predicable snails....

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For a time I've been writing as the stream idles by
as dust storms are rolling, across a faraway sky
while sheep are a'bleating; as the cattle lie low
as I'm writing I'm watching, the white falling snow
it drops down in silence, from the dark coloured sky
I feel distanced, from the home that I'm holding
here in my minds eye..!

 © Joe Maverick 09-01-2010...

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The van idles: inside its cage
she hops like a grackle
from dashboard to counter.

Lady seer, shuffling the motley,
the significant and trivia.
Not 'all seeing', a Cassandra nevertheless,
revealing the stamped
and foreseeable.

A flick of her wrists
between each numbered box,
and we enter an unread limbo
until we open that tin mouth
reaching for bolts out of the blue,
and delayed news from snails....

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She struggles with a pen
She is castrated man
Your manic, damned nightmare
She's a dickless sychophant
Overgeneralize
You've fallen for a lie
You're so hopelessly blind
She wields you as a knife
She will cut herself open
She will make you stay, watch it
She will do it again
As long as you're her man
You are not her boyfriend
You are not her husband
She is not your savior
Save your prayers later
You will cut yourself open
But she will not stay, watch it...

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*Image of Bowed Instrument by WallF.

The Fiddler and the Frog

A fiddle idles then descends,
a clenched bow rest atop a noiseless chest,
a frog leaps nearby and suspends,
a final croak lets out breaking the quiet,
a calming all-around transcends,
a host of angels by a gate,
a harmonious melody blends,
a fiddler and frog joyously complacent,
a blissful duet eternity sends.

2023 February 5
*7th Place*
The Fiddler and the Frog
~craig cornish: Judged 2023 February 05...

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Euphoria exploiting like sunshine
A rainbow starts to occur
Colors happily emerging 
Mist soon to expose thyself from a fierce-looking nimbostratus
Welted roses wait patiently for more than a drink and a chance at life 
Intoxicating smell of rain arrives 
Birds chirping change notes calmly
Mountain peak tops covered in fog
Refreshing aura idles territories
Finally, rain comes one by two
The soil of the earth once again hydrates as the rainbow lingers on to the next euphoria...

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