Short Inflating Poems

You let the air out of my balloon
Before it could dance in the wind.
But a storm is brewing inside of me 
and I'm inflating myself again....

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O beloved, liest thy weary head,  
Unto this imparting inflating chest.  
Heavy eyes, pleasant dreams simply ahead;  
A beateous mind need get its due rest....

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Commercials
By: Tom
3’24’2020

What you see
Isn’t always what you get.
Appliance or Mattress, or Mobile Device
First, cheapen it up,
go heavy on the advertising.
Then, more importantly,
give it some fancy name. 
After inflating the price,
have a 30-40-even 50 percent off sale,
Works every time!
Baa Baa Baa
...

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adoring beauty 
caresses deflated ego
familiar groping hands
inflames jubilant kisses
masterfully nurturing
open passionate responses
quietly subservient 
tongue unforgivably violates 
waiting xerostomia*
yearning zedoary**


* abnormal dry state of mouth

** drug used as a stimulant

Penned 19 September 2015

Contest...

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floating high
the leafs blow by 
grass grows and glows
light flows 
between the shadows
light breathing life
into the ground 
like lungs 
inflating  
growing 
glowing
patterns spreading
patches going 
soft flickering  
flowing 
magic bark
sky never dark
grass soft
with wind aloft  
like a beautiful 
moth 
it touches my nose 
I'm free 
I doze...

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Before we started
I was convinced
You’d never want me.
Then you confessed.
You liked me
Or so you said.
If that was true,
Would you not
Have done more?
I’d come around
Every chance I could
In the hopes I would see you
For even a split second.
But every time I was there
I was just another body
Inflating your ego.

You never gave me
The time of day.
I gave you
Every second of mine....

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Tired, so tired, these games, you play,
My heart, ripples to the sound, in flute,
With exhaust ion, till the fingers bleed,
I hyperventilate, trying to catch breath,
But I'm so tired, so dog gone, tired, of,
These inflating promises, that you speak,
In return, it's not how, or why, you prosecute,
Your betray able lies, I don't want to hear them,
I won't listen, just got tired, so I got ear plugs.........

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When Dorothy and Tin Man were dating
She didn’t prepare for the mating
Til’ she heard a bang
And shouted out, “Dang,
Something inside there’s inflating”

Since Dorothy’s one chick he lusted
Poor Tin said he was disgusted
Coz there was no oil can
Nearby them at hand
To free up his zipper now rusted

As Tin was kissing Dorothy’s lips
He sadly knew he had to come to grips
‘Til she yelled, “My man
I’ll open your can
Coz in my purse I brought some tin snips!”
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Stealth and insidious
Slithery venomous viper
Creeping inside my brain
Uninvited and pervading
Vile contaminating poison
Infecting my fragile sanity
Dropping that black canvas
Of all consuming darkness
When I least expect it
Inflating guilt and shame
Grounding smothering
Clipping wings and victimizing 
Stealth and insidious



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on September 30, 2018 for contest REMEMBERING WHAT YOU WANT TO FORGET sponsored by KIM RODRIGUES...

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