Short Jacks Poems

a pair of Jacks
Jack Lambert and Ham
which one you'll be blocking?...

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My mask
        Relaxed

        Ate snacks
        Played jacks…

        Made tracks...

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handful of laughter
cracker jacks surprise
toes in warm sand



posted on July 12, 2018...

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Yes, but me some peanuts and cracker jacks
Take me out to the ballgame
A song that makes me smile...

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I spotted where my lamb hops
Went after her with an axe
I hacked her up for lamb chops
Then I played a game of jacks....

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A warning to all Jacks and Jills,
"The world is full of manmade ills
that can't be cured by manmade pills."

Won 6th place...

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This is not the end of Jacks tale
He soon found a love to sail
He’d come upon a shore
Help those who were poor
Knowing with love he could never fail...

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The woman of his heart was named Jane
Some would say she was quite plain
But in Jacks heart
She was sweet and tart
Together they sailed through the rain...

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there was a woodsman called jacks
who swung the worlds sharpest axe
one or two chops thats all
giant fir trees would fall
that's the fun fallen fir facts...

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Halloween~~~ Don't know Jack
O'Lantern meets carving knife
Jack the Ripper meets vampire
Bats in the church attic meet black zombie
Cat woman meets Jackall......

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scarecrow Joe is sliding off his pole
not enough cognition to fulfill his role
lost his balls and his jacks
to the ruthless Taliban
stumbling to Oz down a bloody brick road...

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Jacks wife wished for a bigger rack
He replied quick, on the attack
Rub some tissue ‘tween your tits
Surely that wont work.. will it?
Time will tell,  but it worked on your ass...

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Betty had a good buddy whose name was Jack
His brown bunny she took for a verbal attack
This retort she had
Made her feel too bad
So Betty brought her buddies brown bunny back!...

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Happy Jack and his ladies are world renowned
Been accused lately of cyber messing around
It's harmless I say
It's the new age way
To get your jollies where only smiles abound...

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what if the push that you had had left
holding oooh so tightly
and letting out all breath
i have never been above the bottom
no need to take that call
no-one i want with me
nowhere left to fall...

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My Poems for Size

Do try my poems on for size;
Soon shall start to realize;
Read mail without fail;
Smoother you will sail;
Cracker Jacks has a surprise.

James Horn

7-7-5-5-7

Limohaiku...

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On a barstool
somewhere
in a lost America
with a stranger
who calls me friend
All options 
dwindling
my fate in his hands
—and nearly at the end

(Choteau Montana: Ranger Jacks Bar, August 2004)...

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Trump Callled Us Bad Name

Trump each of us a bad name he did call;
We were so insulted and this would apall;
Pulled out his hair;
To God would sware;
Played jacks but he forgot to bring a ball.

Jim Horn...

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The boxing, leaping mad March hares
That chase and dash in umpteen pairs,
That tear through fields, and hare up hills - 
All jealous Jacks, or Jacks and Jills
(The femme fatales, the luckless beaus)?
But are they crazy? No one knows…...

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Jimi’s grand apology
hidden in the words
In lyrics of his soul’s lament
Mary’s name is heard

The Jacks are in their boxes
as midnight plays its chord
Music sighing whispers red
—  Queen still untoward

(The New Room: April, 2024) 
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That was something unexplained that I saw:
Paul Newman was playing poker against Robert Shaw.
Robert Shaw had four nines, and was happy to stand.
How did Paul Newman get four jacks in his hand?

From the 1973 film “The Sting”
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there is a craving
in my heart
an anticipation
that keeps me going
propulses me
to greet each morning
with the same excitement
and childlike hope
as when I'd open
that new box of
Cracker Jacks



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on November 5, 2019...

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It was exciting and thrilling 
To see the stadium filling
Though the day was a’chilling
People around were soon milling

Like pickles in jars sagely dilling
Notice that the Jacks were a’Jilling
Poets in attendance were quilling
Blue jays and cardinals were trilling...

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i thought i was on cloud nine
until my cloud started raining
i realized i was really still down to earth

i should have been higher up by now
but the IV is higher than me
my OD brought me to the lowest i could go
and i am slowly sinking six feet under...

dedicated to Jacks you will be missed my friend...

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DREAMWORLD FIGURINES

Setting on a mantel…a doll.
Beautiful sculpture… achieved.
A surreal existence within…
Adolescent girls…playing jacks
Envisage tomorrow lightheartedly…filled.
____________________________________|
Verlena S. Walker
PENNED ON SEPTEMBER 01, 2014!...

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