Short Jangling Poems

pride bodies jangling
tender laughter in the air
my hot summer dream...

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No designed gem creation

dazzles my stunned elation

like earth's jangling selection.





CayCay Jennings
2-21-2017...

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jangling nerves... tense, taut...
  darting to and fro… caught... trapped
     whimpering feebly...

The brave gunman licks his lips...
  duck soup... easy prey... unarmed...

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The Bells 

The bells,
The gels.

All’s well,
I tell.

The swell,
Can fell.

Golden,
Bolden.

Mega,
Sound rah.

Jingling,
Jangling.

Hear joy,
Ahoy!

Ding dong,
Belong.

Fire warmth,
By stealth.

Dominique Webb...

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the wind howls and whirls
eastward of the pier's fence
anchor chains jangling

May has come around
the thick, surrounding drizzle
continues to rain 

under blazing sun
yesterday's raindrops dried up
the cracks look larger

Written: May 13, 2023...

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Quiet my jangling head
[marbles set loose in a drain pipe]

Silence churning doubts
[acid bath of corrosive thought]

Calm my rasping breath
[jagged edges of restricted output]

Cease excessive activity
[upanddown the spiral staircase]

Steady my stricken hands
[pounding pegs into nonexistent holes]

Undo me....

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Why did I not listen
to my jangling nerves
the day before?

Why did I ignore
the sensation of
tips of fingers on fire
the day before?

Why did I not slip off
my rose-tinted glasses
to see what really
lay ahead of me
the day before?

My body and mind
were screaming at me
"DON'T DO IT!!"
the day before
I wed....

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Henry picked a ladybug;
Hadley chose a fly.
Mine was striped but not a bug
I could identify.

Up and down and round and round,
With music jangling on,
We rode the carousel until
The time we had was gone.

Grandpa took the photos;
Nana thought up rhymes
And had to ride, on different bugs,
With Hadley two more times....

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Frozen flower punch
Hibiscus blossoms for your ears
Luau skirts and fire rings
Streamers hanging in the air
Cocktails soaked in pineapples
Roasting pit to coals
Anklets jangling on your feet
Ambrosia mint in bowls
Smiles to pass with every song
Laughter jewels the moon
Eating the afternoon away
with a Polynesian spoon~...

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A baby is a bundle of jangling receptors
    a limb-wiggling curiosity machine
  Equipped to record and retain every sensation
    with nodes and neurons labyrinthine

  We watch her nap and feed
    pray she gets the sleep she needs
  While deep inside her, a learning explosion
    moves mighty mountains, fills vast oceans...

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mystic mind moaning
voluptuous veins vying
hoisted heats hankering
squeezing salient sanity
girding gaunt ice
veiled by vice

hollow joints jangling
eerie echo smirking
felon fun flickering

drooling darkness dances
drooping over vices;
salient silhouettes sketches

on and on
smeared space gnawl.
      19:12:23:09:18...

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Everybody owns an office,
Though not already swiveling its chair;
Everybody, custodian of some promise,
To think differently, simply unfair.

The yet-to -be jangling -the keys to -it
Isn't to be dismissed as unfit
Between Mr. Dalton and Lady Eunice,
All repositories of some gift
Before their last breaths have it surface
If not stupendously, more than a bit....

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Breaking, bashing, creaking, crashing 
Pandemonic pounding pain
Reverberating bone to brain
Slamming, smashing, thrumming, thrashing
Mechanical chaotic grate
Echoing; can't concentrate

Scraping, scarring, jangling jarring
Bastard, broken beat becomes
Endless, dreadful demon drums
Maiming, marring, ringing, roaring 
Blaring banging babel beats
Repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats...

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In the shade, I shrivel
in flowering cactus
crafting sloppy verse

below the scraggly
exhausted moon

warm reverberations of love
originating in the Jade Garden
nerves jangling in my true being

the magnificent encounter 
of how to melt 
this iron reluctance

dreams can feel 
most real than actual life
every day as I unseal my eyes.

Written: May 12, 2023...

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Silver bells 
Rising in pitch
Rhyming jingles
Golden bells chime 
Timing enchantment
Approving its Ring-a- ling 
Embellishing the reindeer's harness
Flight over whimsical night sky performing
Indulging Santa’s approval of their good luck
Jingling, chiming, jangling, chiming in unison
*      Silver, Gold        *
Bells      
* 

11/30/2016...

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"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia"
Mervyn Peake

Crash boom bang, I gulp at the din
A buzz then became a chatter
Gone cuckoo at ding dong I'm in
Crash boom bang

Ring, zing, jingle what's the matter
Thump, bump, today is not a win
Creak clang thud oh what a clatter

Now I am jangling, in a spin
Listen now, ahh pitter patter
Beep zoom, artistic ending fin
Crash boom bang...

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Watching the window
Watching carefully
Waiting for those feet
Familiar feet
Pattering near door
Standing wistfully
Waiting for those jeans
Familiar jeans
Hands stuck in pockets
Keys jangling inside
Waiting for that shirt
Familiar shirt
Rain soaked on shoulders
Fancy patterned front
Waiting for that hair
Familiar hair
Tousled and unkempt
Moving in closer
Waiting for my dear
To give me a kiss
12/7/15...

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No Peace

Incessant wailing and slamming doors,
Horrid trudging on the floors,
You think this phases me in the least?
No more, for I get no peace.

Messing about with jangling locks
Proceeded by rapid knocks,
Though the noises usually do quiesce
Quiet can’t contain this beast.

Still, no matter what I say
Not all noise will rue the day,
For when the melody fails to cease
I do not feel any need for peace....

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Paisley bow-tie
  orange socks
polka-dot knickers
  suspenders dangling

Crazy Marvin's
  testing 'wonder-drugs'
to get his bank
  account jangling

Clouds of smoke
  puffs of steam
strange whistles
  bells jangling

Delirious, dizzy
  all in a tizzy
Marvin's predictably
  mangling

A formula for
  the tutti-frutti, raspberry
bubble-gum serum
  he's angling

To shove down
  my throat ~
Help me!
  I'm strangling...

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Swish of  ripples weave along a ledge
my hands pretending to rap beneath inked  stars ;
while autumn winds chime a lonely rhapsody 
filling the shoreline with empty rhythm and blues;
the ones which lightly twitch my heart--
Every note jangling, crawling in this stained night,
for the love I know best gushes out, unnoticed
while in the peal of angst, I learn to dance alone.


Oct 25, 2017
Contest: 6 To 8 by Nette Onclaud
7 Lines...

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This kite electric
tangled in the power lines
tattered silk like paper skins
of dyed and colored onion rinds
With salty satin stains
flapping in the ocean air
it once held tight a child's hand
tingling knuckles white and bare
Updraft caught and carried
jangling raw up on the wires
electric now ungrounded
white heat lightning fuel tipped fires
Now it begs release
from the metal to the sky
With my own eyes as witness
sparks reach out to catch it fly....

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Twisted and broken my bones be a jangling. 

Crying and screaming for my body be a hanging 

 Cheers and a chuckling as the klan be a sanging

Music to his ears as the echoes be a ranging

 So deep was the South

So cozy was the house

Im cold in the grave

Just a boy for me to save

He was buried and drowned in that cave 

Animal on his back ,is what they engraved 

If grownups could only behave

I never whistled at her mister but I told you I waved....

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