Short Jibe Poems

Every time in Zoo,
Baboon bottom is a jibe
Dan post and comment...

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The truth is elusive,
while you’re still alive

The sentence unstopped,
much harder to jibe

Luck be a mistress,
come fortune or fright

May truth be a lady
—tonight

(Dreamsleep: July, 2019)...

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Jeer, farcical cheer
Jive, cheer to sneer
Jest, barb to test
Pun, jest for fun
Joke, fun to poke
Jab, poke to grab
Joust, jabs that roust
Jibe, taunting vibe
Josh, vibe to squash 
Jolt, tingling volt
Jaunt, volting flaunt...

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Listen to poem:

You imbibe the diatribe,
quaffing the jibe for a bribe
to remain silent and acquiescing. 

Struck mute to suit
your unfussed cowardice
in failing to speak up,
when you know the throng is wrong like you
to remain silent, 
a seething flock in shock.

Inertia, inherent, 
in the same inane inaction....

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HELL OF THAILAND

two men beat their chests
contest of very hot spice
the hell of Thailand

first man’s sweat pours out
a linen napkin’s laughing
vainglorious plight

eyes of number two
tears streaming grow big and sting
vein-bulge vanity

admiring friends
cheer and jibe in kodachrome
racing pulse of weak

4/12/2018...

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Quick and slow, pulsed to jibe and rudder
Late dancing in the luminous waves
The boats angle the cresting froth tops

Sails arched, full burst in the briny
Air paces vastly to horizon’s rim
The hazing glow of sky to sea

They bob and streak, the prows steadfastness
Each sailor guides to the compass, knowing
The importance of destination...

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The seagull cries 
pleading the right of birds
An Aladdin's  
jibe to overcome plight
Rugged flights to fill your soul
The Madman's voice
and his lack of choice
drills the silence
His fingers stiff with sentences
hollow words I don't understand
The Winter chaff casts a slipping land
The Lantern on the hill anoints lionesses
Commuting to overcome the earth...

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"FRIENDSHIP" - salient lyrical canzonet of life's vast immeasurable experiences
an intermezzo in an interminable tedious dulcet musical theater
a masterpiece fabricated through hearts' harmonic jibe
excogitate from comradeship's bond and pinky promise
"HYMN" my heart and soul still warbling in oxymoronic spirit.

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Kitty Paws


       Upon the lake
The kitty paws
       Betray the coming wind
Their silence take
       No time for pause 
In judgment of my friend
       But in the wake
Is found a cause
       To jibe the sea again
And sail for sake
       Of hidden awes
That justify the end.

      ~by deborah burch



*kitty paws are the ripples on the water that indicate there is wind about...a sight for sore eyes when sails are in a dulldrom! ;) db...

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The horse ken holds its bridle 
Is now almost his idol,
For him making A Winning Rider;
At Horse-Racing An Insider…  

A stallion that keeps ken on the popular,
Him fetching grand names and The Titular:
The Horse sure is getting some kisses 
No witness will see and reply with hisses;
Probably too a medal and a ribbon;
Some jibe to other horses to be reborn 

So, it is a “Scratch my back I scratch yours:”
Let me see somebody tell Ken “Who is at loss!”...

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The fly flew,
The bird flew.
Soaring in blue yonder,
raking in my wonder,
were the spirits free,
or bound by nature,
the flight was a pursuit,
of the grounds for food,
the moment it was sighted,
the flight turned into a dive,
to have at the food a good jibe,
it is human nature,
to dream and raise own stature,
and imagine himself flying,
free with spirits hanging somewhere there,
mistaking the birds for their efforts,
which was simply to carry on living....

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When the monopoly game rings out
Who stands stubborn pushing their clout?
Where does reality bounce?
On the chessboard of hope and change
Taxes rearranged, fiat shuffling

Help the sick and needy
The court jester needs buffering
I'm calling the foolhardy bluff
That redistricts citizen electioneering
The jibe is up
Career politicians dancing with time
While TV auctions stamp the mind
We must participate
In the creation of our own lives
Hatchet the grid that chants otherwise...

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