Short Jogger Poems

beware all deer

        jogger,

   crossing.

written 6-2-11...

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Bacon addict jogs
huffing, puffing like a wolf
little piggies run




9-3-17...

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On the pathway, I noticed a fish
Which a jogger would most likely squish.
Though the river was near
How it got there’s not clear;
For a gull, it would make a nice dish.

Later, on the tail end of my walk
On the railing there sat a huge hawk.
People stopped and they stared
But they should be prepared
For each day’s a surprise in New Yawk!...

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For "Show Me the Funny (part two)"

There once was a fellow a woggin'*
Who bumped into one who was loggin'
They had quite a spat
The ax was a bat
And the first had a lump on his noggin


* Woggers are those who get all dressed for jogging, but only go at walking speed, while vigorously pumping their arms to delude themselves that they are jogging....

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The cars we have number twenty-five.
One is shaped like a royal bee hive.
Two are groovy, the blue one can certainly jive!
The red monster truck seems to be alive.
One is automatic and can self-propel-drive.
Jogger came by and asked my Cousin Chive,
Why are all these cars parked in front of that dive?
He chased him up the driveway in car twenty-five....

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In a misty bog,
A'whimper,
A far-away dog.
Silhouetted was a couple, 
On a log 
Having a nog,
In the silken fog.
A baby hog,
Bustling thru bramble,
Like a blocked cog.
The millennial on a jog.
The dog,
The jogger,
The couple,
The hogger.
None were so deaf,
And none were so bereft,
To not hear the sweet, sickly slog
Of the fiddler and the frog....

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Master
crafter

paper
later

compute
astute

website
ignite

laptop
giftshop

FedEx
success

jogger
blogger

clever
weber

keyboard
switchboard

email
voicemail

midnight
uptight

father
mother

good night
sleep tight

blanket
flank it

cover
lover

father
smarter

mainline
offline

loser 
snoozer.
...

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The air was crisp, the trees were bare;
The paths were shoveled clean.
In Central Park today it was
Delightful and serene.

A lonely jogger trotted by;
A nanny pushed her charge.
Some dogs on leashes sniffed and strained;
The cloud-filled sky loomed large.

But mostly it was only me
A'stroll across the park,
Enveloped by the vista
Which was anything but stark....

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A jogger was raped
                   in central park years ago
                  some youths were accused
                 And with no  DNA evidence
         they were wrongly imprisoned

                    Kevin Richards was
          among those convicted for this
                crime, spending years  in
            prison ,but was later freed
       when they caught the real rapist...

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Sitting alone in a crowd eating cheap Chinese became
No words… just birds
Whistling over the distant car hum,
The car hum from the street beat not a mile away.
And the soft music, the slow river, flat chair and hard bench
That’s been eaten off and partied on some other day.
A bike rider, street walker, jogger and car pass under the haze
Of a sky, I sigh
And the birds replace words....

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If my heart were glass,it would lay shattered on the floor,
If my heart were a balloon,it would hold air no more.
If my heart were a painting,it would hold no color,
If my heart were a jogger,it could run no further.
If my heart was not to break,it would not learn,
Sometimes it does the soul good,to feel a little burn.
My heart will heal,and the scars will mend,
Just to be broken yet again...

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a rooster crows…
 
aroma of coffee

greets the sun

__

morning star

mirrored in the pond…

dawn drips with dew


____

as the sun rises

a jogger runs by my house....

I warm the doughnuts


_______


I hear the shower

and someone singing opera....

the dog is barking


______________

the morning paper

drips with last night's disaster....

I drink a fresh start

_________________





Senryu/Haiku mix...

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I haven't had a ponytail
Since I was very young
And even then, most likely,
Into braids my hair was hung.

When frizz set in, I chopped my locks
And thus the die was cast,
So ponytails and pigtails were
A remnant of the past.

But when I see a jogger
With her ponytail a'bounce,
Its jaunty whipping of the air
Seems like it does announce:

Just check me out! I'm oh, so cool
And confident and fit.
So feast your jealous eyes -
I'm the epitome of IT!...

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