Short Juggled Poems

weeds bloom on tilled soil
for sweat stained ground teams with life
juggled balls in air

Long Tooth
May 12, 2016...

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Bumble bees and roses,
Sounded carillon,
Clouds traversed my morning
    As the curtains rose,
Juggled pieces like a jigsaw
    puzzled
Toward their tapestry....

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There once was a fellow named Kotter
Who once did an act with an otter
While clapping his fins
He juggled several rings
And Kotter paid his otter
Like he oughta...

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Random in the house,
Juggled words were.
Asunder left you there were.
Mitochondria the nervous
Melon taken granted for.
Places in faraway away,
Discom-populated.
Story to tell.
In the story tell to.

Cry my heart
A Lord of Glory
Under a taken
Dark glimpse of God
I go....

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The epitome of efficiency

women juggled

daily chores
 
babies

and

their

husbands

all the while

maintaining both

their dignity and femininity.


(Double Tetractys)


11-24-2020


Double Tetractys 6 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
photo #2...

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Furnances, cast-iron, will wrought a deadly terrain;
The mulling of our spirit has
Juggled words of gods out of our mouths
While we hide like moths, 
Thus life begins an affair with a new universe
Where furnances are allowed 
To crawl the garden grounds 
as our hearts watch
Aflame with plummage....

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gleam in ale,
a glass of dark brew happiness
served on a marble bar ;
frothy inebriant, 
a tickle to his moustache,
grown over moon's pass
juggled with solar heat 
across the heaven's street, blue sky.

gleam in ale,
a froth for drowning
mumbles and grumbles
of life
a glass of dark brew happiness....

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The market-place fool
juggled with oranges
and was in everyone's way
on shopping days.

The market place fool
was teased by youths,
and to their shame,
much older ones.

Suddenly, he had gone,
and the people missed him.
No oranges at three at a time;
no shouting "Fool!" as they went by.





8/8/2015...

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jaunty jack-o-lantern joined
jingly jangly janitors’ July jamboree

jaundiced Jasper, Jack’s jackhammer
juggled and jostled the journey in jovial jollity.

Jovial Jukebox Julep juxtaposed Jasper and Jack’s
jonquils, joining the July Jubilee

Javelin, a jazzy jaybird, jangled Judy’s jaguar,
who jabbered jokingly and jauntily....

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I had never before seen a ballerina with these kinds of thighs
She was a absolute trooper, and she also juggled with knives
What do you call her? I asked the bullfrogs on the shore.
We call her diva, queen, and all about herself, today and forevermore.
I thought this was snotty until I shared what they said with others.
There was lots of laughter. Those are her five older brothers!...

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Wallace Stevens was the greatest
man I never knew.
Juggled both Hunting Tigers
and hanging nouns.

Wonder about his demeanor
walking about the courtroom
with even heeled shoes,
focusing on the even keeled beat.

A dozen orbits and 
twice that in satellites
quivering to witness twisted truths,
be they that or not.

Phrased.
Articulated. 
Blatently controlling the room,
his stage....

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Played with, mishandled, juggled, fumbled then
dropped

Once whole but now broken, this precious glass

Shattered and liberally on the ground it lays

A motley of pieces large, small, and in between
all scattered

No longer smooth and pleasant to the hands and eyes

Broken, 

Broken is this glass.

Many jagged edges are now dangerous to
the touch 

Broken and distorted is this glass
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Juggle master kept adding to his shuffle
He is amazing said his cousin Leland Muffle.
Juggling balls, teapots, sandwiches and more.
Almost anything I bring home from the store.

Did he ever juggle guns? I ask. Did he ever juggle a knife?
He juggled a knife once, but he said he’d never do it twice.
He amazes me I said as he juggled cookies and tea cakes.
I wonder if he could juggle a few hoes and garden rakes?...

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And if you discovered
In your depths that you remain
As beautiful as the sun
That follows you! 

That they touched you
Left the gem in you untouched,
That they plucked the fruit,
Juggled with it and left
It safe with its seed
Of beauty in it. 

That you are matchless!

What would you do?
Would you await greatness
To discover you?
Would you discover greatness in you?

It is untouched,
You shine.
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From a city's hilltop ,
I gaze down there below
with lights in rhythmic hop;
notes bouncing to and fro...
on alleys where life croons
women dance as skirts fly;
and blues whip juggled tunes
sax cooling a flamed sigh!

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“Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life”---
Berthold Auerbach ~ poet and author ~
....................
Repost 9/29/2016
Contest  213 of Brian Strand...

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Listen to poem:

he juggled with multiple scenarios worried
how things could go terribly wrong
and then he asked her how
she saw it all play out
he was relieved 
no barriers
no strings
he could see
how it was all different 
better than he dared hope for
and better than he had ever imagined
he was tired of fighting off imaginary dragons
there was nothing else to slay and skies had cleared



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on August 21, 2021...

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She was waiting in the plaza
a breath of fresh air
graceful as could be

I sat there in the distance
couldn’t take my eyes off her
imagining that she might
be waiting for a guy like me

She slowly sipped
her coffee cup
I watched her lips
their gentle touch

And in my head I juggled
dozens of scenarios
where I would sweep
her off her feet

As time went on
I realized I’d missed my chance
and let the angel pass me by



posted on April 1, 2025...

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Jester The Joker juggled bottles
decorated with the reddest flame.
Three jars spun jiggling in the air
jars four and five he held with care.
Letting go of the ones in his hands
he caught the next two on command.
Jester The Joker juggled bottles
decorated with the sky light blue
but, out of one jumped Winnie the Poo.
Then Winnie the Poo tried to juggle
the bottles with the reddest flame,
but, he fell in a pot of honey
and that ended the juggling game.


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A trillion waves make up an empty sea,
restless as the mind itself can be;
juggled once and juggled twice,
turmoil deep down resonates so well,
to some.

Words of steel clash a mind of rubber,
a mind of sanity which knows no other,
than what has been bestowed upon by thee.
A mind penetrable by impurity.
From some.

Wandering thoughts from deep arise,
a fire lit by the evening’s lies,
put out by sanity’s bowl of dust;
another mind you’ve failed to rust.
-For Some-...

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