Short Launching Poems

The heat seeking missile,
Which employs the tongue,
For its launching pad....

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launching
an adventure
into the unknown



posted on September 11, 2019...

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squaring the circle
pig flights launching next Tuesday 

trolls into plowshares...

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To protect and serve
   Is a blue line blurred
   In a dated colour scheme



***...

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wedding photos
blissful day launching
endless honeymoon



posted on October 9, 2018...

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The Yankee rancher still blusters
in a drawl he barely musters
launching holy wars
while behind locked doors
he would give more head than Custer....

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Rushed along to triage
with time storming out
despite the flow within
just dying to spout.
Memory wraps its bow
with ideals devout
before launching a berth
along a fresh route....

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Yoga positions
pretzel launching pad, painful
crowd wilts from fitness

senior endurance
festiness charges living
folks uncurl, relieved 











Senryu composed August 7/21...

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first snowflakes launching
sweet southbound dreams and longings
~ travel posters call



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted for contest A NOVEMBER PREMIERE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - November 11, 2017...

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Living in the Cenozoic era
Broken down for Holocene
Quaternary argues me
Hadean Eon answered
Love is science, religion smiled 
Started launching Holy Book
Planetesimal rules, interval.
Hades, Hebrew for hell...

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LEFT ON THE RIGHT HORIZON

Garnet the threshold
Barring the prison vision
Hurled the moon
Satellites launching in my dreams 
What's left on the right horizon


10/31/18

Written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2018...

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Humans create methane faster than earth can remove it
Like a NASA launching site, a gaseous substance does emit
Two and a half times the pollution
Since the Industrial Revolution
So let's all stop farting, that disgusting habit to quit...

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Let your words always be sincere
Not abrasive words bent to inflame or cause dissension;
Often, man spews forth words as heat seeking missiles,
Enlisting the tongue for their launching pad;
Forgo the rhetoric that has no usefulness
beyond invading the silence of my space;...

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Knock, knock, knock
seething at her core,
it's your older sister
emoting once more..
Knock, knock, knock, 
bar that door.
She's launching missiles
in hopes of a sibling war..
Knock, knock, knock.
You've been there before.
If you don't want her angst,
then just ignore.....

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Amber Brilliant Clouds Define Each Frontier’s Glory.  Heaven Is Just Launching Love’s Mood Near Our Planet’s Quilt, Resting Serenely, Touching Upon Vast Wheat Xanadu, Yearning Zealously.



*ABC Poem Entry for John Freeman’s “ Nature’s Bounty” contest.
By Carolyn Devonshire, October 24, 2011...

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Loosen up!  laugh off unlucky breaks;
Lifelong lesson: settle mistakes.
Let’s get going; I’m your friend.
Lights shine at tunnel’s end.
Little things loom large
Listen, take charge.
Learn a new
Lease on
Life.

July 23, 2018
contest:  Nine lines to let them know everything will be fine
sponsor:  Silent One...

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Degeneration
Children in beauty contests
Shame on their parents

I have written this haiku after having seen on television that some people brings children 
of 2 to 6 years to beauty contests to win money and with the scope of launching them in 
show careers. This cannot be tolerated: children must be respected!...

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The printer has gone berserk
Throwing out my work
Launching A4 paper asunder 
Is it any wonder
That if you need to make haste
It is easier to copy and paste
Halt bedeviled font copying machine
Such tandrum I have never seen
A4 all over the desk and floor
Throw the switch, pull the plug
Damage you will do no more...

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I see you honey bee 
on humming erratic flight 

on route to the garden bed 
crash-landing on petals bright 

burying head first into a flower 
tumbling in the pollen white 

vibrating noisily with purpose  
then launching out with pollen tight 

weighed down with your sweet cargo 
buzzing loudly in delight 


9 August 2022...

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The Summer's gone- to it we say goodbye;
surprised how swift
months sped till
launching
Fall.
Old,
dull greens
morph and blaze
switching life's pace
from Summer's calm to bustling holidays.


October 7,  2020

Contest: Double Tetractys 4
Sponsor: Eve Roper

Syllables: 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
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I have a new email address.
Old one may work for awhile but 
like life, it can stop at any time.

One problem so far.
This new address sends emails  
multiple times like missiles

without any help from me.
So if one of my emails arrives
over and over and over

please, please let me know.
But like presidential tweets
nothing I can do about it.


Donal Mahoney...

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Capacious, my heart 
brimming fervid with emotion
voluminous as the sea

Waves of passion pitching turmoil
in tumultuous storm
launching forward in acrimony

Torn is my emotion
as the torrid winds are blowing
which way am I going?
ever ebbing and flowing
until once again
even and calm

Sound of surf overlapping
white froth on sand slapping 
low tide uncovers me...

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A MUSE OF NOTE 


you started an
interest
as you noted
my script

intrigued by you 
left me 
wanting 
more

launching
this cruise 
through
oceans of
depth

now we have
this dilemma
of
discovery

we seek a deeper 
place
playing under 
the same
sky

stress-less 
unclothed
laughter
tears 
diluted
as innuendos
imply



© Kim van Breda...

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low looming clouds drape
rich fertile furrows
loaded with buried tulip bulbs
launching necessary nourishment
to carefully cultivated beds

scores of  fresh Spring blooms
arise in symphonic, harmonic accord 

awakening serene landscape...

blanketing verdant flatlands
with sheets of vibrant colors

for a brusque season

I pause in awe
at Earth's lavish artistry...

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Words turn to sounds lost in infinity.
                                Nothing stays for eternity  .
                                Pain is just a phase.
                                Don't make  it your launching base.
                              Bad day .
                             Is a fee to pay .
                    So chew misery like a gum.
           And spit it and wait for tomorrow to come .


30Aug 2021...

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