Short Lilliput Poems

Tiny
villagers
inhabited
Lilliput Island.
Gulliver unaware
found himself tied down
became renown
for being
obese.


written July 4, 2021...

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And have you heard the story 
Of Captain Sean McGrew,
Who sailed the mighty oceans, 
In a square rigged wooden shoe?
                                                  
His first mate was a salty dog
From east of Lilla Bay.
The ship's crew hailed from Lilligo,
In Lilliput, they say.     

Then one sad day, he lost his ship,
His crew, and all his loot,  
To a roguish band of pirates, 
In a rapid sailing, chukka boot....

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I traveled through time
 My imagination I took
 where adventures abound
 in a nook and a storybook

 Up the beanstalk I'd climb
  And many treasures I'd take
  Then away I would run
 Before the giant awakes 
  

 I'd travel to Lilliput
 over the waves of the sea
 and ended up ashore
 where little people I'd see

 Then I'll sleep a long time
 and wake up with wrinkles
  with a very long beard
   Like Rip Van Winkle!
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if the span of your attention
was a mighty mountain range
along its length and side to side
would you think it strange
if lines wre drawn upon you
by some men of lilliput
that they might rule along you
from overhead to foot
would you heave with laughter
would you split your sides
would your cheeks run wet with tears
milked from the salty tides
or would you shake them from you
erasing every line
and bid them live along you
in harmony divine...

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