Short Lipped Poems

Blind man's bluff braille
notes of a thousand pictures
keen lipped DNA



(The first song I heard by Little Stevie Wonder, early 60's.)...

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For Dad I struggled like a slave

Being clean-cut and tight-lipped

I hope he's happy with my grave

Cuz the grass is always clipped...

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Wheatish skin, brown hair,
pink nailed, red lipped and kohl eyed
deep inside pure white
colourless, bland and at peace
not painted, tainted or dyed






9th May 2013...

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Nonbeliever
by Michael R. Burch writing as Kim Cherub

She smiled a thin-lipped smile
(What do men know of love?)
then rolled her eyes toward heaven
(Or that Chauvinist above?)....

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A tight-lipped President, Calvin Coolidge
Never prone to very much verbiage
   He kept his interviews brief
   Causing reporters much grief
Now we pine for his kind ~ That's a truage...

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When i awake
   and find the world
   empty,
   I feel inanimate
   and cold...
   So I become less
   living-lipped friend,
  and further friend
   of dead violets
  and dark winds...!...

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Steely-eyed
tight-lipped
she mouthed the words
'It's over'
twice,
so they'd sink in all the way
no tear in her eye
nor gulp in her throat
guarding her pounding heart
as she cleaved his
in two...

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There was a lad known for his shenanigans,
Who completed each act with such naughty grins.
He leaned backward all alone,
To kiss the old Blarney Stone!
That limestone-lipped lad known for shenanigans....

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Trump Swab and Rob Mob Shop

Bumps from lies had to swab and swab,
And Trump all of us would rob and rob;
Loose lipped lousy liar;
Should have to expire;
Be run over by mob after another mob.

Jim Horn...

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In March I asked the daffodil
What secrets it might hold
And like the loose-lipped lily
The flower gladly told 

Now December’s icy breath
Shudders the shriveled rose
And I do not dare to ask it
For fear of what it knows....

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All those years
Of sucking leaves
In a house of owls

Will not break the mask
Stone-lipped you
Dictate the stairs

Silence as the
Broken mill of dust.
Wordless, dry 

And all foured
Reach the landing;
So you have come home then ?...

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Fail-safe.
Crap-shoot.
Bait-and-switch.
Luck-of-the-draw.
Matter-of-fact.
More-or-less.
Helter-skelter.
Loosey-goosey.
Honky-tonky.
Wacky-taffy.
Lucky-ducky.
Tight-lipped.
Land-locked.
Turn-key.
Safe-and-sound.
Fail-safe.

3/4/22...

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By ways of morning stars 
and dew-lipped kissing
dreams i am here
Sideways within my arms
tulips swaying colors 
spent you are there
A mourning comes as night
wanes into the seams 
of lasting pasts 
at last we are One.

:: 09-04-2017 ::...

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Tight-lipped, transparent, and stuck in a mono-TV
Am I alive or dead? I don't feel pleasure nor pain
Numbness is all I can sense under the pretense
"This is for my sake"

Square-shaped deceptions bind me
A soothing night-sky dimmed the spark in my eye...

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lengthy white scars

along pale arms,

dark circles

beneath swollen 

tear rimmed eyes

tight lipped smiles

and never ending thoughts

silent wondering

and screaming insecurities

silent pleas

screaming within

end it all

end it now

end it here...

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Curved and simple
as milkbone,
used as a hidden grail,

a pale listener.
When the morning rain calls
we carry buckets into the yard.

Warm lipped from mugs,
knights of clink and
clack, we triumph over

cobbles, flood past the latch.
We know grey and the
weight in one arm....

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A cut-throat razor is being stropped.
A chin lifted, neck extended,
a soaped throat exposed.

There will be blood,
not in the close shave,
but on the keening blade
of that singing steel
we all must feel.

A shank unseen
where a thin-lipped death
trembles
with expectation....

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Viv touted herself vegetarian 
            Felt her clean stance rendered her better than
                       Flesh chew friends got suspicious 
                            Fin lipped Viv smelt of fishes
                   Sought protein right from her aquarium 



 
    2nd September 2020...

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I got ripped
Then I tripped 
Not the one you call a stumble

Read the script
Then I flipped
We were headed for a rumble

First I kicked
And got nicked
My mind was in a jumble

She was red lipped
And unzipped
She took me for a tumble

She was a Pict
That I picked
An ancient kind of people...

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A poem is not an effort by a tight-lipped genius
Gripped by the setting failure's fears,
Or the penning of those furious about defeat,
Who are not under the grip of it;
It's the flower of a gracious soul unseen,
An idyllic utopia that has never been; 
The splendor of a life unperceived,
And the thought of faiths unbelieved!...

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I light
this flame, during
winters of my mind.

I etch your
fingertips into my own.
This is naivety, or
tight-lipped behavior, like
sparks consuming coal.

I long for you,
like embers and chimney tops,
or chimneys and skies.

If I lit the clouds,
with this flame,
would it pour,
enough to bring 
summer in my heart?...

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Awakened by sun
knocking on lids 
savoring chatter of 
stone lipped fountain
and happy voices  
of buyers and sellers
tip tapping downhill
from the market
carrying home 
their fare
the humble survivors 
of a race
drowned in blood
blackened in ashes…
The flash!
A brand new earth
and another chance 
at starting again....

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The wrongs are now righted
The Beatles have re-united
for that I expect to be knighted
but the queen might get frighted
so my lips would have to stay tighted
I must not remain unsighted
my soul may feel blighted
if touched by the mighted
the disiilusorily prided
whose tans should be hided
I don't need them or their fight!

©John-Ovan.P.Hull...

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Poor Claire with arthritis she’d battle,
Her bones would shake like a rattle,
She was always tight-lipped,
But her dress she finally zipped,
Relieved she would go on and prattle.


To Ireland, Claire went on a hop
And promptly was caught by a cop
Her face was so red
For in drink she was bred
Till they fed her with milk and a sop....

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On drowsy hamlets mobile hordes descend,
From tight-lipped forests rises a babel. 
Wanderlust is to distant wonders sent,
As fleets of long-haul birds skyward rumble.
Where massed footprints to virgin lands extend,
And sights are packaged for all to sample,
Coy beauties in nature’s bosom held dear
From between heaven and earth disappear....

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