Short Lumbering Poems

edgar
...all in...
po'ed

...his thoughts...
in a pit and
...pen-dew lumbered...

his words as stains
...on poe...
at tree

stans sand...

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Nestled justly,
the thief he slumbers
sprawled spreadeagled 
upon my bed.
By witching hour
his deafening snore
drives one to ...

Lumbering lethargy....

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 Country Roads

Sandy, soft, sacred soil savored
Calm, cool, canopied, carefree place
Picturesque painting a panacea
Luminous, luculent road lumbering home

 ...

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Great lumbering beasts

Single file, follow behind

Slowly time moves on.

 

 

(January 18, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,...

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She ventured forth now
Holding onto no heart true
Where hers still broken
Still lasting day after day
In lumbering feelings threw

Entrant into Suzette Crous's "TANKA - THE PIVOT" contest

10/10/2012...

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pleiades

largely invincible
legendary monster
like dinosaurs extinct?
look at Job 41
lives within the water
lumbering evil beast
leviathan, a whale?


written April 15, 2017
for Kim Merryman's  Pleiades "L" contest...

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Searching the country, the inspectors interviewed
     every single inhabitant, from lithe ballerinas to lumbering dudes ...

  Out of myriad possibilities, they found only two
     on whom everyone agreed ~ THEY would never do!...

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Ed is a beast, a bruiser, a big baboon
We expected a lumbering oaf, a goon
Her description had much jocundity
He was quite lovely, as we would soon see
Why did you set us up thinking he was a clown?
I knew when you met him, there’d be no letdown....

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While destiny ditched me dearly in a dire domain
my lumbering life left me lovelorn in a languishing limbo, 
With all of my lackluster longing long gone
my haggard and heavy-laden heart hurts heartily.



~Alliteration contest by Barry Stebbings...

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R estless minutes; tedious hours,
E ndless seconds, as void devours,
P lodding, hobbling, lumbering thru
E ternal moments,
A waiting the emptiness of 
T he continual songs of boredom… an
E verlasting, Interminable, repeated
D ullness, that one day will forever fade…...

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As I kook to the trees

To hang and blow through the breeze

Empty of life

Mind of pain and strife

The torment of suffering lumbering smothering puzzling wondering of death to the end where thoughts become nothing as the hollow tree trunks find fear to be no longer something....

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THE BOTTLE FLY 
HARMLESS AND CUDDLY 
IN IT’S LUMBERING BEAUTY 
ALL METALIC 
LIKE THE COOLER PLANETS MUST BE 
SHINY GREEN AND BLUE 

NUZZLES ME AS I LAY ON THE FLOOR 
PASSING AWAY 

WATCHING MY MERCURIAL FREIND 
GRACEFULLY AND WITH GREAT CARE 
WALK 
ON MY 
STILL 
BRISTLY CHIN...

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Morning coffee, aromatic
meets with slumbering, lumbering me
Drawing towards salvation,

"Cream & Sugar?" asks my Guardian Angel,
"Just a little," me replies - avoiding gluttony,
Which keeps me from salvation.

Once more the ritual, 
Rebirth - a new day,
Another choice of sweaters....

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largely the best strength sign
legendary and brave
leading role in his land 
looking always to fight
lives within his forebears
lumbering evil beast
lion den heard from far

3rd PLACE CONTEST WINNER

Written: March 18, 2022

In Search Of Prey Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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Even a sparrow soars
As its tiny soul
Climbs to great heights

Have you seen it?
Wings flat against the body
Brown bullet
Aerodynamically
Slicing through the air

Covering distances
In a twinkling
That we lumbering humans
Take minutes to travel

Surely it can reach heaven
More easily than we


December 7, 2009...

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There are two sides to a coin

First toss

Masterful
Ingenious
Decisive
Discerning 
Liberal
Enterprising

Cautious
Lithe
Astute
Suave
Sensitive

Time to flip to the other side 

Muted
Insular
Disdainful
Dubious
Lacking
Envious

Covetous
Lumbering
Artful
Selfish
Shallow

It all depends on how you view it...

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She said it would be her greatest adventure yet
She bore the anguish and suffering meant to get
Her to the dock of her departure
To her place on an unknown beyond shore, 
I sat beside her while she quietly suffered without
A word of complaint until she slowly drifted away
With a long lumbering sigh.
Her greatest adventure was to die....

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The sun forces her face through the dark morning sky.
The trees garner their new autumn garb.
Birds converse on the dry crunchy grass.
Lumbering cows meander behind the fences of barb.
The morning is anew and yesterday is gone.
Hot summer nights give way to a cool dawn.
My troubles are constant yet seem to fade away.
The crisp cool air makes it all OK....

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Slamming back from a pedigree
Feather weights accentuate
Dodge and dart, meditate

Throw down the majesty
Standing statue to lumbering birds
Grotesque reflects off the shin bone

Moses parting the red sun
Hauling banquets with captors
Captives sling up the frozen masters

Atomic beats streaking spleens
Intestinal with pesicide, the tics grow dreams
Split to dull gather, sending cinders...

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Do not peer inside,
The mind,
For my eyes only,
Taken into view,
Dancing around,
Watch it skip the beat,
The noisy rancid beat,
Laden with love and understanding,
Yet still bearing the
Inconceivable possibility,
Sharing its trunk,
Its contents,
The disheveled austerity
Of man,
Deep with righteousness,
Civility,
Divineness,
And thirst to quench
The vanquished,
Lumbering soul.

(5/20/05)...

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*lemon tree filled*
*with colorful melody*
*blubbering    hearts*
*and lumbering   luminosity*
*it’s countenance cheering upward*
*ferocious in it joyful cacophony*
*spreading wide its branches*
*buffet of pluming propensity*
*bullish in its  bittersweet*
*its red and yellow sweets*
*swathed     resurrection*
*Summer-squeeze of fruity leaves*
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5/19/2021...

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Under the shed is a groundhog,
Living without my consent.
Once in a while he emerges;
His presence I’ve come to resent.

Likely he’s dug a deep burrow
And most of the time he’s away.
I don’t think that I can evict him;
It seems like he’s planning to stay.

In previous years we’ve had foxes,
With kits that would frolic and romp,
But this year we’re stuck with a groundhog,
Whose lumbering gait’s more a clomp....

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I have imagined an encounter
with an Angel

Most likely, it will be
on some opalescent morn
when the lumbering gait of clouds
meets the raphsody of dawn with
ribbons of light

Where I, in some perennial field,
in sadness wait-

With a message aureate,
she will step blithely, and
O the sight of wings will scintillate
to coax from me, a new belief

There is more to life and dreams
than what seems transient.

Suzanne Delaney...

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somehow we discovered that one could ride the lumbering freight train to the next 
town if you lay waiting just before the long curve.. where it slowed and the 
engineers view was blocked by the old pine forest.. everyone else already aboard.. 
my fat legs simply won't run fast enough.. I'll wait for them to return with the 
afternoon train..


blackberry brambles
tearing at my skin.. I cried
the train whistle blew...

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Love Waits

Lumbering over years not wide awake
Ordinary lives are lived in misery 
Vision and direction in life is never clear
Eternity waits for me while I wait here

Wanting, needing only one simple thing 
Another person with tender love to share
I will be vigilant and wait forever
Treasures of this world are meaningless
Share your love, your company, with me forever

10/07/16 Romantic Acrostic – Poetry Contest...

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