Short Make Do Poems

if bad person knew
hope only had been a few
will have to make do...

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   Heavens make dew
     Poor folks make do
 
   Scooby’s name is -doo
     Winnie's is Poo



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A lady who was feeling blue
Compared her life to an old shoe
Although she fit
Her love had split
So she had to make do with two...

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Sitting there 
Trying not to stare
So hard not to

Caught your eye
Flitting butterfly
Take me with you 

Bluebird song
How my heart does long 
But I make do

Love you much
Crave your gentle touch 
On my tattoo...

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I miss you terribly right now
I cannot fathom if somehow
A day or more went by without 
Us talking, texting, reaching out 
You've no idea how much you mean
I love you deeply, sight unseen
Please don't leave me to make do
I'm lonely Bluebird without you...

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recognising limitations of body-mind
the vessel allotted for earth life
we make do with the vehicle
remaining always bliss rife

our true Self is love and light
cognised directly by eye of soul
we let not this dream life impact us
as we cheerfully fulfil our ordained role...

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I'm in love with somebody
Found someone who completes me
And guess what it's not you

But..there's nothing I can do
So let's just make do
Until I get somebody new
So I can use them too
Move on with my life
While my feelings are stuck on who?
Stuck on the same man who used to love me too...

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Rain

It has just started raining, from the sky it falls so well, almost a thought reminds me, that I’m trapped in this loveless hell, yet how water like tears make do, harboring sinister burdens made through, but to freshen resist come new, the pain that grows within me, my broken heart can now persue…...

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Make do with what you have
company coming and feeling modest
Tidy up and dust a spot
Wear clean clothes and put out the
good bath towels
Straighten that rug, no toss it in the closet
a scented candle, too much
The living room curtains washed and ironed
A knock on the door
welcome them in with a smile...

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Listen to poem:

Enough I have, 
but more, would make do, better still.
Sufficing without icing is a nice thing to do,
but ample sufficiency is defeat, a condescending deceit.
For we all want bigger apportioned portions.
Want more than our fair share of the hearty fare.
Making do is so hard to do, but so easy to see through....

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That evil thing has changed my soul,
I close myself in the house alone.
No longer do I talk – not even on the phone.
I am fed my head turned away.

Groceries are shoved through a tiny space,
Missing many I’ve learned to make do
The strange position I have adopted,
Inside these walls I have learned to fear you,

And enjoy my solitude....

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Dear Auntie, play with me now and let’s ignite,

With a plucking of guitar strings, the hours incite

A score of lyrics jiggling as my thrills excite;

Wondering how those grainy sounds can take flight

That a baby like me needs to make do-re-mi right!



Personal Memories--Monorhyme Contest
Sponsor: Laura Loo  Picture#2
Mar 19, 2016...

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My fancy isn’t costly
though sometimes it can be.
I fancy this; fancy that,
or at the drop of a hat,
I’ll fancy things TOO fancy.

Since I’ve not got lots of money,
if too costly is my fancy,
I’ll just make do, because it seems
some things I want remain as dreams
while I keep living fancy-free!!


May 14, 2017 
"For Fancy-Free Poetry Contest"...

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What are the colors of Love
Its shapes and various sizes?
My God! To even venture a guess
I would need to know
all Love’s secrets
and voluminous disguises--

And yet, my love,
in the course of the day
in a year
or a lifetime or two,

if forced to part
somewhere along 
the unfortunate way

I know, my heart
missing you, could never 
make do…....

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We have imagined a place like this,
sun-bleached,
prairie comfortable,
creaky,
chewed mellow by light.

We have hammered together
a structure of
easy happenstance.
A wickiup somewhere
between your homelessness
and mine.

We are inside this steeple of fingers.
A make-do space that serves
for what we have not cared
to cling to,
but love now to enter....

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Blue 
roses
don't exist
though the science trying
To change the DNA of roses to create blue.
I wait for that joyous day for rose world
till then make do
with white rose
dyeing it
blue.
The
one who
find blue rose
stands for true love
The legend tells us, will become the king

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August 29, 2014
Form: Tetractys
Fourth Place Win...

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Back when I was young

Back when I was young
The toys were so much fun
Things were very simple then
We walked and cycled too, never drove
It was paper and baskets not plastic

Back when I was young
Fresh food we had, no prepacked
Toys were made of wood and tin
We never discarded just reused
Make do and mend was the thing
Back when I was young


3-5-19...

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Shhhhhhh, I say to you!
Your breath I take away.
Your heart I make stray.
Your life I will make do.

Hush! My word I shew!
Your meaning will fray.
Your purpose will slay.
Your will ends as anew.
 
Listen up and listen here!
Hear ye oh hear me now!
I shall not just disappear.
Here and now, I am how.

Let a bye-gone be a bye-gone. 
And move yourself right along!...

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I dare not go outside today,
For fear that I might wash away.
God’s sending rain in steady stream;
The day is soggy to extreme.
I simply do not have a clue
How all the little birds make do. 
God so busy making weather,
They’ll be soaked, in every feather.
He provided an umbrella.
The holly tree, that big fella
Is shielding tiny birds, I bet
And keeping them from getting wet...

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Saying ‘hello’ around the world
is more than a vocal projection
It’s a movement of lips, swaying of hips,
and at times complete physical expression

Saying ‘hello’ in Asia,
calls for your best leaf of tea
While Europeans make do
with much less conventionally!

For Africans and Caribbean’s alike,
the cordiality of our 'say'...
could make ‘hello’ in the morning,
last until well past midday!...

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I always want what I don’t have.
I must possess that which I crave.
I cannot master my desire.
So, to my whims I am a slave.

I think sometimes it’s not so bad.
I can make do with so much less.
But then I see “fill-in-the-blank”
And as I see, I must possess.

So, give me more and give me new
In hope that I might find my bliss.
And ever deeper I will fall,
Mastered by my avarice....

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Years ago, no one had new knees said Dad
They had to make do with the ones they had
Women ran around with wrinkles and gray hair
Plastic surgeons and hair dye did not exist anywhere

I see a brain washing machine down the road
They will open your skull with a saw-blade gold
Take your brain out and cleanse it once and for all.
You will fall for their tales, no matter how weird or tall....

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Lodged on a high valley in this far town
People like to turn the world upside down
In winter sky overturns
The snow cover children churn
Snowmen they make do something new on own.

A fat snowman comes to park downside up
Sniffing the frozen ground with red nose sharp
To stay straight head needs to strain
Blood from the legs goes to brain
Twig hands won’t help if he wants to stand up.

December 24, 2017....

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Bell-bottom blue jeans 
were the rage 
when I was that age
'tween twelve and fourteen.
With no money to spend 
on such foolish things,
our lives wouldn't end
without that latest trend.

But we knew how to make do,
and Mom didn't say no
when we just split the seam
of an outdated jean,
sewed in a piece of colorful cloth
from an old-fashioned frock,
and felt groovy in our homemade 
bell-bottom blue jeans....

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With over-abundance and all kinds of addictions staring me in the face,
I like to, just occasionally, make do or go without, 
Even when I don't have to.

I sometimes even pretend I have no car,
No matter what the weather.

That ice-cream or chocolate bar,
Withheld for even an hour,
Tastes twice as good.

A long walk in the fresh air does wonders for my figure,
As an example, to my children, it is beyond compare....

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