Short Mannerisms Poems

comic nation gave birth
   to mannerisms, tricks,  and jokes
          infested,  Brazil...

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I have a best friend
A look alike
An admirer
She has my face
Her freckles, her laugh, her mannerisms are also mine.
People asked  me what having an identical twin feels like.
It feels like love, I say....

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My lonely mind
It cannot forget you
Your ways
Your mannerisms
So emblazoned in my brain
Deeply seeded
To grow new memories
And new thoughts
To pollute my mind
With images of you
And the way things were...

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I do not love you
because of your particular
physical features
your personality
your mannerisms
your thoughts 
your actions
your dress
your friends
your parents
your past
or your future
I love just you...

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His appearance was overbearing
for a small guy.
He had the aspect of a Pitbull
playfully chewing on a horses leg,
the pugnacious look
of a blowfish in heat.
When I studied his mannerisms
I was reminded of - me....

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Her moves carry the grace of an angel
Her quite mannerisms more so attract
Her easy manner makes her a fav one
Her ways and means allure in promise
Hers' is a gracious essence that attracts 
Her charming light I now so daily desire
...

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an inclination
to 
    reclusivity,
leave 
   everything
to chance,
    for a 
     quiet life:
the solitude
    alleviates
    the need
to talk:
complex
in mannerisms
passive 
sensitive
conceptual 
       articulate
living
at the margins...

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Poetry


Polite mannerisms 
Often go unnoticed or ignored
Elephant trumpeters marching in the room
Talk of fiction and tall tales
Regarded as falsehoods or popular talk
Your voice and perspective counts a whole lot

Marckincia Jean
Acrostic 
10/02/19...

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I listened to you.
I put on your shoes,
Walked a couple miles.
Mimicking you mannerisms and style.
I saw what you see
It's obvious life is cheap.
I listened to you,
Put thought in your critique.
Now I'm lost more than before.
I'm in need of help?
Do you not hear my screams.
Can you ignore cause you can't see.
I listened to you.
Now can you listen to me...

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the way you walk, and talk 
is at the mercy of tides and shifting dunes

the foibles,
the characteristically odd ways 
of your individual life
its mannerisms and behavioral peculiarities

will fall away by and by 

and what will be left
is this perfect alien species
formed by your every dazzle and daze

a translucency
all shall recognize as themselves...

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You stir your latte slowly
an old habit of yours
a delicate studied frown.

I wonder when your mannerisms
became perfectly packaged
fashion statements?
When did you turn a camera
inwards into your scripted life?
Just when did you begin
to act-out this caricature?

As you turn your spoon,
as you gather together
your carefully prepared replies,
my interest in you
flat-lines....

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Hold your head up brother and stick your chest out 
for you are somebody 
whether you know it or not feel it or not. Believe it or not.


Its time to unlearn what was learned and reprogram 
what was programmed into you because you are breaking cycles of old habits, 
patterns, mannerisms, 
belief systems and ways of being.

As iron sharpens iron a bond 
stronger than steel is being made....

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Society wants to stick me into a chair and label me.
I think it is hilarious.
I have an identical twin.
If they gave us each ten labels, we would not end up with
a single one that is the same.
We have the same face, laugh, voice, and mannerisms.
Society would not understand.
For they are not us.
They cannot get into our mind.
They want to tear our hearts out by labelling us.
We are the same in this only.
We both laugh at her....

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Mid morning in the now leafy white poplar, tall and symmetrical,

four flashing light and dark magnificent magpies tea leaf, steal the 

mannerisms of tinier wagtails by moving their tails up and down dancing 

around from branch to branch leading following each other and chattering 

away as though they have nothing else to do all day, for on this lovely day  

their instincts start to do what all other young adult creatures do in Spring....

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an inclination
to 
    reclusivity,
leave 
   everything
to chance,
    for a 
     quiet life:
the solitude
    alleviates
    the need
to talk:
complex
in mannerisms
passive 
sensitive
conceptual 
       articulate
living
at the margins

the wind's kiss
wayward,
lingered:
in the sudden
solitude
confidence
was restored,
the conflict 
forgotten,
the unknown
opaque.
I turn
my face unto
the 'morrow..
with hope...

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Her hands appeared empty at my first glance
I walked in her direction for a look
A little bit shy but I took a chance
I then noticed she was holding a book
When she looked in my eyes my insides shook

I gathered my courage to say hello
Would she talk to me I really hoped so
I was so thankful she treated me nice
Her mannerisms were easy and slow
Seeing that book helped me to break the ice


Inspired to try this form by Russell Silvey. Thanks for the explanation Russell...

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the confidence of my heart is going blind
since you crept away from my existence
the advancing state of my loneliness leaves my sanity in a bind
i am feeling blue all over with no hint of resistance

the smell of your sweet scent drives the last calm elements in a rage
now that all feelings that i once felt has no sense of meaning
i might as well be a moping misanthrope locked up infinitely in a cage
i am now driven to childlike mannerisms with an odd obsession for weaning...

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Superbly agile and acrobatic creatures.
Quirky zigzag moves and mannerisms.
Unique techniques for stealing seeds and nuts.
Incredibly strong front incisors that keep growing.
Really smart, mischievous and very entertaining.
Ready to rob and tackle any bird feeder, even squirrel proof.
Extremely resilient during harsh winters.
Loud chirping and chattering when near by.
Sometimes they are white, but mostly grey, red or brown....

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