Short Neighborly Poems

solo sunflower
pregnant with seeds, standing tall -
neighborly hello...

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Was born more than eighty-three years ago
No bits, no bytes, just a neighborly hello
Bits were wee pieces
Bites gave you diseases
Back when “friends” called you a schmoe...

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Gossip?  Not I…

Does everyone do?
A little high quality 
Neighborly sharing.
Chitchat and tittle-tattle
The latest information…

 Poetic form:  Tanka
©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     11-14-09...

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Terrific
Humble
A shining star
Neighborly and friendly
Kind to strangers 
Faith in your heart
Understanding of others 
Love for yourself, friends, and family 
Lead by example, and 
You will be blessed...

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Declination end of the last circle lap
January starts a new journey from last to current
Flow full of ups and downs in inner within
Celestial solar neighborly friends
One at the end the other is a start on time...

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TEACUPS

two
teacups
visiting,
wearing lipstick -
comparable but different flavors.

a neighborly steep, infused with friendship.
generous sips,
as time laughs
weeps, bonds,
spouts.

2/24/2019...

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I gaze upon you as you sleep
I climb into the bed
I softly kiss your dreaming eyes
I gently lift your head
I place it overtop my heart
The heart that beats anew
No more to ever be apart 
Honey, I've come home to you 
...

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MEET BERNARD ASUNCION

Benevolent
Expressive
Radiant
Noble
Aspiring
Responsible
Dedicated

Astounding
Superb
Undaunted
Noteworthy
Committed 
Impressive
Open
Neighborly


Tribute by Curtis Moorman - 15 November 2019...

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A katydid stopped at my door.
Wedge of green gossamer
But something more.

I angled to get a closer look.
Intrusive I fear was I.
He quickly me forsook.

Off to call at another door
Winged wisp of wonder
On a neighborly autumn tour....

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Flibbety Shibbety
Gwendolyn Geritrude
Blackened the windows with
curtains so plain.

Neighborly aesthetic
peri-precautiously
people all decided
she was insane. 



Robert Dixon
My attempt at Double Dactyl.
Let me know what you think.  
Constructively....

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Respect is fading way too fast
Is it buried in the past
No one knowing how to be
Sweet, kind, nice and neighborly
Please and thank you's used no more
Can we open up the door
Letting care come back once more
Hand in hand we will unite
Hatred isn't fair or right...

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we met outside
through a neighborly friend
interupted beginning
appologetic understanding
our first hug

just met you through your mommy
you didnt know i was coming
it wouldnt be right to leave without giving you something
our first hug

life is made of hugs
every baby is...

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On this street, they only grow roses,
Way down south, where summertime dozes,
By a mutually pleasing, neighborly pact,
The effect of which is a stunning impact!

The Street of Roses is famed for beauty!
For roses purple, gold, orange, and ruby.
For arbors, fountains, statues and green,
And more sweet scent than has ever been! 

11/10/2019...

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*Image of Driftwords by Pixabay.
Visitations

Yellows upped,
humble shanty forms beyond verdant meadows.

Animals resounding,
quivering grounds,
championed zephyrs penetrate leveled jealousies.

I knocked,
the whitish doorway opened,
neighborly xenial exchanges.

*Free Verse/Abecedarian

2021 October 17...

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Winds cry
Shiny slimies 
I see you
A fuzz fringe fizzing 
Across peek-a-boo moon
Croo croo night 
I love you too

Heart thumps with the 
Crickety crickets on the
Brown fence pickets
Pounds with the sounds 
Of warm, neighborly chatter
Dishes clatter

Here we go
A B-22 coming' in 
Out of the black
I am gorgeous
Cry the winds

2/6/16...

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A high-pitched screech announces
That the hawk is close at hand.
Whatever he is saying,
Other hawks must understand.

For me, I'm satisfied to hear
That plaintive, jarring screech,
Despite the fact its meaning,
For a human's, out of reach.

No matter if he's circling
Or swooping to a tree,
His neighborly communication's
Good enough for me....

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Everything I want is 
embedded in the eyes of my children
in smiles twinkling bright
as lights on the Christmas Tree
in gentle spirits full of giving 
filled with emotion and neighborly affections
in hugs that wrap my soul 
like a gift layered in love
Everything I want for Christmas
is in the eyes, smiles, spirits, and unconditional love of my children

Lay...

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Would you vouch for sound's sake
Wholly dependent on oxygen
After a tempestuous voice spake
After a humble tune is forgotten?
Would you swear of love in every form
Of neighborly love, a child's love
Or else render it an illusion born
Of what mere humans dreamed up
And to seek for it is a vain plight?
Would you deny that pain exists
Ebbing in and out like the tide
And heartache too, also as tenuous?...

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I am dancing with St. Pat the little Dublin girl sang out
Click click click clack her feet clicked over and about.
She was doing a jig, with no training whatsoever.
The rain had stopped, it was turning to good weather.

Click click click the shoes sang out, against the floor.
“Erin go braugh!” yelled out the eejit next door.
“Ireland forever!” I yelled back, being neighborly.
The tiny Irish dancer continued jigging it with glee....

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