Short Nine Days Poems

February arrives and it's glad
makes the other months look kinda sad
hearts and love it stands for
romance, flowers what’s more
for only twenty nine days that's not bad.

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Its the ninth day of April
and the sixth soldier dies.
We're the toe tag generation,
dropping like house flies.
Six in nine days
yet we're all heading home.
Bonds stronger than life,
we'll never again be alone....

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It's nine days past the first day of fall
Don't remind me, winter will cause snowballs
Tossed at “The Fuzz”
Eating donuts with love
That's why they're so fat, no, I wasn't under the influence of alcohol...

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The manhood
of a nation
marching in the breeze
Chasing what
the dead have wrought
taunting its reprieve

Caught within the voices
of forgotten
yesterdays
The winds of war
but nine days off
— as mothers kneel to pray

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)
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Two lovers meet in park
The sun dims…not quite dark
She has some life changing news
She gives it to him straight
Tells him she’s nine days late
He gets his flask and downs booze
He says “things will be fine”
Takes her home, time confines
Grabs his passport…leaves no clues...

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How many days have you had this?
Dare I admit nine days?
I have already lost three days of work.
Should I lie?
I remain silent.
Pondering my answers.
Wondering what difference it will make to tell the truth?
You would rather lie than tell the truth my husband always says.
He is not wrong....

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High fives.
Jive talkin'.
I get off at five.

Five is dark these days,
thriving is scarcer and
scarcer.

Deprivation has lots of syllables.
So many that it distracts from contemptible
WAIT!  That sounds judgmental.

I don't want to sound that way.

So I will make my way.
Hope somebody's god grants me
patience!...

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NINE DAYS LEFT

Nine days until graduation day
I can’t believe it’s finally time
It’s taken a long time to get here
I have waiting a very long time
The special day has almost arrived
I hope I don’t trip across the state
Cannot wait to get my diploma
And finally be done with high school
How many more days left; nine...

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Nine Months
Not nine and a half
Still hurting
Broken heart

Nine Weeks
Not nine and a half
Too old for that
Too old by half

Nine Days
Not nine and a half
Still counting
I know it's daft

Nine Minutes
Not nine and a half
Tears flowed
To, fro and aft

Nine seconds
Not nine and a half
Writing these words
And now its past....

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The dog went into a seizure
started shaking like it had
Saint Vitis.
Nine days and twenty two hundred dollars later
came home from the animal hospital,
a dog that looked and acted as if it had a lobotomy.

Know when to kiss your pets goodbye,
cause the Veterinarian you rush it to,
certainly is not gonna tell you.
The animal is better off dead....

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Twenty-nine cavities
My dentist said,
Gleefully twenty-nine times
Twenty-nine novacaines
Fun as twenty-nine
Parking fines
Half as many root-canals
Half as many frightening dreams
Half as many muffled
Dental equiptment blocked screams

Twenty nine appointments
To dread twenty nine days
Twenty-nine times to stumble out,
In twenty-nine a dental haze...

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February is the second month
Of the twelve each year.
Use these twenty-eight days;
to help some life to cheer.

It is the shortest month,
So don't let it pass.
Help some weary soul;
For time is fleeing fast.

There is a time in February,
When there are twenty-nine days.
This gives you one more chance;
To tell of Jesus, The Truth, The Life, The Way....

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I want to die!
This is sung by you and I!
this game we've played,
distanced by day.
This love we share,
one day i cannot bear.
This hatred endured,
Burning to end this whore.

I want to die!
This song of mine!
In nine days time!
Blacken this cursed world.
A throwing knife id hurled.
It hit along the wall,
i hadnt hit the girl at all.

I want to die!
This is sung by you and I!...

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My ode to Odin: 

Hanging in Yggdrasil, 
Neither in sky, nor on Earth.
For nine nights and nine days,
Without mead or a meal. 

A self-inflicted spear wound,
As I sacrificed myself to myself. 
I watched my blood flowing to the ground,
With my blood creating the runes,
As their wisdom entered my bones. 

A Seidr I became to enhance my gain. 
Ever since that moment…
I will never be the same....

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Nine days of waiting for the results,
For the good news that I've been dreaming,
To take my vacation for one month,
Wish granted that’s what I've been praying.

The time has come and I’m so happy,
To be away from my busy world,
Take a rest while I still have a chance,
White beaches wait for me…I’m coming!
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.
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“Wake up!” It’s 9 o ‘clock! …………Ohhh, A DREAM?


January 19, 2013
For Tracie's Contest "9"
1st Place Winner...

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Here’s idiomatic lines for nine.

Why does a stitch in time just save nine?

Why’s possession nine points of the law?

Indeed, why did the cat have nine tails?

Perhaps it’s because it had nine lives?

Why would someone go the whole nine yards?

Should cats and dogs be cats and canines?

Is this poem a nine days’ wonder?

If not, then I will be on cloud nine!



written 13 May 2021
checked with Poetry Soup syllable counter...

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Nine days and she is counting until
Her age will be nine times nine plus nine
She wears a size nine dress, she reminds
Tells me please do not make such a fuss
Nine times I tell her not to worry
Simply dress yourself up to the nines
And we will celebrate your birthday
With all nine times nine candles plus nine
Everything will surely work out fine!

Written May 10, 2021
for "A Time for Nine" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Michelle Faulkner...

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I had four summer goals this year 
School starts in nine days.
How many of these goals did I accomplish?
Not one.

I was caught up in being lazy
Being ill, being tired.  I watched TV
became a vegetable, ate packages of donuts
Gained weight that I thought I would lose
Do not remember three of the goals now

But I have had a relaxing summer
And I am ready to return to work
Maybe that was the ultimate goal
I was the last to figure it out....

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Brrrrr
Weather Forecast
By Tom 
2/15/2021

No clouds, sky solid gray,
chill factor, twenty-seven below, today.
Eighty-nine days I’ve seen temps freezing,
will be next week before it’s easing.
About two more weeks before its done,
It’s been three days since snow begun.
Expect seven to ten inches two days hence,
and drifts three wires high on a barb wire fence.
Being paroled to the yard was bad I attest,
until parole was revoked and I’m in house arrest.
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