Short Nixed Poems

Of the cold night, am I,
Observing with each eye.
Overhead, I explore.
Ominously, I soar
Over the forest floor.
Oops, what nixed Mousie's life?
Only my talon's knife....

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how will we find each other if we get lost? a sister asked the other two.
Let’s fashion some crazy hats, suggested the oldest, Emily Ann Sue.
They argued for a while, one wanted T-rex, which was nixed right away.
They finally settled on scrambled eggs and wore them last Tuesday....

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   ‘Star’ Caitlin Clark
   Media-created Monster
      Pity her, almost

   She’s white, so she’s ‘right’
   'Next coming' of Larry Bird
      What a ruse! - Pure hype

   Reality-humbled
   Fresh-faced Caitlin’s no match
      for tough pro players

   Scored nine points tonight...
   Her team lost by thirty-six
     ~ Star-shine was nixed
...

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It hurts to be excluded
Even if you're feeling mixed
'Bout the venue that's reputed
To be one some people nixed.

For at least if you're included
You know someone seems to care
And it's not like you've intruded;
You're encouraged to be there.

Often motives are occluded
So conclusions may be reached,
But you're likely not deluded 
When a courtesy is breached....

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The pols say: ‘A soda tax is OK.’
Cynical voters nix them anyway ~
   For they rightly suspect
   Pols just want to collect ~
Behind it all, a revenue grab preys 



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Between 2012 and 2019 'sugary drink' taxes
of 1 -2 cents an ounce on Coca Cola and such
were nixed or repealed by the electorate in 
NYC, Philadelphia, and Chicago....

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One choice and circumstance
set us apart
Forever divergent
forever two hearts

One lasting reminder
of what can’t be fixed
The eggshells lay scattered
the pieces all nixed

In less than an instant
the future was charred  
Most scarlet of letters
forgiveness stays barred

And now to requestion
the maybe’s and why’s
The Stone of Excalibur
— an easier try

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024) 
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Three blind mices

               Clock hands, stick

Small furry fices

               Their poops, thick ...



Could their feces

               Cling, quite fixed

Maybe those meces

               Catch necks ... nixed.

                            ;-)




* Written and submitted on March 22, 2018, for the "A Little Laughter Five" Poetry Contest, Edward McCall, Sponsor. *...

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Everyone wins a free ticket.
There's always another draw.
Some will be drawn to the next wicket,
with those who have plenty to craw.

All of them saying the draws fixed.
Still; they stay in for the hope.
None of them knowing just who's nixed
that everyone's feeling the dope.

One lucky winner to finally come.
Millions awaiting his luck.
Some saying God must have given him some.
The others too jealous to cluck....

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I am bully hear me roar.
I pick on poets from shore to shore.
I am the one that women fear.
The high elite has made this clear.

Now in shackles they drag me in.
I’ve been condemned by this latest spin.
My day in court, judged by the sound.
How dare I step on hallowed ground.

The virtuous nobles have made their plea.
A nerve doth struck by little ole me.
Unforgiven my sentence fixed.
On this eve I have been nixed....

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