Short Nutcracker Poems

Ballet:
Nutcracker
Season's fav'rite
Christmas must be coming
Can't wait...

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digesting ballet —
prime rib and bacon, waltzing
Nutcracker taters
Tchaikovsky suite crescendo
fork and knife tenderizing

12/25/2021...

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Nutcracker ballet tickets for fun
Elegantly floating on air and sun
A great fall off the wall
Wife has a vice tis strife
Nutcracker career, hubby done!...

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Nutcracker
a ballet or a tool?

Nymph
a goddess or an insect?

Pawn
Something you deposit
Or do you move it across a game board?

People say English is easy.
Sheesh!...

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Nutcracker you are so fine
Nutcracker you are divine
Nutcracker standing tall
Nutcracker walk down the hall
Nutcracker standing there
Nutcracker you have white hair
Oh, fine Nutcracker...

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Going to see the beloved Nutcracker Ballet
Tchaikovsky's music, has enchanted us to this day
So familiar to all
Both big and small
A masterpiece for the ages, a magical soiree...

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orchards now barren
scent of hibernating leaves
nutcracker on guard
a long ride to grandma’s house
the splendor of November


A Thanksgiving Tanka
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins
10/24/21...

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LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER

How marvelous! 
Did you see it?
Did you hear it?
Tschaikowsky 
The Piano Concerto
The 2nd act of The Nutcracker
The New York Philharmonic
What a wonderful way to leave the old year...

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Going to see the beloved Nutcracker Ballet
Tchaikovsky's music, has enchanted us to this day
So familiar to all
Both big and small
A masterpiece for the ages, a magical soiree


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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She’s a nude on a rug made of skin 
Big and busty, inviting you in
With those come hither eyes
And her nutcracker thighs
Resistance would be such a sin

A temptress with ruby red lips
Enormous and thunderous hips
Should she coax you inside
You will get such a ride
Just be sure to hang on to your pips...

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Too big to Crack this nut.
Too big to Crack a nut.

But leave it up to imagination.
Cosmo Star Beings and superstition.
Producing a morning prayer rumpelstiltskin.
Nut Cracked Her and sometimes you feel like 
a nut, sometimes you don't.

Old rotten owl rumpelstiltskin.
Odd and rotten in the days of the nutcracker....

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The time of year I will listen
To a classic music by Tchaisky
I enjoy the music of the Nutcracker
My eyes closed feeling the music
Feeling the flow of the tune


This music makes me feel 
Like I am dancing across 
     the room
With my dance partner 
The Nutcracker
In a ballet dance theme
Of the Nutcracker music...

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BELINA




                                  Belina was a lithe ballet dancer
                         She met a handsome young man Guy Prancer
                                The  ballet stage there was lacquer
                                  The evening of The Nutcracker
                           Toe cracked she found Guy a necromancer...

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Amongst the fields of milk and honey
Run tight ends paid much too much money
Throwing pink pig skins
With nary a grin
Nursing booboos which aren’t real funny.

So, get your hot dog, buy that beer
Hear those skulls crack give a cheer
Break a leg
Tap that keg
We're building men here, ain’t that clear?

*Better known as the Nutcracker Sweet ;)...

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*Image of A Cedar Waxwing in Winter by The C Lab.

a crack at the nutcracker

sole *waxwing natures
crowned nomen swathed pastel fair~
seats heart hints of hues

*These birds are berry eaters and nut droppers for sustaining their future.

2022 December 07
*6th Place*
Winter Nature Themed Haiku
~~Tania Kitchin: Judged 2022 December 13

**HMS....

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My friends took me down to Broadway
To watch a newfangled ballet
T'was called the Buttcracker
And not the Nutcracker
The title was apt I can say

Some dancers were dressed in tutus
Bulges in their tights gave us clues
All the dancers were male
My friends face turned quite pale
Next time we should read the reviews!

02/08/21...

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I am a ghost !
A body without a Soul.
Lost in an illicit memory lane,
awake in the darkness like an Owl.

Because......!

I gave my Soul to the Nutcracker,
thought it would him alive.
But , I forgot that He was a piece of Wood,
and it was all just a blessed vibe.

But now!

Often comes to me a happy smile,
when I see that strange isle.
With Him by my side,
is just a dream with which I still abide..........

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Symphonies and ballets
No wonder you are loved.
“The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake”
Were those ones you dreamed of?
I heard you filled halls and auditoriums
You were good at painting music with soul
A romantic prodigy of your era 
“Has a profound tune as a whole”.
Your overflowing melodies and harmonies
They sound like a quaint orchestration 
Where everything flows with the beauty
It moves my emotion....

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Airplane take off
Banging hammer
Crickets
Dog snoring
Engine rev
Faucet drip
Gargling
Heartbeat through a stethoscope
Ice calving from a glacier
Jumping rope
Knock on a door
Laughter
Metronome
Nutcracker cracking nuts
One hand clapping
Panpipe
Quack of a duck
River's flow
Sneezing
Typewriter tapping
Ululating widows
Vacuum cleaner cleaning
Whistling
Xylophone
Yosemite geyser going off
Zen master chant...

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How do you rattle an orchestra
I wonder 
wandering the empty stage

No lights no go do this do that
Tell them all about it!

Its outrageous, over the top
not the big top bear you in mind
and no bears. please
no joke 
no bear this year

nutcracker isn't here today
no prince and rats no jumping ships
Ha you think, no iceberg this 
winter is no time to overheat

I'll be silent now
but not forever
while we always loudly sleep...

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Is anything more beautiful
than a Tchaikovsky waltz

The Nutcracker sublime,
Swan Lake to exalt

Where violins elevate,
and horns renew hope

Archangels in heaven,
by his music elope

Is anything sweeter
than a Tchaikovsky refrain

Wind instruments sonorous,
flutes pouring like rain

Percussion calls out,
as you rise from your seat

No choice but to dance
  —your circle complete

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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wind-whipped waves, white-capping near shore
  trail's thin layer of ice, cracking underfoot
    a cold sock awaiting impatient shoes

on the look-out, hoping, but not really expecting
  to spot her on the trail she once danced along
    her lithe motions a Nutcracker Suite to me

no, no, no -- not him -- my old roommate approaching
  inviting me to join him on his 'Jog with Nature' kick
    what could I do... I fell glumly in line......

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Is anything more beautiful
  than a Tchaikovsky waltz

The Nutcracker sublime,
  Swan Lake to exalt

Where violins elevate,
  and horns renew hope

Archangels in heaven,
  by his music elope

Is anything sweeter
  than a Tchaikovsky refrain

Wind instruments sonorous,
  flutes pouring like rain

Percussion calls out,
  as you rise from your seat

No choice but to dance,
—your circle complete

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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Wife is pain killer
You get stressed  and pain is all over
By society, work place
She gives her heart and stress flies away

Wife is garbage collector
You are tortured, cut, scattered
By problems, challenges
She collects you again into one piece

Wife is nutcracker
You find difficulties, you are  lost
By  Gordian knot-like issues
She suggests solutions and you smile again

Wife with sacred heart but difficult duty
Deserves honor and respect from society...

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When I grow up I want to be a nutcracker my son said.
I thought he meant ballerina, was he right in the head?
It’s not because he’s a male but he simply can’t dance.
As his mother I hoped that someone would give him a chance.

I will hire him said grandma, all of my older squirrel friends will too.
Our teeth are worn out and rotten, it is so hard to chew!
He began his career at the age of twenty-two.
He opens all of their nuts with hatchets of yellow, red and blue....

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