Short Offs Poems

Raindrops on summer 
Beer or wine on winter eve
Sunshine on day-offs...

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Fall
days glow
as leaves do
turn to show off
before their fall ends....

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Pickups and drop offs 
no one likes angry drivers 
long hauls sleepy guys...

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Everything today's a 'one-off'
                                    I doff my cap ~ my wig comes off...

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croaking frog waiting
tongue snapping whole fly
falls offs lily pad

ALesiach © 8/16/2016...

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transient souls
take offs and landings
always going  to other places
paper areoplanes
are ghostly things
...

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destiny
STREAM ‘RUNS’ DEEP!  ©  TANKA

Mud-bottomed fields lie with rot
A stray stream runs deep
Run-offs from flooded low-land spills
Dumps soil from afar off places!
 
Didee...

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Her dance within orbs of willowy spin offs
 Circle ballet striking glaze of a mirror flake
All absent a madness
 The victorious pallors of flame sword invading her once virgin shore...

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12
It’s the rip offs
The beat bags
The days of sweating
In the heat of addiction
Only here was nowhere
Nowhere that I never 
Wanted to be at again
So I walked out
How poetic is free?...

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PERFORMISTA 
traces
of
  phenomena
in
  dilemmas
of
the unexpcted
egos
  of happenings
of instant
      history
with
no narratives
only
  assumptions
Perceved
&staged
      one-offs





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scent of sweet grasses
searching for four-leaf clovers
new cut-offs grass-stained

FIFTH PLACE WINNER
written June 27, 2021
for "Summer Haiku" poetry contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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Spring is the best time to play.
Outstanding performances don't go unnoticed.
Cards are used for warnings or send-offs.
Creativity is a key role.
Everyone participates on or off the field.
Referees are important....

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Just the whiff of pink rose
growing outside my front door
brings my heart to my throat, stirs a desire
to don frayed cut-offs and white tee-shirt
and climb into the womb of my childhood fort,
to dream, to write, to lollygag to my heart’s content....

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Says, the old man begs him 
each time he visits him at 
the nursing home, to put a pillow 
over his face while asleep help end 
his suffering,

but he watches too many C.S.I spin-offs
on t/v ,  
and the old guy’s just not worth the attention.....

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Soft is my destiny, gentle
  Never rough, nor tough nor hard
Fresh as the daybreak, alive
  Diverted, the approaching storm

Happy landings now greet me, open arms
  Gone, the fearful take-offs, the turbulent flight
Soft is my destiny, gentle
  Safe in Love's arms, unharmed...

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Twenty-two Swans
Line the runway.
This years rookies
Practice take offs and landings.
A rapid splash dance
Followed by the whirring sound
Of fiercely powerful wings.
They will be gone soon
Leaving the pond to its ice.
Twenty-two Swans
Check out time is half October.

John G. Lawless
©10/6/2022...

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The old TV’s, with bulging backs,
Sit huddled with the trash;
Their value, precious once,
Has somehow vanished in a flash.

Discarded flat-screen boxes
Languish near what they’ve replaced,
A testament to modern times,
When cast-offs go to waste.

A jumbo flat-screen, I’ve been told,
Is one of life’s true perks.
For now, I’ll stick with what I have – 
My old TV still works!...

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pink witches of the sixties
take offs from the good witch
the one in the Wizard of Oz
their hair a distinct weird color like hers

pink witches of the sixties
with perfect make up
and red ruby lips
reminding us of Dorothy’s shoes

your peach and pink chiffon dresses
reminding me of Billie Burke’s
your originator must have been watching
the Wizard of Oz while designing you three...

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Late fall, trees half dressed sway over glittering cast offs 
The reach for charcoal and white waiting canvas 
Pauses in now familiar hesitation 
The moment shimmers alive 
To dissipate in pink contrails 
Of yet another unfulfilled sunset 
Another thought train clatters into distance 
Whence came this single tear 
To well in unseeing eyes 
Fingers hunt and peck in vain 
to capture such a moment...

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"...sometimes...pronunciate shuns-off air...
(more?...off-air...more?!)

---cofcof---

...an 'awe'...fer more offs-me hair...me ore..."
(soooo...eye sews oh...so-so...)

1- "oh!...verm?...mow over...more!"

2- "oh...fer'ma rover?...mmmm...or?"

1- "over-mow...over-more"

2- "ah!...verm!!...off me rover!

1- "yah!...verm over!...M O W E R!!!"


stans sand
(cutting the grass in a rainy spring)...

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Looking up to God
trying to explain that life is hard
 His vision was lost within the translation
even He can't see the light
 Life goes on without pause
nobody understands the cause
 Juveniles carrying sawed offs
it seems humanity is lost
 Corporate monopolies 
crippling the economy
 Legal systems have become a failure
giving more time than people lived
 Creating second class citizens
building upon the poor...

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Christopher James
Was a boy with curiosity
So many roads laid out for him
But he can’t drive anywhere
So legal 
So sober
His  future is going nowhere
While his friends are going everywhere
Leaving him behind
Off to become better
While he never changes
His black nail polish chips offs
As he spends tireless nights fixed on a screen
And that’s all he has now
Because no one is paying attention
To the boy who stayed behind...

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So many times our lives rearranged
    Resilient we are, accustomed to change

  Wars, Revolutions, Coups and Upheavals
    Plunder and Pillage and assorted evils

  Recessions, Depressions, Runaway Inflation
    Calls for austerity and eating food rations

  Bankruptcies, lay-offs, terminations
    Then all of a sudden, rejuvenations  

  So go with the flow, and just do your best
    Give yourself one leg up on the rest...

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Sounds of tiny tap dancers atop my tin roof.
Umbrellas and goloshes cast aside.
More tempting to children than candy or ice cream;
Mud puddles to splash in have arrived.
Earthlings so grateful, a powerful thirst had begun.
Relief from a long, parching summer sun.

Run-offs to falling ponds, giving to rise;
Aquatic creatures there sing to the skies.
Ignighting our senses when a whiff is obtained;
Nothing like the smell of a fresh summer rain....

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Swans - thrump-thrumping
practice take offs and landings

Geese honk
file flight plans

Muskrats build
mud and stick domes

Beaver maintenance crews
make ready

frogs retreat
while the mud is soft

Osprey screech
above naked woods

A doe follows
a scented path

Turtles secure
their mobile homes

A woodpecker
sends Morse code alerts

The ice shell
creeps

Winter exhales
across the pond

John G. Lawless
9/25/2020...

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