Short One Armed Poems

Futile attempts scar
One armed men punching the wind
Unable to vent....

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boxer
quick youth
roping doping dropping
the one armed ghost
champion...

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Futile attempts hurt
One armed man punching the wind
Life is frustrating....

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 off the wall dancing
electric blue shoes awhirl
one-armed pushup

11/5/2020...

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With a pull of the arm
the eyes started to roll
Sweat poured from the pits
as if nothing at all.
Tears smudged the rims
from the pull, roll, and ring
When the fruit salad face
Showed a lop-sided grin....

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Drawing from the shadow of La Manquita 
The mighty Spanish master from Málaga
Painted his m'lady borderline grotesque
Features so far flung and un fathomably stretched
She had an eye in Segovia and a nose in Madrid


7/9/2019

H G Longfellow Inspired Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Julia Ward...

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There was a local lad named one-armed Joe

     Who was an alligator wrestling pro

          He misjudged the 'gator's snap

               Resulting in this mishap

                    He dined on 'gator tail as quid pro quo

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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“Why raise this much crude alarm
Over the schemed little harm
To just chop off your left arm
Leaving your right for your farm…

Left arm coming to gross harm
Does not betray yields from farm,
Save for one with eyes on alms,
Since planning to dump farm’s palms...

Your right arm can yams harvest,
Just as it can put on vest.
No true lover would you jest
Or with tongue your patience test
For being now a one-armed man
She should leave for older stan!”...

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