Short Onlookers Poems

Not looking for sympathy —
        cathartic to trickle tears upon a well-worn page

4/26/2021...

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    Half-hearted attempts
      stifle genuine trials

    Leave onlookers tasting
      a discharge of bile...

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain


you’ll get no argument from me
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Onlookers stamp and shriek for blood
Wanting gruesome
Hoping for death
Gladiators face off
Not wanting to disappoint thrill seekers...

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They fought tooth and nail
To the amazement of the onlookers
With swollen hills on faces pale;
For brawls are part of night-crawlers...

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A beautiful face but

Dancing is not good 

and it stuns onlookers

She gains confidence

Arrests the audience

But nothing surprises...

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they laid in rows 
blind onlookers eyes
trampled  to death



8 Dead in many injured at Travis Scott’s AstroWorld festival in Houston this weekend...

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The heat lightning sky
Intensifies all the ghosts
That are on the ground
Perfect scare for onlookers
A frightening ghostly sight

Russell Sivey...

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Only wise when awake
Outgoing like the wind
Opposed to nothing small
Ousts mice very quickly 
Ornery predators 
Outstanding birds indeed
Onlookers are enthralled...

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Each summer I sunbathe quite nude
Onlookers gasp, they think it’s rude
Cos I'll open my thighs
To deter pesky flies
I'm thankful my spouse is no prude!
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Funny bug dances 
tapping his toes to the tunes 
snapping his fingers 
while onlookers laugh at him 
then decide to boogie too. 

Copyright © Cynthia Jones 
Apr.29/2005...

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Cosmic dancer unfurls her ardent truths
swirling her empathetic scarves of hope
infusing onlookers with glimpses of future joys
optimism and hope surrounding their nation
Cosmic dancer of India...

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exercise a must, early
workout in the dust
stretches, push-ups
pelvic thrusts
onlookers think this a joke
is this dunderhead really allowed to vote

10/18/2020

*As told to me by my sister...

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Glowing light delights
Onlookers from far below
Twinkling sparkling star  
Born above to invite all 
Observers to see new "Baby"

Inspired by Linda-Marie's contest
Not an entry.......

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     Petrified zombies march
       past displays of potato starch

     Onlookers stop to gape
       at what’s depicted on their capes  

     The clue connecting all this 
       floats upside down in the abyss 
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My thoughts crawl 
from the gray sky
and sigh through the debris of time
in not so steady form--

Like the muted shadow
in the middle of the road, like the gaze 
of onlookers, who wondered 
why I heard not the incoming death...

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As I was walking in the snow 
I was accosted by a crow
It did not like my face
I ran and it gave chase
Amused onlookers watched the show.

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For a contest hosted by Kevin Shaw
21st February, 2018...

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Words spoken quietly
we sometimes hide by palms
when we get close to ears
whistling between the lips
with secretive intent
while onlookers remark
wow like that is so rude!

5/10/2021

Pleiades W Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman
1st place...

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Hidden Face Man of Des Moines was carrying his steed to Derby Town.
It’s the oddest sight, agreed a jokester, a monkey, a duck and a clown.
Onlookers wanted to take a peek, for it is not a matter of course
When you see a man in a turban carrying a brown upside down horse....

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Cut it- clean

Swath on down under the muscle

Slide along the bone

Withdraw

Now enter lightly, gently, deeply

Hilt rested upon the surface

Step back
(don't lose your grip)


Bow to your partner

Turn 
and
salute any onlookers

Sheath the pen and walk away...

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tattered
and torn
these old jeans
like a frayed soul
beyond repair
still catch eyes
of onlookers 
as i walk by 

patches 
hide the threads
and worn out seams
from view 

dirtied
then washed 
with tears
yet stains
remain

some things 
can”t be cleaned
nor replaced...

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A switch when placed upon her head;
some tried to take that crown and bled;
Forgot that she was not spoon fed;
Her fate long ago decided;

Confident, a well run machine;
Strength leaves her standing serene,
onlookers may call this obscene;
Hail the future queen, hail the future queen....

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On her front and back pair of wings are found many a natural tattoo
like inkblots, they form perfect mirror images, that you love to view

Her lifting of wings in a figure-eight pattern, our spirits it does renew
Trying to please the onlookers, she forgets the pains she goes through
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My Functional Movement Disorder
Turned me into a performer.

My body becomes jerky,
And I move quirky.

My arms  move spasmodic,
Onlookers may think I am neurotic.

But I am not foolish or silly,
This disorder will not kill me.

So if you see my jerks,
Know they are now my quirks....

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Merman shark man is solid, handsome, and strong
he frightens some onlookers, but never me
appearing in the ocean, which is never wrong
I love seeing merman shark man lingering in the sea
surrounded by dolphins who give him a song
his face is chiseled, and his stoic expression delights me....

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