Short Pecked Poems

Pecked my bedroom window
on the other side was another bird
but it was itself it wanted to bite...

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peck, peck, pecka peck
no one is spared Death’s sickle
silence rules the roost


09.21.2021

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Tanka 6
	
	hot summer garden
	brown asparagus... okra...	
	bird-pecked tomatoes
	no delicacies this year
	to counter winter’s cold breath...

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I saw
elk frozen 
in lake. Birds pecked
out his nostrils and eyes…
Winter.


05.05.2019
Writing Challenge 1, May 2019 - Cinqku- Poetry Contest
Dear Heart...

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Route 66ish No 15

While taking a walk in New Haven
This guy who was rough and unshaven
Ran nude through the park
For a bit of a lark
Then got pecked on the butt by a raven!!...

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Lennie was a Hen-pecked pastry baker
Who told His wife He might forsake Her.
She nagged and was grossly obese.
He wanted it to quickly cease.
Whereupon He frosted Her Half-acre....

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Must remember to add some humour
Limericks must be silly, it ain't no rumour
Bout slipping on a peel
Or some other ordeal
Or pecked on the bum by an unhappy rooster...

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Ah! So greets two pairs of earthy toned eyes,  
Four arms extending towards warm embrace, 
Four lips kissing, a collarbone pecked; Sighs!  
Sparks ignite flames in this familiar place....

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There once was a nurse called Seren
Who suddenly got pecked by a Heron
With her bag she did clout
And everything fell out
Now poor Seren shares her lipstick with a heron

©  29/12/2012~GG~...

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pigeon tart pecked at a red M&M
her head feathers became a fiery blend
the poets were shocked and confused
while scratching the head of their muse
what happens if she pecks a green M&M...

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They said how she ate was absurd;
A "Fatso", they called her she heard,
And ever since then
That poor, baby wren
Just pecked at her food like a bird.

8.31.18
Contest: Any Animal or Creature Limerick...

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Must remember to add some humour
Limericks must contain silliness, it's no rumour
Bout slipping on a peel
Or some other ordeal
Like being pecked on the bum by an unhappy rooster


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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rural alarm clock
better hen-pecked than hand-picked...
fresh eggs on demand

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for the "Bird Haiku" poetry contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin
written 03/15/2022
syllables (5/7/5) checked by HowManySyllables.com
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When Jimmy ate the paste,
there was a smile on Susan's face
Her pigtails he wanted to pull,
but the teacher had rules.
Recess came with a ding and a dong,
Susan then followed Jimmy alone.
His face turned red as she pecked his cheek,
This was Jimmy’s first kiss....

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Penelope prayerfully poked and pondered in search of a new word play.
She wanted it wrapped with winking words to welcome in her day.
The dark and dusty dictionary danced mocking her as it swayed..
Penelope perused and pecked it's pages and penned a poem that way....

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Special inside



An empty shell that’s been pecked clean-
By seagulls 

A broken soul, feels like your dreams have went- 
To hell

Is all that lies I think not, try experiencing-
Real, life..

Sparkling blue eyes, there is always somebody special -
Special inside.....

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As I walked thru glistening, deep snow
A crow swooped and pecked a strike combo
Upon my shocked and cold nose
I returned snowballs well froze
Downed crows sure can chicken dance in snow







Robert Haigh's Limerick Contest
February 21, 2018...

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the fifty cal pierced the tank
flash and bang, it quickly shrank

shrill high screams,so briefly heard,
then comes the death's, savage bird

thus pecked clean; blue eyes and spleen,
not more terrible, death, seen,

and so the night's moon I'd thank
died, I  not, in fiery tank...

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Limerick: Once a delicious hen fed on rice-sticks

  for Delysia Hendricks, with many, many thanks

Once a delicious hen fed on rice-sticks
Loved gorging herself on limericks
She pecked on a sweet line
It turned all alkaline
Now chicken’s served with acid on bricks.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Feathered in fire,
a blood heat of
red stolen coals
under your wing;
soles calloused by
the mountain road
long as loneliness;
step after hot step
chicken-foot lurch
home - what home?
frigid nest of stones.

Come chill moon-fall
you will be pecked
half-way to a death
by the beak of love,
feathered in a grin....

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Anna fell in love with a Pterodactyl
                                 They pecked and petted in a reflex tactile
                                                 She laid a big egg
                                                  In my duffel bag
                                   And I found my grandson in a projectile...

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Old Pattie just cannot stop talking
Voice grates like a mallard duck squawking
Can't you just be quiet ?
For once you should try it
Her hen pecked husband left walking!

Written after we went out tonight - this woman would not shut up and in the end her hubby just walked out of the room


6/10/18...

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Piano hoisters hoist the piano
Up and up and up.
Sparrows light on the black and white,
Up and up and up.

Keys are pecked, and hoisted tweetings,
High and high and high.
Lessons over, now the greetings
Fly and fly and fly.

Into the window goes the piano,
Slow, and steady,----lands!
Feathery joys now lift the boy's
Pilot-eager hands....

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I drew wings all over me
and for a brief period of time,
I felt that I could fly.
However I cannot stress the brevity of this period;
[it was only about 7 seconds],
after which I hit the ground and thought,
"How silly of me to jump,
for I am no bird!"
This is when the birds took notice
and pecked me to pieces.
It was a pretty good last day....

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"The Hen-pecked Husband"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Light Poetry)

The door bell rang yet again,
and yonder heard the distinct voice,
of my dear old wife, full of pain,
drowned all my dreams of rejoice.

then came the thundering slap,
that landed on my cheek now red,
and as I panicked out of my nap,
I realized I had wet my bed.

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