Short Peddling Poems

wielding blunt weapons
       soul peddling at the cross road

                to be the greatest 



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Haiku 9-1-2016

splattering raindrops
hucksters peddling their wares
gray calling clouds


John G. Lawless
9/1/2016...

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Peddling with great stride 
Muscles relax as I glide
Leisure ten-speed ride

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Imagine letting a necromancer 
give a speech in Trinity college Dublin 
it's so sad to see backwards peddling jesters
getting a podium about lowers education standards 
under a civilised opinion to address false tongues...

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I bought a push bicycle, 
What a tired to peddle?

I bought a motor cycle,
Then went for a car,

My belly swollen,like a pregnant ma,
No way to go than gym ha,

The gym way to slim peddling cycle!
The gym way to slim tiring cycle!!...

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For your sins
cheaters
clickers
unbelievers
nineteen crimes
peddling dimes

Now I have risen
from the broth
carry on dear soupsters
until I decide
is all for naught
in silence
I reign
King Arthur
fear not
my heartbroken devils...

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School bus drivers stay aware with eyes peeled 
For cyclists who are out there peddling wheels
Watch out for those who travel on foot too
Students who saunter along as they do
The elderly, blind and those unhearing
Hold safe those on the bus you are steering....

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Merchant of moments 
Peddling the past
A hourglass high
A present that never lasts

Slave to silience
Disguising the deceit
A tongued tied echo
A truth that's never discrete

Time may beget actuality
Expectation elicits emotion
A tacit torture
A sensation that's never chosen...

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Gamble Gold of the gay green woods
                               Peddling the pack of Robin Hoods
                                          He met little John
                                         At the end of dawn
                            Both played the market of Sher-Hoods...

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My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing them to poorer souls for paltry profit.


Four lines from Dream Macabre
Submitted to Liberum Divisa 4 Contest
February 17, 2021...

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Rowing down the riverbank;
The water is a danger,
No this is not how I begin-
Am in a four wheel ranger.
Driving on the barren road
Past can eat my dust,
Suddenly a bike appears
I must, I must, I must….
Peddling along with speed
Faster than the car,
Jumping off and now I’m gone
On a shooting star !...

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Auburn barnet, peaches and cream
A toy truck running on imagination and knee powers
Auburn barnet, peaches and cream
Enjoys mocha moolatte and hot chocolate steam
Riding a bike across the grass and flowers
Peddling along as if you always were
Auburn barnet, peaches and cream


A rondelet form of rhyme...

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Lack of sight,
You should be her knight,
Out peddling wood,
Oh, if I could,
Take your place,
Sense, you have not a trace

I don't understand,
How anyone in this land
Could be so blind,
Takes the stupid kind,

I guess a chance for me,
To atone you see,
For I was once as dumb,
As you seem to have become....

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sitting back
straight properly
putting my
fingers in
a slight
arch

at
my
piano
slightly
peddling
a melody

throwing in
arpeggios
and even
the odd
pause
as if

to 
state
a period
of waiting
hesitating
as if to hold

the now
the then
forgotten
where fingers
fell but knowing
it was played in minor...

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Never too old to have some fun
Peddling slowly with shaded eyes 
Dressed to be fit in off-color Levi's 
A noon-time bicycle ride out in the sun  
Loving each other, loving life 
So long they've lived; husband & wife 
Never too old to have some fun 



(photo 1.)

Make It Seven Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Joseph May 
10-14-2019...

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The Duke and the Dauphin 
    two snake-oil salesmen in 'Huck Finn'
  chased by folks brandishing paddles with nails
    ridden plum out of the county on a rail... 

  Joseph R. Biden and Donald J. Trump
    peddling their rancid cologne to the masses
  Such a pair of stubborn mules, those two
    Let's stick their dunderheads in fertilized mule-asses...

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Written: August 02, 2023
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Oysters form pearls bright,
Womb of the sea, pure wonder,
Nature's vibrant crown.

Sapphire depths conceal,
An oddball of nature's art,
Diver's precious find.

Peddling pearls so rare,
Nacre's colorful cuddle shines,
Nature's treasures sold....

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Stowaway Hopes 

Merging the present

to the darkened distance

Stealthily stealing our future

Sliding away our hopes

Making a slideshow

Of our stolen past

peddling sorrows

To every hallow mind

Where fleeting thoughts have taken wings

Yesterday have come to perch

Resting with our past shadows

Soliloquizing our stolen dawn

Stowed away with the darkened night...

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The chambermaid of the tavern her name Marie 
Alluring captivating fair maiden all would agree 
Smiling flirting undoubtedly her majored degree 
Scurrying making the rounds not missing a knee
Many a fool who has sat on a stool including me
Envisioned her with enchanted dreams of fantasy 
In no way am I saying she charges by an hourly fee
Just peddling spirits of seduction be her pedigree....

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My daily ride to Sand Island
Is now a pleasant memory:
Beautiful, nameless wildflowers
Led the way on both sides of me
And their commingled fragrances
Intoxicated my senses-
Numb insubstantiality:
Reality doesn’t exist
in this fantastical stupor.
I was still mindful of peddling
But in an autopilot mode:
Safe, yet lost in dreamlike
Thought where past, present and future
continued in the same time-frame....

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pathetic,
pitiful &
pigheaded
perry
peddling his
propaganda by
preying on the
populace,
painting a
picture of the
“popular
pious
politician,” who
profanely
prays for
profit,
professing his
partisan
poisonous
pledges to the
predominant
party leaders,
potential donors &
practioners in his
parish of 
paranoid
pro-lifers & anti-gay rights
pontificators, who are
pushing for his
potential run in the republican presidential
primary....

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Prohibition began one hundred years ago in the USA.
People had their right to drink booze taken away.
This made people unhappy and they began to whine.
And this caused Al Capone to start peddling moonshine.
Capone was evil and because of him, people were killed.
On December 5 1933, the 18th Amendment was repealed.
People were very happy because prohibition came to an end.
They were as giddy as school girls to have the right to drink again....

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Furiously peddling the bicycle
The man is dwarfed
By the huge clear sack
On the bikes' back
Now swaying as it goes around the corner
Filled with brightly colored cans.

On another day he is seen
Pushing a grocery cart
Filled to the brim
With a clatter of tin
Clackety clack
Down the sidewalk.

Then again, he is here
With a black plastic bag
Slung over a shoulder
He is marching,
Marching towards the store.
Its Dan.
Dan the Can Man....

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Things drop on the floor.
One can't reach them any more,
in a wheel chair..
Furniture must be moved, to
get around, and just maneuve..
in a wheel chair..
High shelves now out of range,
upper body muscles strain,
in a wheel chair..
Feet peddling, tiny steps,but the
pain is so much less,
in a wheel chair..Must not be a moron,
when it's parked put brakes on,
in a wheel chair..
Keep positive.
Don't despair.
Many others reside there,
in a wheel chair.....

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The Dark Delaware on my left
The defunct canal on my right
And me in the middle of both.
I’m heading south on the towpath
Peddling my hybrid all the way.
As to where? I haven’t a clue
It doesn’t really matter where
Just as long as I’m still able to
Peddle along this special place.
I’ve biked here since I was a kid.
Two things have changed since that time:
Back then I had a three speed Schwinn
Today I have twenty-one speeds;
Back then I was young, today… old....

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