Short Pied Poems

The Pied Piper performed perfectly his malevolent melodies...

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Coffee's aroma
Wafts past my nostrils...aroused
  Like a pied piper...

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lightning
jagged streaks
of monochrome
unlike the pied arch of
rainbows

TLH  © 06-06-2012...

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ghosling of gray clouds,
coverlet hides the blue skies
geese follow Pied-sun*

2/22/2018

*as in Pied Piper...

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‘ The Pied Piper and The Tiger … ’  67th  Senryu



 Both:  The Pied Piper
The Lady Or The Tiger …
Readers Picks … Either …...

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Pied duck
Late diving when
The sea did roar below                                  
as snowy wings flashed bright and bold,
so white...

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Deception and Greed

the Pied Piper calls…
Rumpelstiltskin weaving straw,
promises of gold...

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Threats of blood baths easily roil
Cult members whose sentiments boil
Devotees tribal
Shall get D.T.’s bible
Soiled with drizzles of snake oil...

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T-rump’s a hustler on a stage
A pied piper who taps people’s rage
So who will rebuff
This great con artist’s fluff
And call off this ugly dark age?...

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master of gibberish lines of metaphor
acclaim and awards from the poetry corp
coffee house pied piper
study and decipher
dazzle with brilliance or baffle galore...

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So silly he was:
The silly pied piper
Like bewitched stranger
Across busy streets of town
Rides like a female bull on heat
Mounted by a golden cow
With plastic horns
On her head....

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OH SUCH SWEETNESS IN THAT SCRUMPTIOUS LIQUID OF LIFE.
SUCKED FROM THE BREAST OF ANOTHER MANS WIFE.
WHO WAS THAT FRIEND AND LOVER AND SAVIOR IN ARMS.
SHE WAS MY WEE MOTHER  WITH PIED PIPER CHARMS....

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blind lead the blind
as the herd follows 
the pied piper
who leads all to 
their doom

safety in numbers
a strange concept
borne of delusion 
fear of freedom
ego entrapment

04-April-2023...

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Free Speech is a pied-piper
of artificial colours and flavours –
mixing to grey, watching
The Censor’s Army
in red uniforms
march close,
as arson flames
turn to incense.
Who wants to be God?
...

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I could listen to your voice for hours.
Hours could pass by and I'd be ensconced.
Ensconced, enamored and hopelessly lost.
Lost on dulcet waves of sounds of you.
You are my pied piper....


©SamHarty...

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If I have rhyme, If i have reason, but where do i say ?
All the land screams, "keep it out of our bay" !
Hypocrisy is holy, sermons are hyper, 
Every land is Hamelin but there is no pied piper.

(11.08.2023)...

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“On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe”
This song is rolling round in my brain today
The Modernaires or Pied Pipers
Which group were the blighters
That made us sing along in a hap hap happy way...

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L'encre à Dieu
Bonne fête grand-maman
On s'est connue sans sacheant
Royaume formidable
Pas croyable
La beauté
Vous le sacher
La prommenade à pied
Bon Dieu à nos côtés
Notre monde ici
C'est un paradis
Merci...

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The Pied Piper of failure
loose in our schools
Cacophony playing
of pedants and fools

He lures and beguiles 
to those innocent souls
Who locked in his footsteps
—will never be whole

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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“On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe”
This song is rolling round in my brain today
Was it the Modernaires or Pied Pipers
Which group were the blighters
That made us sing along in a hap hap happy way...

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      Hawking pillows and pea-shooters 
         a pied-piper his path to fame plied

      Picking up a penny here, dropping a penny there
         ever-poorer and poorer ~
                      the piper’s psychic sighed 

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Maybe God wanted to paint 
this charming creature white;
but when about to finish, 
ran out of paint;
And the result—a pied beauty! 

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Winner (5th Place), Picture Prompt Contest, sponsored by Julie Rodeheaver,
November 8, 2017....

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Green freckles and fresh sunshine beams 
followed her to Lah Lah Land.

Puppy dog tails were close behind, 
meowing and smirking,

Flying pigs rolled their eyes
but joined the parade.

She was the Pied Piper of Whimsy
So it was no surprise…...

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the dogs travel behind me from room to room
as if I am a kite and these three are my ribbons
my husband calls me the pied piper
they like your smell, he tells me.
I have no idea what it is, but they adore me
including me in their pack, and I feel honored...

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She is all about the sixties
Polka dot with stripes
Pinks, oranges and brilliant yellows.

With a hippie’s heart
An open book listener
Showing her love in a variety of ways

Encouraging community and respect
A Pied Piper of joy
She is all about the sixties...

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