Short Pincers Poems

I toil and I slave
in the shadows—
exhaustively I emerge 
to your rescue
when you feel
the sting of grief
and the hot torrent
of tears. 

I cry out to you
to behold me in the light,
but my mouth is closed
to pincers and restraining webs.

How it hurts
everything that I am—
that you see me only
in your pain....

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He catches evildoers in his sturdy claws
That's what they get for breaking all those laws
Crime fighting crustacean without a pause
Binding crooks with pincers is such a worthy cause
He lives in a giant seashell in the briny deep
Then bursts upon the scene wherever evil creeps
When a robbery's in progress,he is there with a leap
Bringing villains to justice, so we can safely sleep...

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And you explore me-
to the limits of enchantment.
As I was-
dying in a nonfiction.

Half brothers-
were moving like pincers
to catch a pen
like a little solidier.

Sad little god was telling
I do,
I am moving in non-existent darkness
for a sundial.

A lobster-
was trying to climb on
an ancient throne.
He wanted to become a neoking.
And throw his weight for the kittens
and unborn dogs.



Satish Verma...

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The game
Squashed his frame
Socks tainted
Carved out plain
But the road map was tame

Animals replete
With zoo keeper seed
From marsupial greed
A black out rabbit hole
Concealed the frrozen deals
Pincers chopping dollar backs
Red with collar grabs

Soapy suds and beer
The watery love endeared
To carry a child burden
For the sake of namesake
Dust off the the boot heel kickers
And fly kites with cotton pickers...

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A big breasted Maine lassie named Mary
cooked lobsters for her fisherman Harry.
She leaned over the pot
to check out the whole lot
and two pincers grabbed Mary's ripe berries!

Then out rushed her fine fisherman Harry
in his arms a wood bat he did carry
he swung at the critters
and smashed them to fritters
thus saving our fair Mary's raspberries!

rhyme pattern a/a/b/b/a

category VISUAL/ Naughty...

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grips the cloud deck, two hands
steely teeth sink holes
bitten cold, like ice cream
swallowed whole
brain freeze, wind whip
stir stick, mixed

pinnacle obstacle, 
lift up the ground
shadowed down
ant workers flip, switch pincers 
scale back five times
their body weight, again

hollowed out, night glow
exaggerated king,
spectacle and sceptre
spiked, lighting rod crown
flash strike, light blast
subtle subject safety net

for now...

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He never talked a word
He never complained a time
He never stopped being fooled
Even when milkman milked him
His lips closed as a dull fool

Milk man brought calves to feed
But the dump bull looked on
And when they brought pincers
He yelled at the milk man
And the whole world heard him

Dump bull is so dull and foolish
He can only talk under danger
When his bull-hood is threatened
No one knows if that is the reason
The dump bull exists on earth...

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Swimming in the ocean
       a wincing couple pinches
     Little creature on my leg
       not more than six or seven inches
  
     I looked again, to my surprise
       Hello! - a trilobite!
     Two pincers jutting from its head
       tiny, fearsome sight

     I scolded it: 'You are extinct'
       'Now go away and I won't tell
     You'll get to live another day.' 

     He stayed... So, I swatted him
       to prehistoric hell ~
     THE STUPID ONE-CELL DUMBBELL...

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