Short Piper Poems

The Pied Piper performed perfectly his malevolent melodies...

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without black pepper
that is the whole Piper soup
nor natural salt...

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

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The fried piper flies
rolled paper rocket dives
On sealing wax glides...

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With
welcome
arms and an
ever open
door

Ekphrasis after St Mary Le Port by Piper...

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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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Whitstable oysters
Melton Mowbray pie
Maris Piper potatoes
Yorkshire curd tarlets
Cheddar cheese biscuits
Draught bitter
Cold!...

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Deception and Greed

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

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Drunk on the fear of our own misgivings,
  we stagger and stray…
     —toward the sound of the piper

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)...

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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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Tom Tom was the son of a piper
But here’s where the story gets riper
His dad, so they say
Could lay pipe night and day
Of his women, there wasn’t a griper...

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The soup has a shortage of ads
Let’s call for more saying egads! 
While they interfere
With the reason we’re here
We'll learn about doodads and fads
...

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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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338
Death is the best
For rats for they
Mess up other
People’s lives
Without a care
Loyal-less
Without a soul
Glad there’s a
Piper on patrol
Called fentanyl...

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From
abstract
to design-
in foliate 
heads

Ekphrasis-John Piper paste & see @
johnpiper.org.uk/foliate-heads-1953.htm & his work @
johnpiper.org.uk/Galleries.htm...

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Amy,
Check out 27 
Back to black
Pick up required on the floor of a London flat
Valerie just abandoned her comeback
Farewell sweet raven
You piper of pain
Love is a loosing game...

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Happy birthday! It seems that time
    has ran its course for another year;
         the only difference, that I can find,
              is that I love you, even more, my dear....

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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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This Christmas morning, 
a lone 
piper played
at Veterans Memorial Park:
Amazing Grace.
The haunting sound 
was tribute and lament,
and a gift to us
who passed.

December 25, 2018...

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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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She sat on her butt for a year 
Eating cookies, pretzels and beer
Now  looked at the scale
And started to wail
God, look at the size of my rear 



for Carolyn's contest
Sadly, a true story...

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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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