Short Piqued Poems

bristled tail flitting
ears piqued squirrel's hollow cheeks
Hawk swiftly charges...

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protuberance of web in conifer garden - spider hijacks my shoulder, piqued

6/27/2018...

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Primped, pampered pug Priscilla perused pate portion perfunctorily piqued





10/23/19...

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This morning's wind has piqued in earnest, 

an inquest.

For, diaphanous at it's rest,

my arm hair can attest,

the sun has tired of her obligation, 

to a mortal such as me.
...

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Disguised as a horse,
Walked the rim of the track
Stepping onto the hippodrome
There was no turning back
Zeus, piqued by this folly
Turned proud steed into donkey
At the wire annoyed spectators
Might think him an ass?...

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Oh Meaty Peaks!
Oh meaty peaks adorn-ed on her lips,
Why do you cheeky mountains there exist?
You spoil the smooth mottled flip-flops,
Of canines' drooping moistened chops...
Oh spikes of flesh, you've piqued my interest!...

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the dust of their shoes
             stirring a piqued interest -
			                    ……perusals profit


©10/26/2018


Haiku-Senryu- Writing Challenge October 2018- Poetry Contest

contest sponsor – Dear Heat a.k.a. Broken Wings...

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Limerick : Once Hillbilly Bumpkin came to town

Once Hillbilly Bumpkin came to town
Citizens mocked this no-make-up clown
She hitched ride on red bus
To Piqued-Silly-Circus
And there let drop (her) feathered eiderdown.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Peter put up potted plants on paths  and patted himself
Pasted posters on pitted  parts where people paid to pee
Praised and panned , through  pleas and plans, pots and pans he banned
Pipped  at the post in poles  and piqued, he put it all on press....

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signal of approaching cataclysm?
we can't see the gauntlet
it's past the cunning poison
a villain of his own timeline

piqued by an illiquid New Moon
Level 2 risk for severe stratagems
Earth braces for an apocalyptic slap
this time it could break...

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Compare and contrast
    the use of symbolism and imagery
  in the following two poems 
    by Gerald McDumb Bell

  The test question piqued my interest at first
    the poet's name and all
  After glancing at the poems, though
    I doused them in wood alcohol...

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Piqued my soul
Carnival playing
Visiting
Honor hold
Wishing for happiness free
Piercing heart

Playing card
Proving other death
Falling down
Seeing more
Taken it all for granted
Hurting heart

Russell Sivey
Entrant into Nette Onclauds contest ~Share a Shadorma~...

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High and Tight – for contest

His soldier stood up – ramrod stiff
when he caught the first sensuous whiff
piqued his passion to plunder
scented cheese from down under
sweet downstairs aroma of Quiffe.


4/256/2015

submitted to – LIMERICK CONTEST
sponsor – Jan Allison...

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Azure huddle
within prairie dog sight
betwixt and between hunts
delicate smells
summer gentles
taste of daylight

fur and finery
preening for mate
his interest piqued
every movement purposed
pirouettes his love song
green meadow smiles
chatter, twirl
a romance in the making...

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URBANE DISDAIN

Rapier wit, persiflage and banter
In repartee, an eloquent out-flanker
Faced with insult, virulence and rancour
His response could not be ‘insoucianter’

When attacked or critiqued
He will not be piqued 
Smooth as whisky antique:
These - his words cool and sleek

“You’ve a face like a snapper,
 Your sister’s a slapper,
 Your mother is built like a tanker”


....

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CUPID’S SIN

gown of midnight blue
twinkling stars regale her neck
her hair ~ a cocoa moon

her red-lip kisses ~
cupid’s arrows hit bullseye 
man’s collar askew

and spectacles piqued ~
his magnifying glasses
tremble at her form

married man’s weak pulse
she smiles like a shooting star
his knees venerate

forgotten promise
price of Cupid’s escapade?
paid with wedding ring

12/13/2017...

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               ‘Intimate gathering’
                  advertised
               Curiosity piqued...

                  poked my head in
               ~ cozy canoodling  



               __________________
               'Ran it up the flagpole'
               (to see if it would fly)
               was an overused ploy
               from the advertising 
               world of the 1950's 
               and 60's. 
...

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I woke up early this morning
And didn’t know what day it was
Until I walked to the kitchen
And spotted my pill dispenser
Sitting on the oaken table
Placed there by my loving wife
Before my angel left for work;
Looking at the seven day-marked
Cells just piqued me at that moment:
To think at this phase of my life
A pill box was my calendar.
I looked at the empty cells marked
“S”, “M” and “T” and realized
This morning has to be Wednesday....

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I woke up early this morning
And didn’t know what day it was
Until I walked to the kitchen
And spotted my pill dispenser
Sitting on the oaken table
Placed there by my loving wife
Before the angel left for work;
Looking at the seven day-marked
Cells just piqued me at that moment:
To think at this stage of my life
A pill box is my calendar.
I looked at the empty cells marked
“S”, “M” and “T” then realized
That this morning must be Wednesday....

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Living precariously through another side of herself
Muse parades her newest ideas into the writer's brain stem
But wait! There is nothing else up there. Does this seem right?
Body pops a pill, hoping to conjure up something.

What are we trying to prove here? Imagination asks.
Piqued that Imagination is trying to goal set, Muse thinks a bit.
Then runs flat out in the direction of fantasy land,
Hoping to get a glimpse of the coyotes before she soars off the cliff....

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the spring peeper people
slowly shhhhhh as
dawn's curtain begins
lightly lighting the day's
stage

various birds word
greeting the new
not knowing the last
to chirp was to be
the stadivarius
cricket

amongst some thickets
rosening his bow
legged legs
resounding proudly to
take the last bow

in a feverish fit of some
sort of Paganinish fervor
even the sun was piqued
and took a peek for
at the melodic

peak as bowed wood
would do so
did he a
finale of
flames...

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