Short Planks Poems

Nature's mines lurking
Obstacles speckle the mist
Cloaking splintered planks...

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A tiny footstep, awakens my wooden planks
Who goes there? My inner journeying voice asks...

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CHICAGO 1871

laughter, music
walk those city planks ~
why set the night on fire?

Kim Rodrigues ©2016...

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massive oak timbers 
hearty men piped to action
mighty war machine
planks resisted cannonballs 
like our nation, still afloat...

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my friend really thought
Gandhi's first name was Goosey
thick as two short planks


(For contest 'Colloquialisms', sponsored by Laura Leiser)

July 2nd 2015...

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in stagnant water
  aesthetic ecstasy sinks~    
 engulphed by a lake   

planks in protrusion 
brooding clouds enshroud a pier~ 
silver lining plush...

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Suddenly seeing imageries in the shed's wooden planks,
As though my own mind is playing optical illusional pranks,
Finally have found the right high that hits me like heavy tanks....

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Life is a balancing game.
At times through dilapidated bridge,
With shattered rails and planks,
We have to daringly pass,
To reach our desired destination.
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Playful as a puppy
pouncing, as a child I'd 
pound upon black and white
planks, listening to the
pitch, noticing that my
Pa's voice sounded like the
placement of my left hand.

9-16-23...

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I cross a river of sticks-
frozen, the fallen brothers
of the War of the Seasons.
Snotty dew grasps at siena tips
in a crack between the planks of time
as the Gods cast white petals down
from some isle south of heaven....

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a breaking storm
at sea
lost in a white
-foamed
wave

dark skies
planks of 
wood men 
overboard
floating dots
of flesh scream
-ing in the clim
-ing tide

the sea
holds her secrets
flesh covered
with silver glory

the gold coin
the faded face...

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Build your home on the river bank
and the river will fashion sticks
build it upon a mountain
and the mountain will make planks
place your bones amongst the stars
and they will giggle lightly
pitch a tent in heaven
and forever shine brightly....

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Sit-ups, planks, and crunches

My push-ups done in bunches

Deep heavy squats from the rack

Deadlifts are good for my back

Just pumping up my biceps

And cutting up my triceps

I'm sweating harder each day

So I look sharp when I play...

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thanks for the skanks on billboard planks but we got another,a brother from 
hartford,dang,i forgot his name,said we could play as long as he payed,it was 
ok.im on the george bush team,any dream will do as long as you,submit the 
proper form,thas yours....

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When being awake
is hard and unbearable.

When in restless dreams
peace is fleeting.

What else is in there to live and hope for
if not only to be eager for your own demise?

The planks of wood may come and cover me
forwhy about this life I have nothing else to say....

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The  cloth aged
Likes the wrinkles of the face 
The colours of the embroideries faded
Likes the eyesight of an old woman 
The threads gone loose
Likes the screws 
Between planks of an olden hut
Only the stains of an old lipstick 
Still fresh in the heart
Of a sun-set love...

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Chill in the morning      
As the sun glimmer softly
After a mountain

Cool breeze whispers hushed
Aroma sizzles from cup
Of roasted fine beans

Dew trickles from top
Dousing planks spewing earth scent
Thumping, thumping feet

Birds seamed melody
Waking colors of nature
Thought, silence whispered...

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Darken planks fall upon the city streets shining, as the rain falls upon them. 

Cries are felt from passing shadows living inside their head. Their blank expressions are felt deep within one's core.

Wasted dreams linger in the nights air as a glimpse of a moments memory brings a smile but quickly fades away....

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Beside the prison's bars stands my pride,
Holding the key to a road free.
Forgiveness planks floors to walk upon the rock
With soul flying against a momentum of hopes dying.
What trial could forgive, relieve the pain between my eyes?
The rules are set and I am playing to pay the debt
In a game unfair, in a game unfair....

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O helpless-me; atrophied on the planks of rigidity

Creaks to the tune of my pain- in anguish suffers but

Less than when thou from bough patterned to plan

Now serves- silently in stillness, but not I, I cry

 

O fallow- me, morose, neither die nor live to give

Time tied, greed to grab rich, all on same boat...

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Chicago, the South Side,
	    long before Barack Obama


those I'd love see live
anywhere they like
are those so black
they up long planks
in the heat of summer
wheelbarrow coal
so bright it pours
in a silver seiche
down chutes
through windows
of bungalow basements
crashing in coal bins 
of new masters


Donal Mahoney...

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From where I stand 
leaning 
which way up 
patches of blue 
or jewelled black vertigo 
bring me back to earth 
and heaven is still here
Untrustworthy planks of mentality wobble 
loose chemical nails 
and windows rattle 
in the human eddies
Time to back up 
clean the head 
reboot 
save the screen 
recalibrate 
sleep
2.04...

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Deep and true the cove 

of azure blue and moss green 

welcoming my ship 



A dock floats ahead 

with worm rotted wood planks 

and tarnished brass cleats 



Stay the anchor deep 

among the rocks and coral 

bring about the bow 



Venture not to shore 

The real beauty lies beneath 

the calm seas surface...

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Pirate women permeate my spaces.
They are fierce and fabulous.
You dare not lie to them.
They will cut you to shreds, with their swords.

Cut  you to ribbons.

I do not crouch in fear.
I created them.
They are ruthless, savage, 
out for blood.

Thirsty for it.

I walk their planks proudly.
Eager for the drowning
that awaits....

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Coal Bins

	Chicago, the South Side,
	long before Barak Obama

those I'd love see live
anywhere they like
are those so black
they up long planks
in the heat of summer
wheelbarrow coal
so bright it pours
in a silver seiche
down chutes
through windows
of bungalow basements
crashing in coal bins 
of new masters


Donal Mahoney...

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