Short Pled Poems

Wise ones have pled,
“Use your head.
Better six feet apart than dead.”





May 3, 2020...

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sure we should not have cooked him

agent percival snookum

but cannibals pled

and caused us much dread

shame he used a pseudonym.
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My animal was hinting again,
staring at me in the den,
taking my meds,
he begged and pled,
could he be stuffed with a lot of phlegm?







12-9-16...

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Joe Mokes was a driver of tractors
He was violent and despised distractors.
Drives too fast, some said.
Goes too slow, others pled.
All now suffer with various fractures....

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There once was a large man named MacCool
who was famed for his very fine tool
all the women they pled
to lay down in his bed
so he let them for he was no fool.




*See About the poem...

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There was an old lawyer named Ruth
Who didn't mind bending the truth.
No scoundrel too bad,
If money he had.
He'd have pled self defense for Wilkes Booth.

For Carolyn's
lawyer limerick Tied for no. 1...

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He lives forever in my mind,
For what he is I’m blind,
Yet when he scratches the back of his head,
My heart pled,
This mundane moment,
Was to me an important bestowment,
Because it means he exists,
And I’m no longer a fantasists....

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I could not find the answers on these roads that once we walked;
I pled and recommended but it was only talk;
And now it’s only contradictions in this life of push and shove;
And somewhere in the middle is this thing that we call love...

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He wandered in the wilderness
from enemies, to save his life.
Prostrate, he cried out to confess
his sins and pled for end of strife.
Though lonely, he knew God was near
to shield him and assuage his fear.


I Samuel 26 and 27 and Psalm 25...

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Pa held shotgun to his head

   "Marry her son or you're dead"

      "It wasn't me" the lad pled

         "Yes it was" she said

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 2 in John Freeman's " Love or Humor" Contest - January 2011...

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A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!

Wast penned by The Bard of Avon of course!

Richard's steed Surrey lay dead

Slain by a crossbow 'tis said

Dick pled for another 'til he was hoarse!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved

(Not for the contest)...

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With You Mine Will Remain

If an umbrella were to spread,
And did rain and with God pled,
With Him would declare a truce,
No longer needing an excuse.

Now that I was dry as can be,
God said if you will follow me,
Flint water will go down drain
And with you mine will remain.

Jim Horn...

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who knows the thoughts inside one's head
they may transcend one’s words when said
grief goes as the wind blows
the quest though mute sometimes is pled
why not take me oh Lord, instead
I would that I, you chose

Do not feel lonely the entire universe is inside you
Charles Henderson For Nette’s Rime Couee contest...

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Take madness to good use
dawn of abilities tasty juice
threads of sympathies intension
possessions and its self-assertion
to reach the beloved in vain
and love itself as gain

loading the heart of another
subtle pain and dust cover
love that is a exacting pled
self-assertive reasons dead
living means to hope survive
hoping means to live...

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This rose died for Love,
And was laid on the hand
of the queen of the land,
with the bless from above.
 
lost is her sweet essence,
departed is the last rose –
but why do I feel close
to her Feeble presence?
 
The rose died before
On the lips of a maiden
In the Gardens of Eden,
Beneath the tree of lore.
 
To die like a rose I pled:
For beauty I can be dead....

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It came in the night, the war
Of the same skies we prayed
Though we pled there came more
Appeals unheard, trust betrayed
Hope’s hope to be lost again
Our dignity’s pride lay bare
In the fields we tilled for grain
Our children all buried there
Our love, our peace was all taken
For what we ask, why oh God why?
How can faith be so forsaken?
By arrogance so gone awry!...

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Long walks and innocent talks
the fire in her eyes felt warm

First time kisses leaping
with secrets held back inside

Silence ripped her tongue
as white nights turned to run

Long lost lyrics played down under
stolen from artistic walls
momentarily her hesitancy stalled
tell this girl all

In solitude her black plague pled
another cancerous cell was dead...

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Crumbling crinkly, cracker crumbs

into salty, seafood stew,

Mother made our midday meal.

Fast for favorite food we flew.



Gluttony Glenda gulped a glass

of Linda's lovely, lemon tea.

While Will wolfed down whole walnut meats,

carefully crunching kernels free.



"Savages", sister Susan said.

"Politeness, please," our papa pled.



7/4/14



For Dr. Mehta's contest...

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Shadrach, Meshsch, Abednego
He stood in the fire with them long ago
In the trial, in the change - I bet demons were chanting their names. 

Jesus, Jesus - 
They pled Jesus, Jesus
They stood in the fire, they saw the flames, 
but they moved through it with no pain 
Jesus, Jesus
Because of Jesus, Jesus
The Devil might try to knock me down 
But I know who wears the crown...

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Fantastic but totally true,
my story I tell now to you.
This morning a criminal crew
came crashing in out of the blue!
Great fear for my life did ensue.
With cash and gold bricks in plain view,
my rings, and a tv—brand new—
I pled, “Take THESE!” What did they do?
They took all my t p in lieu!

t p--toilet paper

When I said this was true--Alas! I lied.


April 1, 2020...

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Forgive me, my precious, upon love’s divine 
What curse befell us, nights’ hours came alive,
They pushed me to shadows, tears burned my eyes,
If only your careless goodbye was a lie 

The floorboards, a-creaking, are now crying red,
As if they too were forced shut, I dare say they pled,
Feel a smile creep in; although I know well,
Is that not your rotting flesh that I can smell?...

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The blood comes out,
I shout,
I want to stop,
Every drop,
Of blood.

I feel the pain,
I'm insane,
Why did i do that,
With a bat,
I don't ant to bleed,
Just pled,
With myself.

I want to die,
I don't want to lie,
I'm in hell,
I'm going to yell,
HELP ME.

Something is wrong,
My will power isn't strong,
Im not going to survive,
I'm not alive,
At heart but that's okay....

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"Predictions were for 2023 & 2024: "Again, heat exposure will hit many communities, death toll significant, take precautionary measures," ... by Poet 

Shift
Winter
into Spring
and the first day
will bring the Vernal
Equinox and Groundhog
Day pled an early Spring year
above norm temps in northern parts
late El Niño stretched warmth goes soaring
Twenty-Twenty-Four Warmth Openness Signs...

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(4-9 beat)
The painter said?
I need rollers and work pants I pled
Paint brushes too
Get my brushes now I say to you
Floor sheet I need
Cover the floor do not use speed
Ladder I plead
Spray can the wall done .Time to drink mead
Solvent,I use
Can't clean brushes without it don't lose
Last coat of paint
You definately get no complaint
Hang plants for sure
Free windows to sunlight I implore
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She lies peacefully in our bed
dead to the world, unaware of
my scrutiny. Her quiescence
in that funereal repose
sends an ice-cold shiver of dread
throughout my entire body.
My mind begins to wander
through a surrealistic maze
that challenges all reality.
She’s asleep! I said to myself
unconvincingly; then hurried
to her bedside and pled out loud:
Please! Let these lips I kiss be warm....

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