Short Plied Poems

not with a broad brush
   thick strokes stoked with opinion
          hate plied with a knife



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Stones side by side
Love richly plied
Forever never divide


David Mohn - 09 Apr 2014
"Just Ten Words" Contest...

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...clumsy crescent heaved a sigh,
on the lawn callous clouds plied,
waving sewn stars by and by...

   '21:01:04:20:40

Note: Of nosy nature....

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lies plied between us

                             the glue beneath our veneer

                                  secrets behind smiles






12/26/18...

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walls crawling 
inside out 
Escher etching
fingernail grout
staring at stares
plaid throughout 
plied and played
guts splayed out 

wailing away 
in bars in stout...

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RIGHTS &  DUTIES  

(t)o             (u)nder

(b)e             (f)uture

(a)plied.      (o)bligations

           only if  duties
(a)re 

(a)ctioned 

(a)lso
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An imp plied Guinness to a Banshee trick
The wraith in anger gave him chase right quick,
After her gold he did dig
The Leprechaun danced a jig
But lost her rich hoard in a Limerick.
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I was a young girl from New York
And I plugged my hole with a cork
A young boy plied me with beer
The cork it did pop
My knickers did drop
 And that is why you are here
(Thanks to my fondness for pork)

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Touch with me the new draw
and obfuscate new hope
Darkened clouds will be
your new mistress
riding high on the celestial plain
She skims her eyes on you
like a piled cumulus
waiting for the dry bones  of winter...

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      Hawking pillows and pea-shooters 
         a pied-piper his path to fame plied

      Picking up a penny here, dropping a penny there
         ever-poorer and poorer ~
                      the piper’s psychic sighed 

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If only you two knew
What we had gone through
It would explain my actions
My words would make more sense
If you hadn't built those borders
Plied them down on us three
You would know so much more
It makes me wonder why
You wonder...

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Pugnacious Pete was his Pseudonym

   Pete Plied Pugilism in the gym

      Though Pete Prayed to Phix his Plight

         Poor Pete seldom won a Phight

            Pete's Phighting career was looking grim!

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

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Sorrow ought to be private;
So I buried it deep down.
But in no time, it plied up one over the other;
And now the hole that my teeny tiny heart has;
Is silently wailing in agony.
It was a bright initiation of us;
But in a glance, everything faded away.
So this is what; we end as we begin....

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While all night queens carve figurines in gelatine and jade,

Behind a door and on the floor a deal is finally made;

A painted girl with flaxen curl has plied again her trade

And now the care within her stare has turned a darker shade.

Her lack of guile and parting smile are cutting like a blade....

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The boat plied along an emerald sea
The only noise the lapping so gently
The white sail set by a puff of breeze
As our love’s gentle sigh would please

You trailed your hand in the sea 
And the gulls wheeled as we could see
I told a joke and you loudly laughed
A perfect day again we wished would last.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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callous crimson crept
etching crisp crest
hanky' surges sworn
plied pulpy pawn
dark dribbles reincarnated
rusty reels cremated

felon flames moan
cussing cupped clone
bruised biddings thrown

loquacious wind wielded
spanked saucy shredded
hewn syllables welded

tuned taunted tiers
of the fire.
'20:04:03:18:54

Note: Of The Fire....

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callous crimson crept
etching crisp crest
hanky' surges sworn
plied pulpy pawn
dark dribbles reincarnated
rusty reels cremated

felon flames moan
cussing cupped clone
bruised biddings thrown

loquacious wind wielded
spanked saucy shredded
hewn syllables welded

tuned taunted tiers
of the fire.
'20:04:03:18:54

Note: Of The Fire....

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Jesus was not an engineer,
Or a captain of a ship.
He was not a politician,
Nor a store did he keep.

He was not a professor
In a university of that day.
He was not a soldier,
Nor a lawyer’s role did he play.

He was a lowly carpenter,
Who with patience plied his trade.
No antique available today is worth
As much as the things that he made....

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like heaven's eyes
seeped'n felon fire
hoisted heats hanker
dripping damp dissolvent
feeble flesh sighs
under brutal bite

same moaning melody
punctured passion pricks
reeling rusty rhythm

her eerie eyes
monstrous mystery plied
like fire smirks

fostered feeling's wood
burnt into nude.
     '20:02:03:04:52

~Note~ See her only causes commotion....

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Listen to poem:

Everything is a microcosm, like Matryoshka dolls nested.
Pass-a-parcel wrapped, layer on layer, with meanings to be divested.
Solution begets problem after problem en-wrapped, trussed and tied.
Resolution confronted by endless piles of issues, stacked high-plied
Inside each doll, another doll with doll inside, inside.
Each an epitome, a microcosm to be cracked and defied....

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gaunt path gnawed
heaving hampered awe
sassy zeal seeped'n
felon furnace spree
masticated moans yawned
bruised bridge's pawn

airy atmosphere amputated
trailing alakazam taunted
gloom's gored lips

voluptuous asunder vied
punctured pulses plied
raged reels' wiles

fate fostered boundary
smothered silhouettes merry.
     '20:05:08:19:29

Note: Of screwed survival....

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Elizabeth: squat river with cranes, tugs, wharfs abristle,
Its broad, deep-dredged breadth plied by warship and merchant mammoth,
Ships with haughty grandeur gliding along buoyed channel—
Lofty titans sneering down on collier, barge, sloop at sail
And, on fog-bound nights, soothing sleepers with moans baritone.



November 21, 2016
Form-River Line-Poetry Contest
Rick Parise, Sponsor...

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The lucid maze
Figures on to fathom
The broad pillars plied
With wisdom and there
Weep

They little know
The Pain that's there
That gave the light
And took the
Shame

To have seen
And not to know
Do they really 
Understand my Father's
Rain?

He takes to give
And we call him
A thief...!!
Only those who hold on
Weep

They gain who give
Who know His rain and
Losing all in lucid maze
The light
Win!...

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This heart although not torn
Is pulled in every fashion
A muscle aching fiercely 
From such unexpected action
From years of idle thumping
To this titillating burst
If I knew your kiss was coming
I would have stretched it first
It appreciates the strain
As in my chest and marriage
It is fighting to remain
I trust use will make it stronger
For it will not be denied
You satiate it's hunger
On you it must be plied....

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An adventurous boy saw a stone
deep in the lake, smooth and shining
“I must feel that stone today”, he said

He swam with lunatic enthusiasm
and straight he climbed on the thing
his dream was immediately broken

the smooth sea stone was not a stone
It rose up and flashed its ugly teeth
a hippo, big, hungry and tired it was

He  called creator, ancestors and all
the poor boy ran, flew, swam, plied
but the hippo closed in as if biting...

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