Short Portable Poems

In
side
profile-
portable
memories of love....

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The Bedouin loves his tent
for which he pays no rent.
From place to place he travels
trailed by wives and camels.
He finds his life-style laudable
because his tent is portable....

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Portable expect address
Editable expect format
Voluble expect wanderlust
Valuable expect creating
Encircle expect surface
Audible expect resonant
Provable expect testimonial
Dreamable expect memory...

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All of my life,
living for today

All of tomorrow,
living for tomorrow

None of my life,
living for yesterday

Lived as today
—as today was tomorrow

(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)

“Today was tomorrow
—to all of yesterday”...

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Twilight falls early 
as my portable threat bestirs itself
The rat is hungry 
and happiness hollow 
time a burden 
The day’s end is a failure 
when sleep is not a refuge 
(or trouble at t’ mill) 
and back at Go 
I hit the ground shambling 
and pray
Jan 04...

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The setting sun smears the western clouds orange
Africana sunset hue
A Full moon rises on the east
And steals its way stealthily up the heavens
A portable portrait in the vaulted skies
A silhouette painting of a nursing mother
Playing hide and peep between the clouds

CENTRAL KENYA, OCTOBER 2014...

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shadows in darkness
how on earth can that be
moonlit adventures

touch
tactility
hedgehog

spring in a basket
portable season hanging
no slugs or snails

stripped to the wood
err trees were vocal we'd hear
deforestation

resilience
to weather fickle seasons
hibernation







...

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her heart was shanghaied
captured on a sunny beach
with waves lapping happily
in a nineteen sixty-seven day

Beach Boys were singing
From a portable transistor
wind carried happy laughter
he had flecks of gold in his eyes

They were in love
So she let him 
put lotion on her back
A brave move for these times...

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The Incredible Hulk had a ripped clothes dilemma
Should he employ a seamstress or carry a portable hemmer
His trousers ripped at the rear
Red cheeks all round made it clear
He should really have avoided the gamma

Put Your Best (One) Limerick Forward (Be Like Rico Leffanta) Poetry Contest
23rd February 2023
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich...

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Fred prefers a mouse
connected by a wire
to his keyboard.
Walt prefers a mouse

that’s portable, able 
to roam over the desk
in Walt’s big hand.
For Walt the danger is

the mouse may slip
and fall off the desk,
hit the floor and break.
That's happened twice.

Fred prefers a wife, one 
he’s had for 30 years.
Walt prefers a fiancé,
a new one every year.


Donal Mahoney...

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Ay yo whats good its the Russian Hacker
I be trying out products 
boom boom wow
Im in the forest trying to survive
I have no apples, sorry cow
I have a huge dog
His name is Hugo
He eats so much food
when i order it it's to-go
If your in the forest feeling dirty
just use a portable shower
my rhymes are sick
but my roasts are sour
When someone roasts me
i pull the trigger
jesus christ is my tigger...

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Slipping Into The Cracks
Portable recorder on he held it up so eye could see it eye laughed in his direction 
there was nothing on it an alien creature does not have an image He was 
cackling in his glee then he tried to see the image on the screen it was a little 
yellow duck swimming in a pond of jargon gone were the images of me oh what 
wonder what delight to be an alien in flight slipping into the cracks just before 
daylight...

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you were always alone
missing was the realization
sadness and complaint
when the skies are grey what good is rainbow paint
you can either faint or patiently eye  heaviness  faint
some search for answers some look for questions
now the question is how to use the key
some answers are nothing but more questions
portable light and a stationary butterfly
shape of the lantern
prisoned is the pattern
now say bye to your reflection
who needs shades for protection

Tamer Hossam...

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