Short Porter Poems

Oh?! ?The sweet torment of Love
freezing hot and blazing cold
equal mix-pleasure and pain
please,? ?give me your all?!...

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Love is elusive,

true devotion hard to find.

If you are running short

I will give you some of mine.

I've enough to share......

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Once more,? ?at close of day,

it gives me peace that I can say-

as I journeyed through the hours

I hurt no other along the way....

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two pints of Porter
warmed my soul with rich brown eyes
but she was so young

Michael F. Lewis
6\21\2013

My new genre, 
beer + haiku = beerku...

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the midnight bell is tolling
another day is through
you are here,? ?warm in my arms
one thing more left to do...

start the new day soft and sweet...

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! How I remember you

filled with youth, mischief and lust

We shared wicked, sinful days;

And, (Oh God!) those nights!...

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Ted sure needs to use the porter loo
Ted really does need to do a poo
He banged on the door
Could not wait any more
Ted farted so hard the porta loo flew...

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My mother said:- I have to eat more porridge,
And when I grow up, I will be very strong.
Now I'm a porter,  carrying heavy bags to storage.
The advice of a mother never can be wrong!...

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When  i was lonely
and had been abused
you came along
and stole my blues
all i can say
(i'll make it brief)
is come here and kiss me
you sweet little thief!...

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Poverty is expensive
To those already poor -
Costing their time, wages

And spirit, yet they live 
A hopeful porter
In their villages -

Subject to elitism. 
I, for one, never
Received an invitation....

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All of the great religious teachers;
theologians and gurus
of every stripe
try to carry the message,? ?but
all of them are fumblers.

unlike mathematicians,? ?they try
to measure God
using a finite set of numbers....

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Apricot nectar, I licked from her lips,
suckled the dew like honey
from melon ripe breast
and in time did savor
the heady heavenly flavor
of passion's fruit in all the rest
and night birds
beyond the window

...sang a new song....

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Peter Porter 'ANNOTATIONS of AUSCHwITZ


     R B       M A           R E
   A      E I       C H    F      I
               T         T
||                                      ||
||                                      ||...

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Capricious Nature Almost Missed the Train 



shorter 
quarter
sorter
porter
reached the exit shorter, quarter yard,
as soon as the porter, sorter card.


By: Eve Roper 11/11/2015

revised 1/22/2018...

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One room cabin born, wrote a song at age of five.
Dreamed big, prayed hard, had intense drive.
Sang with Porter Wagoner’s band,
Put books in millions of children’s hands,
Imagination Library, a culmination of Dolly’s Dream.
For enhancing literacy in Tennessee, she is the queen....

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I bought myself a duck
I only paid a buck
I would have given five
If it had been alive

I bought myself a porter
I only gave a quarter
But if they’d had a Schlitz
I might have paid two bits

I bought a penny pickle
I had to pay a nickel
The fellow thought me dense
I hadn’t any cents...

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Everyone else has gotten off,
how long am I to stay?

The train unstationed, tender gone,
its engine writhed in pain

Did I miss my stop on the journey down?
“an express” the porter screamed

All light afire, ticket burnt
—satanic nightmare dreamed

(Drexel University: February, 2020)...

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a lot of people
lie on Jesus
but,? ?I don't worry
that I'll be misled
if you are hungry
I'll share my bread
if you lie sick
I'll visit your bed
when you have
no place to live
I'll give a place
to lay your head
I pay no mind
to what people
say about Jesus
I just try to do
the things He said...

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I said I like what you're selling
but I'm not the type to pay.
I live over there?; ?the yellow door,
come see me on? "free sample day?"
She laughed and said "you're silly,
cash up front is the only way."
And down? ?the street she went.
You know what?? ?She came by anyway.
Best fi'ty dollars I Never spent....

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momma and daddy, dead and gone
brother and sister too
no sons, no daughters to carry on
i sit here and wait, alone
for Death has followed my trail
since the sound of my first wail
rose to meet a cold, rainy morn
no matter how many i've loved or known
i'll die as i lived and, was born
on my own... all alone...

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Insubstantial insanity
Instantaneously realized
Absurd fantasies I’ve devised.
All deeds i do, all words I say
Gods of iron, feet of clay
All, in time, will fade away
Leaving not even an "Ozymandias" trace
To signify ever I was in this place
Every remnant time will erase;
Both of my pride and my disgrace....

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Security and Robert Porter

If found to exist was an impurity,
Or something hidden in obscurity
Never neat,
Or incomplete;
Clearance not granted for security.

If successful check was never found;
Having to do with their background;
Heard clink,
Of missing link;
To receive clearance were not bound.

Jim Horn...

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Love on board
Beyond measure
True feelings
Porter's duty
Luggage checked in
Few kisses ready
Comfort zone
Where else can love fly?
To bliss city
Where joy invades
Rainy eyes
Joyful tears knock
Where is the key?
Call Bae, the Porter
Heart's door to open
Mould, mould
Love is the porter.

Drencho POET Loads...

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I live
my own
fashion ...
I'm casual,
practical,
pret a porter ...
My catwalk
is life where
  I parade my
simplicity
and  dress up, or
to strip me
naturally...
In the four seasons
I am always ready:
for the trivial and
casual ...
  I live in fashion
ever...
I'm a model poet,
  I model my life
poetically...

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Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt

Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong

Skyrocketed spiritually 
By Kern and Carmichael
Porter, Gershwin and Berlin

Thanks Mom and Dad
For the beautiful music
We made together
On that bed of downy softness...

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