Short Postmen Poems

Postmen 
are hard working Men
under the hot Sun 
and rain
letting them day and night to suck
for a few bucks...

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under the serpent mound prudent
demons (NOT monsters) preserve the
nuts and 
endosperm meant for
later day 
postmen to deliver
when the time is
all too convincingly ripe...

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London was still full of
fire-bombed vacant lots.
Ruins and rubble
were a kids natural playground,
the deeper the devastation
the better our play.

There was always a chance
to find a broken toy
to abuse.

Back at home,
not once did we consider
what that unidentifiable
gray soot-like substance
on our clothes contained,

but at night
our dreams were troubled
by the eerie whistling
of long dead postmen....

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The island is very small
With a small mountain
And a small lake
Some small towns 
With small stores
Little houses with tiny balconies 
And miniature beaches
Where winter and summer are blended 
Exchanging their days and nights
Like the play of waves
You can ramble on it all in half a day
Only the setting sun is big
Like a giant bronze rooster
It doesn't want to leave 
Even for a night
This island of only two postmen...

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I'VE GOT NO POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME


Oh dear what can the matter be
There’s a mail strike and I’m into philately
I’ve had no letters from Monday to Saturday
The postmen are really unfair

They promised last week that they would deliver
Some stamps from Hong Kong and box of chopped liver
But nothing’s arrived, oh how my lips quiver
My mailbox is terribly bare

Inspired by contest

**** Total Fiction write ****

2/03/18...

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Postmen are the unsung heroes      		
Rain or shine they’re here on time	
Ten out of ten never zeros			
Such respect for postman of mine		
In summer shorts till winter’s clime		
When at dawn my Postman arose		
In snow or rain or warm sunshine		
Strong and fit no red runny nose

Written 25th January 2020

ABABBABA
8 lines
8 syllables

Contest  Oh-No a Twisted Char-Lay
Sponsor  Charles Messina
2nd Place

Contest Strand Select F
Sponsor Brian Strand 
HONORABLE MENTION...

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