Short Puny Poems

Cat’s
Chasing
Puny mouse,
Catching it by
Tail...

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The hawk flies over
         in paralysing calmness       
           puny birds flutter...

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stray winds flick rotor fingers
uranium rods shun sun
for perpetual motion

puny pursuit of power continues...

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Human memory,
how far can it go,
with what accuracy,
look at the puny mind,
and the enourmous space,
it tries to keep in its bind....

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a cent, I feel puny
a nickel, I shine
and the dime you gave me 
as I asked for the time
the dollar to be earned 
to make a pile but not a shield....

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There simply isn’t any whey,
conception that a curd to me,
when weak and puny,  low on wattage,
(seems often, now I’m in my dotage)
could satisfy quite like some cottage cheese!...

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This can't be true, an error has been made
We have 60,000 miles of blood vessels end to end laid
Twice around the globe
That's quite a load
Someone's trying to bamboozle our puny brains...

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This can't be true, an error has been made
We have 60,000 miles of blood vessels end to end laid
Twice around the globe
That's quite a load
Someone's trying to bamboozle our puny brains...

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Dinosaurs from the past were so intriguing
Imagining them roaming free, so awe-inspiring
Us humans are so puny
These mammoths groovy
If they still roamed free, our poop would be piling  ...

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Dinosaurs from the past were so intriguing
Imagining them roaming free, so awe-inspiring
Us humans are so puny
These mammoths were groovy
If they still roamed free, our poop would be piling...

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Contrived to be relevant
An extreme subversive 
of distorted concoctions
While having his stricken soul bare
And denigrated to a faceless crone
For his vicissitudes are an improbable casualty
Of a broken soul.......

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Powerful politicians promoting powerless politics.
Passing propagated policy proposedly preventing prejudice.
   Pretending past perceptions pose puny persuasions presently.
Proving people prevent prosperity purposely....

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The little
That second
That tiny look
That burns a hole
That insignificant tolerance
That brings a daily peace
That puny joke
That makes a giggle
That serious moment
That forces a choice
The little makes a big impact....

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Listen to poem:

A mere mortal
I am to AI.
A demi tasse slurp,
a tiny thought bubble,
blowing in the wind,
pieced to pop with puny plunk,
just a pip spat out.
My brain drained to a pitiful 
paltry piddle, into
the insatiable sea 
of AI's knowledge bank....

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Isn't it amazing
That in order for cake to rise
The yeast must die
Isn't it funny
That this puny brain of mine
Laughs at the thought
That this is perfection
I love eating cake
Especially with wine . . .
My own special way
of remembrance...

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I am not brilliant
Or heroic
Or frightfully quick 
Or connected.
Just beggarly
And bled for
And brothered
By Betlehem's King.
He came to us
And blessed by the Lake
Hounded and hung
And risen
For my puny sake.
Its a good thing
I now walk in
With Him....

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In our minds, they are giants
  those heroes of yesteryear
presidents, generals, boxing champs
  O, how we stood and cheered

We view them now on grainy film
  the cruelest shock do we receive
These puny men our eyes deceived
  No more in them can we believe...

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On the back of my paint pallet it lied

Small, black, and petrified,

Not even the size of a penny

And it didn’t seem to mind me any,

But when I gave it a poke

It was like it had awoke,

Because it flew away from me

Forever, and forever, to be free!...

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Pretty pancake peacock pointedly persuaded powerhouse pig
To publicly plan porcupine’s playful pink planetary probability placement.
Pleasure palace princesses provided puny particulars providing big
Porky plebes who placated porcupines, poking peacock’s replacement....

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Trump Mouth Flapping

Found Trump's mouth again to be flapping
At what he had said everyone was gasping
And could not tell truth from a puny pun
Played with our minds and was having fun
My memories of him seem to be lapsing.

Jim Horn

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx...

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When a puny mind 
with no virtue of humility
Tries to reach the heights above 
But threatened by a fall into 
the depths below
A life with no intentional destiny
No bivouac 
No ideal but tedium 
Quivers full of arrows
But with no fixed target
An unforetold obscurity
A menace only to whom who wants 
The plaudits of men...

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Delay decay
Deem death defiant
Dance dreamy daze


Relay replay
Risk rude reply
Rule ripples rough


Delay display
Dance designs dream
Dust dazzles drift


Portray prelude
Prime petty poise
Please puny pride


Display delay
Doom dapples draft
Dream dusty dirt



Leon Enriquez
04 November 2018
Singapore...

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Hope is lost
Dashed aside
Tears are falling 
From swollen eyes

Desolate and trapped
Huddled in the corner
Boundaries vast
Freedom's dreams are dimmer

Puny justice, my own
Fighting for my right
Secrets untold, yet
Looking for a light

Goals of the past
Become the future
Goals of the present 
Lack the hope forever...

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Predators tense.
Teeth like razors,
But the eyes hold more.
Anger, hostile features.
Cowering pray.
Weak, puny lives.
Filled with nothing but flesh and blood.
The ignorance is humoring.
Smile at the weakness,
holding it in sweaty claws.
Nothing beats this power.
Superior being walks among
Like the animal you wish you were...

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If I should die,think only this of me 
That one small corner of the web 
Nurses all of my poetry 
My Muse's tide is on the ebb 
Her  waning strength  sadly faded 
No reason now for any rhyme 
My talents fully spent and  jaded 
No one can hold back marching time 
So please forgive my puny tries 
Which deserve but piteous sighs...

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