Short Quashed Poems

Quite quickly, quirky quotes quell quarrelsome questions quietly.

   12/ 9/ 2015....

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Brainwashed
Dreams quashed

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30 October 2017

For the "One Footle Only" contest, sponsored by Judy Konos.
(Honorable Mention, after 3 x podium placements)...

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I Slept with a Female Mosquito – part VII 

In the interim be quashed, my pangs
The process should be sore slow. 
I will do it gallantly; wicked empire
I will kill her in small installments
Tick!...

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The detour of a certain age
Is quashed in tides of fire

And forever is the youth gone pass
As on the strains of lyre.

Make no whisper none is heard
Amongst the thread-like silk

For sweet is yon meadow-lace 
And forever, is the milk....

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On Thursday my boobies will get squashed
(My armpits will be thoroughly washed)
Can’t use deo or spray
so I’ll whiff on that day
Mammograms show cancer can be quashed

Always makes me smile that my appointment letter comes from Bristol because in cockney rhyming slang ‘Bristols’ is slang for breasts.

9/19/18...

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In a constant game of deceit and request.
Where the whistles of steam are dribbling.
Hoots in light of my cynical eccentricity.
Where a reflected area of stars sparkled.
Mirror the perspicuity of my pain.'
There I am, hanging unstably in the air.
I was quashed in a fog of moist regret.

Written: March 20, 2022...

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I once wore a thick, black mask
That made me seem tough, bad
Covered my eyes, nose, and mouth
So I could not see my foes
Or smell the stench of their insults 
My downturned mouth shut
My silence suggesting I was okay
Unaffected by their attacks
Until one day the mask fell
Revealing my thin, peach-colored skin
And I quashed them with my true self
More powerful than my armor...

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Battle of the Sexes:
Over the best of three sets tennis history was made!

Acrostic Drugs:
Fall for oceanic allure, not cocaine.

Affection:
By the bubbling brook bees bond with buttercups.

Disillusion: 
My dreams are like soap bubbles – they keep popping.

Spoilsport:
He quashed all their ideas, but finally spared a thought!

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Contest: 5 One Liners
Sponsor: Bev Smith...

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Louise
has fleas

And nits –
the pits!

Scratch head
In bed

Sore bites
from mites

Sleeps bad
goes mad

Bedding -
shedding

Gets cross
with boss

(Itchy
B itchy)

Feels rough
buys stuff

Lotions
potions

Bug foam
nit comb

Prepare
cleanse hair

Comb through
shampoo

Hair washed
lice quashed

Nit free -
happy!

FOOTLE-me Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Brian Strand

12/18/20...

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A Shadorma

The dreaded
Monday morning
looms ahead,
awaiting
to crush my tired spirit;
horrid day.

Beneath a
streetlamp a specter
appears to
me, shadow...
backdrop of nighttime moon beams,
imparting wisdom.

No fear have
I for your presence
my dream guide, 
awaiting,
beckoning me to follow;
secrets are revealed.

So many
pieces of wisdom
that only
you would know;
you enlighten my quashed mind,
futures seen.
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Under the creepy tree
Lies a haunted bee, living so free
Comes around, goes around
In a shredded house buried underground

No curse can cease the flying bee
No spell to quell a singing bee
Full moon grows as werewolves howl
Shivering behind the bark is a crying owl

The haunted bee saw the preening owl
Jiggling and blustered, the owl began to brawl
The owl quashed the speeding bee on canvass
Bee was bruised, but the owl was stung...
  fell on pampas...

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