Short Quizzically Poems

 goldfinch flits, quizzically looks, weeping willow, maximillian sunflower gone...

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The server asked: “do you want that here or to go?”
I replied quizzically: “if I eat it here don’t I get to take it with me?”

John G. Lawless
©3/14/2023...

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Another day in the neighborhood
Quizzically reaching out to
Understand the world about,
Alert to mysteries,
Remembering to smile
In the midst of the inquiry
Until, sated in energy,
Solitary silence heals again....

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                                          The Mocking Bird Sat
                                          Quizzically looking in...
                                        Broken drained bird bath






(My bird bath is 
broken..The 
Mocking Bird
sat on the rim
looking at me
in the kitchen
like he was 
asking me 
what is wrong here.)...

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"...from time to time, he'd snatch his fingers in a flourish, hastily away from the seemingly white hot type writer, casting a quizzically cynical sideways gaze, at what he'd just written; as if waiting for each razor sharp sentence to cut him far deeper than their crazed origins behind his wary eyes..."

For Hunter S Thompson 
By D.N. Read
16/11/17
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A Flying Bagatelle 

Through the open door
come flying
a sparrow grey 
of no distinction
it sat on 
the printer
looked at me
quizzically 
the phone rang
startled it flew to the 
window
caught in the curtains
I got it lose
carried the bird
to the door let it go 
that was all
no epiphany 
nothing mystical 
just a bewildered bird 	
a ringing phone 
and a magic moment...

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Mini mangy monster Marvin moo
Nearly never noticed anything new
Outrageously outgoing onset overdue
Plunking his plush posterior on a pew
Quizzically questioning Curly-Q
Respecting ruffians Brew, Grue and Rue.
Shimmying and shaking shivering Sue and Stew
Teaching talented Tommy Treachery too
Uniting understudies under the letter U
Vaporizing validation veering into valley view
Welcoming wild werewolf wearing blue....

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Summer pastes 
Reddened complexion 
Stars twinkle through 
Darkness vividly
Lightening closes in 
Red tones spectrum
Lonely star shoots 
Westward, quizzically
And stillness overcomes 
The night's welcome glory

Night creates 
With golden symphony
A dew drop falls 
From a solitary leaf deflection
Squirming in sparkling 
Triumphant nativity
While laughing brightly 
In pleasuring suspension
As summer's morning 
Rambles petulantly...

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