Short Rafter Poems

rafter bred for food
	a family torn apart ~
		turkey putt and yelp...

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You're the lone reason,
You rafter of my mockery,
If I fall to death....

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Because of the rafter in my own eye, 
I will not speak of the REDWOOD TREE in yours.

A quote by JoanMarie Peranteau...

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a plump turkey
leads the rafter to the barn - -
an axe swings

For Andrea’s (and Susan’s) Not So Happy Holidays contest...

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Woe is me, Woe is me
The rafter in my own eye
forbids me to speak of 
the redwood tree in yours
From this pain, there is no release
suffer I must, in total silence
Woe is me, Woe is me...

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friend cracks a naughty joke
our overgrown tummies split and burst in laughter
cannot poke

laugh away blues
godsend happiness thereafter
pink hues

let go
be a rafter
ho!!

friend cracks a naughty joke
godsend happiness thereafter
ho!!...

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Dreamer
Bring your feet in from the cold
Nothing's gonna fly your way
Or change your life in a single day
Learn to laugh at stormy weather
'Cos it only serves to tether
You to things you're dancing after
Hanging from the highest rafter
Dreamer
Make it a point to be bold...

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Asked if they believed in the Hereafter

     Amens echoed from every rafter

          The preacher rejoiced

               Then this plea he voiced

                    "Fill up the collection plate hereafter!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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Trump Became Elevated

While we waited and hesitated
Trump's energy level became elevated
And it always seemed soon there after
His head again had hit the rafter
Small brains were left disintegrated.

Jim Horn...

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In a dark sapphire night's trance
Flirtatious banter romance
Bright ray light fireflies upward dance,
Amorous scene within heaven's light
Others ignite on steeple leaves
To the moon's song in full sight.
Breeze pushes through full of laughter,
Serenading shuttering leaves against the rafter.
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mostly
happy
ever after
hanging 
upside down from a rafter

giving my cherished name
to short splintered sticks
that hits long balls
out of sight
both day and night and

did I mention the difficulty that I have 
in going while hanging upside down
God made it so that 
I must move to move
and stand upright...

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love,a slipper,a glove.the tea is sweet,little bo peep,keep your endeavors,i here,forever.to 
sheer a sheep,little bo peep.indeed keep your false friend until the end.the mend is soft and 
complete with tune,loves a sand dune and i lack a broom.some soon rather than later,i,the 
mouth of an alligator....

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How do you find your loved ones once you get to the hereafter?
How do you navigate your way through the billions of souls
who fill heaven from floor to rafter?
Will an angel come and take you by the hand
and lead you to their doorsteps in the promised land?
And will they be surprised to see you?
Or is the date of your reunion already planned?...

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Holden on to that golden smile
the power of a mighty river, like the Nile

Holden on to his incredible laughter
it echoes to the highest rafter

Holden on to his favorite quotes
“Hey, how ya doing?” and “are you tired?”
rings its sweet notes

On Holden to that beautiful place
with your charisma, they shall be graced


Honoring Holden Eanes
Richard J. Long- February 2011...

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Kirk's reply was tacit:
Still his points 'Explicit':
"Don't try the opposite 
Once more a plebiscite..."
A plebiscite most fit:
Plebiscite that flaws bit;
On paper clearly writ
Flashing frank views not wit...

Kirk comes out quite lucid:
"Misgovernment Acid !"
Explode did guys laughter!
But what happened later?
They proved the ones dafter...

"Misgovernment rafter"...

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Against a rafter,
the forlorn curtain sways reversed -
the wrong side of the tracks;
awoken in a death-dream state
and it sighs.  A sigh so shallow, so depressing
that the window with the eye impressions groans
and creaks open to the winter air of summer,
then forgets why it opened
and returns to its place in the cracked frame,
only to drift ajar again
and watch the rain fall indoors....

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Innocent weavers
Sat still mourning –
The siren heralded
At midnight
The emergency swords in the rafter
Like a lone early morning cock.

The forest was a terror spot 
Helter-skelter in blood-discolouration
Marking a nest of the free?
Terror & anger clashed
Again & again
In man rearing the seeds of the night:
Shrewd pebbles of inviolable intents
And mutilated feathers in a battered nest!...

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Let’s have a blueberry mojito she said.
Not knowing liquor, mine went straight to my head.
Do you want another one? She asked me soon after.
Not yet, I said, as I climbed down from the rafter.

What’s wrong with grandma? A little one said.
She drank a mojito, and it went straight to my head.
Let’s make sure she does not have another one said Uncle Lou.
Don’t worry, I thought. I would be dead after two....

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Children weave through the green field in laughter. 
Romantic string lights hang off the rafter. 
Time slowly ebbs with pleasure time after 
Time in endless undisputed master.

Absent is the sound of children's laughter 
While dust, spider webs, hang of the rafter. 
Time nobly walked slowly, wouldn't chase after 
The Hag of Beara and august master.


4/12/2019


The Hag of Beara a mythic Irish Goddess...

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Sir –
Late in the noon as usual
Came the vergers with the sharp bells
(Prof, a roused lad saw not the Vicar)
Announcing another blessed excursion;

Of course, Sir –
The endemic hubbub
Reigned in the nest
To be vacated in a hurry;

And the piecing bells
Hinted of the swords in the rafter
Plunged in full poise by pig-watcher
(Prof, a roused lad saw the inscription)
‘Flee, meet the siren at midnight else!’...

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friend’s bet…
   a threat

d r e a r y
          e e r i e

haunted
daunted

             gate creaks
                  fear speaks

alone
no phone

old house -
ghosts rouse?

             unlatch
                strike match

dark throws
shadows

a dame
in frame
               eyes dart!
        my heart…

   loud wail
i bail!

back off
bets off

rafter -
            laughter


3/17/2022...

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Aficionados here and there,
People craft, lead and build. 

Those traders are teasers of the wind,
Sail and sail, draft and rate, 
Be your own rafter till you lead the machines. 

Magician of genius, 
Roundtables of roundabouts,
Wheel and chain wheel every unshielded process, 

Superhuman intellectuals fragmenting puzzles of equations, 

Build this new cybernetics!
Nemesis are the rivals of each creationists. 

Mechanics are our homepage....

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With lilting tongue and glittering eye, the Celtic potter chortles by.
His clay-browned hands delicately placing, kiln God's on shelves and window facings.

Minute figures of Sun and Moon, mystical men with beard and rune;
sheep wandering on grassy hills, all on clay placards for windowsills.

And tossed about through roof and rafter hung, pink and purple, from pilasters,
were all the glorious flowers' of Spring, saved, dust covered, on dangling strings....

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hands bony and coarse
honestly earned bread 
labour on earth
no  crime no corruption 
elementary
fingers knuckle out to obtain 
large platter of boiled potatoes 
pouring the cold brew  
intense faces rapt attention/
/ vibrancy layered with dark-
ness /soft gentle lines windows spread to eternity
weathered table rafter boards rectangular columns
oiled lamp throwing light on the expressive faces
failed in its life time adored now  
poor artist rest in peace...

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Poem I Prepared Reminded Me of Ogden Nash

Rhinoceros may be related  to hippopotamus;
Synonymous and anonymous in a metropolis;
Both together do live;
Each other bath give;
Thought appeared to be purely preposterous.

Have you been laughing yet,
Read my poem with regret;
Live in rafter,
Or hereafter;
A moron like me have met.

What you did do was dubious
Matter becoming mischievous;
Handle with care;
Even when bare,
And to fact are now oblivious.

Jim Horn...

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