Short Railing Poems

elbows on railing.
glass  of Tequila to lips
hated him today....

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climbs up porch railing 
sets on air conditioner 
peaks in through window...

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a drop of rain rests
upon the midnight railing
emotional peak

Russell Sivey...

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mental railing
against my past unrequited 
madness
only faintly remembered
and left frozen in time...

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Spewing
Blue bubbles swim
Following the current
Over to the concrete railing
Then pop...

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the saltine railing —
a taste of the sailor’s life
as my mind wanders

1/24/2018...

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i tiptoe 
on the cool edge
of the steel railing 
of a skyscraper
and the cool edge
of the surface
of the moom...

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BREATH OF EAGLES

climb where eagles soar
open slats breathe on my shoes
crude wooden railing

7/10/2017
haiku...

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in solitude    we listen graciously to thunders railing our hearts.



Monoku l: Your Best Contest for Silent One
12/24/2017...

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                the Eastern Bluebird 
         sits on the porch railing post
               spring is coming soon


Heidi Sands

3/28/24

(C)opyright...

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A sailor one day, while out sailing
Thought he heard someone screaming and wailing
The source of the shout 
As he later found out
Was an octopus tied to the railing...

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spider web hangs from
front porch ceiling to railing....
blooms 'pon crepe myrtle
spent petals drop 'pon mowed lawn
old man stumbles from mower    ...

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lone can of cat food
sits on the porch railing now
no one dares move it
grandma put it there you see
we pass it daily
remembering her sweet smile
each time we pass that tin can...

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Holiday is ringed gay with lights.
Niose-shook, for a marquee
Of lawn-pitched attractions.
No dull railing girts it. A place
In time joy-bounced, by whim's
Un-school-like persuasions....

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Standing on the 'Y' mountain, our arms folded over the railing

My father and I staring down at the college of my dreams

Wishing, praying fervently that my dream of dreams will come true...

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Did Have Delightful Dream

One day we did have a delightful dream;
Treat God as almighty and so supreme;
You are not failing;
Falling from railing;
Our choir sings His music to the extreme.

Jim Horn...

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Why is a knife on my porch railing?
I stare at it.
Daring it to tell me how it got here.
The knife is silent.

A red switchblade knife.
It looks ominous; it seems threatening.
It stares me down. I can barely take my nap.
It has won....

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(For Nette Onclaud's "Visions of a Vignette 2" contest) 
(dated 23.06.2025) 


I climb
spiraling steps
with gold railing, 
huge stairs reaching heaven, 
(like angels in Jacob's dream) 
bound upward... 

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Roaring round roads raucously  
Orally overtly offending operators
Acrid antagonistic adjectives aired
Defiantly daring distracted drivers

Ranting raving railing
Aggravate annoy atrocious
Gregarious gone Goebbels
Exacerbate engage enrage...

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raindrops
      plunge from the eaves --
grenades exploding on the railing



Hiku (Disciplined Brevity) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula 
Syllable count: 2-4-9
Date written: 11/20/2021...

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a quick glimpse of something
I run to get a closer look
red cardinal on railing
eyeing cat's kibble on porch table
dribble of rain smears the view
grass wears green brilliantly
lone sunshine yellow soldier of daffodil
April smiles at me through her showers...

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Stuck on the broken landing
Of a stairway to nowhere
My mood no longer elevated
My spirit remiss of song

Looking over the railing
Into a history that I buried
A ladder appears above me
But when I step—its rungs are gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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There she stands,
With her fingers on the railing.
She's holding onto it
As if she only had this chance.

She looks out 
Into the distance
Longing for an answer
To a question 
She does not know

To her,
She simply exists
And she doesn't know how to deal with it....

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a sentimental journey
childhood memories
laughed at, spit upon
rolled down the alley of make believe
the porch railing
I thought was thirty foot tall 
for almost twenty years
is barely three feet off the ground
wish I had never come back
to take a look at our old porch....

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He's made fun of for the last time.
Tied a rope up.
Walking through the halls of high school.
The rope is swinging from the stairwell.
He jumped on the railing, Head inside the rope loop.
He jumps and gets choked.
That was in 1930.
He was never nerdy.
He just wanted to be FREE....

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