Short Ringer Poems

Turn the ringer off,
indulge in a morning walk;
Serene outdoor smile....

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I shook hand with him,

My ringer finger is still with me,

Without my ring!...

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goodwill
starves at mental
dissonance of hungry
charity ringer who takes some
dollars...

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“toll tell tale”


you’re 
the dead
ringer

i the shiftless
nightshift
dweller

listlessly
listening
for thee...

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Ben was a church bell ringer
He was also an opera singer
Some days he would sing
Others bell ring
He was a real humdinger...

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Fairly
Squarely
Rarely
Barely
Shot from the hip fairly, squarely true
Loaded clip but, rarely, barely drew




1-19-2018...

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supermarket bells
their strange clangor in the cold
the red-faced ringer
feet stamping    one    the other
while coins hit brittle    like ice...

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James was his church’s  bell ringer
Some would listen and linger.
To make the bell louder
James became stouter.
Now he’s known as a real humdinger....

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I'm going to break that pointer finger
how long is this crap going to linger 
the lies, the death, the demise
no hope for a plan revised
we'll just throw your ass in the ringer






Limerick/Slam...

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Wonder if Trump ever read Mein Heir before.


She sure had been a hum dinger,
So we named her Caren Krutsinger 
Have no fear;
A darling dear;
Destroyed my poem through a ringer.

My Horn's are originally from Rothenburg 
ob der Tauber....

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Press buttons make a call
 Partake in a Zoom call
 Putting someone on hold
 Plenty of ringer tones
 Play music, text a friend
 Pick an app to peruse
 Photos can be snapped too!

 4-8-2021
 Pleiades P Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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here she is spoke out 
doubt settling inside

here she is sharing
caring what they think

here she is waiting
rating the slow time

here she is again
penned in a type font

here she is alone
phone ringer shut off

here she is, a clam
damn, there she goes, gone...

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is that a jackaroo or a jillaroo?
I am annoyed, preferring to be called ringer.
have spent the day with a green one.
decide to escape, take a walk by the sea.

broncoing has worn me out.
1080 irritates me.
I finally revitalize, feeling replenished.
thanks to the glorious sky....

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Who was a family show singer,
when her young daughter tried to be a dead ringer.
He brought her to life,
then she became  his wife.

 
Her costumes were over the top.
some were really hot.
The show of three was a huge hit,
dead husband had great wit....

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hot
water
spills between
mountains heaving

naked
i jump in
into the cold
singing a song brought

up on
to say raised
i think it was Bing
Chestnuts roasting on a...

just
dunk me
i'm a witch
don't float but

don't roast
never was there
fire at Salem twas 
hanging until dangling

dead
ringer
night shift
needed to hear

the bell...

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I waitin silence,
the phone refuses to ring,
maybe tomorrow.

In disappointment 
Icall the phone company,
ringer is working.

I stare atthe phone,
as if willing it to ring,
clock says 2am.

Tears filling my eyes,
I finally drift to sleep,
maybe tomorrow

* I know Haiku's are supposed to be about nature, but this one just came to me in thisform....

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Amber Heard's dog stepped on me
and I'm just a little biddle bee

So I stung his foot with my stinger
and gave that dog an awful ringer

Wouldn't you know my story was told
by many news outlets searching for gold

But I'm just a bee looking to be free
please don't overjudge me

Monday, May 30, 2022
Bee Creative Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Matt Caliri...

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What if age was determined
By the amount of life experiences you had
Would you be an old timer, seasoned
Or a young naïve lad?

Would you change the way you lived
Or would you be satisfied?
Would changes to your life be massive,
Or would you seek a priest to confide?

I wonder why we don't live more
Not knowing when the curtain falls
Instead we tread on egg-shell floors
As if we plan when the bell tolls.....

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Fire breathing,
clenched teeth
tongue tied
I have had enough of his drug induced indifference.
Can't speak.......off with the ringer.
He says he isn't like the other druggies...
he must be special
how 'bout the one who died today 
but was resucitated twice? 
He wasn't like the others either...
Clearly he was special.
Enough of the pity party 
There are more than just you hurting on this big lonely rock.
Get over yourself man!...

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Colored lights draped over elaborate wire trees
   Festive wreaths dressed in ornaments to please
Christmas songs piped in, one after another
   Outside a bell-ringer chirps, Merry Xmas, brother

Yet nearly every guest room's empty
   Seems no one's checking in or out
No line at the front desk either
   There's hardly a soul about...

A hotel lobby's a lonely place Christmas Eve
   All that tinsel's a harlot's make-up, disbelieved...

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The make-up and clothes 
doesn't make you,
You make the material.
Your eyes bring me to live,
But your smile is a killer.
I think your dimples are the 
best feature.
Your beautiful heart  is a 
teaser,
For me to buy a ringer for your 
finger.
If I had you,
I know I would be a winner.
I wanna keep you warm during 
the winter.
You are perfect in my picture.
 You make me wanna stand 
with you,
In front of a preacher-Mario 
Perez...

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“You can ring my bell, ring my bell, you can ring my bell” Anita Ward

He
rings my
bell so well that
he is like an artist
at his craft because he pushes
all my buttons, but in a way sublime.
Oh, how he makes me tingle from
head to
toe.

June 29, 2021
for John Anderson's Ring My Bell Poetry Contest
Someone has told me that I need single-spacing,
but I thought this WAS single spacing. I hope I am
right about this!!...

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after all
these years
thinking to even
knowing that i was

never 
a morning
person that
so much so i

fled from
the sun as if
blinded or burned
one of the children of

the night
but then realized
i was a dead ringer
a doppelganger for a guy

on daylight
i was saved by
the bell but he wasn't
so lucky as i shall tell you

since i had
left my job on
the graveyard shift
there was no one there

to 
hear
his frantic 
string pulling ringing...

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Washing clothes
a long days job as the new wash machine mom had was too good to be used
a Maytag ringer in the basement was the clue
Hot water fills the larger washer as it went round and round
pulling out the clothes, piece by piece
gentle and carefully into the ringer 
as it sqeezed the water out
into a new tub of hot water, up and down splashing about
then into the third tub
finally through the ringer again
almost dry
to the lines outside under a hot summer sky...

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