Short Roped Poems

We were strolling through time's meadow just walking love's dog....
Then I found a log; threw it in my back pack when she roped his hog ?...

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     How ironic to see ‘chain gangs’
       in elementary schools now

     Little kids roped together, inmates
       at asylums where madmen shoot at you
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Photographic memory
Coursework a breeze
Piling up PhDs

To keep the doors open
Commitments broken
Truth left unspoken

The life of the mind
Roped in, confined
Inevitability: defined

 Doors so unkind...

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We are together
and apart, like hyenas.

You demand to be captured -
roped to a pulse 
but I have forgotten 
how to knot blood.

Love arrives quietly. 
My lips brush the wet vines
of your hair....

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We are together
and apart, like hyenas.

You demand to be captured -
roped to a pulse;
we still know
how to knot blood.

After the questing
tenderness arrives quietly.
My lips brush the wet vines
of your hair....

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Rolling in
Meadows in her hair
A tango mass of
Butterflies
And what knots

Roped in

Tongue tied

With a pollen smeared smile
Smack smitten by every cinch





8/22/2019

Wow Me Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nina Parmenter...

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FRIED CHICKEN HAT

roped into trying on
this greasy plastic hat
not cool
its charm
it has none
thirty something bucks
a breast it’s not
a leg not up
boneless
i suppose
a chicken
i am
for exposing my feathers
to this flop

12/22/2017...

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Alberta…..they probably just shook their heads and muttered “ey?”

Texas…probably rode it down, roped it, branded it and sent it on its way.

Florida….they probably took it fishing... in the Everglades…’nuf said!



John G. Lawless
12/5/2021...

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I stood too long
in the public square
strangers wearing masks
desecrated my presence
tossed paint upon my visage
roped and toppled me
shattered my past
erased my future
all because I paused
to gaze upon the beauty
of a common ground

John G. Lawless
7/16/2020...

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There was once an old cowpoke named Meyers

   For decades he'd rode an old hoss named Squires

      He'd roped steers and fixed fences

         Enjoyed beer and square dances

           And was bowlegged as a pair of pliers

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

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Let some hope dreams reach arms 
first,
Yet come cope. Seems each charm 
burst
Frets from dopes' schemes. Speech 
harms worst.
Debts numb popes. Teams preach 
warm thirst;
Wet rum. Roped beams breech 
barms! Cursed
Vets hum mopes! Streams leech! 
Farms nurse
Pet bums? Nope! Gleams screeched 
swarmed hearse!...

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Cobalt blue roped clouds lie 'pon the sky
Reach down and touch the distant trees
One lone butterfly flitted by
On the cool August's morn's breeze

August will soon be ending
September will parade upon the scene
Life will mellow in the cool beginning
That season's change will forthwright bring  

Unfinished...

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The tree was cut and roped by boys
Who brought it home to guard the toys
And treasures stacked up round its rootless base:
The pine has found an indoor resting place.

And underneath the tree are set 
The gifts of Christmastide for yet
Another year and tree have come to mark
His birth, with fragrant needles, cones and bark....

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In the eye of a tornado,
Spinning rapidly. 

Watching it passed,
While roped to a tree.
While spinning colors, psychedelically.

Air, wind and mass,
Destruction of houses are sad. 

Lots of angels were helping her.
Making sure she was not getting hurt.
While that tornado was spinning through. 
There was not one scratch on her or a bruise....

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I was untouchable
My emotions roped in place
Never feeling more than I wished. 
…
I was untouchable
But this disease,
This curse,
 Crept into my body
Silently seeping into my skin  
Wiggling into my veins 
Overtaking my organs
…
I was untouchable
Until he told me that he loved me
…
I was untouchable 
Until I realized that I loved him
…
Now all I want is for his touch...

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exaggerated feelings
exaggerated thoughts
love songs inside my head
a mind that thinks too much
I thought I had a hold
on your desperado heart
silly me for thinking
your heart could be roped
why am I surprised
that you had to let go
I can't say that you
didn't always tell me so
I am not surprised
that you'd let me slip away
didn't you, didn't you always
tell me it would be this way...

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Oh September you came 
Covered with ashes 

You came whispering into our tears 
We who roped to the grief 
then danced over our hearts 
 
You came to us 
wearing the sandal of curiosity  
while the howling of death 
blowing at our evening 

Oh September...
We arranged, over the marble, 
The farewell ritual:
Of palm fronds, 
Of perfume dawn 
to wash the grief's face to shake 
the September ashes....

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A woman cannot control her heart,
Who she loves can tear her apart,
without a clue of what he does,
when he's a rebel without a cause.

I've roped myself a hurricane, 
His heart the only thing I've tamed,
And off to prison once again,
My crying heart goes off with him.

The pain I feel as he goes away,
Will bide with me throughout my days,
My nights in lonely solitude,
As I pray to the Lord I'll make it through....

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my fields on fire, my mind is lit
no amount of rain could ever douse this 
I can't sleep I'm just to wired
this sweet, sweet taste of pure desire

I'm drinking this wine but it doesn't quench
my soul roped in and tightly cinched
the more you give, much more I want
my heart upon your sleeve you flaunt

I feel your skin as we ride this storm
all past dreams have been transformed
lightning strikes and leaves its mark
tattooed deeply on my heart...

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I can’t control myself, I’m remote
within radio range and scope
but far so small and mote
receiving signals through smoke 
directed through ash to choke
seems circular nothing to note
unbearably tied like a rope 
no baring clear to approach 
unaware I’m walking to croak 
in smoke near clifftops and slopes
mind numb uncared and broke
a snowball no brake to poke
an inclined decline no joke
with my lifeline tied I’m roped 
and until it ends I’m fooked...

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