Short Ruffling Poems

ruffling leaves
leaves the sound of yesterday
echoes in the future...

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happy warm day wind
she gently moves through my hair
ruffling my grasses...

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Christian cowboys
Riding rodeo
Ruffling God's feathers
In the catholic clergy...

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steady, gentle breeze
ruffling almond tree blossoms~
red, runny noses...

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an owl’s hoot
the scent of pine trees
ruffling



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on September 15, 2019...

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evening is silent 

as gust trickles on asphalt 

ruffling umbrellas ---

fingers in coiled position

grasp steel rod not letting go...

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Leaves…falling, falling…
All over town,
Covering the earth
With red, yellow, and brown.

Wind whistling gently,
Ruffling leaves here and there.
What a delight…
Fall is EVERYWHERE!!!...

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Autumn whispers
In the heat of late August
Tickling the corn stalks
Ruffling the fledgling’s feathers
Teasing the bear’s appetite
Caressing the coming harvest
Blowing a kiss to summer...

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it echoes in the mountains
whispers in a breeze
ruffling my hair
but not stirring the trees
cool breath upon hot skin
my heart is now set free
the wonder of your love
and all you give to me...

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I saw the pain

I saw the pain 
On a plain but ripened face
As he made a race 
So as to plot his aim 
I saw the pain 
Cast on ebony 
Ruffling her paste 
As she tries to bring back a phase...

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steeple hands
piano voices
stand up, kneel down
confession box
anointing with oil - at door
sign of the cross and a crooked knee
chewing gum
ruffling papers

one tear-stained face

7/1/2018...

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Limericks Don’t Blush

A limerick is meant to be bawdy
not cater to those a bit haughty
ruffling feathers
exposing pleasures
cuz limericks are out and out naughty


John G. Lawless
©6/13/2017...

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Plum
wings,
plucky
is the strum
of love’s afterglow
With purple locks and negligee,
angel flew to hubby under sateen satin sheets
Lavender ruffling, at the midnight hour, had couple vibing in synchronicity
...

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A pup that’s in a cup
A cup that’s under a pup
A pup that’s as cute as a button
All of the sudden 
The pup is cuddling 
With all the loving 
There is no ruffling
For the fluffy puppy
That cute tea cup pup
Is what’s up?...

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Feathered Dreams

snapshots of a moment
pebbles in a pond
ripplings
of a life
stirring the surface
ruffling feathered
perch bound
dreams


©12/25/2017

submitted to – contest 380 ANY FORM OR NONE, ANY THEME...

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Wood owl confides in crescent moon.
Crow stays out of sight, hidden in the black forest.
Germany is on her best behavior tonight.
Loving October more than other months.
A cool breeze ruffling her hair and her leaves....

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Shake from a nightmare; 
Farmer sharping his cleaver. 
To freezer, he went; 
T-bone for Thanksgiving feast. 
Boasting round, ruffling my wings.

11/10/2021

Soup being down screwed my tanka to a one liner... how upsetting......

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she starts out delicately
teasing the oak tree's leaves
ruffling the hair of the grass
No one is alarmed
Until she gets incredibly silent
And the sky turns smoky gray
Hear that roar? It is not a train
It is a tornado, and you are in her path....

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I hear its scary voice
Approaching my scope
I hear its ruffling footsteps
Walking through my door 
Wildly opening its arms
I feel its spikey claws crawling on me
Digging deep inside me
Pouching my soul   
And neglecting my body on the old mat...

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Whisper, whisper goes the wind,
Ruffling though my leaves.
I will not let him blow me down,
I’ll proudly bend with the breeze!

Drip, drip, goes the rain,
As it falls right through my branches!
I quietly let it slide right down my trunk,
And run into the ditches....

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Fragrant new petals pirouette

On stairways of blazed winds, rosette 

Meadows become a stage…

As small ballerinas saunter

Enchanting moonlight to linger,

Ruffling on ferns arranged...



For Susan's Contest :Your Favorite
Tail Rhyme,Past or Present

* New Poem*...

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Oh, March,
You vagabond of trumpet gales
Swirling city trash
‘round tipping cans
Tugging
At fully outstretched flags
Ruffling Robin feathers
Jousting with Jonquils
Elevating
A hungry hawk
Howling
At the heels of fleeing winter
Lest it keep you
From a date with spring
...

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I hear serenading songs of summer swallows
and ruffling feathers of roosting starlings.
I catch the sweet scent of heirloom roses 
that have not yet budded upon the bush.
All these things I know have been given to me
as surely as I see you standing before my eyes....

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Tom
The cat is never calm
Being teased by the rogue rat
But life is dull without the brat.

Jerry
The rat is mischievously merry
Ruffling the feline self-control
But in danger finds the safe hole.

September 10, 2021
Rhyme checked with rhymezone.com
Contest : Cleritoons
Sponsor : Joseph May...

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REPUTATIONS

reputed
&
most moving
devotion
most
 magnificent
  housed
in a  frame
  to be seen
in another
sensibility

representitive
 aspects
of  asceticism
a moment
of instant
canticles
 elements
of nature
none
can escape

a nervous
commitment
 to  ruffling
 a few feathers

a life changed...

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