Short Sabers Poems

Let's all try to get along with our neighbors
They're people like us, put away your sabers
We all eat and poop
Us nincompoops
Allow for the differences, it's human nature...

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The tears of her heart began to fall
In pearl like droplets of pure rain;
Words cut like sabers caused such pain,
Eyes shot daggers, backed against the wall,
It seems you hate without cause.
Patiently, she takes it all in stride,
As a mother, stands e’er ready 
Welcomes you back from the dark-side…...

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On an August Evening 
David J Walker

The parade is a  
Next door 
neighborhood event

I have lent my
Interests  

Sent my swagger
Rattled old sabers 

Resurrected past matters
Memories scatter 

Yesterday spent 
Listening from a perch
On my back porch pent

Watching fireflies in the heat of 
An August evening...

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Sandwiched between noisy neighbours 
We hear them putting their labours
In screaming matches 
Boisterous snatches
Seems like they're fighting with sabers 

I wish we had placed soundproof glass 
So that no sound, no noise can pass
All would be quiet 
Unlike the riot
Our neighbours create and trespass



03.20.2021



8.8.5.5.8 syllables...

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The infantry stands with their boots on the ground 

The muskets will fire and the trumpets will sound

The cavalries charge in the heat of the battle

The cannons will roar and the sabers will rattle 

The whole thing will be fought in the dust, rain, and mud

But the payment for that is the stain of our blood

When our enemies fall then our standard will rise

Thus a nation for all is the ultimate prize...

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 melting snowball 

Fall-out started with the spring-break competition;
Errors were made as team effort slid downhill.
Then when name-calling sparked a partition,
esprit-de-corps broke to a stand-still.

“Butterfingers!” the dig of choice,
sabers, rifles drop in flight.
“Cretin!” answers a voice,
winter guard backbite.

“Bozo, Clod, Clown”
teenage jeers, 
meltdown - 
tears.



written March 20, 2018
Line Gauthier's  A Melting Snowball contest...

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