Short Satisfactory Poems

One leaf follows another
A lazy floating dance
Last bit of a whirl
Satisfactory ending
Making way for future leaves
Who will sprout out of fresh new buds...

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Achieving satisfactory
is not what you should seek.
It's the understanding of the basics
nothing more.
Advancing to the next level
yes, that is what
many of us
should look for....

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I add some sprinkles
Glue in sawdust
Slash some holes in it
My husband asks, "Is that one new?"
My paintings are all new.
Every day newer than yesterday.
Never satisfactory.
Never complete.
Always in Progress...

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Okay where are “average things” manufactured
Give up? In the “Satisfactory”, bet you're fractured
Okay I'll promise to go easy
From now on, easy and breezy
Stuff for some brains that are really quite scattered...

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Bright black uniform letters
Popping onto the stark white page
Loud smacking satisfactory pops
Pop T
Pop Y
Pop P
Pop E
Royal
Smith-Corona 
Olympia
Brother
Typewriter magic of the 60’s. 
Predecessor of the Word Processor and the Computer....

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chipper chapper bitter batter
bird speak livening the forest
I strain my ears to hear their sounds
None of them satisfactorily captured
In verse or poems in a satisfactory way
bird peak simply cannot be duplicated 
For our alphabet does not speak beak....

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There is a faerie tree house deep in the forest woods they say
I did not believe it my first sixty years, but then I found it one day
When you see something ethereal and magical with your own eyes
It is no longer satisfactory to call the so-called rumors – ridiculous lies....

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When fate decides to bring you love,
your lover is everything you’ve been dreaming of.
This match is much better than satisfactory.
Your needs are filled in each category.
This matrimonial day is filled with glory.
It seems there’s a happy ending to this story.
...

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I buy my clothes from “Quacker Factory”
But there are no ducks in my house
Their colorful embroidery is more than satisfactory
I've met web-footed workers at their warehouse
When I visit, they make me stay at their henhouse




*December 5, 2020
For Sara's "Trademark" contest...

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My butterflies are wet
My peaches are juicy
My bun, buns are soft
My thighs are thick and long
With plenty flavor

My strawberries are soft and sweet
And, I promise
When you give a squeeze
I'm juicy warm and wet

So nice and tight
Any flavor you need
I promise indeed
Satisfactory Guarantee...

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Bugs to flour
plants to wheat
you eat your bugs
I will eat wheat flour
you watch the crickets
I will watch wind blow sheaves
You spend millions on a bug factory
but cannot spend it on health care satisfactory
You can have your crickets while I enjoy my big steak treat
Bon appetite hope you don't heave with vomit at  your feet....

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The smile that gives me warmth, love, affection,
The smile that contents me,
The smile that is a combination of care and friendliness,
The smile that refills the confidence to achieve,
The smile that brings a twinkle in eyes,
The smile that is adorable, satisfactory, affectionate,
Yes! It's my MOM's smile that is the most precious one for me!...

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My two miracles, black and white lay dreaming. 
I roll the last of the Cabernet over my tongue
as I
inhale every drop of the prose she has so skillfully penned; 
tannic, yet satisfactory.

The attack.........ripened, smashed cherries
The evolution.......bitter cacoa nibs..........
The finish.......an aftertaste of lonliness and heartbreak....
yet still I want more....

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Im not tired I got tons 
of energy. My heart is 
like a gas station it is 
never empty. My legs 
run until my brain says 
stop. I always keep 
fighting beyond the 
top. I build my 
strength beyond 
myself, I fight and 
fight to win more than 
a championship belt. I 
continue to fight if I'm 
in pain or sore. Instead 
of satisfactory I 
always do a little bit 
more...

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Satisfied in no satisfactory way
I eat my dreaded shredded wheat.
Ugh.
An everyday food bringing me no joy.
A pattern I have fallen into at breakfast
Reminding me of mundane things
Bringing a mean dose of regular into my life.
While I dream of pancakes with syrup 
and whipped cream, slathered in bananas 
with a dollop of pudding.
Those days long gone,
When I could eat whatever
I wanted, and not suffer....

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I wonder day and night what is that I lack.
My demons in my head tell me it's you that no one likes.
The consciousness In my head pushes me towards my fantasized flawlessness.
The glory of excellence puts a hefty consequence on thyself.
Seductive as it is my mind bears the repercussions.
The World as it is puts me on a grand pedestal.
My breasts fills with all the glory, but in her mind I'm not Satisfactory....

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Eclipse of sorrow inadequate circuit of fame. 

Massly defined theories- a falling  raven.
Bluring blessedness busting uneven. Mischievous monkeys within. 

Fade lurking fade response fade mind.  Concealed the fine wit pouched with sticky ticks.  

Thriving physically growing vigorously. .. 
Malevolent mr miss fully satisfactory  

Unwritten image frow
Minshing throw...
Misled miles
Moaning miserably......

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Mother is for  the love and care between parent and child

O  is for outstanding performances

T is for time spent together

H is for happiness shared

E is for each and everyday with another

R is for the reality of friendship

'S is for satisfactory results


D is for daytime hobbies

A is for authentic days at home with the children

Y is for good memories of yesterday

Author: Gwen von Erlach Schutz...

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i eat my lemon cream cake 
and forget what i dislike

when the flavor hits me, 
it's like being lost in a 
place only seen in my dreams

i eat my lemon cream cake
and remember why God opens
my eyes

it is in the very next moment 
of favoring the savoring that
i take a pause and thank Him
thoroughly

i then whisper AMEN with a 
satisfactory smile....and dive
right back into that scrumptious
lemon cream cake...

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My love has no limit
Like the stars beyond our galaxy
I wonder why they stay mad at me?
Effortless of them, I've stayed satisfactory
But I know something they don't
I'll do something they won't
My love has no limit
And conditional is what I don't want
That goes for family
That goes for friends
That goes for my girl, until we meet our end
My love has no limit, so what's an end?
I'm saying I'll give it all as long as you don't pretend....

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child has puffy eyes
welts on her legs
eyes cast downward

professionally guarded
refusing to talk
trusting no one

closed tighter than an encyclopedia
thoroughly indoctrinated 
to not share family business

school staff is aware
tries to establish trust relationships
to no satisfactory end

child comes up missing
photo pops up on channel five news
body never found

spirit unrecovered also
a memory of a child
haunting school staff forever...

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Hunger sounds the tiger’s growl
Striking fear in his prey.
Hunger drives the wolf’s howl
As the night turns into day.
Hunger makes the vulnerable pay
Awakening the beast within.
Hunger deepens without delay
Forcing the honest man to sin.
When shall satisfactory begin?
Or shall the Devil’s grip tighten?
Only when the world fails to spin
Will his evil heighten.
Oh, how men value a single piece of bread,
For the Devil’s grip loosens once they are fed....

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Woods never asked to be this cold
At least the shivering has stopped
Maybe this is why the leaves are on the ground
The wild life is searching for warmth
Air is not yet bitter, but it will be tonight
My boots make satisfactory crunching noises
I stop and listen to the silence,
Have any other humans ever been here?
I take out my camera and begin to snap
Knowing the photos will surprise me
For they always take a life of their own
Not unlike these woods...

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Reaping much more than sowing
Available products enough but nowhere near satisfactory
Poor taste for contentment and management
Appetite so broad with unreachable threshold
Covering needed capacity with extra huge lanes
Identifying the boundary but crossing over it
Out of this limit, the need demands more
Ultimately giving priority to such greed as a way of life
Solidifying the attitude of always wanting more than more...

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Boy could not get a satisfactory answer on earth
So he resolved to speak to the moon
How will you do it? His dragon asked.
I shall fly up there tonight in my dreams, of course.

Boy was a possibility thinker.
That night he flew up to the moon and asked his question.
I have no idea, the moon said. Have you asked your dragon?
How did you know I have a dragon?

I heard you talking to him this afternoon.
This surprised the boy.
And it surprised the dragon.
Who always had the answer....

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