Short Scampers Poems

sun streams
on woodland ferns
mouse scampers...

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suddenly appears
scampers quickly over rock
skittish little guy...

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Youngest Dad pampers
At the lake happy campers 
Littlest scampers...

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Cat door swings open
 
Field mouse scampers in --
 
     Tiny feet warmed...

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A hare scampers away
Frighten by a reaping machine
We harvest the barley field,
Not prey...

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        a rainy day
 soggy squirrel scampers ~
                 puddle splash
...

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squirrel
scampers across a tight wire
and shakes
this rainy day
awake

(Published American Tanka Society 2016)...

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squirrel
scampers across a tight wire
and shakes
this rainy day
awake

Published - American Tanka - Summer - 2016...

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blackberries in tree
crow nibbles~
squirrel scampers

19.04.2021
Contest Name - ONE HAIKU
Sponsor	- Line Gauthier...

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Through the fog, I see shadows.
Silhouettes of people or spirits.
Like the cat that scampers when startled.
Without haste I hide behind the sofa....

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big white snowflakes fall
and land upon the garden - -
a puppy scampers

Jack Horne, posted a few seconds too for Linda-Marie’s Beauty of Nature contest, lol!...

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 in grey apparel
scampers trees, skilled acrobat~
furry and frisky


Jan.2. 2022
Squirrel Haiku Poetry Contest
Robert James Ligouri...

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This illness scampers behind me for all eternity
It strikes me down when I least expect it, my mind’s internal storm
It is permanently attached to my disfigured soul....

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Small
squirrel
scampers fast
away from me.
Up a tree he flees.
An acrobat,
He then leaps
tree to
tree.

July 1, 2021 for Caren Krutsinger's Ninette Poetry Contest...

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I have a tiny pony, 
so small she lives indoors.
She scampers up the stairway
to sleep atop my bedspread.

I never can be lonely 
for this wee horse adores
To be with me all day 
To share my buttered cornbread....

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the cats rise, arch, eat, lick,
then slink off seeking sun-
toiling is not in their ken. 
                
                    ~@~

the dog also rises; stretches;
scampers comically to your side
and farts...first smile of the day!...

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Listen to poem:

O' slumbers o'er swarts realm rends the hawks,

Labyrinth town, lady o' night then gawks,

Man fumbles a hand,

Zipped lady attend,

Mouse scampers pass heels, a lady balks.



Date: May 22, 2019...

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Seasons Change Places

Thick fog scampers up steep hills in billowing tendrils
Ocean winds sweep in on heavy mists at sunset
Summer shivers as days grow shorter
Skies reflect amber, golden hues of twilight leaves
Autumn approaches.

8-21-21...

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Rabbit on the run,
is no fun,
hound dog in
the chase in hot
pursuit, is life to
the fullest for
this little dog.

Rabbit scampers
down his hole,
and proceeds to
laugh his head
off.

Until he sees
Mr Rattle snake
making that noise
they always do,
such a nice
lunch old
Rattle snake
had.

wrote 8-26-08...

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Carolina Jasmina

Carolina Jasmina scampers up a trellis
 Wearing a gown of marigold yellow;
Adorns plain old wooden fences
 On fragile vines - a perfumed delight!

On fragile vines - a perfumed delight!
 Adorns plain old wooden fences;
Wearing a gown of marigold yellow
 Carolina Jasmina scampers up a trellis.  

8-13-20
Sponsor John Lawless
Contest: Mirror, Mirror...

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The soul of man has known too much ache.
the heavens spill salted mercy water,
but the regalia of misery shields his body
his glare too impaired to recognise release.

he frets in his hood,
he flees for shade,
scampers from fortune.
his err, his cross.

desires of a little ease,
that threatens tomorrow's lease
Nature's deceit,
A game oft played.

Yet he falls, he fails.
The soul of man,
how feeble, how weak....

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Tiger’s head raises up quickly. What was that noise?
His lady is sleeping, and he wants quiet in the castle.
A young page whispers a shaky apology and scampers off.
He did not realize that tiger was in the throne room.

The princess stirred but briefly. Tiger held his breath.
He was guarding her and her child, an awesome responsibility.
Given to him by her honor the Queen Mother.
He relaxed when she resumed her slumber....

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STEEL-EYED HORIZON

Watercolor paper
So drab
Steel-eyed horizon

Why are the clouds still gray?
Winter never begins
Winter never ends

Leaves long to cling
Onto bare branches

Robins bespeak contentment
Sowing songs of faithful season

Of daffodil days
Unfurled skies of blue
Lush Bermuda grass

Gray scampers off –
A scurry of squirrels

A thin smile of Spring

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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Shadow of a dog scared the workers who were pouring our basement.
It looked like a giant dog; like a Marmaduke of a dog, like a beast.
One of the workers crawled out of the pit to have a closer look.
It was a friendly dog with a huge body and enormous head
It had the shortest tiniest legs ever put on a dog with a body this size.
A weird combination of dog, moving slowly as it scampers away.
The ears flapping behind, making it look even more ludicrous....

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The owl,
He sit's atop a branch high up in a tree,
He's as quiet as a silent vowel,
Hidden in the shadowy stillness,
With eyes as wide as saucers,
He secretly spies what scampers below,
While in the distance wolves howl,
A mouse cautiously creeps through the grass,
When suddenly the owl swoops down,
In a shadowy haze of wind and breeze,
From his perch and captures the mouse,
HOOT!!! HOOT!!! HOOT!!! HOOT!!!,
The owl bellows as he flies away with his dinner,...

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