Short Scan Poems

hospital visit
cat scan and M R I
cold as glass window...

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Foxes scan the field
hawks drift slowly overhead
rabbits feed in fear...

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The robber breaks in
 unseen eyes scan, blink and flash
Nabbed in camera....

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hundreds of eyes scan
repugnant smell entices
flash of pink, no more…...

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I scan into me 
so many lives 
I open their attachments 
it reads nothing 
and I am scared...

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Soldier/poet John McCrae
his words remembered to this day
On days of Remembrance
his verse both scan&dance...

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I am what i am 
Not hiding my tongue behind the heart
In my book , all the Chapters are easy to scan
this is what i am...

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They say they’ll book me for a scan.
It seems I’m overdue it.
The way things are in the NHS, 
they’ll dig me up to do it !...

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I looked out from a mountain top
To scan the views out yonder
My cup of happiness overflowed
Filling my heart and soul with wonder...

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do you have plan
is it begging with scan
walking around in trance
it s your time to dance
stop living in the pass
you must
HAVE A TASK...

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eagle soaring high
 sharp eyes scan meadow for prey...
  rabbit on the run

 3-15-2022
 Bird Haiku Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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I had a cat scan done of my heart, your initials showed up on it  



Without Saying I Love You Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: JCB Brul 
2/25/2021...

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“In Sweden”, our host did proclaim
“We all eat a whole lot of game
Not chicken or goose
But reindeer and moose
And we eat it with no sense of shame”...

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toroidal heart and the head ovoid
entwine as was intended by God’s plan
transmuted by a benign burn from inside out
bliss magnetism performs a body scan...

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After parking I busted my ass
Cut my elbows and knees on some glass
What was my first thought?
“Quick! Scan the whole lot
To make sure no one saw you, JACKASS”...

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top contest winner 
she’s not Marlene’s sister…
I scan the lists



Contest Short form Poetry Sponsored by Andrea Dietrich
05~07~16...

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Sitting in a breeze,
Soaking in the sun,
Feel the beat beginning,
Pulsing on the run.
With a common built in ease
The sights and country scan
In a hidden meter....

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Pete paced the floor
are you sure - scan 
shows four ... Pete faints!

Any theme Than Bauk Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina

1/28/19...

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Your poems soar ~
A delight in flight ~
Close your eyes~
   embrace~
no need for eyesight ~
brain scan the image ~
smiles on their face.



Copyright McCuen 2009...

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I
Human perception is self-limiting - like radars, we scan for targets - not diffuse area.

II
Gestalt psychology knows how humans focus on figures, not background canvas....

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Happy birthday, dear Leslie Ann, 
The writers are truly aware; 
The stanzas that the poets scan 
Show the rhyming scheme and meter. 

Topic: Birthday of Leslie Ann Pacaonces (March 18)...

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Are we alone, seems very unlikely
By the number of stars, must assume rightly
Only time will tell
After I've heard the bell
Next generations will scan the heavens nightly...

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Sometimes I feel like a dirty old man
All I can think of is cuties when I scan
But I'm innocent by heck
Natural as breathing I suspect
Turning my crank and exposing my minivan...

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How can a robot know?
But I likes a piece of poetry
To set my circuits all aglow,

R2D2's just a drone,
Steve Austin he can barely scan
Robots generally 'e don't rhyme,
But a cyberman 'e can!...

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We 'astro-nuts' scan the skies from Earth down here:
   "Could there be Intelligent Life out there?"

Way out in Space, at Earthlings they gawk and stare--
   "Is that Intelligent Life down there?"...

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