Short Scoffs Poems

Hung on bird table
Fat balls nuts rind and treats
Cheeky squirrel scoffs...

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he lands in a ditch of forlorn
she scoffs and laughs
he feels trashed and dissed
she does not look back
not caring that they used to love each other...

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Medicine Woman resposes at the top of the summit
surveying her village, protecting her tribe
a brave’s job, her mother scolded her
Medicine Woman scoffs, keeping a sharp eye out...

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The wish

The face on the mirror scoffs at me
I’m an illusion and cannot die
Yet, I see him late at night, watching 
“a house on the prairie.” crying 
Sentimental fool
Wishes he was me on a bright day
When the mirror is in the shade


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The Sahara is another vast sea
   Of zero-edge horizons
And remote hours of austerity
   For "sailors" upon caravans

And the Sun beams mercilessly
   And seems cruel to patrons
Until the Wind scoffs haggardly
   And reshapes its art of dunes....

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Chinese Dave is not Chinese, he just likes Chinese food,
He’ll eat it till his tummy bursts whene’er he’s in the mood.
He scoffs Chow Mein and Egg Foo Yung and Fried Rice by the plateful,
And then his botty burps. Oh dear! Stand back! You will be grateful....

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OThe sexual smile the birth and death of kings,

The Plathian axe, the tree, and how it ringd

The horse unsaddled throws  its mistress off

The ending of a life, the voice that scoffs.

Even the ugliest man can tell good lies

How a woman’s beauty hurt men’s eyes.

The sexual smile the enemy,the child

The hint of promise paralysed his smile...

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Listen to poem:

Constant denigration
wears you down
you feel so small
as your efforts are
downgraded with cast-off scoffs.
Your pearls bedraggled,
lack lustre,
displayed dimmed and dulled,
squelched by doubt,
smeared in fear.
Duet performance discordant 
sung in disharmony
with lead player out of tune,
tone-deaf.
Belittled, you be,
and bedraggled becomes you....

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Sunday Football 

Winning prospect nears
Sunday football cheers
Men folk gather ‘round
Women, also found.
All are TV bound.

Who gets the ball?
Heads wins the call.
Captains’ close-up!  
Energy pumped.

The coin toss…
No team scoffs. 
The kick-off!

Teams play.
Dreams stay.

Game…


 © Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010

Poetic form:  Dimished Hexiverse...

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who gets the credit for the lightbulb, Dad?
Dad scoffs, easiest question he has ever had
That is Edison son, Thomas was his first name
Ask me again, and I’ll tell you the same

What about the motion picture camera, who invented it?
Dad is bamboozled now, but determined to not throw a fit.
His wife? He guesses, making his wife smile in her cutest way.
Edison dad! yells the child, who runs out to play....

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WRITING FOR A CONTEST

If I write
   for a contest
I battle
  with my Pen


My Pen
 likes to go
 Where it pleases
    Wander through forests
        Jump over fences
           Dance around moons
My Pen
   doesn’t care
       Who watches
       Who claps
       Who smiles or frowns

My Pen
 Scoffs at scores

My Pen
  Stomps on numbers
   Ignores prizes
 
My Pen
  Grinds up glory

But

 My Pen
   Doesn’t
     pay the bills...

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These are the times when the walls talk
The bricks sneer and the tile floor scoffs at you
Disapproving, mocking, judging
It’s a quiet conversation 
You can’t quite grasp the words
Muttered to your ears only

Yes, the others are excluded 
From this one-sided discussion
So they don’t understand
When you can’t hear them
And when you stare blankly at the wall
Because they aren’t aware
That those walls are tormenting you...

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COPLA 93 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World

The lone wolf shies away from the pack
The tyrannosaur scoffs at his kind :
Systems with it

Tiglons roam lone on the beaten track -
Fall prey the gnu foal lame and blind :
Systems well-knit

Stand alone and the pack will hunt you
Lose your integrity to live safe :
The human fate

The Overman’ll camp on the volcano
Far from the humdrum crowd’s stifling life :
Asylum bait

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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May does not know happiness at all.
I leave her sitting there, clueless, angry and small.
I help others up and it makes me happy when I am down, I say.
She scoffs at this stupidity and tells me to get out, go away.

I am depressed, and I want to die she yells, her voice a boom.
I leave her wallowing in her self-imposed cloud of ugly gray gloom.
She is determined to not help anyone, including herself, I think.
If I could force her to do good, it might change her aura to pink....

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Mentally  endowed enough,
to take the piffle from your puff,
and ram it home, sweet butter cup,
side effects are frightening,

miscarriage of justice, can put you off
and pride slips cos you're the Toff
that damaged goods, while cancer scoffs.
Not so enlightening. 

thick as your arm is mental charm,
which may be so inviting,
don't even want to cause alarm.
yet love is still exciting

4-jul-11   Don Johnson

Brian Strand
Contest Name	A POEM FROM THEE form or free max 14 lines...

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Who dares rouse Leviathan,
the Giant beneath the heaving deeps?
This world now teams with Ahabs
whose heaping anger never sleeps.
Each one wants to hook its jaw
and each to press its tongue;
to try its rich and fragrant oil
and see it bound and beached and dumb.

Poor soul captains on fragile ships
vainly sharpening the barbless spear.
The Whale scoffs beneath the waves,
rising to teach all wisdom through fear.

Soon the Brute will breach and blow
and send each Pequod down below....

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