Short Scooped Poems

Scooped from
the putrid slime
that keeps me bound...

Read More

Dry season winds
scooped dust and poured
into  eyes of invading soldiers...

Read More

You scooped my heart out
With a white hot spoon
Piece by piece
Slowly eating it like 
Some rare delicacy...

Read More

In my arms
               you are scooped up,
                                        and led to paradise.....

Read More

A giant pumpkin 
With the fruit scooped out for pie
A Halloween treat
I make a Jack-O-Lantern
And grin at its glowing face

For Susan’s tanka contest...

Read More

word salad sandwiches,
poetry soup
forms a la mode,
doubly scooped

delectable morsels,
my lunches of late
with footle in mouth,
why don't I lose weight?...

Read More

by Wayne Wysocki

A Jack-o-Lantern, it's said,
Had the brain scooped out of his head;
     He was only as bright
     As the dim candle light,
But boy was he handsome instead!...

Read More

A water bucket
       
                                                 Sea is scooped up by the child.

                                                                     Using a teaspoon....

Read More

A stray chocolate Weimaraner
On the left side of the road
Scooped up, yet lovingly licking a face
Whimpering in pain, yet wagging its tail
Poor thing's been struck
By a car. And it looks...bad.


Date: 07/18/2019...

Read More

Jesus scooped the child up into his arms
she put her arms around Him
they clung to each other
for they were whole only when together
her mother sighed with relief
dreaming that her daughter was finally safe
and had her hair back...

Read More

breeze

uttered

a warm breath,

scooped up fluttered

leaves, stuttered disruption sounds, round, and round.


existence quintessence sputtered, muttered

Shakespeare words of

endearment

comfort

waft.




9/27/2020...

Read More

When the possum met with our tire tread
He lay still and we thought he was dead
So we scooped him right up
In a pot for our sup
Let’s just say we were gravely misled







12.13.18
For make me LOL contest
Sponsor - Nina Parmenter...

Read More

Rock
Collect
Found red one
Smooth, speckled, cool
Lying in a rock bed, with friends
Scooped you up, looked both ways, saw no one, I kidnapped you.
Waiting for the rock police, your friends, and relatives to put me in chains, valid arrest....

Read More

bright teeth
smiling at me
and lighting up green eyes
in jack o’lantern candlelight.
the gummy insides of its pumpkin cheeks
along with its nutritious seeds scooped.
empty mindless shell speaks
with full moon eyes
bright teeth

8/27/2018...

Read More

For some reasons
And no reason at all
I've been thinking
About how nice it is 
Or would be
To be scooped up
And someone with authority
Say
'you are safe now'
And how I'd feel in that
Millisecond
Before I punched 
Whoever the weirdo was
In the face
And legged it...

Read More

The child was scooped up by her mother.
Her crying stopped upon contact.
The motherless child looked up in wonder.
She did not remember such days.
Her mother had been gone since she was a toddler.
Her father watched her watch them, feeling sad.
It was time for a trip to grandma’s....

Read More

Alas, Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall,

   Leaving a quivering yolk, that is all!

      Then, his nephews and nieces,

         Scooped up all of the pieces.

            It cracked them up showing atrocious gall!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2015 All Rights Reserved...

Read More

Three pedal pushers, pushed past,
mom, daughter, grand
icons of fashions.
Forms formed by the dictates of passion.
Hair cropped, brows plucked,
rural New England’s answer to
Dolly Parton.
Scooped necked and corseted
varying little from teen-queen to matriarch;
only the wrinkles told the tale....

Read More

My soul, like a sea gull,
Poised in the midair
and scanned the wide and
shimmering surface of the sea.

Taking a stance to dive,
It swooped down with
grace and swiftness
and scooped up its prey--
Leaving behind unexplored
the treasures hidden in the
deep bosom of the sea,
as it soared skyward!...

Read More

Her tiny fingers plowed the sand,
       seaside art-
a heart for Mom to see before 
nature's etch-a-sketch
swept the slate clean...

Her tiny fist scooped
a fistful of yesterday's stones
  sifted for centuries
      but now
a skillful architect and 
   her plastic pail
create a magic castle......

Read More

and a mobile howitzer (a mortar track) 
had blown-up,
nothing remained,  except the flattened 
bottom;
and what was left of the crew,  you could 
have scooped up with a spoon:

and when  I asked the priest,  where their 
souls had gone;  those that heard, sucked a tooth
and called  me a "goddam hippy,"...

Read More

Stalwart owl on the trunk of a tree
Left behind by a busy family
They forgot a few things on moving day
I scooped him up, and took him far away

Serious owl on my back porch now
Being commented on. Some say “Wow!”
I am so glad he is mine; we are together, we two.
I am excited to say I have named him Who....

Read More

"Alphaville" 

all the letters
floated 
pushing for a place

the spoon 
scooped them up
and swallowed them whole

on the 
scrabble board
Omega came last

but in its mind
its finger pulled
the trigger

first

(LadyLabyrinth /2022)




"Mysterion"
https://youtu.be/DD6H-YYVuCY
...

Read More

Here comes the county snow plow down the street,

     He will clear the street of snow and that's neat!

         I'd scooped snow, how I did strive,

            To move heaped snow from my drive!

               He just grinned dumping more snow at my feet!

Entry for Charles Messina's "Same Word Winter Limerick" Contest
(6 January 2019)...

Read More

D IS A POEM


                             D is a poem- a poet of the poetry soup
         When in France she learnt to dance” scoop stoop go thru the hoop"
                                Scooped honey and a lotta sugar
                               Mixed them with a creative vigour
             She stooped to make poem-candies for the Souper’s troop...

Read More