Short Settee Poems

Will a cup of tea 
And sitting on the settee
Tire the restless mind...

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A plump little girl named Betty
She ate copious amounts of spaghetti
She loved the stuff
It was never enough
She got too fat to sit on the settee...

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A gentleman came calling for Betty.
The house Madam said wait on the settee.
Betty came running down.
Tried to change the man's frown.
But she had been so busy already.

This is for the Bawdy limy contest, though not very bawdy....

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a sestet

Looking for that place beyond his memory, 
he scans time and space within the room's debris 
waiving the embrace requiring energy.
Twisting in the settee, he finds it in his lap 
clicking uselessly  - alas! it has no zap 
Lacking battery!  how will he take his nap?...

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Susannah sits savoring the silence
snuggled sleepily on the settee
enjoying espresso and eating éclairs -
she needed some space and solitude,
twins, the ‘terrible twos’ are so taxing!
Her husband’s taken Hannah and Holly
to a party at Pirate Pete’s play park.



04/01/21...

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A silver coin,
In the glitter of light,
Falls to the ground,
a tinkle of sound,
Spins round and round, 
And races to a hiding
under the settee!
Determined not be found,
Not to be value bound,
But to be ground,
back Into its own,
To be pure and precious free,
As before
Not to be enslaved
By human greed!...

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The cat, sat on the settee, glaring at the dog and the dog lying on the mat, half opened his eyes and glared back, at the cat

Then they both stared at me, sitting in a chair, combing my fair hair, without a care, so I did the same and gave them a stare 

We are like that, myself, the dog and the cat, we stare at each other and all that...

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          Pouting
         day long
   Save mine arrive

Smiling in the settee
        hern cute

            limp



*shadang; there'z the sum who missed this
                (this be the double entendre) like-
                wise, as for mineself, there'z surly
                no indecent within this write..okay,
                risque'  ,)
...

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I am standing around the house 
I hear a loud boom with floor vibrations
I ask if everyone is ok because 
I thought someone fell flat on their settee
Everyone says we're ok what was that??
After much investigation
We found that my tire had exploded into shreds

I am considering suing the company
Never used spare tire, only fourteen years old
Should not have exploded like that!!...

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Sadly she sits on her brand new couch with ease
Sitting elegantly in her midday dress
Her wine sits on a table, it seems a tease
She looks sad just like someone that could care less
Her white cat lies at the foot of her settee
She rubs the belly of the lovely kitty
The woman sighs with an emphatic exhale
Her grief ignited by her mood that is pale

Russell Sivey...

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Golden water glittering through
delicate weeping willow leaves
Swans swimming on  the lake
Grand  house on top of the hill
neatly framed with many trees
Shingled roof  peaked gables
Large arched windowed eyes
Carpeted  flowers staircases
Marble floor,  chequered hall
Dining room living room den
Settee Louis XVI parlor chair
Deep  yellow blue pink letter
Clatter of  six sets  of  hoofs...

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Sullen gray-and-black leaden fingers 
unclosing against vast sky, cause 
the outside world seems to run
away in grim silence. 
Once love so real, 
now mere echo
in the weak 
moonlight
rays 
as 
fragrant
gold flaming 
honeysuckle 
vines bound into a 
braid around too narrow
garden  bower. I  sit  on 
a   settee,   in  the   pavilion,
my head down with cherishing sadness.


8/22/2019...

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Hitch up those gitches and ambulate across the way to a brother's abode and visit awhile on the settee. Don't beat the mule for stubbornness he's just a creature of the earth.

Did you burn a yule log to purify your home from grudges!

Jan. 6th Kings day....suppose to be the day the wise men met the new born Jesus. 12 days post birth.

you are a hoot....but I've got to scoot on down to the sanctuary for soul revival....need a little pep in my boots...

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This is a Rondine in pentameter

Never say never my darling Betty.
I think past sweet words have been a good  start
and know they’re ingress to a woman’s heart
Would you like to rest on this soft settee,
there is no danger its firm and steady.
Gospel truth, in pantsuit you look so smart.
Never say never.
I saw you, dear, at Tavern Gramercy.
In Effie Silk Dress you were piece of art,
I could have torn your lucky date apart.
The Maitre d' had your table ready
Never say never....

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