Short Shing Poems

michael kissed me
he pulled the love from me
beneath a thousand shing eyes
our audience agreed
of our first love
two hearts emerging
from untrod paths...

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True, one night
I saw a shing being
up, there in sparkle
winkling at me
as my joy lit
thoght he stay with me
when the morning came
i see all cloudy blue

True, one day
i saw a shadow being
walking with me
his step were echoesd of my steps
bending bowing he was
when night came
i see all darky mood...

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tidy floral rows
     stark ragged dandelion
shears’ hungry maw gapes
   shing! 
              have a care; it will regrow
                     unlike your delicate bloom

surprised, you look down
     your prize tulip’s roots mingled
          with this intruder
               woven inextricably
                    gleaming shears look quite hungry

6/14/16
© Thomas W. Quigley...

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Slang Or common talk
Yay all knows that peoples talk funny 
If yous are from the south.
They cut off the lights and jaw jack alls night long.
If youns need to find something.
We cans find it down the road a piece or maybe over yawner.
So if you think I talk funny or in slang.
You alls need to catch the seconds of taters and grits and pig fat.
You alls come back now you hear.
And yes bring granny and the boys well have a shing dig....

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For Steve Lyman 

Is there a way to stop tomorrow 
My heart will be full of sorrow
When a new angel gets his wings
As his soul goes up and brings
Rainclouds of unhappy tears
Drowning my heart with the fears
That my bestie is really gone
In his new and happy home
But those rainclouds will soon show
A bright colorful rainbow
Shing with the colors of
Pooh bears heart and all his love
Letting his friends know down here
His memories won't disappear
...

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