Short Shooed Poems

Just experienced the most violent of storms
Moved our barbeque cross our deck, not norm
About three minutes later
The sun shooed this violator
Climate change? A dazzling spectacle performed...

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Carmen has never tried to be pretty
Her six brothers warned her to stay plain.
But as she grew, she could not help herself.
Now they are scaring suiters away on a regular basis.
I got Jose, you get Pedro.
Done!
I shooed Thomas, you shoo Jesus.
You are asking me to shoo Jesus?...

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A spider traipsed onto my knee
While I was reading in the bath
Though most might jump and scream and flee,
I just gave a little laugh

A baby Daddy Long-Legs!
(Though really, 'twas just a son)
I shooed him back onto his web,
And continued reading on...

*title is a spin on "Strange Bedfellows" ;)

*Lessons in life are funny contest entry
~JustThatArchaicPoet...

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steadfast soft stars aloft 
in somber amours' mood,
a mere romantic breath 
following in silence. 
hued lambent music plays 
subdued by patient love 
not easily shooed away.
a kiss, a kiss, numb, hum
lust in a trice of time. 
a wild chime inward braid 
intimate desire hold unfolds, 
whilst a breath sighs of sails 
billowing across dark 
freckled celestial waves.


6/14/2020...

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Felt faint, yearning, in front of the man's home,
I had not found a piece of bread this week,
All shunned poor me as I had Down's syndrome,
I searched high and low, I truly felt weak.
From open windows I smelt the food's reek,
A man came out, throwing his food away,
A cat came in to eat from a fish tray,
I tried to enter and to help myself,
The man saw, shooed me away as a stray
"That is all we need here, an ugly elf!"

Placed 1...

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I would like to be a lady for a day the butterfly said.
Dressed in pinks and oranges, and perhaps a little red.
You cannot have it all, her godmother replied.
But I can make you yellow, and help you to glide.

So the butterfly turned into a lady on a warm Tuesday.
She glided into windows, but people shooed her away.
One tried to swat her with a flyswatter, and smacked her tail.
Turn me back into a butterfly, she yelped gliding off a rail....

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What is in that mouse hole snoring away?
The cat sneaked a peek and tiptoed that day
Grabbed his owner’s phone and took a photo too.
Of a snoring elf sleeping in a matchbook box of red and blue.

The elderly elf had a scraggly beard, he was not fresh at all.
He’s a teensy thing, the cat said “less than three inches tall.”
The mouse family had invited their guest, who had promised them the moon.
They shooed the cat and the other gawkers away using a sixties tune....

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Left Both of My Shoes Behind

What should we say about my shoes;
How weird always are as they amuse;
Then off from toes shoes were taken;
Lost both and big mistake am making.

Away from me my shoes were shooed;
And his fact we will continue to allude;
After I found myself in a terrible bind;
Had left my right and left shoe behind.

This is why in a parade they say,
"Left, right, left and never leave
the left out or you out either for
that matter.

Jim Horn
....

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