Short Shortly Poems

Work  still in progress...will be completed shortly....

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If ever you feel lonely, just watch a scary horror movie.
You won't feel alone anymore very shortly....

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Strange show of heavenly objects
shortly, one in another’s way
unusual solar display to Earth.
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When disco was at its peak, I learned The Hustle dance.
Shortly after disco died, I don't think it was a coincidence....

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Henri Matisse
became a person of interest to the local police
when he painted La Dance
they suggested he plan to shortly leave La France....

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Klagen werden laut
Die Sonne verfinstert sich
Kurz vor der Abendröte


Raising sounds of wailing 
The sun grows dark 
Shortly before sunset...

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In the beginning was the bird
Shortly thereafter dropped a turd
It fell in Eve's hair
She roared like a bear
But Soup Censors heard the F-word...

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ALEXA-manna vanna
auburn beauty-
sumptuous clothes,
in a stunning pose

twelve raphaelite cartoons will appear shortly @ 
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When my personal muse is shortly missing
And there are no deep thoughts of my own
I translate favorite poetry pieces
From Russian for the world to bestow....

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He sits in wonder of the night
the moon, the stars, all shining bright 
a wish he makes
her hand he takes
shortly, his dreams will be in sight...

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Men* shall shortly find out for sure
Dogs are more human and mature.
1.30.'21

* An innocent, saint, or prophet
Is not a man on the market.


No comments, please!...

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The books are open
to us who fatten
mice into pigs

even tho' u limp, brethren
crawl to the ward
take seat in the arena

shortly,
curtains will part
To you : Be brutal!...

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Within me,
Strength.
I feel it now.

How wonderful.

I feel its potential.
Driving me
To better myself.

How funny.

That this should come,
Shortly after
The trigger....

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Sherry played a Cherry wood flute
shortly after she put down the lute.
the bands wildest little flirt
wearing those short flowered skirts
now the tuba points straight at her boobs....

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It was a close-knit town hostile to strangers
that lost its citizens for imagined dangers.
Move-ins were rejected
and to threats subjected.
Shortly the population was two park rangers....

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LOVE

a one word monstich after IHF 's example 

This monostich is from my kindle ebook LOVE a word from the Lord being published shortly on Amazon

hear  my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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along time ago 
a man once told me
i was to die

he told me 
he'd kill me
watch me bleed

stand over me
and laugh
licking my life off the blade

i didnt beleive him
till he took his life
and shortly 

i folowed...

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With red and purple sunset
melting into blackened sky

The hummingbirds have bedded down
and shortly so shall I

As crickets sing their lullaby
into a dream I fall

The things of night begin to stir
at moonlight's beck and call...

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Wallowing waters slap the brutal realization of my lover's secret plan
As the wiry sparking winds ignite a fire shortly lived
As a whirlwind of rain drowning fear agonizing pain
Paints an empty fortress of a river running away...

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Initially, it seems a-plenty...
    Alas, the game comes down to this:
        the glass half-full is shortly empty;
            the ales imbibed just turn to piss.

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H/T to Mike Gentile's A Drinking Man's Think...

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What follows are two 'vertical' Monokus

the frost
 comes as snow
without cloud, 
bringing brilliance
 to the 
dawn

shortly
it will
rise up
into blue sky, 
a soft vapor 
in the 
breeze...

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Not of age to bear fruit
the young fig prayed ablazen.
When I mature
make mine so supple
that every man will praise them.

Shortly after she bore fruit
Her fate became a dire.
Her dreams were bent and broken down
by those whom did admire....

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Tears
of stone
encompass
unheard silent
groans


Seated Youth by Wilhelm Lehmbruck
He committed sucide shortly after the end of WW1

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TEMPUS     FUGIT



In a short life why must men be grave?  We must all be grave men  shortly.


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Entered in David Williams’s Chiasmus   Competition...

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An exceptional young man from the Old Dominion
Was in love with his most overrated opinion
He spouted the verse and chapter
But collapsed shortly thereafter
Because he met up with a savvy West Virginian.

written August 11, 2021...

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