Short Shrilly Poems

embarrassed ducklings
quack quack joylessly
mother shrilly squawks...

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shrilly she calls him
he stares blankly into space
again the call comes
he smiles while contemplating
what he might have for dessert...

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I took a thing that wasn't mine
I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway
an alarm is installed
it shrilly screams whenever the door is opened...

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Star struck or star stuck?
I visualize a star point piercing her forehead
Shrilly she shrieks and screams.
Is there a difference? She asks.
This question turns her into a unicorn.
The point is growing.
I see a dribble of blood and am pleased....

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Sometimes Sister Sarah seems subjugated
Sometimes she seems simply silly,
Sometimes she suddenly screeches shrilly
Sometimes she sounds sophisticated,
Sometimes Sister Sarah shrugs surreally.

written August 26, 2021
[playing with words when my muse
was stubbornly aloof!]...

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Susan Shuster swore she'd send       
Simple Scottie scampering.                   
"Scat, scat, Scott!" she shrilly shrieked,
"And stop that silly simpering."                
                                                                        
Simple Scottie scans the sky,
Sunday's sunset shimmering.                          
"Shame, shame on Sue," Scott softly sighs,  
"She'll share some sad remembering."...

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Superb the sounds of summer’s soliloquy
So sweetly singing the sparrow’s song,
Sometimes she sounds suddenly sonorous
Since startled sparrows sing shrilly strong,
Summer sounds so singularly sacrosanct
Swallows and swifts sing slow and soft,
Sailing skyward like sandpipers swinging
Standing, then, on solid sand sashaying
Soon sauntering, staying satisfied, sane,
Soothing summer sounds stolidly serene.

Written August 18, 2022...

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