Short Shush Poems

fern bamboo lodge
calcium hurray
mushroom basket shush!...

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shush... can you hear that? 
listening to the silence 
that is awareness...

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The last bus has left
It hurts, all you give is shush
A deep relief heft....

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Murmurs of autumn

Shush your conscience fake headlines

Nature’s bartering...

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She tippy-toed
           past the two texters 
   ~ Did they ask her to shush me?...

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Baby, Shhh
Close Your Eyes
And Hear Me Whispering In The Wind
Im Your Lullaby At Night
Sending You Love 
Like Its The Most Fashinable Sin...

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I caught a quick peek through the Veil
Where angels guide us without fail
I saw my friends
Were bucking trends
Its "human" race Beyond the Pale!...

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There was a pilot called bush
Who flew by the seat of his tush,
   His job was so tricky
   That he listened to dicky
And silenced his critics with shush!...

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Stop!
Oh weeping heart!
Shed no tears for him,
Deserter of love,
Run-away fool...
You deserved better!
Shush now!
There will be another sunrise!


Cynthia...

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When I went out this morning,
I heard two robins somewhere singing.
Then, I heard them in a bush;
One said to the other: Shush...
our unhatched babies are laughing....

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Though contests may pique you,
Judges critique you.
Challenges push you;
Naysayers shush you.
Rhythms confine you;
Poems define you.


Ilene Bauer
for David Williams' Twenty-Twenty Contest...

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HAIKU

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shush... antelope... keen
lion pride prostrate... sleeping
thirst... a chance to quench

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#quench, #thirst, #lions, #antelope...

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Inhale the night. 

Let darkness seep into thy soul
and silence soliloquoys
soothe thy sorrows
but shush the susurruses.
They are but 
slithering splinters.

Seek thy sang froid 
in traces of the night....

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Shush...Did you hear that? 
Stifled pleads gesture forward
Cameras, blind us
from penetrating bright light
No one calls, simply records

Contest theme: Shush...Did you hear that?
Sponsored by Anthony Slausen
09/14/2018...

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Don't SHUSH me,
      Don"t PUSH me,
Don't and RUSH me,

   to the point, that I feel you are going to AMBUSH me.
And then turn around; and drop me in the BUSH.
      For if try to do that, I will CRUSH you, until there's no more of you....

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Silence, when fills my mind,
random words tend to make sentences. 
Sentences seldom having an actual reason to be made at all. 
Do they?? No. Then why do they spawn.?
To shush the loud silence that birthed them all.



Bite size poem no.43...

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Unzipping an overripe banana,
fingers squished into redolent shush,
black skin dripping off the soft stem.

I might have to eat this with a spoon,
a banana is a berry,
I think of this
as I wipe sticky lips,
and taste that time-sweetened wine....

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Girl
Baby
Born last month
To brother’s wife
An ocean of joy to grandma,my mom

Were you so glad Ma, when my son was born
I dared to ask
Teasing her
Just for 
Fun

Shush!
Stop it
Silly girl
Gulp down envy
She chided me like I was ten years old

Written on:07/15/2016...

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World keeps to turn on,
we are born and die,
dawn comes as night ends.
death reigns in all spots
of this poor, old land.


Time takes big paces,
we don't learn parts,
in things that change
the world and life


My minds stuck,
hands are tied,
they are quiet


Tell me
what's right

Shush!...

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Close my eyes
Don't say a word
Shush my cries

Whispers in my ear
Trembles down my spine
Behold, drops a tear

Unwanted hands caress
Sickening my spirit
Feeling under repress

Dream about morality
Run from my fears
Think of sanity

Dart away from this
Sweat drips
Suppress that kiss...

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The sparrow hawk is so near dear!
Shush, shush, or, he will surely hear.

Yes, yes, you are a rare beauty
with a fine voice, a real cutie. 

Enough tweeting, be silent please,
we’ve a nest full of babies, geez!
 
My sweet song bird, I’ll free your beak,
if you would only shush, don’t tweet!...

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Hush now child
don't say a word
because if you do
you wont be heard

So shush now child
lay down your head
shut your eyes 
in your soft bed

So sleep now child 
hide from the sun
dance with the moon
your day is done

Hush now child
don't say a word
lay down your head now
forget it hurts....

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There was a young mother from Maine
Whose children were really a pain.
They cared not a rap
That she needed a nap,
So she drove them all out in the rain.




Written around Deborah Guzzi's poem "Shshshsh ma is Sleeping" for her contest.

Sorry Deborah.  No way would I try to correct your poetry.  9th place...

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Sleep is as far as Neptune.
Rings of deception.
Some planets move slowly.
When the lights are off…
It feels like space is too close.
Asteroids and comets.
A whooshing sound.
I close everything.
Outer space gets shoved in my closet.
Stars under the bed.
Shush, everyone.
It’s 5:00 am.
And the universe is comfortable again....

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The cardinal saw the rose
 puff in rosy self praise and pride
It chimed beating its own drums
exultant about its beauty
The cardinal retorted 
Hey, don't blush in vain 
just hush and shush with that vanity 
for I'm just as ruddy red.
Besides I can fly
with my head held high 
The rose never nodded
The cardinal waited for no reply....

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