Short Skyrockets Poems

Short Arms Limerick
By Tom Wright
10-5-2019

I had a best friend facing two court dockets,
Judge said pay your fines or trouble skyrockets.
Then it came to light,
This man wasn’t tight,
“He just had short arms and deep pockets”
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Ascending from a fertile earth
The graceful Willow flaunts it's birth
Toward the sky it's branches rise
Like skyrockets in disguise

Then bursting with a  rockets flare
Creating star bursts in the air,
They gently fall back toward  the ground
And weep without a sound


Bob Quigley
Sept 30, 2011

Dedicated to Andrea Dietrich who, if she were a tree, would like to be a willow....

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beyond reasonable doubts
behind rabid regrets
beneath a bleeding world
below bombing cyclones
between raging atmospheric rivers

I slide around in a pit of digital snakes
I track my disintegrating limbs
I observe flashing lights rushing to disasters
I ruminate over lost causes
I persevere without purpose

the End is neighing
the horses are noisy
the noise is hoarse
the sky is raging
the rage skyrockets

This too shall pass
This too shall become gas...

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