Short Slalom Poems

Slalom, serpentine or straight 
Your course need only approach your goal 
Although important is the rate
To a noble bourne, it is not the soul...

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With faith and hope I tackle the tricky course of my life.

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9th December, 2015
Contest: One Liner 4
Sponsor: Silent One
Placed 2nd...

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The day is dawning with a prediction of flurries
Nay nay I say, it's too early, I'm getting damn worried
The leaves haven't fallen
Not time for a slalom
It'll be here soon enough, it don't need to get hurried...

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Snowy week whitening the slalom slope
Keenly waited for the sleek ski to grope
Inspired by maddening sense of sliding speed
I raced, found my frosted feet suddenly freed
Nailed in snow they couldn’t track the ski’s trail
Gone soaring with the glacial gale into the dale. 

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January 21, 2023
Contest : Skiing
Sponsored by : Julia Ward...

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Raised Iron works
thrust out of the blacktop.
Women-hole covers
appear; the tip of the spear
above new drilled silos.

Rubber slugs concrete.
Debora steers her way
through a slalom of
gender specific movements.

The road bucks under
her taught belly,
while fingers push
a wheel through
a video game maze.

Long laboring feminists
under hard hats
are digging her,
so she just smiles -
tries to relax....

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Heart throbbing, euphoric,
like a giant slalom skier
the river gushes down
winding its reckless way
round obstacles and blind corners
unawed by imposing mountains
till it finally comes to the end
of its dizzy, breathless run
where the shimmering ocean waits 
with eager yet patient anticipation.

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Contest: Standard No 100
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Placed 1st
© 23rd May 2018...

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