Short Slinks Poems

Silently the sun slinks down over the horizon leaving passionate beauty in her wake.



12/05/2015...

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a silver fox slinks
its eyes glint sharper than steel---
swift as lightning bolt

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This was inspired by p.d.'s sponsored contest....

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Grim Reaper strolls in
Stands looking down at her face
She opens an eye
Then sits up in bed, scowling
Grim Reaper slinks off next door




Sunrise
Jack Horne

For my friend Janie...

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First he slinks off the field with a miss,
 so forlorn, then the chance to do this.
 Will we boo him to shame?
 Will we drink to his name?
 The ball is down. The kick is up! The kick is......

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The dog slinks past me
   a plea in its eye
bowed head upraised
   barely 

Turning toward me 
   piteously --

Snap! 
its collar is yanked back
   by its imperious master
Plea denied...

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July Fog

Fog
Slinks in,
Cloaks dawn’s smile
In July gloom
With platinum gauze ~
A foggy summer breath
Glistens on rows of sweet corn,
Kisses the vegetable garden,
As crickets chirp and bumblebees hum
In misty tunes of foghorn rhapsodies....

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~Sun Dancing~         

Bright yellow sparks glisten around the landscape
Sheer environment expose  
Warmth slinks down every step        
So--  Invigorating 
Spur-like rays muster in long light
The wolves wait to howl
Soon--Bunch of flowers 
Huddle in with sunlit love
Luminous rave  

By; pd...

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the silence shatters
in the back alleys of your mind,
a cat springs from a fire escape.
hitting the ground, she stumbles
near imperceptible,
revealing the last vestiges of kittenhood.
recovering herself, 
she slinks unnoticed through a doorway
shimmering, it disappears behind her;
the last way out....

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Monday, damp and gray, through alley slinks
  disturbs the peace with cursed work-week
Her chill invades my pillows and sheets
  noxious fumes from asphalt streets

I wrap myself in blankets tight
  clinging to what's left of night
Against my relentless, ringing foe
  ~ at alarm clock's crow, to work I go...

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No beliefs except the unworthy,
A thuggish frame without a mind
Growing reeds with his father's seeds,
No thoughts except the unkind.
Idle Prince on wicker Olympus,
Stroll down and inherit your Earth.
The risen dead may come and see
The King of human stock,

While he slinks stinging,
To another room,
A Cinna....

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He brings seashells to the seashore.
She sells shells and a whole lot more.
He surfs on highs of the sky in pictures of memories of times that are past.
She slinks by him over hill and dale and lays her days in fields of grass.
He thinks he'll never be worthy of her time and energy.
She sees him and purely wants them to simply be....

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A cold night on a dim lit back street
slinks a demon you don't want to meet

He is looking for a specific kill
for someone that forgot to pay their bill

His boss does not give mercy to any
even if one is only short a penny

So remember not to ever get a loan from the devil
because he does not take kind to those who do not settle...

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There's this feral cat
who knows just where it's at
when he wanders off for late-night prowlin'.

Sixth Street and Fisher Trail
no better place for tail
he slinks up licked clean and growlin'.

The young fluffy things call him “my little pita”
but his wife knows he's nothin' but a has-been ol' cheetah
and she gets the last laugh.  He thinks she's out bowlin'!...

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octobre slinks forth
        relinquishing heat-scorched earth ~
                salacious summer

enflamed leaves embracing
        dalliance with wilder winds ~
		erotic fall tryst

hoary trees exposed
        brazenly displayed bosom ~
                scandalous winter

new bulbs gamboling
         commoved carefree canoodling ~
		warm sassy spring...

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Demon of The Shadows
In darkness looms a shadowy figure, 
A demon theif of joy and delight,
It slinks behind our backs and whispers sinister word, 
Bidding us to see through its eyeholes instead.
As we stumble through life's labyrinth,
Chasing after dreams that seem too far, 
This creatures creeps, growing bolder, darker, 
Until our would becomes an endless night....

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footprints in the snow
a brave black cat slinks forward ...
bird chase him chirping 

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April 04, 2022


Poetry/haiku/brave black cat
Copyright Protected, ID 04-1445-494-04
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France


Written for the Premier contest, Black Cat Haiku
sponsor, Robert James Linguori, Judged 04/07/2022

Fourth Place...

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Listen to poem:

From crashing waves he emerges with the clarity of a wide landscape
The king of darkness
Parades
In full view
His garish, monochrome ego
Emergent for all to despise

Original poem (extract):

"Into the ripples of the horizon's haze
The queen of the daylight
Slinks
Then is gone
Her wispy train of colour
Vanishing"

[From Poem: Sunset, Sam Scott 14.09.23]



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He Slinks Over The Links

He raced to the first golf hole, par he winks
Three wild shots later a turkey gobbles
Cuss words escape his lips, as his drives stink 
Another dying duck's hit, as his legs wobble
Ploop, another drink of the pond, how awful 

connie pachecho

8/12/17


Inspired after reading entries to-Write about an activity as if you are doing it at the moment...

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A rooster struts, an eagle soars,
A caterpillar inches;
A dolphin leaps, a panther slinks,
A crab, if bothered, pinches.

A farmer reaps, a tailor sews,
A chef sautés and seasons;
A dentist drills, an artist paints,
All with their private reasons.

My husband vacuums and he cooks
To keep his psyche going,
While I write rhymes so I’ll recall
Which way the wind was blowing....

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He haunts the back streets
  hugging the sides of buildings
Unseen, unfelt, unloved
  a statistic in a dusty cabinet file

Raising up on sole-less shoes
  He sneaks a view from the alley
ice on every windowpane
  conversations mixing with steam

He slinks to the edge of town
  to the bridge o'er the rushing river
Would God care if he took his life ~
  his lips involuntarily quivered...

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In my sky
stale sun slinks slow,
blazing
still life’s stalled time,
slinging like dark cloud,
casts pensive
shadow
on dim day,
destined
to find soon
the night fall
through the twilight shroud.
With hope to see stars shine
I
wait at edge of dusk.

May 13, 2020
Syllable count : 3,4,2,4,5,3,2,3,2,3,3,5,6,1,5
Contest : Pick-A-Title, Vol 17-Yalto
Sponsor : Edward Ibeh...

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Near the belching
condensate tanks
off the interchange,
slinks a mammal
with abnormal need

to find a blind
with water to drink
and flapping fish to eat
instead of concrete.

He sheds a scowl
under the amber glow
of buzzing sodium lamps
until veins gather force
like throbbing tributaries

that course from a source
pure in flexing purpose;
despite how we deprive
he drives to survive....

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Lithospherical clunking, zest of our navel

Tumultuous melt, fizz ridden obliquitous

Inestimably stemming, trunking, branching

Exaspergrasping for equichosis,  ecliptic apotheosis

We shimmer and charade as though dwelt in strobe

Inscribing the vitroglyph, micro slinks to macro

Then back again

I sit lotus, perfecting the interlocking polygonoids of this scape

I resonate and learn over a new sheaf

A Palm Map....

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A reluctant dawn
predicts a heel dragging day.

The sun slinks away from the sky
with dawn cast eyes.

Pond ducks swim slow,
as amnesia paddles them
in nowhere circles.

Lead tinted tears,
plop from stiff trees,
or hang as chill,
metallic drops of
melting air.

Some early hours
must drip-dry
all over your eyes
creating a lip-heavy
sag,

until someone
you don't like the look of,
shouts:
"Good morning,"


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Each morning brings another day to live, fulfill...

	the promise of that glowing sun and fresh air scent.

		Yet, deep below the hope, it slinks with creepy skill...

the fear of dark and death...life's slithering portent.


January 10, 2019

For Contest, "Explaining Sophie", sponsored by Julia Ward

My poem was inspired by the quote :
"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell
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