Short Small Talk Poems

I grasp onto
Your every word
But I am afraid
You let mine go...

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Hope you'll think of me

Because even if you don't

I will think of you...

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if you run out of
interesting things to say,
smile and make small talk....

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Ever
in a hurry,
missing unsaid worry-
hearing words spoken but never
listening...

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you're pretty my dear
make small talk ~ why yes sweet cheeks
too long make shorter...

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Quiet sober love 
rises with the morning Sun;
Unspoken desire 
lingers from the night before;
Small talk has found the silence....

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Quick with the small talk;
Surrounded by attention,
still you stand alone;
Your broken heart in your eyes;
Do you see me? I see you....

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Predictable
Weather or not
Small talk
When the oceans stop
All bets will be off


12/3/2019
Predictable Poetry Contest 
Sponsor Nina Parmenter...

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Hurting Small Talk

Sometimes gossip sprouts
Sowing deceptive stories.
Seeming true, but not—

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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Sixteen unique individuals
sit on sixteen washing machines.

As they make small-talk
they stare at sixteen dryers, all in a row
chugging and churning to the same hum....

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Frost and Thoreau were going for a walk.
Frost said I can make a poem from a sock.
Thoreau laughed hard
At this braggish bard
Published a poem from this crazy small talk....

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A US born painter was Albert York
preferred action to small talk
American vanitas was his style*
small,minimal lacking guile

*http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-york/...

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F ar from free are we.
R emoved from society.
E ntirely caught up.
E mailing and texting.

T urn off your phone.
E xchange small talk.
X and hug each other.
T ouch reality....

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a tender smile
brings rapport,
a seesaw thrill
releases
        a tense tang,
a humorous
             aside
banishes dread,
reminences
     flood memory
         with delight...

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I nod my head and smile again
The burning creases brand my skin
A scar I will forever wear
There's nothing left to talk about
Pretend to hear; pretend to care
I fear my words have all run out....

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The truth of life 
Is hidden in your small talks 
Now look at the views 
On the photo how peaceful it is 
For today's running time 
It becomes emotional 
To stay among the loved ones and talk....

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elephantine small talk - vibrations of  the sole


inspired by Shell Wildlife Photo Comp Great Foot by Kur tJay Bertels

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/photo.do?
photo=2336&category=50&group=1 Bertels...

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Listen to poem:

(Another childhood or teen years poem.)

Newsprint small talk
in Mediocrity's lead pot
rustles and gossips while,
splashed spectacularly across
the speckled page of
Society's intellect,
a murder making column one
hides the hushed massacre
of minds....

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I have longed for a visitor, to knock upon my door                                                     
and indulge me with stories,
from another shore.
Someone with whom,I may wile away the hours,                                                     
conversing about life...
not just the rain showers...

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Inside I’m an emerald empath 
Now I can be myself at home
Teal reveals my polite laugh
Ready to red reveal if not alone
Onyx opinions kept close to chest
Violet dimensions personal preference 
Every party is like a pop test
Rendezvous with raspberry reference
Thankful for small talk and concession...

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Listen to poem:

Small Talk Delayed 
David J Walker

The days dawn falling in 
Uncertain brokenness 

Strangeness 
came in waves 
of multicolored
Cool sunrays 

Nothing would be the same
		He said
But nothing ever is 

Instead 
	Of small talk delayed

The gardener went about 
his business
Pruning the garden...

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small talks
on long walks
reminds me of love
enjoying the view
with a lover
puts my mind at ease
small talks 
on long walks
taking in 
the summer breeze
writing our names
in the sand
praying they won't wash away
like on a driveway with chalk
if there's one thing 
i enjoy with you
it's small talk
on a long walk...

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GYNECOLOGIST



Grappling to make small talk:

     “Good morning,” he begins.

          “Gee, I like your cute socks”

               Good grief don’t speak to me…

                    Gaining back my pale face

                         Gynecologist gaff!


12/2/2016
Pleiades G Contest
Sponsor – Kim Merryman

True Story!...

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*Z - Zelensky
*P - Putin


Z - "I've signed mines."
P - "Mines as well."
Z - "Then shall we."

P - "To our dinners."
Z - "Hope it's not Borscht."
P - "Could be, Dim Sum."
Z - "Mayhaps, Sushi"

P - "How was your dinner?"
Z - "The hot water need ..."
P - "... More salt, I agree."
Z - "Oh, you've washed your hands."
P - "Of the whole matter."...

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oh my, you're splendid
like a fern growing backwards 
„you hack writer“
you're a castellanus at 9 PM
after the dinner rich in miracles
hate re-living the mundane moments
over 
   and over 
           and over 
                   and over

so sick of the everyday small talk.
still magnetized by the oddities.
this is the right way, not vice versa....

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