Short Sprawled Poems

cat sprawled upon a wicker heirloom
perfect blend of humble and attitude,...

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December 29, 2014

sweet pea scent
her dolls still sprawled across room
bed unmade...

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Tommy was recalled
Cars throughout the playroom sprawled….
With lead chips she crawled...

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Coral bougainvillea for life
equal earrings , made of ruby
in the portals sprawled, wide
from Lisbon to Paris...

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Images dance of nudity and skin,
Sprawled and spread with legs wide open,
Tempting and sneering with hooks to bring you to hell along with him....

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I sat there for hours

Sprawled out on a carpet of green

Searching for a four leaf clover

NO LUCK!


Written by Gwendolen Rix
11-21-14...

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Nestled justly,
the thief he slumbers
sprawled spreadeagled 
upon my bed.
By witching hour
his deafening snore
drives one to ...

Lumbering lethargy....

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My date was sprawled nude on the floor
When cued by her mum through the door,
"You won't need to mop
If you are on top
So choose your position before!"...

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in that
shopping
cart,

tearing the
pavement
with riotous
laughter

even after
those wheels
caught that
crack

sending you
sprawled into
the pickled
night....

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“All night lover!” yes, that’s what she said
exhausted, we’re sprawled ‘cross the bed
but by my cellphone, 
twenty minutes had gone
- she was reading the clock upside down...

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Forlorn sprawled
on dawning lawn
as sunlight steals
dew breath fawn
learn has never lorned
and fol
............lowed
........................lowered
Forlorn
against lorn...

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Sprawled across the track
it lay like some stranded whale,
the dead tree,
centuries old, finally fallen.

No more summer breeze or winter winds,
Just so much wood to be dismembered,
gross, dead, silent and rotten....

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How anger steams the desert sand;
Dead bodies sprawled about the land, 
Beaks tear while cacti grimly stand.

Among the dead he is alive;
Devouring one-two-three-four-five,
Another fall - ten more arrive

October 2, 2014...

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Silence so dense it can be felt.
Shatter! Sudden devastation
Sprawled across a cement floor.
Sound reverberating seemingly forever.
Serene peace severed by
Selfish intention.

That's how it feels.

Chanté Walker
January 18, 2024...

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steps in veiled autumn
rose bushes sad crave for warmth
sprawled leaves create art

nature's spree over
glimmering streaks of light spread
on glorious fields

pumpkin patch dazzles
birds end yearly rendezvous 
time to fly back south...

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dew pearls crown beige grass
fawn meadow glows dawn’s luster…
Monet canvas sprawled

gilded leaves rustle
fall floating from tawny trees…
garden path on fire

on the blue hills far
silver tinged drifting clouds dance…
autumn charms my muse
...

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Bullets, they do rain
Down from the heavens
Have no doubt
Their fallen, engraven

With your name 
Sprawled 
Across the casing

Spent shells
Hit the ground
Ring out
Bells in repentence

Teflon coated 
Words of forgiveness 
Piercing the heart
Of those less dead...

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Dreams leak out of my mannequin head
My twisted plastic limbs are sprawled out on my bed
My expression ever frozen, in a dramatic pose
I'm not biodegradable but I want to decompose
A glue drop on my cheek to emulate a tear
I've been here 10 minutes or maybe 10 years...

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Biting my paws
as my other leg goes
Snufflle turns
to insect hunt
A noise deserves a bark
She moved i have to follow
Turn and turn
Perfect position found
sprawled on ground
Chasing everything in my dream
a whine before
a gentle hand gives comfort
a lick retort...

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there is something
about twilight ~
energy entangled
with light and love
wrapping the familiar
in shadow tied with a bow

nothing is there
in the bright lights ~
lethargy sprawled
not with light and love
but exposing the strange
with unwanted crystal clarity...

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Recalling Instances, Not Days
Written: by Tom Wright
8-30-2019

Time has handicapped my retention,
And entire days can’t be recalled.
But particular instances inside those days;
Still clamor for immediate attention,
From my past where they lie sprawled.
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My heart bleeds
Standing over myself
My heart bleeds
Red pools below 
Like a finger painting gone wrong
Blood everywhere 

Pictures lay out 
Smiling couple sprawled out on the floor
Silent from below
I’m not moving 
I’m alone now in this void 

It’s not suicide from a broken heart...

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Stately totems of the proudest tribe,
not as sleek as the evergreen pine...
the blood of the Sioux flows,
the carnage is a terrible loss.

Corps sprawled as harvested corn husks
that grew on prairies beneath huge rocks....
hear the wailing of violated women,
and the loud cry of hungry children....

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On a hot summer’s day nearly forty degree,
Ageing couple sprawled under an oak tree,
said she with a shy toothless grin,
“If you really wish I will let you sin”,
“No, my dear” he said “I prefer a cup of tea!”

1st placement 
Written 06/06/2020
Summer Laziness limerick contest
Sponsor Mohan C...

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electrum 

on a lovely night
he rode his golden horse
under moon and starlight dust
through fields of lush forest 
conifers, sweet honey and musk
blue jays singing in frenzy
into the first peek of daylight
sprawled, sensually 
a silvery dawn
green gold, electrum 

connie pachecho

2/9/17...

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