Short Squeezes Poems

Sadness interferes with life
In me it muses
I feel the power of hurt
And it squeezes out
Saddened heartlessness

Russell Sivey...

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Hipperity hipperity hop
bunny so full he could pop  
squeezes down his hole
bumping into mole
who gave his ear a sound wop...

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Immediately upon entering the house 
she squeezes her husband’s hand and sighs
for she can see so many future memories
unfolding before her eyes....

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A girl searched for the perfect fit
But found men quite the opposite
Whether tight or loose
They all love a noose
That squeezes for a little bit...

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Sensual Haiku

With a lump of clay
Her hands erected a vase
Sensual flowers.

Experienced fingers
Squeezes the cow’s teats tenderly
A dreaming milkmaid....

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HE WHO LAUGHS LAST*

tears cling to eye lash
infliction of mock laughter
the heart squeezes closed

Kim Rodrigues ©2017


*See about poem...

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A dozen red roses
bleed into rainwater
that trickles down like streams
through cracked pavement.
Pain squeezes
at her fractured heart,
its contents slowly oozing 
into her body,
like red rivers....

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Two Old Flames

Holding Hands In The Park

Always Together


He gives Her A Rose.

Sixty Years With Her A Joy,

He Is Thankful For.


She Squeezes Him Tight.

Kissing Him On The Cheek,

And Never Regrets....

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He holds his little
boy's hand so tight,
that there is no fear 
of losing him again,
after so long

The boy, 
no longer little 
looks down and squeezes
back, tighter
and thinks

Fear no longer, Daddy 
I'm home...

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I HATE how it squeezes
It unnerves and freezes
Blood pounds through the arm
Setting off my alarm
Read her face like a book
(The nurse has that look)
"It's high to the max"
"Just try to relax!"
"You're close to a stroke"
(Lord, I need a smoke)...

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Saying nothing I have said,
That love has said it all.

A crushing hand, that
Squeezes on my heart.

I remember nothing else
An ember nor a spark.

Saying nothing I have said,
That love has said it all.

James McLain Sunday, April 26, 2020...

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Guilt knaws at my stomach,
And worries my heart.
It wraps around my throat
And squeezes harshly,
Stealing the breath 
Right from my lungs.
Unease settles somewhere
Deep in my core,
An aching fear of secrets 
that may not make it
to the grave....

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my muse -

departed …

sometimes reality squeezes you dry,

and breathes you away with the dust …

words, beings, cadences,

the gists of the gloaming -

gone …

so …

just write.









Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, April 12, 2023...

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Light and airy summer breezes
Make short shrift of springtime sneezes,
Warm and thoughtful gentle squeezes
Undo ill-tempered moody freezes,
A welcomed smile much tension eases
If we would always do what pleases. 

Written May 27, 2022...

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G  ut wrenching sobs
R  ip you apart
I  ntense pain squeezes your heart
E  ntrenched in the gloom where only death blooms
F elled by the tune from the Grim Reapers harp

.                            ~~~~~

Written:  Feb. 10, 2006
My first attempt of an Acrostic...

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the horizon sometimes darkens
squeezes the air
in fact,own connected to
let's change our sea

when the wind blows hard
a horrific view
the roofs are flies
sought refuge
let's change our sea

last words are heavy
nobody wants to hear
in your shoes I
let's change our sea...

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Perhaps...

Life in peril

The arctic sun never sets
Ice thickness recedes

Global warming squeezes
Grandma's smile

Her friend, the Polar Bear, dies
Her cup of tea....cold

Hold the rocks you believe
Never let go their grasp

In time, no one remembers


            no one

                         remembers...

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to be in love is a joy 
I am just a man 
not a boy
she graduated me to manhood
her loving is so good
she loves me too
the way she should
tender kisses in the morning
just to wake me up 
hugs and squeezes in my coffee cup
she makes my day 
at night when the lights are down low
she holds me tight 
the woman is right
the one for me...

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My squeezes
And
I feels

My'z dukes lock together
their digits in union
clutch

My throat
the subjugated uv 
my thump'n
flump'n heart
Lumps up

my'z eyne
puffed
beating
forcing the little left
salty wet
out
clouding mine i'z
look

my  
hurts

unto mine depths
i
hurts

unto this flooding
cry



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You have three hands; the third hand is the heart,
it squeezes and lets go, grabs and releases.

The heart that is a hand
pummels you from the inside when you fall in love,
it does not like to be ignored.

If you fall for another,
you had better let that hand in your heart
know that it’s the best of all hands
or it will forever let go and dump you....

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Protecting one's good name
Not a kid's easy card game.
Who does climbs towards fame,
Who squeezes it buys shame;
The picture not the same....

Better one an old dame,
Clinging to her good name
Than princess of just blame
In morals badly lame
One's good name is one's flame;
Really, the thing men claim. 
Thus, you must n't it maim;
Remain - not wild - the tame!...

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May this Sopping Drop Undour Your Hour
Ephemeral Firefly Flash Teases,
Dark, Cold, Cloud Rain Squeezes,
Sizzling Seasonal Heat Deceases,
Your Joyful Hued Plantsies,
Raise Little Petal Handsies,
To Happy Birthday Lindsey!
This Rhyme Making You Queasy?
It's Nearly Over, Rest Easy,
Dennis, Dan, Peter, & All, Will Relieve You Peacely,
From these Verses Rise Yeastly!...

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in the moldy dank depths
of my thoughts
in the cellar of my
imprisonment
the prison of my mind,
my thoughts,
hope flits like a moth’s wing
against the scorching glass
of my lamp of light	,
my light of hope,
my lightness of being.

yet the darkness sits like a weight
-	an entire house above
the cellar
and seals in the dampness
and squeezes
it out of my eyes...

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White clouds rose shining coughs in morning lamps phlegm squeezes thoughts weary 
coffee mugs stain teeth flaking bones throb sermons pounding on ghosts open doors 
hallways fill whispered names kiss lips lost letters smear ink rain beats windows thunder 
awoke after midnight lightning struck sleep drifting in and out of eyes sunken beds groan 
and moan dreams toss and turn till dawn...

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Pepe Le Pew
Quest for love he would always pursue
But his over enthusiastic romantic way
Is rejected by a skunk look alike who keeps running away.


Penelope Pussycat
Smothered in kisses and squeezes she would always combat
A black cat with an accidental painted white stripe 
Penelope knew she wasn't that type.


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