Short Staccato Poems

my breath of air ~ fresh and cool ~ from staccato raindrops...

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Staccato and tart,
blueberries on the Steinway;
Juice inflames the keys....

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Time tickling backbeat
Staccato notes warping air
Jazz like loose feathers...

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Pound Return SpaCE CAPS LOCK
Rapidfire staccato from the keyboard
Smack whrrrr
Jack strrrr
Click, pitter, save...

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Poet Gertrude Stein
had a staccato style quite fine
She also became a Cubist
& with prose poetry for a while did persist...

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Surly songs 
Played by hungry men
Plucking staccato roots
Spotted chords of dried dearth
Cleansed in strummed pots of boiling verse...

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Frosty breath dancing

  An ice-staccato sashay

      ~ Rhythm's explosion


Entry in "A Succinct Treat" contest
   Sponsor: Michelle Faulkner...

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My pen sings in notes
Of cotton and steel as a
Page fills itself with,
Bands of delightful colors
Sung in four-four staccato....

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Jan's Vicar loves raspberry art*
As much as an hot apple tart
But Jan is the judge
So give her a nudge
When the horse blows before the cart!

*aka  Flatulence staccato...

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Buttery notes melt; run across strings of nylon; a song is born.
Staccato tap dance; leaping tones, echo each heel and toe tap.
The beauty of a classical guitar song, rides the air....

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Patient fingers skillful  
Play ballerina notes
Press of staccato keys
Performing thousand rhythms
Poignant and sweet octaves
Pristine tinkling of chords
Practice bass and treble...

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Jack Russell sings sharp—
two barks for each passing bike
he would love to chase.
Droning wheels tease and roll on
from chained dog’s staccato song.

May 24, 2016
Traditional Tanka Contest...

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Translucent wings keeping time
to crickets staccato notes-
a blue glitter-bug in flight-
dragonfly dancing


6-27-2021
Bite Size Poem no.9 Poetry Contest
Line Gauthier...

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robin in full swing
raps staccato beats on ground ~
earthworm feels the vibes



Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Dear Heart
Written and posted : 22.05.19...

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Hear the keyboard’s staccato concerto,
an unacknowledged music whose echo
is known intimately by dull, bored minds.
Offices, which shut out the light with blinds,
hum with rhythm as background to life’s show....

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 Staccato tantrum,
Mother Nature’s jackhammer, 
doing overtime.

The notes are missing their staff; 
floating aimlessly upon the wood.

There’s nothing quite so musical,
as the woodpecker.

...

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sea breezes
have no interest
in 
political winds

staccato cicada chatter
pays no heed
to
chatty gossip

wild leeks
don't choose
the
soup of the day

if they could,
would anyone listen?...

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thoughts

become a

tapestry of words

when well spoken

or dabbed

in staccato strokes

like the oil brush

of an artist

on canvas

crave the gentle

caress of words

like the intimate

touch of woman...

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Starry nights extol classical
staccato hues as hawthorn winds
pronounce timbers as magical.
Starry nights extol classical
violins sway as magical
sentinels praising summers’ end.
Starry nights extol classical
staccato hues as hawthorn winds....

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She pauses, slender figure poised on
slenderer heels,

five inches of coquetry
ready to duet with
fifty feet of parquetry,

play a wicked staccato on
dinner-jacketed libidos.

Then she pushes open the double door
to find a newly carpeted floor....

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the pyrotechnic poet explodes in
staccato bursts of precise persephonifications
punctuated by poignant phylacteries
felicitously filleting egregiously erroneous assumptions
accepted by the masses intently exercising
freedom from thought...

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hanging on the hinges the door
is a broken tongue choked
pulsing taste all over the floor.
staccato whisper i murmur
'no' in reply, can't find the exit
in the sky but it won't hurt to
try. removed face, disgraced
erased & redrawn with no eyes
- gone with sunrise....

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I dreamt I was a butterfly
Or was I
A butterfly dreaming

Floating, fluttering
In delightful staccato 
Up, up, down
Up, up, down

Bouncing, flittering

Dreams of spreading wings
Enrapture flowing
Free, fascinating

My soul
Enchanted

My heart 
Entranced...

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Wild, ecstatic, frivolous roses,
Haphazardly draping in staccato pink
The grassy embankment.
Bubbling, gleeful, like so many corsages
On fresh-faced girls at a
High school prom.
Cheerful, radiant, intricate charms,
Proffering subliminal messages
Of joy and hope rekindled....

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And the chorus echoes back
A thousand raised shouts 

To the pitter-pink staccato rhythm
The e-journal gets passed on

And Maestro's changed the score
Crying 'cause the celestial performers shone back for a curtain call

Stars erupting into applause shining taking extra time...

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