Short Stagger Poems

Imagination 
  Is a double edged dagger
         Makes my mind stagger...

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tails wag
  heads wager
tails steady
  heads stagger
tails are honest
  heads can lie
so I pick tails
  every time...

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Drunk on the fear of our own misgivings,
  we stagger and stray…
     —toward the sound of the piper

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)...

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you'd think they were daggers not drops
the way they hunch over and stagger
sprinting for cover- faces of pain
for heaven's sake people
it's only rain!...

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A Neapolitan Mastiff in Reno
Sometimes overindulges in vino
He’ll stagger and ramble
But will never gamble
Unless he stumbles into a game of keno

1/15/22...

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I took my date to see Mick Jagger 

But later she started to stagger

Said "I have some bad news"

Then she puked on my shoes

So I just decided to bagger...

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The crazy beliefs of Pythagoras
On beans and their fruits simply stagger us,
   But what he deduces
   Of hypotenuses
Still earns him the right to be swaggerous....

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??There once was a boxer named Hagler 
Whose foes were always left in a stagger
He put em all down
For the Middleweight Crown
This man was Marvelous Marvin Hagler??...

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Time is on my side says Mick Jagger
Yes it is and thus he can swagger
But here with disgust
We must clocks adjust
And in morning out of bed stagger...

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There once was a man who had swagger
When he drank seven pints of lager
He said "may I have this dance?"
Didn't know he'd peed his pants
So, home on his own he did stagger...

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Wildlife 12
Larry the lamb loved to frolic,
While the others were quite melancholic,
He would stagger and amble,
Then leap up and gambol,
Like a totally smashed alcoholic!...

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yet stagger up the narrow path,
incite just love no hatred  cast,
darkness can deny the truth,
stay focused on the light, do it, 
aloof there of the dark. 
Don...

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  Why does the phone weigh 800 pounds 
    when I pick it up to call an old acquaintance of mine

  I stagger and stammer and put the phone down
    anyway, he was probably out-of-town
...

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kno the feel when ya turn on heel,
 an stagger down the road,
talk to self aint got the wealth,
just freedom to seek with patience,

of "Alone again naturally,"
by  Sherese Gooden

Don...

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Embrace the beggar
Our heart pulse urges
Mind centric we stagger
No love within surges

Love a divine becoming
Unless mind & heart unite
Soul denied blossoming 
Delusion blocking the light...

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If walls could talk it would freak me out
That's really loopy, I'd just stagger about
Mumbling to myself
Question my mental health
Till they'd see it's me, then chuckle no doubt...

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Ladies of the Soup, you've unsagged my swagger
Worried for a while but I'm back to Jack Cracker
Struttin' my stuff
Nothin' but mush
Don't mean to brag, but when I'm done, ladies stagger...

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Self-driving cars are coming, they're not far off
Are we ready to trust them if we get into the sauce
If we stagger about
Holler and shout
Jump into the driver's seat and continue to froth...

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The abyss yawns and gapes,
Inside the blurry shapes
Of demons writhe and roll
And dance, upon your soul.
Beyond the inky space
Of Hell, there looms a space
Of silver stars, and blue
For you to stagger to....

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Bragger Who Would Stagger

Total amount of sins was enough to stagger;
About them Trump was boaster and bragger;
Publicly profane;
Hard to explain;
Destined for disaster yet he still did swagger.

Jim Horn...

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first blizzard falling
shining through oak tree bareness~
mule stagger on snow

written: December 04, 2022

Checked with hms.com: 5/7/5

Winter Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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I stumble and stagger through life's stony streets,
Trying to find my way as I steadily beat my feet.
It's simple to give in while lazing upon life's gurney.
Refusing to give up, I slowly continue on my journey....

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Off, Seamus marched with a swagger,
Yet, soon, he slowed, that sly lagger.
Then, not very far,
He snuck to a bar:
By noon, his march was a stagger.



March 17, 2017
Luck of the Irish Limerick Contest
Kim Merryman, Sponsor...

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credit the stone
that shapes your name




When The Mountains Flee

stagger the gold
that drowns the sea




At Close

disembark as the dust
into dark




O' Chastened Earth
May Your Counterstrike Rage




...

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Just stagger and swagger Myself onto a Dagger
Always makes me more the madder-
And my Mother none the sadder
Still I hear her softly crying,
All the while our Souls are sighing
In heavy breaths, so close to Death-
Upon the minutes dying......

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