Short Stalls Poems

Pilot
practices stalls
over town...

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eggs turning lumpy cold pale moon coughs morning stalls out...

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Weather pattern stalls
it suffers from inertia
no blue penetrates...

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The check-out line stalls

   ~ Frustration's ~

  A price check on rice...

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The libido falls -

        Like many of the great walls -

                As performance stalls....

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grim   reaper  calls  on  
 busy  scraping souls  today  
 doctor  stalls  awhile ...

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Market stalls laden

with history: indigo,

red ochre and turmeric,

pungent and bright –

jewellery around her neck....

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snow white doe stalls in the headlight of days —
                                                golden chariot awakes

9/7/2020...

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sweet  strewn cedar shavings
Layered bedding soft in stalls
Raked and forked daily
With tender compassion 
Companion care for a horse...

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Fate the end game
time is fleeting
Moments pass
hate unleashing
Choices lost
reason stalls
Darkness calling
—hell enthralled

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)...

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Ocean waves,
palms sway,
shells in the sand,
hand and hand

Walks on the beach
solemn peace
sunset falls
time stalls

Frozen in the moment
picture perfect...

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Different birds,
  the same call

Time frozen,
  the hour stalls

Mother earth,
  bastard son

Nature flees,
 —damage done

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Front-line in depth of mortar
Whistling shells and screams of torture
Blood clot gurgles death bell tolls
Hell of pain in body enthrals
Danger rings apprehension stalls...

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My breath it stalls
in a moment of space and time 
held captive grace 
under the starlight twinkle we kiss
igniting the heat 
of a thousand suns 
lovingly touching divine...

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He left today, no kiss goodbye, no reason why. I should've known with the late night calls and the question stalls the increasing I'll be home late had probably sealed our fate....

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a Christmas market

with its stalls packed all together

blue stripes mainly

and hype mixed up with carols

we won't miss it when it's gone





12/25/2015...

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Sitting in the cheap seats
God listens and never interrupts
In audience participation god sucks
As the curtain falls
beyond the stage
rows of empty stalls
For none a last encore...

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After midnight
the pendulum stalls
Chimes to deaden 
as darkness calls
A clanking chain
the haunt begins 
Till daylight threatens
—the shadows dim

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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These dogs must be females, you know

As we during breaks at a show

For stalls, wait in line-

Men in and out fine!

Not fair when we gals gotta go!
...

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I had a dog that loved playing in the stalls
What ever he found the little bugger mauls
Until one day
I taught him a new game to play 
Now he is content to just lick me Sidney Halls...

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on  stalactite  tip  
 droplet to let drop; or  not
 a stalagmite stalls


Note: A stalaCtite grows from the Ceiling

         A stalaGmite grows from the   Ground...

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Mice, rats, winter day clouds, coats, shawls.
Gray pants, tunics, bugles play calls.
Horses neigh for action hate stalls.
Ride hard brave scout.
Paint on iron battleship hulls
make rust stay out....

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Travel …
strange bedfellows
made of us all
Crossing
the threshold
hesitancy stalls
Calling us
forward
the moment attacked
Hiding
our fortunes
—the future on track

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Jumbled means in quite a mess
Just like my mind in distress
Jump says my brain at cliffs edge
Judgement stalls this death I pledge*



*Last line kindly supplied by Tim Smith


Penned 20 March 2017...

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Wispy clouds change shape and the earth rotates
clouds break apart then regroup
a cool breeze signals fall

Though the world is in motion, my life stalls
no changes in sight today
nor tomorrow; if ever?...

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