Short Stay Put Poems

One foot 
Stay put

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Stuck in a rut? Punch it right in the gut

  For if you stay put, in that rut you will rot...

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Ice about to touch my bones.
Fear from the years before,
keep me stay put for yet another year....

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By the bypass
Monologue
Stay put
Like a still mosaic
What is detrimental?
I am spinning 360 degrees
The whacker...

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Let situations
Be your motivation
For restoration.
With acclamation.

Let no aberration
Nor excoriation,
Disturb your focus.
Stay put in your direction....

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ulcer
developed
from too much stress
on an old country road:
pothole

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bad tooth
cavity
where the filling
simply will not stay put:
pothole
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In snow
Walk slow

If stuck
Hard luck

Bad foot?
Stay put

Forced stay
Delay

A sleigh!
Hooray!

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Contest: March of the Footle
Sponsor: Timothy Hicks...

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Some freezing rain is predicted today
Gonna stay put, the prognosticators I'll obey
Consider my life precious
Love eating lettuce
With gobs of sweet dressing, delicious that way

Huh???...

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They're taking reservations to travel to Mars
Be the first to colonize another planet far
Too old to make the trip
Too bad, into history I'd slip
Think I'll stay put and just strum my guitar...

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Some freezing rain is predicted today
Gonna stay put, the prognosticators I'll obey
Consider my life precious
Love eating lettuce
With gobs of coleslaw dressing, delicious that way

Huh???...

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They're taking reservations to travel to Mars
Be the first to colonize another planet so far
Too old to make the trip
Too bad, into history I'd slip
Think I'll stay put and just strum my guitar...

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I look, I stare and I wait
until your eyes meet my own
and my heartbeat skylines all the way up
you look away, I come back down
and I stay put expecting another hit
one more glimpse of blue
another taste
of sky....

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Greedy for affection
Such is a sin
Keep still
Stay satisfied
With remnants of love
A heart that yearns
Seldom leads to rejoice
Stay put
Keep complacent
Contentment is no affliction
Know that your desires shall never come to fruition...

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I hear the bombs Mama lets run 
no son we must stay put its our house 
I hear them coming closer Mama  
lets hide
Hiding is for cowards Myla, (soldier)  
be a good boy, pick up the gun 
They are here Mama lets pray,  
(son), Myla ...lets...

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Toe nail
smell stale 

small toe
don’t grow

Hard skin
can’t win

sore sole
poor soul

dropped arch
quick march 

left right
frost bite 

big corn
Feel scorn

feet itch
right bitch

One foot
stay put

two feet
great treat....

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They're taking reservations to travel to Mars
To be the first to colonize a far distant star
Much too old to make the trip
A goner I'd be, into history I'd slip
Think I'll stay put and just strum my guitar


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Camouflage afoot
hooves trembling
don't stay put
run aground disassembling
hurry shroud apparel
fortress in view
departure from the barrel
exemption you blew
woe
go



* It's hunting season, so I thought I would write about the poor deer :(...

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Stay put
And no hustle and rustle
Let life wear and wane with time
To weather in adverse weathers
Like a stone
So you ought to stay put like a grit
And hug wishes a whistle
Into a collection of weird worlds
Then dig I a stone
And rub shoulders with the great!
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its a toe,
on this foot,
on a girl,
who cant stay put,

its been hit,
by chairs and rocks,
mostly when,
its only clad in socks,

its been painted,
and wiggled around,
its best friend,
is the ground,

cause its a toe,
on this foot,
on a girl,
that won't stay put....

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Need to tell you, IMO 
you are my very sweet SO

I'm heading out, but FYI
you'll see me B4YKI

So 'bye for now- CULA-
be patient- stay put, DGA

I'll hurry back, NISM-
just us- KWIM?



March 24, 2021

Premiere Contest: Acronyms In Couplets
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
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I never thought I'd see the day
  when Illinois' leaders held sway
Taking the lead in this deadly war
  against a virus Mr. Trump tried to ignore

Hats off to Governor J.B. Pritzker
  and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
In tandem, they've conducted a blitzkrieg
  to get Illinois residents to stay put...

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Be now normal
Make it continual and ritual
Forget the causal
Stay put not frontal
There are many things to do factual
All things you are in control
Unless fatal and impartial
Do things substantial
Mostly it will be rational
At level, reversal
Mutual, dual
Pastoral, beautiful and fruitful....

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Valentine haikus

East now meets the west
In  Valentine.  Melting hearts
Stay put on high crest

In its familiar
Script, the secret crush attempts
A delicate push

For electric touch.
Like a tremulous tangent
Does  at curves soft spot.


By: S.Jagathsimhan Nair
For: PD’s  contest,  13-01-12...

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Hang on, stay put
Just plain: we stay one and we are set
It’s like holding on to our seat
No backing out
Fasten our seat-belt
Back to back, side by side
It’s survival, I bet
Though we go out
We soar to our loves’ height
And I am sure our path is correct
Hanging on is definitely right
Hang on, have trust!...

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Summer

I do know that the Summer of our lives is short
Lost in a confused whirl of ecstasy and disappointments
Crossroads encountered with paths hastily chosen
Will it be left, right or stay put?
There is no going back

I do know that Autumn follows Summer
Mellow days now 
Opportunities less but richer
Time is precious
Now that Winter is approaching...

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