Short Stoked Poems

stoked by fires above...

   looses glacier melt below...

      ocean's primal roar...

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  His legend awoke
    in misty smoke

  From fancy, not fact
    are memories stoked
...

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not with a broad brush
   thick strokes stoked with opinion
          hate plied with a knife



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Feelings
Overpower me
As thoughts of you burn freely
Within me
I am warmed by your lovely smile
Fires stoked by your sultry looks
Heated...

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Allen Ginsberg wrote 'Howl' 65 years ago
  Before almost anyone was woke

Read his poem carefully, my friend
  See America's downfall stoked...

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When Lady Gaga's French bulldogs
Stoked half-a-million squealing hogs
The canine corps
Knocked on her door
With countless tails like pollywogs . . . ....

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I sat on what we have always called our marked bench and smoked.
Just wish you were here with me, because we could have toked,
The sad thing is I only wish you would be a little more stoked....

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"Happy New Year to all you folks, 
What has happened this year has left 
me kind of stoked."

"I hope this year to be the best for- you
, and I hope that you improve everything
 which was left to do. "...

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Crimson lips so soft as a cradle
Overly stoked for a shadow to cuddle

Hot tears so sweet and fresh
Washing her cheeks dressed in a rosy blush

A shy mind feeling guilty and cold
An epic heart so brave and bold...

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Tiny chances of slender hopes, that broke.
On your lies i can only pray, you choke.
Not ever was a single word, misspoke.
Scattered tattered moral beliefs, a joke.

But buoyant dreams that fill my head, are stoked....

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“…let it snow…let it snow..”

	the snow blanketed 
	the earth’s floor—
	burden tree branches
	mimicked bent black backs
	of slaves—
	in the distance
	a red tail hawk 
	echoed:
	we stoked the fire
	and made love...

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Chef dog stoked the heat in the kitchen every morn.
He was the best chef in Milwaukee who had ever been born.
He made chicken biscuits, sausage waffles and roadkill stew.
I have always wanted to eat there, wouldn’t you?
...

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True hearts to be stoked ~
With so much love and passion ~~
The caring of two ~~~

True hearts to be stoked ~
On fire, some days simmering ~~
Never to go out ~~~






http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/love-12.php...

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hot red fire and a newly stoked desire
a want and a crave
a taste for a slave
and all the things that make pretty little joys

colors and lights on sweaty nights
an itch to scratch
for the right catch
and a pleasure of treasured toys...

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Door Prob

stoked
craving
internal
I-need-to-know
claims me wholly as a hall of doors cast
some digressive privilege, transfigured
I, well purposed
questioning
support
probes

2020 September 14
*3rd Place*
Double Tetractys 2
~~Eve Roper
Photo #1...

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The Lovely Women From France

The closest he got to France is from a broad
She said if he saw her home, he would be awed
Now their first date was just  fine
And yes he swallowed that line
Until she stoked the Effiel Tower's facade 

connie pachecho 

1/26/23...

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The “Green New Deal” will go down as the largest PONZI SCAM on a global scale! ~Jay McKinsey, 2023

There was a young man from the coast
Whose mind the Democrats stoked
With Green Energy scam
When he couldn't find sand
The man buried his head in the moat!...

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They scream war for peace,
Not peace for loving kindness;
Human nature stoked:-

War bombing for peace,
No thoughts of building for love;
Wintering hate still dropping:-

Bombs drop like fall leaves,
Busting storms keep blood gushing;
Healing spring postponed.
...

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Oh streaking man on epic sea;

bold waterman stoked up on fear,

your blue room wall calm lunacy,

oh streaking man on epic sea.

In magic, bound up ecstasy,

your arching nemisis comes near,

oh streaking man on epic sea;

bold waterman stoked up on fear. ...

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Written: October 21, 2023,
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Undressed poltergeists prowl around
a lurch occurring on the ground
people stoked the burning man's fire,
our souls, toasted by the sun's pyre
we twirl boldly, strong our hearts pound....

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I was all stoked
ready to roll
when suddenly
someone else
announced
she is in charge.

Shift gears!
Put it in second.

We're going
down hill
to sea level,
where energy
glides upon
calm waters,
no waves.

Will she
take the helm
or let us drift
aimlessly
as it has been
awhile now.

SKB...

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He's off-the-wall
Unprecedented gall
A human catcall

Sins and grins
Feels no chagrin
Conscience of tin

Lies and fibs
Speaks in mad-libs
Smack in the ribs

Text and tweets
Clumsily browbeats
Brutally mistreats

It's no joke
Hatred's unyoked
Violence stoked

Is he secretly rootin'
For another shootin'?
  ~ So is Putin...

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a wax tear formed
on redwood heart
in the dark
yet lit by many
a candle wick
my dry eyes wet

acapella soars
blood sweat tears
adorns
welled up
wall to wall
ascent

hearts rent
and bound
in grief
silent, deafening
defeating
lies

spurs on healing
stoked by
perspective
straight candlesticks
proud, on fire
a Holy Spirit spire
...

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    angry-gray steam billowing
       from its coal-stoked furnace
    its whistle threatening a reckoning

    speed decreasing with each turn of its wheels
       the mighty locomotive pulled into
    the station, her denizens eagerly waving

    to folks as familiar as the sounds of the prairie
       adventures to unpack once back home
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O-ctober flames of pumpkin eyes, stoked.
 C-reepy coldness at our backs. Tales
 T-old with ale — the headless horseman.
 O-ff he rides in the wind.
 B-rr, wind wool scarf ‘round neck.
 E-ars shudder as the narrator says,
“R-est your heads for awhile, friends.”

10/7/2019
October Contest 45 or Less Words Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger...

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