Short Stowed Poems

Stowed away in the jungle,
Giant tigers and lions,
I am intuiged....

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Travel is the perfect teacher
    for those with wealth to go

  Aging shelves hold well-worn books
    aboard whose ships I stowed...

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a chihuahua kidnapped in maine
found his way all the way home to spain
asked a reporter of note:
you stowed away on a boat?
He woofed: did you think I hopped a train?

12/29/21...

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Wave Would Ride In

When after each wave in they had rode,
Seemed satisfied and their faces glowed;
They came in,
Again and again;
Brought board home and away stowed.

Jim Horn...

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Yellow dress from youth untold, fitted on age already stowed.
both acquainted, but have no words; mouth is dry, zipper closed.
Once was worn, now only hold, look at mirror; your to old....

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    How I yearned to ope the cage
       let my opinions fly

    But my parents wisely kept it locked
       stowed away the key

    Knowing what would happen
       if I ever spoke my mind...

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I sacrificed my sanity
it took a road trip on its own
packing light, taking flight
with all its baggage stowed
gone for just a little while
taking the do's and don'ts
figured it out, now its back
my sanity has come home...

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Erode and Corrode

What happened was wind blowed and blowed
Causing every thing to erode and corrode;
Water turn bad;
All so very sad,
Luckily, safely items had been below stowed.

Jim Horn

I wonder as result of Harvey....

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Well we're finally settling into our brand new abode
Looked like a bomb went off as we began to unload
Stuff placed willy nilly
It's driving us silly
We'll finally get it done, then wonder where it's stowed


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Row your boat

gently
and find yourself
in a dream..

going with
the flow..
effortlessly..
paddles  stowed
singing of a dream..
then of a sudden
singing As a dream..

recognizing now
boat and paddles
 stream and you
are the dream..

Who is dreaming...?...

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My closest friends, who number three
I heed not thus for loyalty
and neither camaraderie 
but simply in proximity

They live not down my alleyway
nor porch, nor in my house per se
but underneath my fringed toupee
they're in my head, well stowed away

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An

Orange

Pumpkin glow

Tints the moon on

October’s long nights

As autumn leaves tumble

And a scarecrow looks lonely

Standing guard over empty fields.

For the harvest has been stowed away

In advance of Winter’s approaching snows.


(Etheree)


9/21/2015...

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when you remember me 
are you found in sweet reverie
of nights hushed in awe of the stars?
 
when you think of me 
which part do you see
who i am?
or who you dreamt me to be?
 
when you loved me 
which parts did you know 
the secrets I kept stowed
or the idea of me
dancing slow?...

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Standing upon a bubble spinning atop this ledge
It's edge arriving and her full circles riddle confetti..
Pages hours days seasons years; peering, into the wasteland
Of time rushing by while Babylon continues to read aloud
Her horoscope carved into these dreams a rubies, five star day ?
Stowed away within wishfuls pendant worn by their wayward keeper....

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Never have I been one to wear my emotions on my sleeve 
Longing for love but too afraid to of cupid’s arrow malady
My heart is on the market, but I’ve stowed away the key
From dusk till dawn I search for a sign that love is meant to be
But I have slowly come to realize love’s bitter sweet irony
Is that to love with all my heart, I must first start loving me...

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You keep me anchored
Safely moored to the shore    
A beautiful harbor 
Is where I reside
A sweet cove secure 
From the incoming tide
Dare I drift away
Your grasp holds me back
Although a storm comes today
I'm not pulled into the black
But sweetly stowed in your seaport 
As you bravely battle the fray
And I'm forever in your court 
As I'm lovingly locked away....

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A Cloudburst 

Only now too clear, _ it seems… 
Lifted on haunches of late morning mists
A long lost sun once pulled from blue skied dreams

Only now too clear, _ it seems… 
That never known before 
Past early morning’s darkened clouds had schemed

A callused heart; tracked by tears that had since run dry
Hadn’t waked me to say goodbye  
I never knew that sunless day, stowed away...

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Stowaway Hopes 

Merging the present

to the darkened distance

Stealthily stealing our future

Sliding away our hopes

Making a slideshow

Of our stolen past

peddling sorrows

To every hallow mind

Where fleeting thoughts have taken wings

Yesterday have come to perch

Resting with our past shadows

Soliloquizing our stolen dawn

Stowed away with the darkened night...

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We wear our many masks for the world to see
Alone is when we can truly be …..

Behind our closed doors
Our secrets are safe
Hidden and buried
To take to the grave

Skeletons in the closet
Ghosts of yesteryear
Stowed away, protected 
All guarded right here

Leaving from ‘behind closed doors’
Our masks on time after time
Assured in knowing our secrets
Are securely left behind .…....

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shaking Clydesdales stood eager
the sleek sleigh was hitched
blankets and hot cider stowed

prancing and dancing
slicing through white woods
faces frosted by the snow

cozy cuddling and huddling
holding hands in warmth
dreaming of bonfires

NB: Charlieku forms created by Charles Messina
*Inspired by, but not entered in, Charles Messina's Triple New Charlieku Poetry Contest...

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Leaders whom we followed
Are very rare, sporadic woad
Who cures by brain stowed
With lots of info like Spode.
Mrs. Jyoti Kumta, a Daniel, rode
Like a strong horse strode
And asked all of us to goad
Upon values, which we towed
Earlier on an unknown road.
Thanks to Jyoti who mowed
Our ignorance and sowed
Seeds of cognition and glowed.
She completely made an abode
In our hearts and not be decode....

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She's an Angel....


An Angel 

of Hell

stalking

the underground

her 

playground

beautiful girl

with eyes
painted black

from

the

fire

the Devil
used

to light
her

desire

for evil
sickness

plays
witness

as she
succumbs

to the 
devilish passion

stowed upon
her

sprouting

black wings

it stings

with a

burning

sensation

turning
her

perfect

she haunts
your dreams

can you

hear

her

screams?...

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Autumn's dream of a country road
Where houses are few and moving slowed.
Leaves are turning gold_ red_ burgundy.
Inside a warm home apples are candy.
In a barn or cellar cold winter foods quickly stowed
Against winter's coming and inches snowed.
Autumn dreams of snuggling nights when windy
Breeze carries tune;close by snacks_ hot chocolate handy.

Contest: Autumn's Dream
Sponsor: ^Rick Parise
Click on:
"About This Poem"...

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I never told you how I felt,
When I had the chance;
I hid my welled up feelings,
Never gave a second glance;

I stowed away my longing thoughts,
You weren't right for me;
But all I ever wanted,
Was to let you see;

I let slip through my fingers,
My one and lingering shot;
And allow that one brief moment,
Slither away, I cannot;

I waited too long to show you,
How much you meant to me;
And now you’re gone forever,
As gone as you can be....

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Sinew torqued and bowed as he pressed the weight
Of drudge claimed goods to be stacked and stowed.
The lady claimed that his omnipresent proclivities
Would neither build strength of character nor stature.
Laugh, she did, as she  knew the wolverine has left the den,
To  build his muscle with more willing obstructions.
The starving dog follows the master who feeds him:
And she, the mistress, always leaves flesh on the bone...

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