Short Straggling Poems

a lion pride surround a straggling calf
its pitiful cries are heard -
as a lone bull charges





Date written 22nd March 2019

For writing challenge 4, March 2019 -kimo - poetry contest.

Sponsored by Dear Heart....

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Ripped out love.
Not nearly enough
Threads hanging left,
To connect.
Too many tears wept.
To repair me now,
Yank the rest out;
No evidence allowed.
Pull the straggling ends,
Till I’m empty again.


2/3/12
For Paula's "Thread" contest...

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Short black pants with straggling hair
Holding a glass of beer
Laugh loudly, wrist with grasping 

Squiring and dancing nightlong

Acid house echoed all over 
White shirt foxed a red lips mark
Push desire until maximum peak

Blind choice makes you die...

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How foolish

Humans seem to be 

When

The Good Lord has provided them

With

Whatever it takes to become unique

They

Instead are desperately straggling

To

Resemble someone else!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      27 January 2019...

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The furry band of thieves crawl in the night,
wielding Zorro masks and sly grins,
soundless in single file,
under fences and through prickly bushes,
the little ones straggling in back,
they come upon their spoils,
ripe and red for the taking,
juices flow down their chins,
a light has flooded the crime,
their last bites taken,
fleeing satisfied...

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The gurgling stream,

leading a straggling line

of cattails

down into the valley

to circle our sleeping village 

nourishing bright slashes of

golden rod

slaking the thirst of ponies

shaking out their manes

in moonlight

tickling the toes of wild children

splashing in the shallows

dousing out the dying embers

of the last campfire

carressing the form

of a maiden 

swimming at midnight

out to meet a warrior

in a white canoe....

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Pitter patter on rain polished pavements
Tears straggling down window panes
The rattle of ricocheting  raindrops on galvanised rooftops
Spiralling eddies in bull's eye puddles
Umbrellas ,shields fending off the sharpness
Of blasts of non-stop water bullets
Insidiously a soft drizzle penetrates 
Right through to the skin
Producing shivery limbs
And chattering teeth
Transformed by the sun into glittering diamonds
Which disappear with the welcome arc of the rainbow....

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