Short Straightaway Poems

straightaway bb
cuts air heading for tin can -
sudden gush of sprite...

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Love Embraced

My dreams flew straightaway and chaste.
Tenderness reached out; your love embraced.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Crysalline...

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The wheelbarrow of Prince Prospero
pushed straightaway, like an arrow
it's passengers a motley farrow
not worth much more than a sparrow
it's aim and goal so very narrow
'tis horrifying to the marrow...

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Cletus joined the Navy on a fool whim

   And was told he needed to learn to swim

      He was launched off the dock

         And he sank like a rock

             The Navy straightaway got rid of him...

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a plum, a peach, a song, a beach
  a bend, a curvy straightaway
a bob, a dip, a dunk, a screech
  a hair-breadth turn took your future away

you nerveless nock, how dare you rock
  this sanctimonious cerebrum with poppycock
it behooves you to hoof it to Timbuktu ~
  haunting howls from the bowels of Montezu...

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Walking under a burning sun
Listening evocative Christmas songs

Sweat furrows my motionless visage
Snow calmly is falling down

Alive drops dissolve my thoughts
A fresh breath gently stirs 

Walking straightaway still alone
Looking for a friendly crucial turn

Nobody matching my broken mind
What's hot? What's cold?

Deep down somebody is already here
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!...

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Girl And Guy

A girl likes a guy
The girl is pretty,
Kind, caring, and always says hi
The girl is also pretty
In an adorable way
She has good grades
And she’d help straightaway
And when all else fades
She thinks of him
Handsome and smart
Acting on a whim
Adventurous and flying like a dart
But he doesn’t like her
He likes one that would be called sir

Written on January 22, 2020...

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Rain has become synonymous with gray

          signifying a storm is on its way.

A skittish sun silently shrinks away

          allowing shadows to overcome day

and clouds to release droplets straightaway.


(Rhyme)


April 21, 2019
Rithimus Divisa Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden

* This is a "Rithimus Divisa", taken from the poem "Whirling Winds Wail", written on Dec. 29, 2018*...

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Time's a torture chamber
  penning poems day and night
from this 'garden apartment'
  where rare's a ray of light

The meaning of life eludes me
  as it has so many before
How to wax eloquent
          find its 'raison d'etre'
  when mere survival is a chore

But hark, what's this? Hope's glimmer
  ~ Guaranteed income for us all!
I think I'll move my office straightaway
  ~ to the nearest vacant mall...

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When the sky above's azure blue
    the grass below Irish green
  My thoughts straightaway turn to you
    Reflections of visions 
                      yet to be seen

  Winding lavender staircases
    intimate moments shared
  powdery-snowfall embraces 
    adventures yet to be dared

  Parting kisses linger
    'til dawn's warm sun intrudes
  touching my lips with your finger
    flames' fancy thus fanned ne'er subdued...

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Snatch
Taken
In the dead of night
Run
Hide
Stay out of sight
Hurry
Faster
Get out straightaway
Longer
Farther
Still a distance away
Stop
Breathe
While there is time
Movement
Tension
Keep on the climb
Flee
Leave
So you can be free
Advance
Arrive
“You’ve made it finally”
Crush
Mix
“I knew you wouldn’t quit”
Cup
Drink
“The trip was worth it”
Settle
Cuddle
“To help you stay healthy and alive”

Written on November 5, 2020...

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Never doth Wither thou destiny, for forwards you enact then thou shalt decline,
Henceforth every man shalt fret upon the blazing wine, amongst it’s loss, 
Such a jeroboam shalt heed straightaway, as the human spirit shatters thee,
Opulent Tyranny hast thou been longing, thorough the Translucent stakes of Time,

And I shalt not witness your fallen louse, for nothing more can succumb to you,
Only enough can suffice for death-yet yours is enacted through the unknown....

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There I stood faint-hearted at the mercy 
Of your requite.
 
Hearing that rumbling thunder
In my mind
I plucked a red rose that withered 
Straightaway as my spreadable disquiet 
Infested it
Left, centre, right
In my desperate quest to stop the storm
I felt bubbling up, bubbling up, in you.

Oh! I nearly fainted to get it that there was no rainstorm
Building up but a warm welcoming heart

On that day I would have you crucified 
If the wrong was against me....

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A Little Like Rape

This sylph came forward 
from the second row
the second day of class 
and asked if
I would edit her poem 
so it would read 
the way it should. 

I told her straightaway
that even though 
this was writing class 
and I was the instructor,
I couldn’t edit her poem
and still have the poem be hers. 

Editing her poem, I said, 
would be a little like rape,
just painful in a different way
whether she understood that 
yet or not.  


Donal Mahoney...

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The tongue's mystery

The heart's backdoor of the laughing stock
In his furtive,serpentine tongue lodges
The tongue straightaway of the highbrow,brainiac
In his beating,locked up heart camouflages

Many a foot does stumble,vacillate and actually fall
Withstand against all the odds,above all
A lapsus does incapacitate and intention reveal
Prompts irreparable mischiefs elusive to heal

Legitimate ! A tongue isn't in itself a flinty bone
Yet could fragment relics doubtable to atone....

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