Short Stripe Poems

Helmet-wearing stripe
Humanoid-cylinder slash
Ignited in lime...

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stripe of red and white
a sweet twist of mint flavor
a cane for christmas...

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With a flip of the wrist
  the stripe he swiped

Just like that
  his identity wiped...

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Bumble BEE

I Flutter and fly 
Got stripe yellow/black body
Stringer my beehind zzzz!!
 

10/30/17
by James Edward Lee Sr....

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there once was a skunk named Pepé Le Pew
when he came near, well, everyone knew
	Penelope, his chérie
	to her, he was smelly
odorous advances met pooh pooh!...

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you can show
me bikini
you can show
me naked
but when i see
you wearing
your moto helmet
and with glasses
i start dressing
in layers to ask
would you like
to play
stripe
poker...

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Hello, flowers
Morning so fine
White as linen.

Hello, money
Flows like river
Into the sea.

Hello, stripe
Buzzing flowers
Sipping nectar.

Hello, heaven
From whence, I see
Where end is life....

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All of the great religious teachers;
theologians and gurus
of every stripe
try to carry the message,? ?but
all of them are fumblers.

unlike mathematicians,? ?they try
to measure God
using a finite set of numbers....

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try as i might
i cannot church
it hurts
the jesus stripe
runnin down my back
ive been whipped before
by the lore of your legend
im no beggin fool
andi still think ill go to heaven
7/11
did you have em?
im laughin...

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Willis is a ghost
The indestructable was
Arnolds shoulders have yellow and black stripe
it's a bee back
Al Pacino is in a film with the smurfs
say hello to his little friends
Neo is an anagram of one
and also eon but whatever...

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Odiferous, a sad and sordid tale,
for naught remains but that which does assail.
The rascal takes one final, pungent swipe:
grizzled remains along the center stripe.


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H/T to The Sunny Side of Skunks by Gershon Wolf...

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S*A*T*U*R*N

Slinging our way through your ice-ball halos,
Around your myriad shepherding moon rocks, 
Tiger-stripe ice cream body below
Undulates in a tidal, hypnotizing rhythm,
Rocking our slender ship.
No sane artist could imagine you.


May 29, 2021...

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Oliver Toliver Goliver Snipe
Was a big lizard who was fairly ripe
His pink and red top hat brought plenty of hype
Some were so jealous they began to gripe
The treble, the cleft, the tooth, and the tripe,
I thought he was adorable with his blue green back stripe....

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One inch to grave 
For a heart that's brave 
On a way uphill 
The going was like self - kill 

Where some ill minds pray for demise 
But the heavens won't flip the dice 
Cause the time was not yet ripe 
For his skies to cloth in stripe

January 14, 2024, PST, SPC...

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ABSTRACTION

The black stripe
With crossing red slashes
Is not a chocolate cookie

These are paint strokes
Put on paper
Representational things – perhaps

But are they words?
Given aura
This could make them so

A thousand word poem
These strokes
But no chocolate cookie

Dave Austin...

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autumn rainbows stripe
vegetable september
across bromham fields;
roundway island, hazed in mist
on a marrow orange sea

wiltshire sunbeams fall
gold on the cockle pickers
green fields, fishermen;
down fruit littered ditches glint
glitter strewn rivers of light

© Gail Foster September 16th 2016...

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Miles apart from the 
lost,stages in ages 
seeketh thy merry in a 
glance......
Victory won in a longest 
losted battle,a stripe 
healeth thee,

Merry days,slavery 
slayed,freedom 
gained,by His blood 
cleaneth we-e...

Mercy  and grace 
runneth from THY 
throne,by His blood our 
sins are no longer 
known... Alass...

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Underneath the umbrella
A room was filled,
A girl, a boy.
 
Underneath the umbrella
A home became mobile,
White & blue stripe.
 
Underneath the umbrella
The rain fell upward,
Finding a way.
 
Underneath the umbrella
There was a leak,
A girl, a boy, suffocating.
 
Underneath the umbrella
They drowned,
Finding eternal bliss...

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Frost carpets the fields
sloping to a crinkled sea.
The air,
cotton crisp
as spring leaps in.

Satin crows 
descend from a silver sky.
Squabbling, they graze
on chilled dewdrops.

The sunrise,
a red ribbon glow
warms tall tree trunks
basking in gliding sunlight.

A flame horizon
burns a candy stripe sky
on a tangerine morning....

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The witches have now gone on a huge labor strike.
They are more difficult now to double cross, let alone like.
They are wearing socks that have a weird pattern of stripe.
Their underarm odors are notorious foul, irritating and ripe.
They are driving bat mobiles that make their brooms passé’.
I am glad not to be around any of them at the end of day....

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The final straw

thinly concealed stripe
heavy line easy
simple strike
it doesnt make me queasy
so simply fascinating
as it spreads further apart
the flood procrastinating
before it can start
shield cleanly cut
breaking tiny swords
not cold not hot
the flood is a horde
split the canvas
dry and crumbling
frames the tower as
and leaves them shambling...

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One who fights for your tomorrows 

One who suffers for the day before

One who waits in sorrow

One who makes America more

What else can I say for every star and every stripe.

He's for America all the way now...

Wounds and Deaths

Blood and Tears

No Running Back 

just from fear

Keep it together 

In the cruel weather 

You must go on....

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When hauling a load,
I rarely explode,
but I have to share a gripe.
Since you wouldn't yield,
I'm out in the field;
you ignored the double stripe.

Apology’s owed;
your eyes left the road
deciding which way to swipe.
I mean, what the heck,
your choice caused a wreck;
I sure hope that he’s your type!

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An Alouette that doesn't really fit either contest...

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There was tiger named Archie Hoggerpipe,
Who, weirdly, wished to swap every dark stripe.
A turkey quickly agreed
To meet Archie's costume need.
Thankful lions ate Arch, leaving no tripe.

The stuffed pride of lions later cried fowl.
O how the savannah shook with their howl.
A tiger without wishbone
Left all lions anger prone,
Until round the striped turkey they did prowl....

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Pepe Le Pew
Quest for love he would always pursue
But his over enthusiastic romantic way
Is rejected by a skunk look alike who keeps running away.


Penelope Pussycat
Smothered in kisses and squeezes she would always combat
A black cat with an accidental painted white stripe 
Penelope knew she wasn't that type.


Cleritoons Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Joseph May

12.09.21...

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