Short Stumps Poems

on the hillside
where tall timber lived
only stumps...

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Out 
But his bat 
Still before stumps  
More to play like 
This Trump...

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Trees and stumps resound,
The misty glory from sun.
Declaring all praise....

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Long legged birds stand.
Streams among muddy stumps flow.
The dam has broken....

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someone burning tires 
clearing woods and burning stumps 
smoke signals are sent...

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In every politician's Lie
   Stirs a bit of Truth;
Though the detection thereof
   Stumps this Sleuth....

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this always stumps me
rebellious as I have been
wanna see clearly











* angel card series...

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Red fire blazing in the wood;
just charred stumps where trees once stood.
The denizens must flee and run
because the deadly flames have won....

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spring rains soak open
land, pines removed~stumps stand...
silence of the woooooo  


An owl that I have been hearing will no longer be heard.....

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the tulip tree tosses petals
to the dying maple tree
tree cutting men and chain saw converse
leaving stumps ...of words
a twitching, gray squirrel cusses....

the tulip tree has lost its mate...

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A badgering wife caused her husband such grief,
Each time she did he ground his teeth,
Over the years his teeth become
Nothing but stumps upon his gum,
His friends all called her, 'the calcium thief.'...

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Undaunted unicorn, the tamers dew leaf,
Auspicious lovers tryst due utopia,
Virtuous sojourn flung upon sublime wings,
                   dew clump stumps couple...


Date: 06/27/2019...

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A whole is normally the sum of all of its parts
Cept in politics, stumps even us most clever bards
All rules are out the window
The world is in limbo
We'll soon come to our senses and this era disregard...

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Summer was here at last
cricket,stumps and pads,
dusted off,leather on willow,
echoed across the green

No scorers or umpires,to dispute
adjudicate,challenge or replay,
honesty justice shout,if
caught,bowled or run out...

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she travels like a silver mirror
across the midnight sky
her lights play hid and seek
within the foggy forest pines
the rotten stumps do seem to swoon
as crickets present to her their tunes
and blackbirds worship as she passes
down behind the mountain grove...

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it started

as fevered

bee sting

on tongue—

then lips

gone

like beaver-gnawed

tree stumps—

then the chin

till like

some ruined

Greek statue

you lay

still

awaiting

a new chance—

the planting

in warm earth

to grow again...

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Skyfall

Big massive piling machine hammers thumps huge steel 
iron girders into evil rancid ground. Tree spiralling behemoth rams 
dead tree stumps into bare earth to hold up falling cracked sky. 
Without them we’d be crushed dead. Empty heavy sky forces on me, us....

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brown and orange 
hues, branches painting shadows 
over the tree stumps 
with a boisterous wind 
a mesmerizing dance ensues

birds tweeting away 
mating ritual displayed 
the first signs of fall 
accompanied by the sounds
reflecting the changing times......

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There was an old klump by the name of Trump
He lost the elections and was bowled at the stumps
Though the self opinionated never suffer self doubt
I don’t think he still has a clue of what he brought  
about 
Not wanting to concede the opinionated lump.

21.11.2020
Out on a Lim....

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I was a lad of seven

When attacked by bumblebees

Those little fellers bite me

Since I chose to run!


They were provoked I admit

By my Pappy pulling stumps

The moral is stand don't run

Else dear Vie you're stung


Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 3 in Linda-Marie's "Bite Me" Contest - April 2012...

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Last night I dreamt
Of mountain trees that ail
The needle rusted red
For beetle bark has ate

For global warming so
Causing the trees to dry
Rising in altitude though
There’s little room beyond

So pine beetles devour 
Create their home in trees
While slicing lives for hour 
Thus only stumps appear

Foreshadow mountain after years
All trees are gone and hill side bare...

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Draft an Article a den of soul slackers
No room for sanity humanity elected crackers
Uncivil ones to fail the civic duty pledged
Ride a rift split society - drive a wedge

Trail Trump slumping stumps winded carpetbaggers
Talking heads robbing hoods all cloak and daggers
Riding herd wicked turn charging alibi
Stuck off bicker batter were all gonna die...

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I shoved my fingers into a paper shredder to trim my nails.
But it shredded my fingers and it hurt like hell.
People stare because I have stumps instead of fingers.
I had to give up my career of being a country singer.
Listen to my advice so that my predicament isn't some thing you'll have to endure.
Don't be an idiotic moron like me, if you need your nails trimmed, get a manicure....

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A waning moon hangs
under an obsidian sky
as I walk through a 
the dark scrub  forest
past stumps of giants
felled long ago.

The river‘s low 
few salmon in the pools
and none flounder
on the gravel banks. 
Eagles and ravens 
are not to be seen
though the signs say 
bears have been 
sighted.

Once this river sustained
an autumn feast but
now pickings
are pretty
slim....

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There once was fellow could really jump
But his arms were blown off, left with two stumps
   When with a new girl
   He made her hair curl
He would dive in there, knees first, for a hump

The girl said, "Please, dear, don't do that; it hurts!
And your bare knees are just covered with dirt"
   But the jumper's reply:
   "I'm a civilized guy
Not a stuffed-shirt or a mud-caked pervert!"...

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