Short Sunning Poems

A frog unaware
sunning itself in silence
beware the child’s hand...

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A turtle sunning
Hears the rustle of dry leaves
Plunges in the lake...

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white water lilies
many small green frogs
only three turtles sunning...

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Breeze teasing Palm trees,
Turtles sunning by the pond,
Lovely winter day....

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Each footstep, thunders
Near by, sunning rocks, tremble
Neurotic turtles!...

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Sunbather's Suitors

she's
sunning
sandy shores
sea shells smiles
strain

connie pachecho

7/19/17...

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Sphinx
Sits on
Burning sands
Sunning herself
In the noonday sun
She needs no chaise
She is a
Bedrock
Sphinx....

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it came on
feel like am stone
my head spinning
am just a griming
nose running
tho am lay sunning
my doctor said i was told
caught a
SUMMER COLD...

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you committe crime
you do the time
you can run but can't hide
tho the world is so wide
tho you somewhere sunning
you must be
TRIED OF RUNNING...

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California
Sunny, warm 
Swimming, boating, sunning
Sky, airplane, ocean, seashells
Skiing, sledding, snowball throwing
Cold, blistery
New York City...

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a lazy camel 
sunning on warm sand beside
elephant snatching
a broom from caretaker’s hand-
best not to mess with his space

...

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Quietly
The hum of sunrise
Awakens the day.
Cutting the familiar wake
Of an old butter knife
Un-noticed
Silent swans
Skirting the lily pads
Pass sunning turtles
Wary eyed muskrats
And bug-eyed frogs.



John G. Lawless
©5/30/2023...

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She kicked the doctor, she kicked the nurse
She hit them both with her designer purse.
She ran from the orderly, and she was fast.
I said "Hi Grams!" as she darted on past.
She punched my arm but kept on running.
Last I saw her she was in the buff, sunning....

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climbing
running

laughing
sunning 

hoses 
spraying

outside, 
staying

till past 
sunset

Happy?
You bet!

~~~~~~~

summer 
swelter

seeking 
shelter

fanning 
sweating

sighing
fretting

turn up
AC

now I’m 
happy


June 14, 2022...

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Is love our sconce, dispersing joy
No animal cunning
Are we immune to ego’s ploy
In bliss mists, soul sunning

Negate ego’s posit
Love has no opposite 
Head and heart composite 

What’s our response
Is love our sconce

05-February-2022
Quietus ...

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the contrast made by sky of blue
to snowy rocks and hills so green
of shadowed jades on water’s hue
the peaceful scenes reflect serene
while friends lie sunning side by side
neither wind, nor wave, nor moving tide

Sept. 14 2011 Charles Henderson
for John’s “Nature verse contest”...

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Spring 
rainy, cool 
awaking, flowering, singing 
yards, mountains, sea, sand 
swimming, picnicking, sunning 
hot, fun 
summer 
 

 
Date Written 1/12/2023...

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foxy faced feline 
                               swiping at bold butterflies ~
                                   sunning on the deck







     Date: June 10, 2022
     For: A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
     Sponsored by: Brian Strand
     Syllables verified on howmanysyllables.com...

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Poem 15 sunning light 

As the dark clouds move over 
The sky her come a stunning light.

As my eyes wide open catching all 
Light with the fresh smell of summer 
Once again

As the dark clouds clear with 

Sunlight shines through of a beautiful 
Morning with thee



Mr. Professor. Jerry”big papa” wells...

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More graceful in full blubber
than a ballroom dancer,
a seal slides down banisters 
of spiral staircases
in ice-cold currents.

Smiling like a cat,
slipping into water,
swimming down and up,
fat from fishing, 
sunning, sleeping on the rocks,
		I could never push you over.

Seal immovable:
magnificent,  obese.


...

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Small
Petite
Standard Size
Generous fit
Enormous styling
Humongous incredible
Sunning and fantastic shaped
Mind boggling experiences
The extraordinary shapes of women
The extraordinary shapes of women
Mind boggling experiences
Stunning and fantastic shape
Humongous incredible
Enormous styling
Sensational fit
Generous figure
Standard size
Petite
Small...

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Set clocks forward soon.
No April Fool’s joke
that after this March,
my front yard trees will
burst with bright colors!

This next Sunday
Daylight Saving
is arriving.
I’ll be thriving.

Porch-sunning
before May
I will be!

Ready;
Get set -

Spring!

March 7, 2021 
for Caren Krutsinger's Spring Diminished Hexaverse Contest Poetry Contest...

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He swivels his hips and the felines come running
I am not one of them, I am balcony sunning.
I watch them howl at his gyrations and grinds.
He is such a tease; and he attracts all kinds.

Since he started to dress up like his hero Elvis
He has more action than a street walker’s pelvis.
I roll my eyes, glad I threw him away when I did.
He is my ex-husband, who doesn’t even support our kid....

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Fall is here
I see at last
Seems like always
It comes too fast

Seems like yesterday
I was just outside
Sunning myself
And getting fried

Yes, I was outside
Planting my seeds
Watching them grow
Along with the weeds

Now it's starting
To get cold and damp
It's time for coats
And to turn on a lamp

So good-bye shorts
And the grass that I mow
Hello to my jeans
Soon I'll be shoveling snow...

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AFTER  SNOW  MELT

Their burden shed, trees  now  svelte -
Hidden beauties in luxuriant fir mantles 
Stripped, sunning  in balm light.

Grass, spruce, stream,
Once  blank and touchless, 
Crowd together, tactile, seamless.

Tall knolls the Leveller had  smoothed
Shallow  hollows had smothered ;
Landscape has  fresh verticality.

Waking birds fill the sleepy silence.  
Skyful white replaced by blue  vault.
God has lost his achromacy....

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