Short Surreptitiously Poems

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Enthusiastic

Excitement
Needed
Truly
Heeded
Unrelenting
Succeeding
Interest
Achieving
Surreptitiously
Trying
Invigoratingly
Crying
Form: Acrostic


Premium Member Rain

Rain

Translucent orbs fell
Surreptitiously out of 
Heaven’s opened door 
Canvassing arid landscapes
With liquid condensation
Form: Tanka

The Cove

Rivulet
      
       ripples

              mellifluously

       surreptitiously

lilt
            conflating

         into

a
demure 
lagoon

Express and Address All of the Mess

Express and Address All of the Mess

Ourselves have to surreptitiously express,
And much stress must be sure to address;
Feeling inside,
Refuse to hide;
All sins with wrongdoings should confess.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Thought of the day

all is well, all is well
we are in ineffable peace
in tranquil, time stretched stillness 
then an ego ripple surreptitiously arises
scarring the very fabric of our soul
watch all thoughts oh hermit
nipping them in the bud


Silence 3

No sounds at all - no noise, no talking, no music
No laughter or arguing, no banter
Just quiet -
Panic sets in - don't let those thoughts filter in!
Those thoughts that creep surreptitiously through
Creating doubts and fear and terror
© Liz Walsh  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Huh

three trotting turtles
slowly raise a cloud of dust
neck and neck finish

six hissing serpents
surreptitiously slither
escaping their pasts

three city ground hogs
shaking their "jay-lo" booties
cross against the light

John G. Lawless
©6/13/2023
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Ophidiphobic Oh Ohpower

Miss Milai murmurs many times to me
Ssshhhh! Snake slithers surreptitiously
Between benches beside your bicycle
My craziest carelessness: catastrophic cry 
Carrying my carriage, ‘then I cuddle



©2015Leonora Galinta
     All Rights Reserved





Nov. 15, 2015   1.23am
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.

Unthinking

Earth was sending a long 
shadow on the moon.
A great night for both of them.

        *

A city of dreams 
lies still. A divine path 
opens for the erring earthlings.

        *

A night falls 
surreptitiously on the lake.
The moonlight was trapped by waves.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Stranglehold

Surreptitiously its
Tendrils caress,
Reaching out gently,
Ardently intertwining
Nonchalantly
Gaining ground.
Little by little, it will
Eclipse and smother
Heinously,
Overwhelmingly pernicious if
Left to become
Deep-rooted.


03.09.19

 Pick A Title, Vol 8 - Acrostic - Poetry Contest : sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Bliss Mist

each impulse born pure until coloured by perception feel it see and know it as it creeps upon us surreptitiously both joy and pain are but flickers until magnified by lower mind bring it on anything we offer no anchor for rancour oh hermit there is no one here save a bliss mist pulsating 20-September-2021

Identically

The town was
fissured.
It does not listen to me 
that moribund heart, now.
The biome was ready 
to set on fire all the smiles.

No person of god 
will lead the prayers to grave.
Let the dust meet the dust
stealthly and
you win the script surreptitiously.
Beautifully done, the obscene death.

A bruise spreads 
shattering the mirrors of perfect accident.



Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Premium Member Simplicity


In a pond, near a stream,
The barefoot little girl crouched silently.
Only the screech of a bluebird was heeded.
Plus prayers for a true friend.
That she really needed.

It was beautiful to see her honesty!
I observed surreptitiously behind
an Oak tree.
Such simplicity in her supplication,
I added my own to her angelical
incantation.



September 6, 2019

Form: Rhyme

A Wife

A WIFE 

Someone buried my rights on previously set soil 

And I woke up with the glass between my teeth 

What are you staring at, he wondered surreptitiously 

And waved his hand, slowly, before my eyes 

Before I bit them off, one by one 

And the blood ran down, infecting the air with the dog beneath and behind 

I’ll put on the red dress, I said 

If you watch me do it.

Premium Member The Final Story

The Final Story

A ragged rhapsody ruminates in relentless repetition as the fathomless

fugitive foments fearful fragmentation thus ethereal eternity engulfs

egregious expropriation of quietus’s quiver quaking querulous quickstep’s

quest when stories surreptitiously seep silently seduced by savourless sadness

27th March 2018

Written for all my friends who suffer from depression

Premium Member Payback

PAYBACK

blood oranges oscillate
within plundered peels

squeezed out surreptitiously
bleeding on her heels

clicking brutish jaws
on paper thin walls

the pied piper grins
with greenback gall

HOWEVER...heaven insists,
maligned orange restitution

purification of every last drop.
shark lust sees only the dark

heel-harpoons of every female
stab his comeuppance heart.

11/27/2017

Premium Member See How They Run

see how they run

summer come and gone
see how they run

frost, its icy fingers
touched our lands this morning
light crept sluggishly 
from behind the horizon
to do battle for prominence
here above my cottage.

the white-cold face of winter
smiled surreptitiously
arrogant in knowing 
that his power made all life run
before him as sheep, 
stalked by the white wolf.

see how they  run!

Premium Member Double Standards Withstanding

I stand at temptations door...
As anger spurs a grievance withheld.
Surreptitiously you praise the incongruent
While flinging to the wayside the valuable.

Eyes closed to the importance of veracity,
You belabor simplicity with objectivity denounced
As you are drawn only to the iconoclastic.
I long to visualize cronyism obliterated.


The Contest sponsor Jerry T. Curtis
My feelings about those N/A's
Form: Quatrain

Nine Ways I Love You

Longingly, desire to see your face

Achingly, missing your company

Jealously, checking on your emails

Languishing, in your caressing arms

Surreptitiously, following you

Suspecting, your infidelity

Persuading you, to do what I want

Laughing, when you say unfunny jokes

Nine times out of ten, your forgiveness


(Common traits of people who say they are in love)


Used howmanysyllables
Date 5/13/21

Premium Member Words

Far more words than 
open ears --
a world of chatter;

words everywhere -- 
difficult to avoid such
precipitous splatter…

poets use them, vociferously!

Politicians use them, surreptitiously!
Ministers use them rapturously

Words live
when they are infused
with passion; strengthened
by conviction -- 

my cat says it all
with a well aimed look

twitch of her tail

occasional meow

and luxurious purr

Pirates

Creaking shadows, creeping over fettered floors
Shattered suspicion, silence cutting jagged scores
Preening portraits, conspicuously hung in full view
Callous hands, bleeding memories which do accrue

Adagio movements, nigh nocturnes of orchestrated harm
Prowling predators, facetious footsteps which do not alarm
Opulent treasures, gaily gleaming behind double doors
Pirated stars, surreptitiously swept off to foreign shores
Form: Couplet

Crisis Moment

Stakeholders, 
are coming. 
There was conflict between 
logos and mythos.

One black thorn 
was in the flesh.
You come out of the body
to find the window.

One long eel-
surreptitiously enters, 
in the guts- 
to pluck your eyes out.

But you were 
already dead-	
after the search of slant light
coming from the liberation.

Crossing the 
time zone,
you enter the black hole 
traveling at zero hour.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Behind the Blinds

Curtains or Venetian blinds,
Drapings, shutters, shades
Serve to keep our privacy
From peeping Tom parades.

Everybody loves a glimpse
Into another’s space,
Surreptitiously, of course,
And never face to face.

Which is why our views are blocked
With drapery or blind;
Thus it’s more enticing, wond’ring
Just what hides behind.

Often, though, we’ll get a peek
At furniture and shelves
And people who, ironically,
Live like we do ourselves.
Form: Rhyme

Because She Hates Me

I’m sold out for slavery 
Because she hates me
She wouldn’t want to use the money
Because she hates me
On a tray she surreptitiously burnt it off with fire
Because she hates me
The ashes is to be thrown away to a distance
Because she hates me
A northward wind came and blew it on her body
And she hates me
She is hospitalized and had her skin removed 
Because she hates me
She hates “why it could be me?” 
Oh! Because she hates me.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Fall Need Not Creep

No need to creep in surreptitiously
    as if you were not longed for
  You turtlenecks and warm wool socks 
    are dashing in or out of doors

  Sensing that I'd tired of green
    your refreshments I adore
  Crisp burnt-orange and fiery red
    leave me thirsty for some more
  
  Though soon you'll trade the dew for frost
    replace iced tea with hot
  Precious Fall: Take center stage deservedly
    ~ for 'creepy' you are not
Form: Rhyme

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