Short Surveys Poems

COVID 19
why are we receiving
surveys...

Read More

gliding high on wing
    he surveys still water -
    osprey swoops for kill...

Read More

lone prince howling
aloft his cold rocky throne throne
surveys his kingdom







Liz Reilly...

Read More

on high perch blue jay
surveys the female forest
bobbing up and down

5/9/2020...

Read More

The sovereign of the midnight sky
Surveys with sleepy eyes
Dawn teasing the horizon
And fades into tomorrow

12/03/2011...

Read More

serpent
          slithers secretly
                                surveys surroundings
          sibilates spittle

snake skin shines
                         she snipes
savours seeds 


24th September...

Read More

The king surveys his savannah
Confident in his strength
To rule, to lead, to breed
To take what he wants when he wants
His women
His food
No young blood
Dares to challenge

Free Verse or Rhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper, Picture # 3
4/2/19...

Read More

crown of bobby pins and bandana
   she hoists a beer bottle scepter
   dime store paste royal necklace 
   moth holed sweater Queen's cape
   her well worn lawn chair throne
   she stays alert in  her tower
   surveys her realm on Alcott Lane
   nothing escapes the queen's watch...

Read More

The ceiling fan that surveys the room
With its unbiased demeanour...
& sickening pace...
Mutters abuses to me...
As if it doesn't like my company...

But helpless that I'm...
I simply have to bear the bluntness...
Owing to the sweltering summer...
I can not imagine a life without its company....!...

Read More

In the wet clash of tongues, 
Bent to each others desire,
Open mouth in the simple fun,
We breathe our power on life. 

Intoxicated lip crushes,
Desirous of each other,
In sequestered frolic grips;
Forms vocals in intoned cries:

Wish for the kinkiest function;
And surveys high performance?...

Read More

It’s Spring

Today I saw
A swallow fly
And spring was nigh,
An oaken branch
Puts forth its leaves
And winter grieves.
A bluebell shoot
Escapes the earth
Which gave it birth,
A black- faced lamb
With legs unfurled
Surveys the world.
White clouds parade
The heavens above
And I’m in love....

Read More

The hill figures
Where mist dreams of the rain's reply.
Who gave us springs, streams and rivers?
Who took the trails tracks and signs.

Never mind your phone,
Lying lost by the ice cream van.

Waiting for the yawn of man.
The traffic surveys,
Numbers climb,
Hill figures,
The van chimes.
             Julian...

Read More

Such a long-winded line!
Still for me it is fine
Slips and rolls off the tongue
Simply meant to be sung
Sense it lacks by design.
Surveys give it a like,
Same to Andrews/Van Dyke. 
 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Pleiades S Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
     Placed 3rd
© 21st April 2021...

Read More

The old lawman sits
And surveys the scene
Always one to see detail
He raises the cup and sips
The hot coffee his companion
No more to wear the uniform
Or carry the gun in his hip
But there are still the stories 
He tells about some other days
When men were men
And women loved them for it.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

Read More

He sits under the maple
on the bench they used to share,
surveys the flames of autumn
but within he’s cold and bare.
She left home with secret beau,
and her name is now taboo.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6 Lines Max 
Bite Size Poem no19 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
          Placed 3rd
© 2nd September 2021...

Read More

Entertainment's nightly brewing
  Turtle doves a-cooing
Brother Owl surveys the scene
  with regal hoots, he courts his queen

A thousand points of light
  shimmer 'round the moon
Across the dancing waters
  skip voices of white loons

Rain beats swift 'gainst window panes
  Homes are shuttered tight
Baby's heart stirs Momma's breast
  Cozy whispers through the night...

Read More

Above the clouds, the regal mountain top
Surveys the billowing sea of white below
Watches eagles on their soaring flight
And bathes in the sun's unfiltered light

Man will always try to reach above the clouds 
As dreams fly from hearts that long for fullfillment
Waiting with timeless patience and solemn grace
For man's faltering footsteps upon its face.



6/13/13...

Read More

All this time doing everything right,
Then one by one little things fall,
Big things crash,
Everything becomes nothing,
Left with piles of papers,
Hours of research,
Millions of facts and data,
But no completed Research paper,
All the effort,
All the long nights,
Professor and Peer Advice,
Still no Research paper,
Books, surveys, journals, magazines, newspapers,
No Research Paper Indeed......

Read More

Fulfillment is his game;
he cannot name another choice
that would enhance a life so lost
in love of all that he surveys.

The beloved too will fail, for he
must lose the trail, in his indifferent quest
to understand--

I for one, would welcome it,
for coming to the close of fantasy and life,
I'd sing not requiem, but celebration.
Enhancement finally takes place
with a shoulder's shrug.
              ~...

Read More

LASTING THOUGHT
One less tat on the plate, makes for a trimmer waistOne tat too many, a extra inch on your waist graced
Indiana Shaw . . . 

"Surveys show since the coronavirus comsumption of potatoes has gone up
by 15%, mind so has the comsumption of wine" . . . 

"More wine Sir, with your baked spud" . . . ; )...

Read More

A bad moon on the rise,
Grinning like sour cheese,
Drips a rivulet of blood,
A groovy facial scar;
On the canal rancid surface,
Blacker than a witches’ bowel,
It smiles back at itself,
Death reflected from afar.

Don’t look now, for
Something wicked comes,
Trailing rotten funeral wreaths,
Along the catacomb way;
And the bad moon surveys
The handiwork of conscience,
Turns the plastic red and slick,
Predicting venous spray....

Read More

Furry feline monarch, master
Of all that he surveys.
Fierce and superior, to all he meets
Cheddar stalks into the room,
Jumps up on the bed (that he lest you use)
And curls up at your feets.
He licks himself, and looks at you
In a manner that says “You should know,
I rule and command, 
I’m the one who runs this show.”
Shhhhh, Hush now, don’t tell him
He’s not the king.
For if you do I fear… 
There will be hissing and gnashing of teeth....

Read More

How vast is the mind
in all it surveys?
Humanity's blip can be
measured in days,
yet I hold hallowed
my meager plight
as I plummet blind
through this icy night.

With all prime focus
centered on me
as my reigning
identity
I quake confused
by all my eyes see.
Shall I be sequestered
in perpetuity?

My body buckles
with forces profound
since I find no hope
to orbit around
only more egos
that need to be stroked
waiting for my light
to get revoked....

Read More

So yu running down 
The House
The Car
The Land
Monkey Money

No time for family and friends
just the monkey money
No time to reflect and enjoy some
Good home cooking
No time to analyze and realize
Monkey money is no substitute for
concerts missed OR graduations.

No sir, no amount of monkey money
Can ever make up for the permanent frown on a pretty face
When she surveys the crowded room and you are not there.

Monkey money
Monkey money
keep your monkey money....

Read More