Short Tackles Poems

strolls home through the corn 
and sees lights at the windows - -
tackles intruder...

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Finished drastically 
Sail through the sea
Enjoy life
Become superman
Live comfortably
Then; be with one
Tackles
No?
I think not...

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Now American football enthrals
There are plays there are tackles and falls
It’s not stagnant or staid
And it’s usually played
By men with oddly shaped balls...

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Threatened national beast*,
Tawny coat with black stripes,
Teeth sharp and agile feet,
Totally strong and brave,
Targets small animals,
Tracks, tackles, tears, and tastes,
Triumphant growl is heard.


15th March 2022


*Tiger is the national animal of India and it is endangered...

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FLIRT                                                 Acrostic Tanka

         Flirt flies free for fun.
         Liberal lateral love.
         Irresponsible,
         Rolls, rushes reckless restless.
         Tactfully talks, tackles.


   12/04/16

    Contest No. 248 any form/theme max eight lines by Brian Strand...

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nocturnal retreat

mauve tackles midnight
 lavender echoes whisper ~
  song of the rooster

curly coral clouds
 dressed in a burnished bronze blush ~
  ebony snoozes

round rosiness yawns
 in wispy gossamer hush ~
  the sweet scent of pink

puffy plumes of gold
 like lush heavenly spindrift ~
  nocturnal retreat

6/6/23...

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When I dream
I leave behind
The pain that
Shackles
Tackles
Pins me to the earth

When poets dream
They give flight
To thoughts once tied
To impossible
Improbable
Now comes to life

When dreamers dream
They are not just idyling by
Letting time slip away
Their fruits are not tangible
Yet important so
Let a dreaming dreamer lay...

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Football

A new dawn has come
He showers and puts on his lucky tee
Sits and waits in his lounge chair
Times has come
He kicks and runs 
Catches and tackles 
His blood pressure goes up 
All from his recliner chair
He cheers and howlers
Rants and raves 
Dammit!! 
Yes!! 
Oregon Ducks 48,
Wyoming Cowboys 14

 By Eve Roper 9/25/2014...

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Sanmati, my messenger, is no more a milksop.
Ardent though is she never will yawp.
Nagging sometimes though in some shop.
Merrily walks in crowd alone till atop.
Amends her needs; tackles one with strop-
Till he agrees with her, else does lop.
In always high spirits, ready to swop
Joy or sorrow equally treats like gumdrop.
Angry if treats us like a bellhop
In our home or out, but never plop
Nor cry in public to show us flop....

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Could it your fancy tickle:
The fluid you need does trickle;
Legs once free like vehicles
On Stopped Feet of Manacles?

Won’t it up get one’s hackles
That one often tasks tackles
Others’ Wrists not in shackles
For what one down to buckles?

You others tag ‘The Fickle’
Fit only for the sickle;
Expo sure to ridicule:
Lots of  in Article
That you know “Just Bicycle”
Swearing on “No Icicle!”

Honestly, I won’t like it,
Though shan’t jump into a pit!...

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she leaves her sonsy
at home
stripping mind down
to bare essentials:
dangling dendrites

ice breaks pure
untainted by carnal warming;
it’s a gray revolution and
telekinetic foreplay’s the rage

our tongues untie
in didactic spurts;
lips engage,
words fly like scarlet tanagers
cued to celestial magnets

she leads,
I follow;
together we migrate
to higher ground
beyond the snare
of flesh-baited tackles

dulcet is love
consummated in the cerebral zone...

~ P...

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