Short Tape Poems

Lost
under pile
of red tape
hoping I will be
found...

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Written by Gail DeBole
Updated July 1, 2016

The Universe's Tape...

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Kenyan desert lull
Measuring tape and tiny picks
Sand reveals nothing...

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Parades police tape
Shots fired active shooter
Nearby children play
...

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gender
                                              mender





***...

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bargain basement whore
we door the floor for escape
tape me shut,but,wait.............

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Silence is golden,
And to help enforce this fact,
Duct tape is silver!...

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i throw
caution
to the wind

while winding
yellow tape
around 

our
crime
scene...

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Babe I’ve
Been waiting
For you to go off
And video tape
Meant no harm
But your escape...

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“That’s so cool! The wire thingy!
I have one of those duck tape ones!”
Oh sweet nonsense!...

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I like his paintings.
If he brought them home  
I would tape them on my refrigerator door....

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Tape breaks, like dawn's first
Light, a wave upon the shore,
Weary triumph blooms.

...

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Sticky Tape

My sticky tape roll has an air of 
snobbery and 
unforgiveness about 
her.
...

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A Broken Record
A Broken Tape
A Broken Cd
Were Lost In Music
But Not In A Trap
A Broken Treble Clef....

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN - DUCT TAPE IS SILVER

((poster on the wall in a high school classroom))


10/6/2022...

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its a cox
that lock
by tape
its a piece of cake
to pack and stack
but nuthing hot
in a
CARD BOARD BOX...

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How can you measure
Feelings in my heart
with only a short tape?

It is larger than heaven
It is deeper than ocean....

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Tape Measure

The very deep breathing of 
the tape measure continues to 
affect my 
USB holders cha-cha rehearsals.
...

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new computer
wrestling with tape
and yards of bubble wrap 
make me sure to trust spirit
will have scissors to unwrap me...

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this is a new day
you can say
or play 
a video tape
about baking a  cake
or staying in shape
but do it right
build a
WEBSIGHT...

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    Swiper goes to the drug store of a nearby town.
Purchases ear muffs, staff, nun chakas, 
and duct tape for Dora's mouth......

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puffy yarn balls
decorate white roller skates
nineteen fifty-two

poodle skirts
boys big rings wrapped with tape
pink nail polish...

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Long
Running
Tape of grey
Unwinds its way
Across Gaia’s breast
Tell your stories
To riders
Mighty
Road.
...

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velocity measured with ticker tape — students jump out window


9/2/2020
JCB Burl’s My Most Unforgettable Moment in HighSchool...

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how I wish that I could fix,
what's needed to repair us.

if it was just tape and glue,
I know the problem would be finding
those too....

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