Short Ten To One (1) Poems

count backwards from 
ten to one
just like life 
you always 
return where you 
started from...

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Counting down from ten to one
Hypnotic trance ends, stupor comes undone 
How then do we smoothly, from sleep awake
Who is the hypnotist, doing the shake-shake-shake
Find out now; dull awareness is no fun

22-July-2021...

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One came dressed as a bumble bee,
Another as an orange cat.
One character I didn't know
For I am not as hep as that.

Though I could see loved child beneath,
I acted scared the evening through.
The sweets are gone, normalcy reigns
Until ten thirty-one eleven is due.

By: Joyce

For Paula's challenge...

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Route 66 I'd  travel once more
Old now and so ready to retire
A sweet 59 Chevy I'd want to restore
Did it back then, I've still got the fire

Ten to one my best friend will go
Ripe now  for any new adventure
Into the night we'll go with the flow
Plenty of time now for our great tour



Road Trip Contest..
8/10/13...

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My two egos are Work Self and Home Self 
Two beings that barely recognize each other
They do not communicate or do any identical things
I missed posting ten poems one day Poetry Soup 
Because as soon as Home Self was wearing pajamas
Work Self was on vacation, watching hours of TV
And Work Self had been in charge of writing that day....

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She asks me to rate my pain on a,
He asks how much I love him on a,
Now please rate your professor on a,
What would you say your mood is on a
One to ten scale, one being the worst.
Everything, at it's best, gets a nine.
I want to believe there will always
be something better in my future.
I'm saving my ten for forever.


Written: May 17, 2021...

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Ten fingers to hold you close

Nine live hopefully to share with you

Figure eights of love got my head spinning

Seven wonders of my world

Six feet under without you

Five day work week and the weekend I’m with you

Four corners of my mind but your in the center

Three calls a day just to hear your voice

Two eyes to hypnotize me 

One kiss from you to last forever...

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Most ghouls and goblins will not be seen
After October thirty-one, on Halloween.
But the worst of them I fear will stay
Until November two, Election Day.

If I am to believe all that I hear
Of the candidates, I sadly fear
The choice is either rogue or sinner.
It matters not whom is the winner.

Ten thirty-one  should not worry you
The date to fear is eleven two.

By: Joyce...

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Arrogant Custer thought he was the greatest thing since the invention of dynamite!

  He took on Sitting Bull who outnumered him ten to one which wasn't very bright!

He led the Seventh Cavalry to disaster never to answer another reveille call!

  "Yellow Hair" proved that old Biblical admonition, "Pride goeth before the fall!"

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Woke up and these were on my mind.

Away, stay, say, may.

Waited, adulated, emulated

Contemplated, ill-fated, denigrated.

Send, extend, bend, attend.

Console, extol, sole, troll.

There, care, share, where.

Utmost, perfect host, boast, ghost.

Talented, prevented, consented.

Situate, hesitate, wait.

Obstacle, ridicule, mule.

Your limerick challenge for the day.

Jim Horn...

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The universe
In my navel
Where it all began
From the mother of all mothers
tongue tied 
to a tree
naked
No wool to pull over these eyes

They're up here by the way

Pondering the microcosm of a belly button
The flora and the fauna

Crazy when you think that
By the sum of our parts
We are outnumbered ten to one and

Eve didn't even have a belly button


How do ya' like them apples?





11/8/2017...

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