Short Three Legged Poems

oh this old table 
with one less leg to stand on 
never let's me down...

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shadow behind trees
outcast roams the forest glen
your stare knows my soul...

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there once was a three legged dog
who thought he was a bullfrog
instead of a nap or a nip
he preferred a wet kiss
then had his way with a log...

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Loaded blue-eyed woman
On the blood wheel
Three-legged train grinds
Mindlessly delicious cuts
Sweat gently littering the floor
Rock Bottom...

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their three-legged race

her left, his right

stymied-knees in between

cross the starting line

with a tricky gait

3/22/2020...

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history’s troika
failure’s three legged stool
life’s IFS, ANDS, and BUTS


©10/24/2018

for – In response to IF….Poetry Contest
sponsor – Silent One...

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Collecting all manner of things,
From battered old derbies to rings,
He still couldn’t find,
It stayed on his mind,
A three-legged scarecrow that sings.
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Three legged dog stuttered into the bar
Barked with a limp which most thought a flaw
He soon found his voice 
and stated with choice
“I’m looking for the man who shot my paw”...

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Satin white lily pads
cushion the high jump
performed by the three-legged frog.

Heated blaze bakes his fading green coat.
He leaps into his hot tub paradise.


       Life is floating by.


A big grin and loud croak announce his pleasure.

What appears to be boredom for one set of eyes ,
is bliss for another....

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softly she
speaks and
i being older 
deafened by too
much Berlioz on level
eleven ask for forgiveness

she shuts
up but using
hand gestures
and finger figures
i seem to sum it up
about a three legged man

as the
rest goes
blank as instead
i try to read her toes
but they are plump and
sluggish my wish i sign i love

you...

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This autumn night we'll have a harvest fest
With all the fixings it will be quite grand
The pie eating contest now starts things off
As each will eat until they win or drop
But it will end with the three legged race
The winning duo won by just a leg
While the harvest moon now shines so heavenly

Blank verse has an iambic  pentameter but no rhyme...

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Listen to poem:

T oddlers with their three-legged dog
E njoying a festive get-together
A lmond cookies and milk for all

P olka dots amongst forget-me-nots
A fternoons delightfully linger
R eciting Mother Goose and riddles
T ricycles on standby for adventure
Y outhful days seem to last forever



AP: 3rd place 2021

Posted on March 21, 2021...

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suit jackals laugh with
both hands in cancellation.

traffic always stops for
a three legged dog.


dirty windows hold Christmas lights 
the way an old woman saves the dress
three sizes too small.

excuse this rebellion,
a well thought out
gesture of fashion,with a hat,a brim
not as long as before.

another drunken tearful swollen cry
of no sorrow.

I've yet to buy one drink....

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THREE LEGGED TABLE

We are a three legged table
But we can no longer stand
Our son’s no longer with us
And we try to understand
How to cope with our loss
Called to fight for our land
Sent out to the front line
To that unit undermanned
Now here we are just three
Not a future we’d planned
But the bombs keep falling
As waves of war are fanned
Both loving him and country
A blue and yellow armband...

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Jeff the three-legged worm
they weren’t his legs
but legs that he’d found
from old bits of twig
just scattered around
he once saw a centipede
who laughed and made fun
of a young and shy Jeff
stuck on his tum
but Jeff swam through soil
and the centipede saw
staring in wonder
amazement and awe
the twig legs put by now
but kept just in case
although Jeff seems ok 
from the beam on his face



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To believe or deny,
enlightenment dares
Our lack of acceptance,
a three-legged chair

We feel it and breathe it,
and live it de jure
As minds are left gasping
at something so pure

At this very point
rejection sets in
Our spirit’s attacked,
the reasoning thin

Millennium’s secrets
will come and will go
But what can’t be explained
—the best thing to know

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: December, 2020)...

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To believe or deny,
enlightenment dares
Our lack of acceptance,
a three-legged chair

We feel it and breathe it,
and live it for sure
As minds are left gasping
at something so pure

At this very point
rejection sets in
Our spirit’s attacked,
the reasoning thin

Century upon century
will come and will go
But what can’t be explained
—the best thing to know

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: December, 2020)...

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All I waned was a show dog 
A dog to run and play
A beautiful and talented dog
But it all changed the night 
The night that three legged dog showed up 
Like a gift from god
He’s weary limps weren’t beautiful
He couldn’t run but tried and I watched him drag his leg 
But then he turns and runs towards me 
And I forget everything I just thought 
As he jumps into my arms
I hug him as though there is no difference...

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All I wanted was a show dog 
A dog to run and play
A beautiful and talented dog
But it all changed the night 
The night that three legged dog showed up 
Like a gift from god
He’s weary limps weren’t beautiful
He couldn’t run but tried and I watched him drag his leg 
But then he turns and runs towards me 
And I forget everything I just thought 
As he jumps into my arms
I hug him as though there is no difference...

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On your imaginary forces work 

now seen a place with

Three legged animals with a soft palfrey canter
Air floating fish seen and their no need of water

The lovely birds flying would no need of wings 
gods power just trusting resonance of their sings

God is all powerful and said without rules
imagination is false and followed by fools

Let us enter the world of Hieronymus Bosch
place of monsters chimeras beauty and tosh...

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Many a fond memory my heart does hold
Precious time spent with family
Always feeling loved and being told

The smell of freshly baked bread lingering in the morning air
Missing my Mom's cooking
Wishing I could still be there

Always feeling welcome and never out of place
Enjoying our family reunions
And the occasional three-legged race

My Mother and Father have since passed on
I'm now but an orphan
Since they are both now gone...

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Remember the day we were playing
Cowboys and Indians in the barn?
Bert was sittin' on the three-legged stool
Milkin' the old cow,
Sam or you,
(Never me, I was always innocent)
Poked that cow in the butt
With a tobacco stick.
Oh, What a shout Bert let out!
We all flew to Granny and you screamed,
"Hide us quick, Mama, that old man's
Gonna kill us!"
She stuffed us all three under the "company room"  bed.
We could always count on her......

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someone who knows every thing
betrays for nothing thirty
silver coins
we wouldnt know the saviour if
he messed up they branded
a hero a betrayer split his
bowels
thirty silver coins
aberration of the potter
three legged chair weeping
made out of the ancient cross
thirty silver coins
dark coffee and caramel
coasting in the round
table sodero meal pass
lonely girl reading free verses
train of thoughts pass by whistling
thirty silver coins...

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I am three legged,
I am balanced,
It’s a mystery,
I sit in a dim-lit room.

I bear the sage's books,
Where he scripts his thoughts,
The monsters that stare through his window,
The gloom that pervades the meadow.

I am three legged,
The unseen pivots me,
The unknown trestles me,
I'm in a library of the deep.

I am a door into the day,
Prop and support along the way,
The sage takes off on my plane,
Nightfall embraces me.


October 28, 2023....

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Ginger and I first met at a horse auction,
she was described as a strawberry roan
a gentle nature with a three-legged gait,
creating a bumpy ride because of this trait.

I learned to ride with Ginger hours at a time,
we were in cinque with leg commands,
she was not a fast quarter horse,
what a relief as she plodded the course.

Many years and miles passed along,
I remember my first horse with pride,
she was Ginger with an even soul,
who taught me to ride on the whole....

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