Short Tongued Poems

the pale blue sharpie
lies open upon the floor ...
blue tongued chihuahua ...

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lazing beneath
a swaying buddlelia blue
a long tongued moth in my view
suckles its nectar brew-
nearby others hover impromptu...

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soft
caress
against lips
tongued whispers sigh
in romantic beats
sweet serenade
beneath moon
as night
fades...

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"apples and pears"


like a liz
ard or

better
a snake

split
tongued

young one
tempting

me
with 

the
old

sin...

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A little boy had a big lick
Of a toffee apple on a stick,
His tongue got stuck
When he had a huge suck,
Poor little red-tongued Rick....

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Tall tale possessed
Dark heart held ransom
Handsome silver tongued
Slang sucker-punched
Black his blue eyes
Wince at nothing
But truth testified...

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Words used to sever humanity

Lunged with disdain and fierce brutality

Glinting, steel tongued cruelty

Hollow of joy, music and grace
...

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this wheat
quivers
like flesh
beneath
the whispers 
of love’s lips 
softly tracing
tongued secrets 
around the edges

I tremble 
the same 
within 
these thoughts...

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with much said and little done ~ the spider hangs dead from a web half spun


2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 8 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mark Toney 
How many syllables (17)
07/19/22...

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I feel you
in a winded breath
like a tongued whisper
against bare flesh




From my poem Seduced~
June 22, 2019
"ARBITRIUM DIVISA 2 Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Gregory R Barden...

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I am drowning in a sea of black tongued regret
They whisper and scream
They live my life and tear it apart
They caise pain and suffering
Damage and fear
They're my demons
And so I commend you
To never say
Hello...

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September, sands cool.
Ghosts occupy lifeguard nests.
Blue parents waiting for 
blue school buses....
carrying blue brained children
led into blue tongued lizard pits 
by blue cell phone mist.
September, sands cool-...

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Hard luck
Luck.
I hoped to gift you
with my tears
to adorn your
crown with a
somber face
and a land of soul
with banished smile.
But hard luck
Luck!
I tongued clean 
the salty tears.
Hard luck.
Better luck the
next dream-wreck!...

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Pulled into the winter blend sheets
Bare spots covered by your breath
Entwined skin, fingers and toes
Eager to be pleased by us both
Embedded clusters of wrinkled linen
Linger upon dripping wet thoughts
Distant morning-soft-tongued-talks
Are ever so gentle on our mind...

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Unguarded by the living now,
The castle stood.
Drawbridge dangling.
Tongued mouth reaching outward.
Crenulations gnawing, 
The stark gray sky.
Rime-covered battlements
Coated with gangrenous moss moan.
With a banshee’s howl through apertures
Where archers once stood....

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Lo, a cyclopean ready to devour;
Lo, a silver-tongued serpent  hissing while crossing;
Lo, a mysterious land full of creatures;
Lo, a lupine howling so frightening;
Lo a phoenix from oblivion has risen again;
Nemesis a punisher of evildoers has come;
Lo, I wake up and its a dream....

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Merchant of moments 
Peddling the past
A hourglass high
A present that never lasts

Slave to silience
Disguising the deceit
A tongued tied echo
A truth that's never discrete

Time may beget actuality
Expectation elicits emotion
A tacit torture
A sensation that's never chosen...

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Fish consuming bats come out at night
In Brazil struggling fish is a sight
So scary are the long-tongued bats
Pollen and nectar give them their fats

Frog-eating bats reside in Panama
They devour them all cold and raw
Vampire bats make my shivers shake cold
Blood from animals is their liquid gold...

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Once again, the undisputed Grand High Exaulted Mistress Of the Quiz Universe;
Ms. Sharon!!  Oxymoron (Billy Mays).  Congratulations!!  You win a dozen cases of
OxymoronClean hand delivered by the silver tongued bearded Osama-Bin-
Wanna-Be
of the airwaves, whose name I feel too disgusted to repeat again.......

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I promise bitter sweet
scarlet letters
Pine cones winter's breath;
Mustard seeds finite faith;
Awesome ever clever;
Grandma's Hydrangeas pearly gates;
Red velvet tongued-tied leaves of faith;
Awesome those biter sweet promises of MAN;



12/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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Hilda shut him out of her life,

with combative tongue and hot air.

Gunther launched her, off topmost stair,

shut the lid on his battleaxe wife.


4/24/2022
Killing With an Epigram
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico


Hilda: Maid of battle
Gunther: Battle Warrior
Battleaxe: sharp-tongued, domineering...

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Singing to an empty well,
all that echo back are screams.
Visions of demons lie before me,
ripples in the inky water.
Heaven found in a man's killing touch,
and still there is no escape.
Nightmare wishes come to life,
stumbling blocks along my way.
Silver tongued devil waiting to wake me,
to the shadow of my former self....

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JESUS CHRIST

You say you don’t
Believe
But you most certainly do
Know his name
You form the curse
With your own round lips
Never batting
An eye
And you mock and smirk
Knowing each word’s
Fork-tongued crude
Never wondering why
No other name 
Holds the same
Giggle for you
Perhaps it is true?

Kim Rodrigues © 5/23/2017...

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Smouth-tongued  birds gently lean on each other

Under reddish blue skies of a summer night

Chills full of melodies and chants them cover 

Feather by feather 


From sunset to dawn, touching heads, they twitter

Watching the full bright moon over them glitter

Love trills and symphonies them weld together 

Feather to feather...

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God’s intent for all when
He gave us each a tongue,
Was to use it for purposes
Such as telling of His Son.

We were given this tool
not for a weapon of destruction,
But to spread His Word
and not words of deception.

Just keep in mind when you’re
spreading your “fork-tongued” lies,
That God will see right through
With His omniscient eyes....

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