Short Toppled Poems

Toppled building blocks,
messy transfiguration;
A linea is born....

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Feeding on itself
Hate is toppled, overweight
      Love rises above...

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The storm-toppled tree,
cut up and quickly removed;
and now I miss it....

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the rook took the pawn
just before the pawn was queened
toppled pawn booty...

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flank toppled by pawns 
confident king sits and yawns…
a new check-mate dawns...

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dumpy trumpeter 
spat the dummy
when his taco toppled
off his pastiche wall...

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built on sand

toppled by waves of sorrow….

free love

~//~

©  03 Dec 2010...

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Went for my cigarrettes, grabbing them upside down.
They toppled to the floor.
Sober this would not have happened....

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The promise of sunset
Broken yet again
As the creatures mourn
While toppled forest drain
At the barging of wild rain...

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Terrible tornados toppled trees tearing trenches through the terrain,
“Took my tonsils,” told Timmy Thompson, “like taking a tongue twister train.”...

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My feelings are a house of cards,
My will is the glue,
Without the will of wisdom,
They would be toppled by you.
Where, pray tell .. is my wisdom?...

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Stone pillars erected against the gales, 
Silenced in buried secrets deep. 

Hurled discourse from crested toppled waves,
Endless tattle tossed in a heap....

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        on edge all my life 
        easily toppled over 
         rue this day today 
 my ribs are blown wide open 
     and butterflies fly away 

By
David Kavanagh...

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Talk about windy, a record breaker by far
A crane toppled over crushing a bunch of cars
No one was killed
Amazes me still
The goodest luck time to head for the bars...

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Will never forget my first real love, Mary Ross
Toppled head over heels, so cuddly and soft
Was blown away
In love's sweet ballet
Think of her still though to another I'm betrothed...

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I fell, I dropped, I collapsed, I toppled, she said.
I thought I would tumble and roll, then I’d be dead.
My words did not come, they did not arrive at all.
She wanted sympathy, this crazy woman, Ms. Ball....

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I sit and enjoy my beautiful tree,
lights sparkle and shine for all to see!
Until my cats climbed in it tonight,
it's now a dark, toppled over fright!

12/18/2020

Contest: Christmas Chastushka
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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Mayday tomorrow, 
but the pole has been toppled,
the good earth churned by munitions,
and then seeded with Claymore mines.

There will be no dancing on rubble ruins,
as we bury desecrated corpses, 
this year’s harvest will be lean....

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I once had a dream.
But living in its shadow
became all I knew.

Then I saw it again.
More glorious than I remembered.
More precarious than I realized.

When I reached for it, it toppled.
Crushed beneath, I no longer see
the dream, the shadow, me....

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I bowed for the story line.
Hunched over in suspense,
I hung-out for the punch line.
The twists of plot
lured me to the edge.
I could see the lede
lying buried below me.
Reaching in to grab it,
I toppled over, fell right in,
and became the story line....

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Black smoke turning to gray,
Strong icons toppled,
On that day.

People of the world they say,
Great Heros were lost,
On that day.

Rising from the dusty way,
Our symbol of freedom,
On that day.

A nation that will not lay,
But did unite,
On that day....

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I stood too long
in the public square
strangers wearing masks
desecrated my presence
tossed paint upon my visage
roped and toppled me
shattered my past
erased my future
all because I paused
to gaze upon the beauty
of a common ground

John G. Lawless
7/16/2020...

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Many years from now when my feeble hair resembles
a glazing mountain's peak toppled with snow...
will I will regret youth's gone splendor?
Somehow its joyful yearning
can offer much comfort and hope:
that where I'm going its beauty wil be restored...
as when time was eternal....

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Rhonda invited some guest for Evening tea.
Sandwiches, scones n cakes made her glee.
Lil Sam was not allowed, his mind mischiefs
He hides two mice in Nanny's kerchief.









For the Contest Chastuska Me
Judge:- Dr. Ram Mehta
Date:- August 27,2014
By:- Zoe Life...

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CYCLONE HAIKUS


      Mighty trees once proud
No match for destructive winds
      Toppled to the ground


       Loud and angry howls
Powerful and mighty gusts
      All heads bow in fear


       Winds rage night and day
 No way to cover our ears
      To drown out the sound...

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