Short Totter Poems

Raindance

So old...I totter…
Tho' still love to watch raindrops
dance upon water
...

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but now i refrain
from the flame 
of destruction
but love --
the teeter-totter
of fatalistic love!

:: ~ ::...

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Sidewalk spring rain steps
years of tetter-totter angst
Main St. love apocalypse
Relationship on the rocks
Haystack needle search weary...

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It sure got hotter
Around the teeter totter
When Peggy Potter
The teacher’s daughter
Flipped a finger
At Suzie Saucer
And her mother saw her...

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With mercy and patience He rules over all
    If not, if strict justice He enforced

  The world, everyone and everything
    in it, would totter and fall...

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Funny
Fussy

Cheery 
Chubby

Toothless
Restless

Noisy 
Clingy

Messy
Cutie

Agile
Fragile

Taster
Totter

For 
the 
'Footle 
Fun' 
contest...

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Let's see if I can be prim and proper
Been a while on this teeter totter
Can't help myself
In my soul, naughty dwells
Very strong, I suck it up like a blotter...

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Let's see if I can be prim and proper
Been quite a while on this teeter totter
Can't help myself
Naughtiness dwells
Very strong, I suck it up like a blotter...

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Let's see if I can be prim and proper
Been quite a while on this teeter totter
Can't help myself
Naughtiness dwells
Very strong, I suck it up like a blotter...

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Let's see if I can be prim and proper
Been a while on this teeter totter
Can't help myself
In my soul, naughtiness dwells
Very strong, I suck it up like a blotter...

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Butterfly feet touch 'pon water
Lightly it disturbs then ripples
Definitely it did not totter
Slowly the rings become triples
Ripples controlled by the potter  ...

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Lithium keeps me current
On river raft sans torrent
Dreaming by cloud tufted sky
Scoring rustic lullaby
Hands caressing cool water 
Passing coarse cliffs which totter
Lithium keeps me current...

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Let's see if I can be prim and proper
Been a while on this teeter totter
Can't help myself
Inside, naughty dwells
Very strong, suck it up like a blotter


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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In that arena couples fight
Against infidelity, dishonesty…….
Many have fought but lost
Yet many still join the spot 
But when love wanes
They totter to demise 
As their opponents smell victory...

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Judith S... my latest heartthrob in the group
She crosses my eyes, my heart does loops
Tickles my teeter totter
Call me a naughty plotter
But one day gonna flip flop in her delicious Soup...

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Turn
 the air
 on high. Wear
 shorts. Lose the shoes.
 Watch the weather news
 while praying for showers.
 Wilt like the plants and flowers.
 Mow that grass and chug that water.
 When you're too tired to walk, just totter.
 It's early July; it will get hotter....

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My footwear in hand,
Trousers folded up to fend,
Dunk in tide I stand,

Unsteady a bit,
Sands under feet digging pits
When two huge waves hit

Splashing sea water,
Wetting me and all my wits,
Clueless I totter.
___________________________
Haiku |30.06.2021|...

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On bent knee
If to dare
A prayer declared my glorious God
where catacombs twine the elusive spirit
this flesh to dwell of sinful ways
perhaps a tetter-totter
to and fro 
denying one
to rise or fall

In this storm a torrent wind
Onward we march
good deeds
and sin...

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Toils and brawls hit hard herebelow 
Till poetry and its bliss are forgotten;
Till the joys of rhyme totter battered 
By thrusts of a world foul and rotten. 

But when the last of blows 
The versifier's nose all wet
Has left in crimson sutures, 
This quill shall scribble yet....

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I wash my hands
I wash my feet
Here I stand Lord God
Ready to keep
Alert and at attention
I shall stand
In me Father I'm your honor guard
Standing on your promises
Never wavering do you totter
Here I stand Lord God
Ready to keep

3/24/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2018©...

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The Word Teeter Totter
He used the word teeter totter.
It surprised me, because I never hear it any more.
I said, “Where did you learn that word?”
He did not know which one I meant.
I said, “How do you know about a teeter totter?”
He said, “I was born on a teeter totter.”
An interesting visual for sure....

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You can take the readers to the water,
  but you cannot make them drink

A thirst most carry deep inside
  can totter at the brink

You can lead them right up to the edge,
  but you’ll never make them jump

The choice is theirs, the Muses dare
   —as fear still primes the pump

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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Driving by a picturesque lake paradise 
The scene serene a pleasure to eyes 
Watching the moon overhead 
Shining with rays spread
Lights totter
Red
On water
Looking like rose bed
Shifting shadows on chrome red
Liquid glowing beneath crimson skies
Driving by a picturesque lake paradise




11/16/18...

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This is what life’s all about:
We barrel in and totter out.

Along the way, we smile or pout
And try our best to conquer doubt.

We may be rebels or devout,
Remain unnoticed or have clout,

Yet we survive, in flood or drought,
Our whispers rising to a shout

As we fight in our final bout;
Then, like a candle, fizzle out....

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hollow shells
of people smiling
plastic smiles
white picket fence
2.5 kids
suburban street
manicured lawns
walking on leashes
their fabricated dogs
priceless crystal 
sits on the 
coffee table waiting
waiting for one
little teeter 
one little totter
to crash
into pieces
hollow shells
of people smiling
plastic smiles...

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