Short Twenty Nine Poems

Every place I travel is too small for my thoughts....

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Some days I just loathe
this rigid cast that robs me
steals what's best of you...

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reading sonnet twenty nine and trying
to put my love into words 
once thawed an ice cold heart

For David’s contest
Jack, 23rd December...

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In the summer of twenty-nine
All the wirld seemed just fine,
Paper chases,wihout a care..
Next minute flying through the air-
Ripples echoed everywhere....

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Wednesday, believe it or not
  twenty-nine people shot ~
    Chicago's gone to pot
  

______________________________
Yesterday, Wednesday, July 14, 2021...

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February arrives and it's glad
makes the other months look kinda sad
hearts and love it stands for
romance, flowers what’s more
for only twenty nine days that's not bad.

lizReilly...

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Rob Gronkowski, known as 'the Gronk'
A football star chiseled from rock, no 'policy wonk'
   At the top of his game, retired at age twenty-nine
   A star who saw stars ~ concussed at least nine times...

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Twenty-seven is eighteen plus nine.
The difference of thirty less three is fine.
If you're not a fool,
and you stay in school,
it's the square root of seven hundred twenty-nine!
...

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small pox, sore throat, what in the world
Died at twenty-nine, died at seventy
So many stories about the virgin queen
Elizabeth the 1st, you remain a secret today
You did make House of Tudor go away....

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Bringer of Old Age 
Saturn, that's what you always were 
You move quite slowly 

At a snail's pace 
Twenty-nine point forty-six 
Years, orbit the Sun 

Named after a god 
Within the Roman pantheon 
Of farming and TIME...

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You are my Valentine
   You look like Frankenstein
You smell like turpentine
   Your lips like iodine

You wear size twenty-nine
   You mope around and whine
But I like you mighty fine
   You're all I've got ~ You're mine!...

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Oct twenty-nine is National Cat Day

   To honor pedigree and roaming stray

      Take a cat to lunch

         Or perhaps to brunch

            Or better yet to a seafood buffet

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired...

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The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 

when trumpets sounded in herald

twenty-nine lives where lost

as the sea battered and tossed 

where all hope had fallin, imperiled 



Poet-Rick Parise
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgearld
By Gordon Lightfoot...

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A Few Haiku



cold water
slapped by beaver tail
take heed



red maples
anticipating
spring’s fire



city slickers
feet slapping wet pavement
a waddle of ducks



And a Senryu

hidden rings
protect her secret
twenty nine years


John G. Lawless
©5/3/2018...

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Lake Superior, Gitche Gumee
November winds, fear starts boiling.
The ship creaks, groans, twists, water spumy; 
Thoughts of loved ones waiting on shore pushed aside.
Evil eye of the storm is coiling
And springs to release twenty-nine souls into the debris.
The church bell twenty-nine times is tolling....

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Transfixed upon a lucite sunray
the iron blood of longshoremen
washed beneath the whisperings of the bay
a pupil canvas pierced through
by the scalpel of elephantine deceit
vision yellowed in the flowering of a lost identity
the young man swallows deeply and mourns
the gist of his first twenty-nine years....

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W-hat you feel right now
H-as made the day so fine; 
E-arly lights bathe your life, 
N-ovember twenty-nine.
G-et up from the bed
A-s you open your eyes; 
Y-awning has been finished as you see the sunrise.

L-et the beautiful dawn
O-ffer the mirth underneath; 
P-ouring rain disappears
E-xcept the amazing 
Z-enith....

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I vaguely heard it
Almost a whisper
“TOD – twelve twenty nine”

“but wait” I shouted
“I’m still here”
 “DON’T…..pull that sheet up!”

“Stop whispering”
“I can still hear you”.

“You guys are gonna be in so much trouble
When I tell Mom”.

“I’m never playin’ Doctor with you guys again.


John G Lawless
7/12/2023...

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W-ait for the dawn to break
I-n spite of the long night; 
L-et the sun slowly rise, 
L-et the Lord be
Y-our light.

B-e patient, the dawn will break, 
U-nless there's no tomorrow; 
E-ventide truly will pass, 
M-orn replaces the shadow.
I-n September twenty-nine, day denies the heartache; 
A-llow your mind to be stoic, wait for the dawn to break....

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Twenty-nine cavities
My dentist said,
Gleefully twenty-nine times
Twenty-nine novacaines
Fun as twenty-nine
Parking fines
Half as many root-canals
Half as many frightening dreams
Half as many muffled
Dental equiptment blocked screams

Twenty nine appointments
To dread twenty nine days
Twenty-nine times to stumble out,
In twenty-nine a dental haze...

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February is the second month
Of the twelve each year.
Use these twenty-eight days;
to help some life to cheer.

It is the shortest month,
So don't let it pass.
Help some weary soul;
For time is fleeing fast.

There is a time in February,
When there are twenty-nine days.
This gives you one more chance;
To tell of Jesus, The Truth, The Life, The Way....

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Close your eyes
Open your left eye
Then your right eye
Count forward to one

Now close your right eye
Then your left eye
Count backwards to fifteen
Go past that number to sixty-eight 
  and then proceed  backwards to it

Open both eyes
And see the world 
In its totality
Count to twenty-nine

Open your heart 
You are now ready 
To conquer the world
Free at last!...

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I have never celebrated my birthday of February first,
my sister died on the day before and I get too sad;
so, mom and me made the leap to February twenty-nine,
now, I only age every four years or so!

_______________________
February 7, 2020


Poetry/Verse/Taking the Leap
Copyright Protected, ID 20-1223-821-03
All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France...

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My sister made me see lavender

That day in December, 

Twenty-nine gifts show her heart's tender;

A time to remember

That silk saree and thank gift sender. 




14th December 2022

(She gave me 29 gifts, all in different shades of violet, my favourite colour. The silk saree is one of them and my favourite) 



For Andrea Dietrich's contest...

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Old Grandpa Jones slipped and fell on the ice
Poor fellow paid a mighty heavy price
  He broke twenty-nine bones
  All day long, moans and groans
Hey, Gramps: You're one big prosthetic device




                     December 29, 2020
           Winter Snow or Ice Limerick Contest
                    Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
 Syllable Counts -- 10 10 7 7 10 -- Poetry Soup Syllable Checker...

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