Short Twenty Two Poems

The ball of your foot
Invited me to follow
The cast to the thigh...

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My alone time, your party hour
Then you get furious, things go sour...

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Twenty two this day,
with flowers, cake and love,
little like Monday....

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Air minus sixteen
The ground twenty-two above
Snow cones anyone?...

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You gotta try  if you want to be set free;
If you want to fly? You’ve got to believe....

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Cinquain,
Five twenty two,
Time to prepare dinner,
Hearty feast of poetic verse,
Enjoy!...

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at pinnacle of twenty-twenty-two
kicking off old pair of shoes
primed to dethrone the pine

12/31/2022...

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Here's what I’ll still do
in two thousand twenty-two:
write, post, read, review.

January 7, 2022
entered in the Strand 1047 contest...

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Jubbity Dubbity Woobity Woo
Laughing and singing is what I shall do
Life has been great! I am age twenty-two
Jubbity Dubbity Woobity Woo...

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a broken window 
twenty-two thrown out tires 
no dumping signs now 

it is a challenge 
next day silver car bumper 
country road saddened...

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It's the middle of December
Our first white winter view.
What a beautiful and glorious end
To twenty twenty-two!

Written 11th December 2022...

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Glad for two year's
thank you
cause twenty two heed stomach
drowning brain's 
maybe for you, it's cool
slowly returning to shore
thank God for two...

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I have twenty-two
Ready and willing pumpkins
Waiting for the time
Of all hallows eve coming
Doing Jack-O-Lantern thing

Russell Sivey...

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Leveret scurries
Trained ears, panoramic sight
Saved - by a hare's breath.


Easter Bunny blinks
Burrows the deep undergrowth
Close shave this morning...

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An old lady in Frankfort, Kentucky
still pines for her late sheepdog Bucky
After twenty-two years
in her dreams he appears
Now they both feel elated and lucky...

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On all her cats she was relying

From the vermin that she was spying

Of her twenty two cats

They ate twenty two rats

You can bet that some fur was flying...

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An old lady in Frankfort, Kentucky
still pines for her late sheepdog Bucky
After twenty-two years
in her dreams he appears
Now they both feel elated and lucky

1/28/22...

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bacon lettuce and tomato
placed on toasted rye to go

and a cup of split pea soup too
a nice price of three-twenty-two

there’s nothing like a lunch to go
when you’re more than a one m...

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Molly knows more than I shall ever know
She is sixteen going on twenty-two
She tells me the difference between bi and pan
She can fix my phone and computer too
I am lucky to know her...

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Starting new
 twenty two
 hopeful too
 staying true
 through and through

 Things take flight
 in our plight
 it's alright
 guiding light
 dawn shines bright

 1-1-2022
 Mini Monoverse...

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Cereal is good for you and tastes good too
On a scale of one to ten, it's rated twenty-two
When I was a wee one
It was better than none
These days, I pig out on Spoon Size Shreddies, I do...

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Ludwig von Beethoven
German extraordinaire
composed music for forty-five years
seven hundred and twenty-two works of brilliance
first performance at age seven
deafness did not stop his genius
an inspiration...

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Lizard had balloons, presents, and confetti too.
He was turning a great age, wonderful twenty-two.
I have brownies and chicken wings and pizza with flies.
When you come to my party, be sure to yell out “surprise!”...

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A-s we all remember you, 
S-un has started to rise; 
E-arly morn has just broken, 
R-ain passes from our eyes.

P-ure delight and cheers
A-re all we feel so true; 
D-ay twenty-two in July, 
E-agerly we
R-emember you....

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 Twenty-two is a shitty
Thing. No age left to look forward
To, the slow decline steepens
As your brakes quickly go out.

Oh. How could I
Forget?
My Insurance
Goes up at
Twenty-five.

I
Cannot
Wait. ...

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