Short Twitches Poems

the moon is glowing
and a summer fish twitches 
to console my soul...

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wader fails to catch 
the fish when it twitches, spoiled
by her reflection...

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scent alert twitches 

   chase-race up a tree...then down

      beg-for-nuts statue...

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eye of witch twitches
at the sunny side of dawn —E
accursed dust rides wind

11/1/2018

-E to ressemble broom...

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No picture can match
As a little face twitches
A loving child sleeps





http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/life-8.php...

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your hand not tipped
playing your cards close to your chest
stoic, no twitches or tremors
never betraying
what you hold
I lay down the queen of hearts...

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You take me right back again
If only it was that easy
Your touch radiates my body
The shakes
The twitches
One day it will all be right
And hopefully no fear...

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monkey wrinkle nose
twitches curls it hairy lips ~
pick clean itchy fleas


11/9/2020

Any NEW Nature Inspired Haiku Poetry Contest.
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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Of vampires and witches
Oh how the eye twitches!

Come to the Lord
Peace you can afford

The devil's not life that's real
I would rather have the Holy Ghost's seal!...

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A hand twitches to throw a stick.
Dumb to wait
for a stick that has not been thrown
or cannot now be fetched.
The silence that returns
is called: no dog....

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After work,
drinking in a matchbox bar in Shimbashi,
waiting for a sign...

The noren twitches.
A hand appears between the flaps.
An eye assesses the interior,

and is gone....

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Swab
inside 
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for 
you!...

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Please don't do that, it's really quite weird
Don't make those noises, it twitches my ears
Reminds me of Dracula
Or an angry tarantula
Emitting strange shrieks from the end that's rear...

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My hand twitches to throw a stick.
It’s dumb to wait
for a stick that has not been thrown
or cannot now be fetched,
yet I do for a little while;
the silence that returns
is called: no dog....

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On his face is the smirk
     of a tired barn owl,

like a queer cross between
     a frown and a scowl;

most expressive is the skewed
     side of his mouth

that's now sliding down a few
     pissed degrees south!...

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Verde chases for his meal

A
Trodden over clovers
Robin
An oriole flickers up
Red
Beating down the grass
Breast
A cardinal darts away
Twitches
A streak of lightening flashes
Until
The last bluebird bursts
Death...

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Thunder arrives. 
Occult spacecraft hurl giant underbellies of sound 
downward -
                    galvanize grouting.

A thud on the roof,
broken feathers flop.

An electric pause,
                       time twitches on....

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eccentric she was
socially awkward
somewhat paranoid
with bizarre twitches
not mixing in
an outcast 
of her own doing
a square peg
in a round hole
not fitting in



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

posted on September 11, 2018...

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in the tall summer grass
sun burnt earth smell
sisters run about
but I am hidden and still
they cannot see me.
softly I pat the dog
her head on the ground
in the game
she knows to be still be her tail tip
twitches
she's ready to spring
with a whisper....

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In the darkness she lies still, 
Her closed eyes do feel my stare
Each breath she takes fills my lungs
Her thoughts, our minds, run

Her fears flood right through my veins
She twitches and turns for me
She is me and I am her
Our hearts beat as one

02-12-2015...

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    ‘smarty-pants’
       too big for his britches

    kept his audience
       in virtual stitches

    on the road from rags to riches
       ran into some unforeseen glitches

    courtesy of parents' old-fashioned switches
       'smarty-pants’ derriere throbs and twitches
...

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"Gerryatrics"


She can do sumbersalts 
Leg splits and twisted 
Twitches but doesn't 

Need to be 
An acrobat

As a matter 
Of fact it's 
Exactly 

That that 
I admire 


She has 
A laugh 
That's 

Exactly 
Where

It's at
And is
Where

It's I suppose 
Supposed 

To be...

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Between the sun
and the top of a garden wall,
drapes a marmalade rug,
now momentarily stiff legged
as it stretches.
Sparrow gossip twitches ears,
neck rises,
eyes squint under half-closed lids.
The drowsy head slumps.
Paws dangle
as fluent as light,
as heavy as contentment....

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her tail twitches

her throat constricts with strange sounds

just beyond the glass

the wild birds in flight taunt her
 
the caged bird looks on amused





*Honey, the cat, sits at the window making strange, threatening
noises at the birds outside. ignoring the love bird in a cage less than a foot to her left...

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She wore uncertainty on her shoulder
    hesitation held back her shoes
  Twitches split her left forearm
    these emotions seeped into their news

  Let him explain, she considered
    nerves of steel need not preparation...
  In the pit of a parental boardroom
    one word ~ eloped ~ sealed their doom...

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