Short Twitching Poems

My twitching fingers
recoil from the sizzling bang
stealing the lightning...

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Cadillac speeding….
Rattlesnake’s crushed head flopping
Visceral twitching...

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I grab God's ankles,
twitching, begging for some hints
What is my purpose?...

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DOG   

	nose and paws twitching
	while running free in dreams…
	dogs greet dawn happy...

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SQUIRREL

the winter squirrel
eyes bright    twitching
has come to be fed
happiness
one large english walnut

Dave Austin...

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Pointed like fingers
At heaven; ears twitching in
Song— rise of a voice

At dawn, torn within;
Footsteps go; clovers after—
A kiss on bled palm....

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She lies sleeping at my feet
eyes closed, outstretched legs 
twitching, mouthing small yips
and I wonder what she is chasing 
and if she ever catches it...

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Through turquoise  houses
curtain nets a twitching
Ladies trousers wistful 
maybe tomorrow a change
I am the breeze
cool as beaches
promenades are seen for miles...

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Head stretched
ever still
he watches squirrles in the trees
wishing he could climb
not even an offer
of bone or water
can pull his eyes away
nose twitching
....someday.......

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Gazing at the ditch,
      It's not a switch!
     Sending rumps into the air,
     They've spotted something over there!
     Ready to pounce,
     Tails twitching in the air....

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the tulip tree tosses petals
to the dying maple tree
tree cutting men and chain saw converse
leaving stumps ...of words
a twitching, gray squirrel cusses....

the tulip tree has lost its mate...

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Beard bent over his walking stick
  each step cautious
twitching side to side 
  left hand trembling, along for the ride

Tapping out the narrow path every morn
  to the place his soul was reborn...

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Dark thoughts twitching on a nightstand.
Wrinkled -bloated-bloodied.
Like an ancient boxing glove.
Powerless-broken-longshot.

A dead sea scroll- smoldering. 
In the chambers of a burned-out heart....

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your green twitching legs
making music in the grass
not so silently

pinging out at me
and sticking to my shoulder
reacting too late

dive into the grass
your enormous hiding place
i smile at your stealth...

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She must have gotten into the cat nip.
She's whirling around the house. 
Like she's being chased
by the ghost of her friend.
She's finally settled in 
atop of the concrete couch...
twitching like a whiskered star....

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Cat
Napping
At my feet
Dreaming of mice
Muscles twitching fast
You should be resting now
But instead you are chasing
Running as fast as you can go
Excited, you almost have him now
What will you do when you catch him? I ask....

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There is a young man called Alan Sprocket
Always has both hands in his pocket
Said it keeps him calm and warm
So why is he a twitching form
As though his fingers were in a socket



Penned 25April 2015...

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Big dirty globe
Experiment
Gone awry
Ignored

Hoping
Spinning
Needing, grasping
Spinning

Alone
Spinning
Hating, killing
Spinning

Ignored
Spinning
Dying, waning
Spinning

Gasping
Spinning
Twitching, freezing
Spinning


Dying


Spinning...

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So tired
Ready to hit the sack
I lay there restless
Legs twitching,
Arms moving in mid-air
A sudden jolt and I'm completely awake
There is no sound in our house,
No lights on
Only the sound of moving traffic on state route 66
So why can't I sleep?...

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Squirrels in trees
foraging for nuts.
Raiding bird feeders,
filling their huts.

Fat gray ones seen,
moving in struts.
Loudly chattering,
with twitching butts!

11/16/19

Contest: McWhirtle Me Poetry Contest

Sponsor: Charles Messinah...

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Time drips down
The small of his back
Red streaks fill broad shoulders

Legs shake with 
Paralyzing frustration 
Twitching with hunger

The world stops
Relief rushes to fill
The space of need

Musk and sweat fill
The air
Barely masking the morning sun rise...

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Flying Sailing Soaring
    Crying Laughing Roaring
 
  Itching Twitching Scratching
    Planning Plotting Hatching

  Hustling Bustling Tussling
    Day and night, night and day

  Set aside each segue for a kiss
    Recess, you can't afford to miss...

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lightning,
 in its  midst
whirlwinds  whirl
writhing
rising
binding
hissing
twitching:
     lightning
blitzing
   this night
tingling
spitting
striving
hiding
from
    windchill
till
winds
    diminish

found poem inspired by eunoia wordplay form...

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Fractious feline
sensuously stretching, 
languorously lying,
soporifically slumbering
(monocularly monitoring).

Meandering mouse! 
Tail twitching...
tautly tensing...
Predatory pounce!
Salubriously surfeit! 



February 6, 2020...

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Irreparable brain damage,
concussion,
you have a brain tumor:
end of discussion.

You translate silence
with morse code,
twitching finger,
blank picture frame
in the mind's eye,
but do you see 
or hear
or feel,
when we grasp your hand-

O, you the broken one,
you the motorcycle-flung....

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