Short Two Hundred Poems

My wings beat fast
two hundred times a second
what am I...

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two hundred tremors
in forty eight hour span
greece is on notice...

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in respect love's there in love respect's there too both are of two hundred...

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Two hundred blackbirds swarmed on the grass ~ Green Chocolate Chip Mint Ice-Cream...

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"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read....

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"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read....

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Children’s’ blizzard of 1888
January 12th was actual date
Grim reaper busy
Turmoil tizzy
Two hundred children met a death fate...

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Caught in this web of lies
where volume may the truth disguise
will Union o’er two hundred years fail
can reason over rant prevail?...

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two hundred riders
tour de France
all ride for yellow

Written on 3rd October 2018

For bike contest sponsored by Maureen McGreavy...

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Pacific winds blow
over Olympic mountains
rain shadow of Sequim
sixteen inches the year’s rain
Seattle gets two hundred

12/1/2021...

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Darn covid has most surely created,
toilet rolls as the product predated,
and I reached my goals;
hoarded two hundred rolls,
but suffer from being constipated....

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Chuzzlewit Chuzzlewit
Nicolas Nickleby
Pickwick, Scrooge, Dombey
And more of their kind

Two hundred years, filled with
Dickensiania
Real, just like you:
It is all in the mind...

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Two hundred and twenty-six years I am told.
Is how many years this koi fish is old.
But who has kept track?
How far could they go back?
I demand an explanation, big and bold....

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Seventeen is the sum of eight and nine
The difference of twenty minus three is fine.
If you're not a fool,
and you stay in school,
it's the squareroot of two hundred eighty-nine....

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My anniversary gift went off the rails.
She sought it shiny with correct details.
Goes from nought to two hundred
in three seconds, so wondered -
But it wasn’t a set of bathroom scales,...

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Poem after poem, "two" words by three
I count about a "hundred" rhymes 
And I keep writing, "and"  I keep rhyming
Convinced I'll be "going" for as long as I live
Because I am "strong" in my words...

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Many times still when a pretty girl walks by
I pretend I've got something stuck in my eye
But all the while
I'm checking her style
At my age, most of 'em score two hundred and five...

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as I got older 
my brain started going south
so I rotated my bed
two hundred and seventy degrees 
to the left 
going west towards California
now I feel younger, more alert,
more liberal and free...

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Many times still, when a pretty girl walks by
I pretend I've got something stuck in my eye
But all the while
I'm checking her style
At my age, most of 'em score two hundred and five...

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the tree
full of thorny body
breeds
most beautiful flower
rose

pregnant woman
waits for two hundred eighty days
painful body
gives birth
motherly best love 


-January 10, 2019 Chattogram...

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People by the billions 
watching a moon devouring a sun.
Soon after-the devouring is forgotten-
Like a holocaust.
Like the twin towers.
Like a trinity
Like the two hundred
Hostages 
of 
HAMAS....

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Know some people with a Grand Canyon mouth
When they yawn, things not nailed down go south
Fridges and microwaves
Two hundred ton whales
All succumb to this suction, even your spouse...

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Know some people with a Grand Canyon mouth
When they yawn, things not nailed down, go south
Fridges and microwaves
Two hundred ton whales
All succumb to this suction, even your spouse...

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Know some people with a Grand Canyon mouth
When they yawn, things not nailed down, go south
Fridges and microwaves
Two hundred ton whales
All succumb to this suction, even your spouse...

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Hope Diamond is worth two hundred millions.
Donated to Smithsonian by one worth billions.
This forty-five carat gem was sent to them by regular mail.
They were lucky the 1958 postal service did not fail....

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