Short Underscore Poems

Universe’s mysteries
Underscore
Shaking beliefs
To the core
My heart is branded
Forevermore
Because it’s you
that I adore



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on October 14, 2018...

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As to underscore
A higher power's
Well earned happiness for me
Toiler, at year's end
Down-tracked, back and forth
These my swimmer's arms
Dragonfly cherubs. Who's flash
With sun's last did blend....

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even when shes here but gone
i notice the actions of her act
beauty charms the barks
see the simple of her ignorance
Fingers swish the black back
and step LIGHTLY lightly
you smell beautifully underscore
gentle is her force
surrender to a look
Delicate lingers
I notice...

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Morning's gray offers its wonder
Red ribbons from dawn underscore
Sun's first light splits night asunder
Moon's high tide rushes to shore
Horizon's line measured from sight
Beneath glow from a rising mass
Turns black to gray from burning night
An image is etched on sea's glass


11/11/18 contest 8x8...

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Listen to poem:

Falling in Love with Autumn Leaves
David J Walker

It seems liked I’ve
Lived this fall day before
Autumn is all that matters

Winter will come 
With implicative lore

the moon derives 
the underscore

what’s  more 

The breath bequeathed  
In a summer breeze 

Will freeze if it 
Really matters...

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My husband ventured out today,
His virus on the wane.
He only took the briefest walk
But didn’t much complain.

For he was thrilled (and so was I)
To see him well enough
To leave his snug cocoon and have
The strength to strut his stuff.

He won’t be running marathons
And this I underscore
Because, in truth, he wasn’t running
Marathons before....

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Bowling is what I do during Spring time
And swim hundred feet touching the sea floor
Flexing like a gymnast, swing overtime
Holding my breath, a bowler underscore
Bowls of clear blue waters I play for more
Bowling pins like needles for life I strike
Bowling and swimming, sports for life I like


Don't swim too deep without an oxygen tank...
Life is precious to keep as waters know no rank!

(Prosebite)...

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look deep
 stand still & repeat
 we got dancing feet
 I time to meet & greet
 the underscore read
 bargain basement heads
 face filled with lead

 the verge of lying dead
 sometimes on sometimes not
 we beg and borrow a lot
 time is on our side
 yet time waits for no man
 do you all understand
 falling apart in my hand
 you can be a better man
 living in a far away land

 hopefully someday all will understand...

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Listen to poem:

The ocean sparkles
in the morning light.
We sip hot coffee;
you cough, turn your head.
Eyes say more than words.
Ties connecting us
dissipate in sunshine.
Waves which wash ashore,
this white-flecked water,
underscore your silence.
Last night, in humid darkness,
velvet-feeling black, we joined --
made pacts that daylight violates.
I will not understand your shame.
You will not see my heart-hurt face,
nor will you long remember
my already half-forgotten name....

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