Short Unwary Poems

A wispy tail flicks
Dancing for unwary prey
A tale of hunger...

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The sea is unkempt
Unwary sailors regret
Thar mate has been swept...

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Frozen transparent 
Drawn daggers dangling downwards
Towards unwary....

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Blue streaks on water
Draw me to the hidden shore
Brittle ice cracking....

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 Unwary reader
Silverfish glide across page
Damp infestation....

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cottonmouth slithers
'gator eyes unwary prey
an untimely death

written January 3, 2022...

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doubt 
in solitude
lingers&hovers,
pushes&pulls:
first silent
then loud
articulates 
the unthinkable,
seethes
blurs
frets
undoes
the unwary...

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Floating skulls
On a barren tree
Halloween
Brings the fear
Into the hearts of many
The unwary ones

Russell Sivey

Form Shadorma...

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As an ancient food the lowly mushroom
was highly prized as an ingredient,
and for bringing an unwary enemy to his doom,
it was a preferred expedient.
...

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With seductive guile, they play a mournful dirge for their unwary prey.

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5th December 2015
Contest: One Liner 2
Sponsor: Silent One
Placed 3rd...

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Gossamer cobweb
 glistens with
 early morning dew




Spider poised
ready
to entrap
unwary victim

Paint A Picture - 7 Lines Poetry Contest


Sponsor: Joseph May

09/24/20...

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The mute sense dazed by trance adrift elusive,
never wavers a moment to lacerate
the endangered dormant psyche unwary.
Contrived by passion dream of pale possession,
sapped by nascent sunrays curtain pores suck in....

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With patience, in a concealed place,
in long grass, or a packing case
as unwary prey comes apace
never his footsteps to retrace

With cold eye, beady, dead in space,
Uncoiling with hypnotic grace,
Slow motion skin - an awful lace,
 To silent earth, no sudden trace....

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Waltzing ‘mongst the redwoods she now meanders
Shyly smiling, candid in guileless virtue
Feeling carefree, gleeful, of threats unwary...
Progress encroaches.


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Sapphic Stanza Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula

© 21st January 2019...

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Pavement Turd
Brown turd in the sun. Just like the bloody song. Brown turd by the wall. The dog's done a big crap over there. Ready for the unwary. Look at the brown dog turd. It steams in the sun. Freshly laid. Almost a work of art. Don't step in it. You'll really smell bad!...

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Oh, how you brushed and washed me, 
And lovingly dental flossed me -  
How tragically you lost me, 
When I was extracted from your skull 
By an overzealous faerie, 
Toothless, hideous and scary, 
Who from kids like you, unwary, 
Snatches denture teeth, which he can cull.  
 
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crushing talons poised
owl swoops on unwary prey
moon hides behind clouds


5,7,5 checked with how many syllables
Owl Haiku Poetry Contest

sponsored by Robert James Liguori

submitted to 'BITE SIZE POEM no24'
Sponsored by Line Gauthier

10/16/21...

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In a parking lot were
Many Gulls, a few Crows -
Picking at scraps of food left
For them - not healthy choices by
Any means.

A Gull hovering over a Crow -
Watching - waiting - then dropping
Straight down in front of the unwary
Crow - snatching the unsavory scrap
For its very own....

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Scattered abroad 
universally recognized
ornate and colorful
standing tall and silent
anchored aground
on strips of land
jutting into the sea.

Sending light
into the darkness 
cutting half-circles
through blackness
Sweeping beams
warning unwary sailors
of low tides and danger....

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He lived in the basement
hairy and mischievous
haunting the unwary
helpless little household.
How could they get rid of
him? Shakespeare found a way:
Had him Puck in a play! 

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Contest: Pleiades - H
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

© 18th February 2017...

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Fragile Find

soft
float
like silk
on willows
a house spider's spot
fragile find for a Eureka
a creature's cozy corner comfort comes to quick close
this instinctive insect will build a new kingdom designed to trap an unwary prey

1/26/17

Contest - Form F
Sponsored by: Broken Wings...

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There's a shark swimming in the soup
quietly circling and lurking
Hiding behind mean metaphors
and toothy snide similes

He's poised, ready to strike
and feast on the unwary
Ripping off the heads
of anyone muddying his waters

12/24/18

Contest Sponsor Anthony Slausin...

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The boring masses assimilate those unwary of their collective oozing.
Keep moving.
Stay positive. 
Think outside your box.
Stay productive.
Don’t let them package you with their boxes of dissention,
thier wrapping papers of gossip and their condemnations that seal your box.

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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When autumn catches the unwary gardens
All the sightseers leave it to itself
It wails on its fate
On the destruction of all its blooms
Remembering the spring air
Its heart bleeds
Can someone assure my weary garden
That spring air is itself 
eagerly waiting for it
Unless it endures the freezing cold
How can spring air come into its fold...

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Distant Rumblings 


A distant rumbling
slowly turns unwary heads,
anticipation’s curtsy
awaiting stillness.
Homage before the deluge.
The delicate staccato,
of clouded future,
cold touch, a victor’s mercy,
counting coup on flower beds.


7/18/2016

submitted to – Compose a Choka – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Janis Thompson...

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