Short Unwelcome Poems

feral pigs
swim Mississippi
unwelcome...

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From cooling hearth ...the owl's call is unwelcome warning...

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Death's uninvited
truly a party pooper
no goodbye to guests...

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Summer approaches
Like unwelcome relative
That won’t go away....

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dress in pure white
disclose in morning curtain
unwelcome beauty...

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An unwelcome guest –
A cat sits on a wall
Beside the busy street!...

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a contradiction
wasp is welcome in garden
not where we sit though...

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The wren sings the dirge,
An unwelcome guest, we fear,
Goodbye my true love....

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Extinguishing time?
Adois fire!
Presence unwelcome
Saving valuebles
Someone has to do it!...

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A fight not spoken 
                               is a voice unwelcome
an inoccent tragdeity...

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My house is protected by the Good Lord and a gun.
You might meet them both if you enter unwelcome....

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UNWELCOME NEWS

I am sympathetic, yet relieved
At my friend’s terminal diagnosis
As it could just have been me...

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swifts are chattering
pilot burns in my fireplace
interrupts nesting


written May 31, 2021...

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Where darkness,
Goes to rest,
Cold, unwelcome,
Territory,
Silence towards the end,
Fleeting figures,
Whisper,
From,
Beyond....

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Limp
the leaves
heavy
the air
angry
the sky
a wall
of heat
pressing
pressing...
unwelcome
even for
minutes
even on
winter's edge...

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The squirrels' desire emphatic
To airbnb in the attic
Means a landlord may leave
Hors d'ouevres in the eave
That make their guests aromatic...

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Waiting for time to catch its breath,
I wrote the words unheard

My verses most unwelcome
—the future untoward

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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Feelings…
like wisps of cobwebs clinging,
cannot be shaken away.

They lie there,
unwelcome and unbidden,
Like unwanted guests come to stay....

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Hard time is a guest
it carries apples in her bag
a cane around the waist
To get her apples she canes
unwelcome, she canes
in the end smiles erupt...

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   An egg is full of nutrition 
   To eat it is what I am wishin’
     Too much cholesterol?
     To hell with ya’ all 
   No yolk ~ no unwelcome emissions
...

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  The wind denied the sun
     a gift, to caress soft cheeks... 

  Unwelcome gusts stiffened up their gaits, 
     through fearsome clouds sun no more peeked
...

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False hope
Arrogance
Misunderstandings
Unwelcome

False story
Found out
Deceit
Unkind

False promises
Lies
Never to be trusted again
Ever

Until tomorrow...

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We had been on the road for about thirteen hours by then
So the traffic that we saw was a most unwelcome sight
A turtle, on his own road trip, crawled across the highway...

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I wouldn’t stand on the edge if I were you
You are not me, so you don’t have to.
Aren’t you afraid you will fall in and drown?
Never at all when you are not standing around....

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Reset of the net and I oust this pest.
It hindered my reads - an unwelcome guest.
Interuptus cling!
No, can’t do a thing!
My holiday beast was a mad’ning pest.

12/31/2018...

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