Short Vagabonds Poems

Aye Pretty Matey
Together we sail the sea
Vagabonds are we...

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vagabonds intone
                                     all roads lead to roam





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vagabonds huddle 
round a charcoal burner - -
snow falls

Jack Horne for Carol’s Fire and Ice contest...

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Skidding on thin ice
In dark streets

Surrounded by
Cold structures, breathing
Festering vagrants ... vagabonds...

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Skidding on thin ice
In dark streets

Surrounded by
Cold structures, breathing
Festering vagrants ... vagabonds...

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Eye-catching gift I arranged
Welcoming vagabonds to my house
I longed to hear their journeys.
Eventually fear reached me, and
lousy rambling he flew to harsh streets
I proceeded to curse his being....

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Various vagabonds vandalized viable vertebrae.
Vitalizing voodooist’s vociferous vultures verified.
Vagarious vagrants vainly validating vultures’ vocabulary.
Variety of vertebrae venomously vindicating venial vagabonds....

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Spin right
Mighty motors churning through the night

From the millennia
Powered wheels so long evaded capture

Vagabonds adrift
Lost at sea without her spun delight

Wheels breezing by repeating
Save us from our old familiar plight...

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Time waits for no one or so I'm told 
Under the weight of the world i begin to fold
Vixens and vagabonds mix and mingle under the stars
Wishing and hoping they'er not marred by their scars
Xenodochial but still cold, time waits for no one or so I'm told....

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Verdigris on bronze viv
anchors in mud’s delta.
Grim steps keep going…
A strange fear: the sea,
biting like thorny scrub…
On salty tears, a rodeo
nimbly rides, life’s pain
death-dusting the land…

Still seeking a fortress?

(12/30/20: ’98 Carver Mariner 350 DMS)...

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Constantly she toils 
in the darkness of the heaving sea
gathering treasures into her aprons deep;
twice a day she knocks, panting,
at the shoreline’s wide stretching door,
and scatters her abundant gifts
for vagabonds like me to reap.

Copyright, October 24, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Poverty: a dumpster lid for a dinner table
Offensive to people who think your unstable
Vagabonds panhandle coins from the giver
Evenings confined to a bag by the river
Recycling of cans for a smoke or a beer
Thankful for warmth in a cold, rainy year;
You too,can make this scene;lose your job and lose your green!...

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Such a lively band of vagabonds
Saxophone player, acrobat, chimney sweep
Their music parades into my mind as I fish
Enjoying their rhythm as I enjoy catching guppies

We are in a fantasy world that makes me feel safe
Safer than I have ever felt, as I am a vagabond too
The acrobat and ballerina begin to dance
Shaking our violin just a bit...

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there's a lot like us
mom's died and left us homeless
not putting our trust in anything
especially the government

owning nothing to our names
we can only afford dreams
at least they calm the pain of this hustle

we hope to see Jesus in the streets
when the boys in khaki suits ambush us
take us to central station and label us vagabonds....

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The thinkers, vagabonds, creators, songwriters, dreamers
The tinkers, builders, inventors, musicians and schemers,
Running in their minds are ideas that jump outside each box.
They are wild and zany, rivaling the soul of a fox.
Rest of the world sits back in fear of their confidence and mirth.
They are the happiest, most joyful, enthusiastic people on earth....

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Glittering falling moondrops
Giving birth to graceful nymphs
Moonlit airborne vagabonds
Winged gypsies beneath asters
Incarnations of freedom in flight
Deities in their magical realms
Goddesses in miniature



AP: 3rd place

Submitted on March 14, 2019 for STANDARD CONTEST 195 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  3RD PLACE

Originally posted on March 20, 2018...

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Homophonic Phenomena
David J Walker

How freely dismissed 
The simplest forms 
That reason must take 

	Mistaken 
For roads
	Not taken

Or feigned to take  

The vagabonds path
To madness and night

The phenomenon
	Of a homophone 
left to its own
Devise

Hidden emendation
	Alterations 
Of eruditious representations 

Truth hidden within 
alternative alliterations 

which no cavalier palaver
 may define...

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I see the table at the cafe.
The food upon it looks so divine.
Should I pull up a chair, would they stare,
As I enjoyed a sip of their wine?

The aroma of mushrooms and steak,
Dance down deep in my throat,
As I sit curled up in a doorway,
Across the street and under a coat.

I watch as others sit in those chairs,
Where I wish I could sit just one time,
And have a morsel of steak and a drink,
But I can't, I don't have a dime!...

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