Short Voila Poems

my red-faced neighbor
wrestles with her umbrella
voila! a takedown...

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With nervousness sewing up 

I set to sew my lap tray ,

And voila ! It's done .

-Ism...

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We go to bed 
with high hopes
The electricity will
resume in the morning.
Voila!
Magic....

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generate a premise
hatch an outline
originate a concept
produce a rough draft
introduce uniqueness
or just wing it
voila
a 
poem...

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Tasty fried green tomatos
Fresh apple fritters
Sporting cinnamon, sugar
Add some creamed peas and
Some sweet pumpkin pie
And voila,
POW!
...

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What's this?... Voila! A Poem's appeared
  
   Spun from gossamer strands... endeared 

The words a-flowing... verses dancing

   Serendipitous motion... timeless romancing...

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I know what a poem
looks like.

I know how to make
my prose look like verse.

A little tuck here,
an indent there,

et voila! It’s verse! 
or worse ...

a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)...

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I dig a compost pit,
to dispose the rubbish
since 1996.

I get the match,
put a kerosene gas.

Voila, they are now ashes,
the whirlwind carries them
away,

hoping they won't drift
and drop on my shoulders 
again....

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I live dangerous
nothing to fear
mingling with the fierce

on the stoops and babies
I am old and they teach me
the smoke of a free cigarette

the booze paid by your taxes
hardly if you spent it to educate
good souls to bare a grudge...

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Dismally sad and blue was I
One jet-black day, then I walked
Outdoors, and voila! A goldmine
In the sky...sunshine




Arbitrium Divisa 5 Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden 
Date submitted: 12/18/2019
Taken from the 2nd stanza of my 2016 poem, "Serendipity"...

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The young creator said "Voila!"
His parents askance, said "Uff da!"

....the carrot a dong,
....the coals, all so wrong!

He cried, "He's just upside down, duh!"

  (     )
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  (*!*) 
  
12/17/2021 - For Andrea's 'I Need a Laugh Xmas Limerick' contest...

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It happens every time.
Whenever i loose
That one camouflaged heart
I get lost.
And every time i find a pretty face
Washed afresh in the rain.
Obviously, i pay no attention
And see how many colors
Can a pretty face make.
The sky smiles
The surroundings brighten
And voila, becomes m(a)y day again....

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Travel day is what’s on tap
Two-year-old is in my lap
Doesn't seem that far to go
Just six inches on the map

Flying tantrums, status quo?
Not for parents in the know
Benadryl - voila! a nap
This ain’t my first rodeo…

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(no children or grandchildren were drugged in the making of this poem :-)...

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A to Z 1 to Infinity - , Eureka's;:  N O   M O?

VOILA!

Being kicked to the curb
while skipping to the loo
my friends.
Now back to my shake and bake,
small town of Hilo,
that sits on the bay
below erupting
Mauna Loa &
the 100+ tremors
daily since it began
this past Sunday late at night.

Aloha Hilo Poet William...

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A thousand fireflies,
light up the night with torches.
World getting brighter.

Torch
firefly
holds light high
brightens night sky
lit

Phosphorescent light
coming from male abdomen.
Invites passionate glowworms.
Wingless female blinks,
hoping to attract nice male.
Will soon be a thousand more.



Note: Haiku...Cinquain...Choka   voila   HCC...

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I took a tiny touch of red
  Then I dabbed a bit of blue.
  Voila! I had purple
  Now I wondered what to do.

  The empty piece of canvas
  Was waiting for a scene.
  I shall start to build a forest
  With shades of deepest green.

  Ooops! I erred and made a splat.
  It's a mark I can't take back.
  I've changed my mind completely
  This paintings now abstract....

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Fun writing forms - a fascination.
Some might end in assassination;
others, invectives, wild gyrations.
Voila! perfection… titillations!

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A Droigneach is an Irish quatrain with a bunch of additional "rules" regarding end rhyme length, inner rhymes / cross rhymes, alliteration, start/end sound. This hits most of those, perturbs a few. Just messing around this morning......

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The short haired calico cat
Came through the doggie door
Having no idea Ashley lounged 
Inside 'pon the floor
Ashley spied the short haired cat
The cat springing into alert mode
Voila' the chase was on 
With lightning speed
They were in flight
Flap, flag the doggie door explodes
Then just a tiny flap
The Chihuahua just loves
A good chase and fight   

Who knows what it is??
Ha!! Ha!!...

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British Biogenesis took a front seat
When the first bio-cloned sheep Dolly was created.
In a tiny glass test tube nice and neat. 
All we need now is for it to be percolated.

Also a little know-how in kinestheics 
And an advanced degree in biogenetics

Possibly the ability to follow deep,
And clear step by step directions on U-tube.
Voila! We are now making our own sheep!
I knew we could do it, with a bit of lube....

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Listen to poem:

The virtuality of the moment is like...
Hmmmm
You my mysterious online coquette!
The celebration of all festivities,
unlike any banquet,
I knock, you butt-in
Voila!
Pearl on the shore,
And your belly butt-on
As Heidegger's Dasein
Being-there
I swear
I step before you with nothing to hide
I let my eyes glide
As a spiral,
A whirlpool of desire,
A scud,
In peace and in blood.
I crave to be the wave
On a day, and in the moment
I feel I myself am....

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Les jours s'achevent 
le temps passe vite
le present devient le futur
le passe devient le present
les meilleurs aventures deviennent de l'enfer
et la beaute deviennent le tenebre.

Les jours ne sont plus des jours
mais des nuits d'enfer, de couchemar et de pleurs.

Voila le changement
quand le temps mange la vie
et se refrechit de la peur des hommes
s'envelope par les coeurs des femmes
et se deguise en fille.

Moi, je l'ai compris!
c'est le CHANGEMENT....

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