Short Wailed Poems

Willard was a wily wizened wonderful wizard
Who willingly wrote wildly wonderous tales,
Were Willard’s wild tales wistful?
Wish we knew, Wilbur wailed, wondering....

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Sam wailed their tale to moist hands   
“being cooked wasn't in my plans” 
pumpkin slapped her cheeks
“time to stop your shrieks
your dripping tears on the pans.”...

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NO REMORSE GIVEN

We gave too much to religion and yet the devil still rides
Mother Nature wept and wailed and in her heart still dies

Indiana Shaw . . . (-_- )...

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With scissors, some paper and rock,
He tried hard to make a new clock.
But his efforts all failed,
And, frustrated, he wailed,
‘It ticks but I can’t make it tock.’...

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There was a young scientist from Rangoon
Who built a rocket and flew to the moon
But His rocket booster failed
Now I am stuck here he wailed
He wont be coming home anytime soon.






Written 10th April 2018...

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Let’s throw him in the boxing ring and see what he does.
Come on! You know him, I warned them about our cousin Fuzz.
Fuzz ran out and hugged each opponent and gave some a kiss.
He won’t do at all! Wailed the sports hander, a boxer named Miss....

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The stones' first voice was weapon.
Today, that voice spoke again,
wailed its sorrow against the wind,
pulsed and swirled inside my ears.

Today's stone pushed its face 
forward; shoved others aside, 
its anger swelling as it cried,
Why? in mournful requiem....

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Pounding each key
like a Fender Rhodes
the computer bent and wailed
Bits and bytes
of encrypted language
messages derailed

Memory freezes
last chance rebooted
restart zero-sum
The riff uncapped
its printout fading
—typeface on the run

(The New Room: 8/6/2023)...

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Vowed
To love
Each other
Jealousy wailed
Shattered trust, broken heart, sleepless nights, us. 
Brew for woe, estranged us despair, perchance
Cupid finds one
Reignite	
Smoking
Love
...............


Format:
10 lines
1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1 Syllable format

Double Tetractys...

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          A tall, handsome, young man from Rangoon,
          With huge feet,shaped as two balloons.
          Wailed ,”No girl will want me!”
          A maid cried, ” I choose thee!”
          Please hasten to their wedding next June!



                          7/3/2023

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Pork Chop sat at the table
Cornbread joined him too…
Waiting for Tee-Lee to pick Cecile,
So all could entertain with their muse…
Tee-Lee began to pick Cecile, 
Cornbread caught up with his muse ~
Pork Chop stood up on his heels…
All whirled in time to Cecile’s tunes;
And wailed to the Pork Chop bleu’s…...

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A truant blizzard's hurl allowed shadows hide
when the night was pale. And all the dark ravens yelled
as I buried my cat, last year, frozen and dead. That all
the lilies of in between, wailed of my Christmas eulogy.


For the contest, A Christmas Memory,
Sponsor, Broken Wings
Nov 21, 2015
From Franco Gonza...

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the sky opened, darkened.
It wailed, perhaps in despair, triumph 
Or pity
Although it had no obligation to me
It felt like forgiveness 
And its sweetness caused me to soften 
And collapse like drenched cardboard 
In a dirty alley way 
And I began to rain, too
From my eyes, onto moistened lips
And hands of holy water and grime...

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My last poem fell victim to Chrono’s  dastardly warps

I dragged the depths of my memory pool,  came up with a shriveled corpse.

I beat my breast and wailed like a woman plucked from the Middle Ages..

You can’t scribe without paying your wages

So I present this wine to the sages

Alas! For I have filled my book with blank pages!...

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She picks herself up
after bumping into a sharp edge.

Another kid might have
wailed out loud, she only shrugs -
nevertheless
runs to me for comfort.

I want to protect her from the hard stuff,
she’s going to crash into a lot of hard stuff.

There must be a spell to keep her safe,
I need her to teach me it,
help me figure us out....

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It shone
Finally, the rain had fallen
An end to the dust monologue

And then
Like foil unwrapped
Unmasked
Naked
It lay infront of me

Helpless 
Hopeless
They wailed again
Their bellies screaming 
The voices gone

The scars of their tears blinked
Only for a second
The river began to flow again
I wondered
Why the weather changed it's colors so fast!...

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sane story squashed
worn wanky clashed
wielded wits flung
leering lanky lust
strained sanity snogged
pilfering punctured pawn

voluptuous vie wept
cremating callous crest
bruised biddings belched

pruned passion puked
dark dribbles drooled
clutching crazed clue

wedged wiles wailed
taunting tampered trail.
      '20:05:10:12:00

Note: Of tamed tale....

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for it, the hot-blooded campus youth
   booed and cheered, fought and cheated;

      adrift in the hysteria of intramural sports,
         the losers wailed, the victors jubilated;


now dusty, it leans on a heap of rubbish,
   the Overall Champion trophy once golden,

      lost in the rubbles of the demolished gym,
         a relic of a youthful season long forgotten!...

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To get it, the hot-blooded campus youth
booed and cheered, screamed and shrieked,
fought and cheated.


It fanned the hysteria of intramural sports
where the losers wailed, the vicotrs
jubilated.


Now rusty, it leans on a heap of rubbish,
the Overall Champion Trophy 
once golden,


lost in the rubble of the demolished gym,
a relic of youthful seasons
now forgotten!...

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When the sky is full of blood
purple rain will fall on the faces he foresaw
when he sang shrill and wailed on guitar
as nobody had ever done before.
Hearts will bruise the pain of being
with each insistent beat, 
feeding nerve endings, bone deep,
blood forming fists like buds full of scent
to battle "and blossom in purple and red."

May 31, 2016
for Last Line Prompt Contest...

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He was skinny as a rail
Dared not put him on a scale
He grew much fatter
Didn’t seem to matter
I knew that he could not fail
~
She livened every party
Always knew she was hearty
She wailed when over
Like she was rover
Howls making her a smarty
~
I left him there in the past
Despite all that he had asked
Begging me to stay
Had to make him pay
Leaving had to be done fast...

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felon fate fostered
feigning flimsy clusters
voluptuous verge drown
cremating callous clown
dark dribbles birthed
hampered hankerings hoisted

moaning mists raved
foiling rusty rage
wanky will wailed

meagre moans masticated
voluptuous vying hibernated
bruised bugs perfected

porous pulses oozed
tracing taunted tune.
      '20:04:29:19:15

Note: Of voluptuous verge....

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Where is peace hiding?
In the midst of the woods?
Perhaps it's dormant in the square 
where famous feet have stood

Or does it lie on ocean floors
Where daring ships have failed?
on blood-soaked lands
where men have died
and wounded hearts have wailed?

Where is peace hiding?
Within our minds
or does it still exist?
It may have never lived at all
Perhaps it's but a myth....

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Throw it all away

Leave the black top stained
You caused so much pain

In all but a day

I can hear the rain
As it washes down the drain

"WE ALL HATE YOU ANYWAY!"

Those words I shouted in vain
As you wailed in pain

In the mist of day

You threw it all away

Left the black top stained
With the blood of your veins

At the end of the day
I was the one to cause the pain...

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It was a cottonmouth they said.
I pictured a dentist pushing a bunch of cotton in my mouth.
After they had put my gums through torture.

“I hate cottonmouths” I said.
“I didn’t think you knew what they were,” my mother replied.
“You take me to one once a year, don’t you?” I wailed.

My mother’s friend gave my mother a strange look and rushed away.
It was years before I understood why....

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