Short Weighty Poems

the frail ice splinters
a weighty wind wanders
in idle bluster
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weighty bird on branch
place no faith in branch hold but
faith in its own wings...

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weighty winds whirling
	tempestuous character ~
		robin wings flutter

(March Full Moon – Pueblo)
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When weighty Wanda 
Discussed her dreadful diet 
She sarcastically said
Easy! I eat everything I eyeball...

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OVERWEIGHT HUSBAND:

Chubby
Hubby

FLABBY STOMACH:

Jelly
Belly

A WELL PADDED BOTTOM:

Cushy
Tushy

WINNIE THE POOH ON A DIET:

Skinny
Winnie...

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summer wings
take flight in September
humidity
    heavy
too weighty
to lift
your
   cursed curse
and
   lighten
my load
homeward bound...

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In a mindset 
Hampered by sadness and dejection
I only ask you to carry on
Heave your weighty troubles
Over your fragile shoulders
And I will catch your baggage
If ever you should fall...

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Asked a passenger to move over please
There's room for one more if we all just squeeze
We'd get more acquainted
If we lose some weighty
Sitting here in our over-tight jeans...

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Another old friend has passed on,
May he rest whereever he's gone.
Once you're a year above eighty
thoughts of life's transience are weighty.
but here were good times to think upon.

Old friends, I'll see you anon....

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to live in the woods
listen to the sheer quiet
so weighty and loud

the morning silent
not a whisper of sound stirs
deafening stillness

weighing on the ear
silence roars loud in the brain
the bird’s shrill cry brays

Trisha Sugarek, 2011...

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To fall in love, and madly so,
Is there a greater thing than this?
Wars were fought for lesser things—
Might I battle for a kiss?

There is no sword too weighty;
No hill too steep to try;
To fall in love and madly so—
To fall, or standing, die....

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Whopping big or small sized -
With inside red flesh of
Wonderful sweetness, this
Weighty fruit’s percent of
Water is ninety-two!
Wow! That’s great hydration.
Wish I had some right now.

May 10, 2021
For Kim Merryman's Pleiades W Poetry Contest...

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Stomped by intruding and invasive breed, 
Foul footprint of this year is a misdeed -
Two weighty  boots with heavy tread 
Stirred quite a lot of dirt and dread. 
COVID and DONALD just will not concede! 

November 23, 2020...

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When I am longing for a sweet
 I know right  where  to find a treat.

I look in the freezer for the boxes
of hidden chocolate covered cherries.
They're well known to be my favorite sweet
and gifted to me by Christmas fairies.

tantalizing
chocolate covered cherries
a weighty issue...

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Whenever my emotions are gathered pain side down, a smattering 

of silent, shallow, cobweb shadows wear me as woe’s 

weighty gown atop clouds blind to rainbows where

naught is wrought but gloom’s sound,

tempo fraught, inbound. 





... CayCay
March 20, 2018...

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~Weighty Problems~

A sweet lady, made a sexy faux
pas, 
Sitting at a seaside resort bar!
Alas, being a tad fat,
She eyed a professor with a cravat.
"Madame, you would not even fit in my flat!"
Embarrassesd, she ran and fell on her 
large prat.



Panagiota Romios
5/4/2019
7:30pm PST...

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My chest holds a cold and heavy load
Suddenly ponderous and dense 
Once my chest was warm alive and breathing
Now I feel weighty angry words flying 
A daily rage unrequited in home and close
But I say quite honestly
Though I feel heavy and lost
My heart is still seeking a gentle peace
My life moving to transpose...

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When will the fog
lift off the bay

When will the sun 
scorch it away

Mind dank in darkness

     Black hole
                  so black
                                falling
                                falling
ever deeper

a veil looms
where joy
once existed.

Oh
for this weighty 
fog be lifted....

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your past was fabricated
told to soften this
now, this weighty
hand keeping you in place.
the face, the eyes, i
look at this in surprise, this
masterpiece of loss.
blinded by the light, i'm
trying to make it right,
prying my hands between 
the lids. a tear slid, 
demolished my power &
stance, washed effort-
all gone....

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She struts on oval stage
Ready rage
to tantalize
and also scandelize
With weighty witty
paraded poetry

prehaps pretty
lies lovely
in ice
cold cries

Or other emotional expression
of ornry agony ages

music mages
steal slammer's show

She shivers

gathers guts

walks with

 silence

spoken word

left to echo, unheard...

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In the corridors of power
Even rats and flies have power
Every whisper, every murmur 
Carries a weighty and meaningful implications
Ladies and gentle men walk but betray
In dark corners they whisper
Busy bees after the scented flowers
Heartbroken, they slide and slip out in quietude
Like serpents driven by venom
They sit and wait for their victims...

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In the corridors of power
Even rats and flies have power
Every whisper, every murmur 
Carries a weighty and meaningful implications
Ladies and gentle men walk but betray
In dark corners they whisper
Busy bees after the scented flowers
Heartbroken, they slide and slip out in quietude
Like serpents driven by venom
They sit and wait for their victims...

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The word wait is a weighty one.
Whichever way one wants to wish,
Wait is a whimsical whelp.

A wait for which one waits
works wonders without waning one's weight.
Why?  Waiting whisks waiter's whole weight.

Wait for...wait on...wait with...wait by...
"Wait a sec"!  What we want waits for no one.
One wonders, "Why"?  

Only one word wins......."WOW"...

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In case you weren’t feeling old
(A topic kind of weighty)
You might, as soon as you’ve been told
Today, Bob Dylan’s 80!

Our youthful idols cannot age
Unless we do in tandem
And lately, if they take the stage,
They face a senior fandom.

I’m glad that Bob’s still kicking,
Earning accolades and cred
Unlike those whose songs are sticking
Though they’re 50-plus years dead....

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The book - an abridged dictionary.
Hardcover, thick and weighty.

I open the cover, discover
a library record,
the book had not been checked out 
or in for decades. 1974 is stamped clearly.

Under a pile of old paperbacks – hidden
until now.

I must have stolen it.
Who the hell would steal a dictionary!
Then it comes to me –
a young man hungry for words,

that’s who....

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