Short Wheeled Poems

class reunion
                        former athletes on oxygen
                        being wheeled in...

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Science
Teaches
Eternal
Peace...
Heaven's
Effulgence
Never
Was
Hokey!
Angels
Wheeled
Knowledgeable
Illogicians
Nigh
Glory

2/25/2019...

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Daddy does drive Deere's down
while working with wheeled
loaders, loud loader loading
the trash trailer, timely.
Ride rocky, ride(roof, roof)
backing, beeping, buzzing....

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His world
hangs on a wall.
His wheeled chair
sits in a corner.
His tillered escape –
the Barque,
Astral Traveler.

//20 words//


©11/17/2017

submitted to – PIC MOTIFS – poetry Contest...

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Learning
Motorcycle
Guide said "Go" - wheels go up
Eighteen wheels stopped - a few inches
Distance

10.02.16

It was an eighteen wheeled Truck stopped by a few inches distance from my head and I survived....

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Two wheeled bliss a life
                                            Intrepid traffic rider
                                            Slow lane on a trike








17.12.21

Composed for John Lawless'
"After Forever"...

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"Are you happy?" the old man ventured
All he owned fit on his three-wheeled cart
He flew a new "Don't Tread on Me" flag
A pack of cigarettes, a can of stale ale
And, for him, all was right with the world.

written January 9, 2022...

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traffic lights
amber moon
heart ticking over

here the head teeters
breathy fumes
flood the face of the road

there are other wheeled minds
in this static world
other's waiting
to go

and the gone
are gone forever

curbside
cats stare
going nowhere...

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I told secrets,
Not to be revealed
To my grief, I felt a breeze
Around my world it wheeled
Like flaming fire in the forest
My secrets you never sealed
I heard what mouths spat,
That my injuries never healed
For salt to be rubbed upon,
For my weaknesses to be peeled!...

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To Hell In A Gurny

We had been going on a long journey;
After a while we saw another attorney;
Same old song;
Done no wrong;
Was being wheeled to hell in a gurney.

Jim Horn

It must be hard to tell a lie with your
teeth closed. Wonder if he ever bites
his tongue....

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Today I had the chance to hold "the blue from rio",
A blue bird on a skateboard you should meet and know,
A fancy parrot from the happy meal kid's land,
Preening all his gorgeous feathers on his wheeled stand,
Visit the happy meal site! Join his feathered flow....

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Outside,
footsteps in the corridor 
grow nearer then pass,
only to stop and knock
on a door 
further down
followed by voices, sobs
and muffled sounds
wheeled off into a silence
until sometime hence
when footsteps again
will tread the floor
and there will be
a knock 
on a door.
...

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Outside the Capitol
a young veteran is carrying
a flag, upside-down
and a wheeled coffin containing his friend
harsh words are tossed, and a Patriot
sneaks behind, robbing the deceased of his
combat boots. Fly off!
Ah, but quicker feet! Tackled from behind!
Punches thrown! A fight!
Who is winning?...

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Born with a grief to the world at large
The eyes showed thirst for embrace
Little feet attached to birdcage
Lively spirit wheeled cowardly at a glance
Innocent toward Father rule roam
Dreams swinging on the footing of sexuality
Bookshelf took a shape of group home
Screeching for the freedom to unfold promptly..
...

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The boat plied along an emerald sea
The only noise the lapping so gently
The white sail set by a puff of breeze
As our love’s gentle sigh would please

You trailed your hand in the sea 
And the gulls wheeled as we could see
I told a joke and you loudly laughed
A perfect day again we wished would last.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Dad saluted his great granddaughter Maia on skype
That was memorable  for me
Dad was a military man
A Brigadier General
They saluted him and not the other way around.

But to his 5 year old granddaughter 
He wheeled himself in front of the computer
And saluted her.

What a wonderful moment!
I'll never ever forget that moment....

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Spinning spokes upon bustling narrow city streets
A two wheeled mouse amid prowling motorized cats 
Plays games of timing and finely tuned awareness

Sudden bus stops, springing car doors, and Jaywalkers
Each can be found within the dealer’s loaded deck
The sound of coasting, click, click, are barely heard 

© Copyrights G. Jones 2008...

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Look
I can
Ride my tricycle
On only two wheels

because I have to
till we fix it
and fix it we will
in the poor quarters
downtown

the tricycle
in our midst is
overused and well shared
among many

It's because we care
for each other
and the little things we
do and have matter

that I can ride
my tricycle
on two wheels only....

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«Find hope all ye who enter here»
That's what it says on it.
I’d enter, but it's locked.
I’d find, but it’s hopeless.
I'd smoke, but they say there's no smoking in here.
Okay, I'll go.
Gravity helped me to go down, nudging in the back,
so I could jump on the trolley
right before a couple of hefty nurses wheeled it into the reanimation room....

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Her hands shook
as they wheeled
him away.
Had his lips
been dry? 
Had his body
ached? 
Had he longed
for a touch
against his
fragile skin? 
Could she
have done more
to relieve
his pain? 
Could she
have loved him more, 
needed him more, 
begged him more
to stay? 
Her head swam
in the deafening silence
of guilt and sorrow
as she
buried herself
for feeling
relief....

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No matter you’re not in the phone book
and you pay with cash, not checks;
no matter if you dress in the faded
worn-out rags that were all she left;

no matter if you wrap yourself in cobwebs
and drive a three-wheeled wreck;
no matter if you give up your martinis
and survive on chicken necks,

it matters not.  She’ll always have
your number –  your carnivorous ex....

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Lucille bought herself a three-wheeled trike
Better for her than a two-wheel bike
Her age was catching up
When she had a slip-up
Running over a three-year-old tyke.

Police charged Lucille with manslaughter
With no jail time, thanks to her daughter
Quashing spectacles, 
No more vehicles
And keeping off the police blotter. 

Written July 17, 2022...

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bicycle shows ignorance of man
it summarizes man’s limited status
the most inefficient machine made
tires burst as often as possible
spokes break with no warning
frictions are all over the joints
chain breaks and breaks and breaks
very unstable two-wheeled machine
humans have fallen and broken limps
but man still uses the bicycle
as one of best machines invented
and walks with nose in the air!...

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Going home.  

 On the plain of Alentejo
sacred green grass ornamented with white flowers. 
Rolling landscape and big farms 
grazing cattle,
sheep in the shade of umbrella trees. 
Rolling landscape I would love to be a stallion here.
Alas, I see few horses and no mares,
but many four- wheeled motorbikes
disturbing the peace. 
Cows, sheep and big balled bulls
milk and meat,
time to stop for lunch....

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I was driven...at a speed
Wheeled by my intent of 
sleep
I could hear the chimes 
calling
My bed so inviting.

The garden...not very far
The gateway not farther
I caught the green grass
And for a bed it could pass.

I fell on it
On, my body softly hit
The dews embraced me
Soon, I slept and dreaming.

I dreamt of green people
Sweetened sweet suiting 
dream
For this seen
I wished to be evergreen....

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