Short Wooed Poems

Wooed me in Chinese
Married me in Arabic
Divorced me in Latin...

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senses wooed at dusk
gently held by spring’s bouquet-
lilac’s perfumed waltz...

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There was a little man
Who wooed a little honey;
and she was wooed and wooed and wooed
But not as wude as he...

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A girl found herself being wooed,
By a variety of wonderful food,
She became so excited,
And extremely delighted,
So ran around all in the nude....

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There was a black colt from Bastille
Who wooed a fair filly at Lille
She asked, “Do you know ?”
He replied, “So so”
So she had to lead him through the drill...

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Gently wooed from turquoise moorings
      Daydreams sailed to mist skirted realms
           Excursions of a whimseyed mind

                       31 Dec 2014...

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Daring,spinning,delicious
windmills
turning the morning misty
with their endless dance
white desire
wooed on the wind
soar in their open arms
until the breezes die....

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The impecunious lad of no means
had most impeccable manners it seems
he wooed rich guy’s wife
they ran off with no strife
the wealthy man kills them nightly in his dreams...

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Young Willie wooed his girl at night
And wed her in soft candlelight. 
Next morning when the sun was bright,
Young Willie contemplated flight.

By; Joyce Johnson
For: By Candlelight contest...

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Respect for tradition
passion for truth

Heritage treasured
enlightenment wooed

Pathways consistent
their outcome the same

Footsteps of prescience
—veracity claims

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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wooed by the comfort
of others and worldly things
ideals stall change
they visit but never stay
leaving us tired and alone

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Contest:  One New Tanka
Sponsor: Rick Parise
03.09.15...

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A frog fell in love with a stork shrewd
Suggesting a kiss she wooed her food
Trying to swallow him, how rude!
The frog rung her neck, eyes protrude
He hopped on out, limping like a dude!

06.05.2021
Sponsor: Margarita Lillico...

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There was once an old spinster named Ruth

    Who was renowned for stretching the truth

       "Tho' many young swains wooed me,

            I could have married" said she,

                "But found them lecherous and uncouth!"...

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A seeming kindness and gentleness wooed me 
and like a wounded dove beneath your hand, I quivered.
To calm a flight filled heart was your decree
and yet conquest and not contact was delivered,
wanting, waiting, for your touch, I shivered....

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Standing in the pouring rain, I felt like a drip,
The dark grey skies reflected my mood,
A salty tear rolled down my face onto my lip,
Tears and rain drops mixed, and I thought how rude
To be stood up by the woman I’d wooed!

* pure fiction

For Sara’s Five Lines metaphor & similie contest...

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"And what of this feeling now 
That comes before me now
 I am now loving the powers of "wow"
You wooed me!
Confused me?
Now !
Subdued me ouch!
 I am left?
Yet blessed O' WoW...
 I am yours to love, she says

5/10/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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It began in innocence
Wooed, enticed by promises
Look what could be bought and spent
Plastic dollars, plastic cents.

Lured into it's tangled trap
Habits form, the will grows slack
On and on it ever goes
Statements come and payments grow.

Like a millstone round the neck
Debtor's hell, life is spent....

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I want to be imbued by you
Eaten like a ten course meal, 
Food for you

I want to be wooed by you
Sung to like a church choir, 
Music for you

I want to be intoxicated by you
Two glasses too deep, 
Wine for you

I want to be myself for you
My three favorite pleasures, 
Food, music and wine for you...

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The rains have come on another Fall wind.,
nostalgia, once gone, now creeps back in.

My cornucopia overflows with things Man cannot barter or buy. 
A hand to her hand, lover's sigh to wooed sigh.  


“Good Night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are" -Jimmy Durante...

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I bought the whole affair, the dominant "I should"
I watched while others flew off to their own distant wood.
I wore the chains, I wore the chains,
And in my eyes tears stood.

Driven from my bed, and by the Question wooed,
Might I soar off to my own dreams and still be good?
I wore the chains, I wore the chains,
And wondered if I could....

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alone,and scarred, no hope for you to gain
that which you've sought with love and pain.
No one will ever come to esteem you a star
in their bosom nor visit from afar.
The arrow sparred you no victims for food
You wonder the wasteland a starving man,
moribund by starvation whom none wooed.
You cried out and none heard you dying on the sand....

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An ache, some hurt with longing to yearn
Cauldron left to simmer with passion
Bubbles in the fire ball of desire
Closely watch topless metaphors;

Animal instinct with intuition 
Gets drawn in a desperate hunger
As she is wooed in the foreplay  
Melodious moments with sensation;

Makes her cower to his firm will,
For she loves the rapture and thrill:...

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In darkness, creation begins with love,
The radiant light that reveals her pow’rs,
And time began with its minutes and hours,
From light the hunter came, and wooed her heart,
Their love that gave us life below, above,
For such is the beauty of Nature’s art.





Form: Wordsworth's Sestet
Parameters:
Meter: Iambic pentameter or decasyllabic lines
Rhyme scheme: abbcac...

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How cunning and sly,
This ingenious guy,
Deceitful and shrewd,
The way he wooed,
Appeared to be prey,
Mimicked the day,
With waves of vibration he was able to stay,
Hunting your own kind,
Would be labeled a crime,
But not in the realm of corrupted times,
Instinctive behavior to ruin the race,
This time he stepped into the wrong webs place.

By: Sabina Nicole...

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Gullible sheep that flocked to the polls

     Were wooed by promises of lofty goals

          Hope they are happy

               With leaders so sappy

                    Pray next election attracts saner souls

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(© All Rights Reserved)

Fourth Place Win In Carolyn Devonshire's "Follower or Leader" Contest - June 2010...

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