Short Wound Up Poems

Tick tock, tick tock, my life has a beat.
I become wound up, by people I meet....

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Dawn pulled up the drape
Night had pulled down, still toy.
Red Sun, wound up again. Laughs....

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Wound up toy hovers 
Mile-a-minute wings flapping 
Pretty hummingbird.
...

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There once was a man named Dan
Who sat with a paper fan.
He sat in the sun
and had such fun
and wound up with quite a tan....

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Mother Goose and Father Time
All together had children nine.
Love ruled hers,
His were let free.
All wound up productive, happy and fine....

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Here I am 
    a wind-up doll
  Now almost run down

  Wondering why
    I was so wound up
  Something in the world
                 ~ I'd found...

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Crazy joe had an elephant,
who he rode with some elegance,
until he wound up in his trunk
and into the drink was dunked
and cursed it's smiling arrogance...

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She's chaotic 
Vigorous and playfully vicious 
Unpredictable and all wound up
Safely zealous,  energetic and always driven 
She's all i can take and im glad...

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past breaking point wound up to the limit ~ the hour hand passed a minute

said the second hand to the pendulum ~ who snapped, it’s spring time innit

By
David Kavanagh...

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Les Moore went down to the liquor store

But then wound up passed out on the floor

He woke Gin anointed

And guite disappointed 

So I guess you might say less is more...

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Started Splurging

She was urging me to start splurging
We eventually went on an excursion
We wound up on a beach
People liked being a leech
Into big bills were emerging.

Jim Horn...

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There once was a poet named Daniel
Mistook for a sweet cocker spaniel 
They gave him some shit
Wound up getting bit
Needed morphine induced in granules



              by Daniel Turner...

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There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
She was the dumbest I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
But wound up in Moscow
Holding a kielbasa in each paw.


Who says a limerick has to be Irish?...

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   Spools for a day.
   Wound up with what they say.
   Tighter and tighter.
   The insanity won't go away.
   A year or two marinating.
   Chaos has won.
   Then the spring becomes undone....

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On V-day I had gave my wife chocolate hearts
And a few boxes of some "noted" candy tarts 
Some said- "I love you" 
Some said- "I'd love to..." 
But with all that candy, she wound up with the farts 

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In 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky
Were neighbors in old Vienna, a crew quite motley
Lived within 2 sq. miles
Water must've been vile
They all wound up guity of famous folly...

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I fell in love, 
With an idea,

But Idea's wont keep you warm at night

So chilled to the bone,
I fumbled for a match,
And like most little girls who play with matches,

I wound up engulfed in flames....

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a little rainbow bunny,
was never like the rest,
they taunted and they teased,
his heart was laid to rest,
he wound up really blue,
when people passed him bye,
his little rainbow tears,
they never saw him cry....

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In 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky
Were neighbors in old Vienna, a crew quite motley
Lived within 2 sq. miles
Water must've been vile
They all wound up guilty of famous folly...

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My son went for a checkup, wound up in emerge
Docs were alerted, thought he might be on the verge
He's only fifty-two
Has a stressful job beaucoup
Tests proved negative but caution should be urged...

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Then, there was Jacob from Ypsilanti
Who lived in an old ramshackle shanty 
He saved all his money
For his chosen honey
Wound up marrying my old-maid auntie.

written August 9, 2021...

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Valentine Vapors

In the midst of her valentine capers
she succumbed to a case of the vapors
with a grunt and a groan
she wound up alone
so the sweet lass just spread out newspapers.


John G. Lawless
©2/14/2018...

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Hoi Polloi Loses The Way

You gravitate away
from the Lamb
who saved your Day
turn back;for you've
lost your way!
Yet, fear not,
for the Prodical Son
wound up with 
a glorious day!

McCuen Copyright October 2008...

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That sassy young lassie from Savannah
She wound up in Cuba's old Havana
Playing fine flamenco guitars
Rolling pricey high-class cigars
And shacking with men in her cabana.

written June 23, 2021...

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Her hair was soft as were her eyes
Out of her beautiful lips, nothing but lies
But I was blind so very often
Untill I wound up in this couffin
Stabbed in the back heart cut in two
Her kiss left my skin dark black and cold blue...

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