Short Dutifully Poems

flowery bush performs her duty
dry callused flesh torn by beauty...

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Queen madame praying mantis dressed beautifully
after she eats her mates' heads off dutifully.
some have claimed that she acts snootily.
But I really like my queen who gasses out quite tootily....

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Sticking to a healthy liquid diet,

I dutifully take grandpa's advice

Eight goblets of brandy for night's riot :

Be careful, he laughs, " migraine is the price!"




Deborah Guenther Beachboard's Epigram Contest
4/12/2018...

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Having Faith
Written: by Tom Wright
8-15-2016

All matters must begin with a single step,
And often our uncertainty holds us back.
Even in our thoughts we may dutifully prep, 
Lack of faith curtails our ability to attack.
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Bade Mother Nature at the dawn
Bring forth the trees, grow tall, grow tall
Beneath them lay a gentle fawn
Being sheltered, waits for night to fall.

They will dutifully face their fate
Anxious, they can only watch and wait
Always finding danger on their way
As the sun rises on a new day....

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Dutifully I sit at my dusty desk at dusk
Make magic from the musty mess I must
Fingers fidgeting fighting flight
Thoughts thinking a thousand thoughtless things
Suddenly something sublime sounds
Verily visions of verse vacillate
Jabbering joyously jaunty jumbled jargon
Sabotaging something so salacious...

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(In Memory of the late, Pastor Milton Moore)

A Mighty Warrior, was he
Moving Us, all, through his Ministry
Being devoted to the cause, as he could be
Going about, passing along the Word, most dutifully
Just to save the Souls of You and Me
So, that We, the kingdom of Heaven, would One day, see
When We, from this toubled World, are forced to flee...

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In a bazaar
spectacular
bizarre
jar
I bought. Strange triangular
cork. Popped. Vapor.
Powerful
Genie named Tatar.
I will dutifully 
Fulfill
Your wishes. I am accessible
between the hours of nine am to five pm this isn't
flexible
or changeable.
In a masterful
forcible 
voice I said Go to you room until I figure out if 
your the incredible....

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origami

stillness pervaded
the ancient paper home
not even the rill that
dutifully crossed the small
garden dared to break the 
meditative silence.
a controlled swish 
of heavy white paper
whispered through the 
open doors and rested 
on the water lilies
folded like his paper creatures
the aged man sat unmoving
except for his waltzing fingers....

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Ancient graying wood of
Canted posts
Swaying yellow grasses
Dance across
Rusty flaking barbed wire
Containing no more
Than a fading image
Of flicking horse tails
And stomping hooves
Still dutifully clasped 
Connecting the rotting rails
A single coil of braided metal
Holds fast to the
Gate
Which now swings only shadows
Across a dying field
Forgotten...

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Good Friday
Dr. James E. Martin
©April, 2014

God’s Son came to earth’s abode
On Calvary He shed His blood.
Once the Sacrifice was complete
Death He’d have to defeat.

For man His life He gave.
Resolved that sinners He’d save.
Ideally was God’s plan displayed,
Dutifully the Son obeyed.
Anguish and pain He would endure
Yet victory He’d lovingly procure....

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two-legged ants dart
around & through
a holographic city
overcome by
  an illusion of order
overwhelmed by
  a terrestrial constellation 
  under cacophonous con(de)struction

six-legged ants dutifully
transport breadcrumbs to tiny 
chasms in the mottled dirt
where cool dark silence 
briefly mollifies
  a holographic planet
  under careless (de)construction...

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Daring Detectives delight me
Dreaming dastardly dilemmas
Deliberating discerning dialogues
Discovering delectable dramas
Diligently dissecting diaries
Dutifully documenting details
Discreetly digging
Dutifully dialoguing
Dividing distressed details
During division of documents
Dendrites dancing delightfully
As I decipher dynamics of dramas
Depicted by distinguished detectives...

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The sun sets in tranquility and surrendered silence,
Majestic in all its beauty and magnificence.

The moon comes dutifully ushering the ebony gray,
Unfolding the usual repose of a departing short day.

Like this end we shall leave our life as those of us before
We find only sea waves are faithful... they return to the shore.

All Rights Reserved ~~ Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~05.19.14...

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the chirping
the peeping
the warm summer day

brings me back to life
in almost every way
I dutifully ignore my soreness

a robin in flight
frantic hummingbird
quickest moves ever

a twitter and a cheep
sail through the trees
on this warm summer day

butterflies welcome me
back to my garden
my senses on high alert,

noticing everything
I am starting to find
my way back to myself....

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My pen glides across the paper
Like a hardy person doing a caper
The gel dribbles out so nicely
Each word done so precisely 
The ink sparkles beautifully
My writing done dutifully
I just can't help this rhyme
It drips out of my pen like slime
My pen fly down the empty sheet
Never accepting defeat
More and more it writes away
Not taking a single rest day
I just can't stop my pen
So, here we go again......

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may i take my time?
parasite said, slithering thru
i knew i should've known-
purposely dead-
& all you could see was red?
parasite hungry, needs
to be fed- no wonder
mother made it
(sedated)
in a world she had created
dutifully she made it
good golden glory-
penetrated, hesitated, then,
you mean to tell me,
meditated?
parched parasite, thirsty
pouting- shadows
crowding behind the light
bright enough to
blind...

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Michael Scott
A well-meaning manager who enjoyed a lot
On peers and employees to crack jokes
For racial bias shown exit door, left fellow folks.

Dwight Schrute
His title created by Michael who deemed it cute
For the salesman who dutifully assisted him
And tolerated colleagues’ pranks of whim.

(The Comedy Series : The Office)

October 1, 2021
Rhyme checked on RhymeZone.com
Contest : Clerihew 2
Sponsor : Joseph May...

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In a stolen moment
of solitude I sit
at the base of my
bookshelf and
surrender to swirling
synaptic symphonies of
Solzhenitsyn

In yet another
purloined pause
I pensively peruse
Poe’s pedantically
petrifying ponderings

I desperately desire
a day to dutifully
devour Dickinson’s
dreamy dirges

Alas
my children call
and I must leave
my literary wonderland
all is not lost
for bedtime is near
and Dr. Seuss awaits...

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Purity may well lie deep inside the promising cup, but there are those

Evasive and pervasive evils that dutifully lie cleverly to lurk and deceive.

Advocates of forgiveness and goodwill must be quick to rise in opposition.

Curtailing and containing disrupters of 'the peace' are the goals we must seek.

Essentially, the truth remains that we are sorely needful of The Prince of Peace.

030722PSCtest, World Peace. Robert James Liguori...

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An intermittent sound

Alerted my inner ear

Spurring me into wakefulness

As my name formed crystal clear

Theresa, Theresa, Theresa.

Repeatedly in tune

Urging my reaction

One morning in early June

I awoke to hear chirruping

So insistent in bird refrain

Guarding it's perch dutifully

To arouse me was it's aim

My curtains threaded sunlight

Heralding life anew

Another day thus realised

As away my messenger flew....

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Each night I dutifully latch the door
To keep intruders firmly without.
I retire to bed feeling blissfully sure
I am safe from what they are about.

Then one night, the latching complete
I thought of threats already within.
Stroke, heart attack, foes at my feet.
How to bar them, where to begin?

It quickly became hauntingly clear
That mortality assures no defense.
Lethal outcomes are perilously near,
And latching doors is only a pretense....

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You have gone down,
With the setting sun,
The shadow of you,
No longer hovers around,
Never to hear the beat of your feet,
Our touch of palms,
Can no longer meet,
No longer we hear,
The whisper of your voice,
God's cherished choice you are,
Your hour is here,
Your time has come,
This earth you once traversed,
Your seeds of love dutifully dispersed,
A peaceful pathway,
Leads to heaven's gate,
God has beckoned you,
There's no longer a wait....

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never smoke she said,
cigarette dangling from her mouth.
ashes falling into my oatmeal
I nodded my head, dutifully.

always tell the truth, he said,
he called in sick to his boss,
we went to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.

don't ever gossip, said my grandma.
before telling us all the rumors she had ever heard
about the neighbors.

never generalize people, Uncle Louie said,
unless they are Irish, English, or Swedes.
You cannot trust any of them....

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In His presence I stand amazed
Knowing that from death He has been raised.
That He gave His life for one like me
Brings joy beyond the highest degree.

Knowing this truth leads to questions anew.
What should I, therefore, gladly do?
Should I be willing to go anywhere?
Should I not this message dutifully share?

Is there a reason that I can give?
Regarding why in complacency I live?
The answer to this question is very clear
All excuses should, therefore, disappear....

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