I've just found some very short poems. You like?

RESPONSIBILITY

Old beaten-up bikes

on the bottom of the cut,

the water so murky

nothing can live, but

one pathetic stickleback

cancerous and fat,

struggling to breathe.....

We did that.

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GRIEF

As I reached the corner

You had disappeared.

Yet I was sure I saw you there.

I recognised the tilt of your head,

Your ambling gait.

Why did you not wait?

Why are my glimpses

Always just too late?

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THE POETRY OF CHILDHOOD

aurora borealis........Timbuktu

.....jacaranda......Popocatepetl

.............peripatetic.................

The words in free-fall cover the page

And I am enraptured, captured, caged.

As a child I recited them inside my head

Their rhythms soothing

and consoling.

Then once learned

I belonged to them and they to me

And with this connection they set me free.

I've just found some very short poems. You like?hijackthis

Grannyjill, you never cease to pleasantly surprise me. Thank you so much for these short poems, full of message, full of wonder, and establishing that "peripatetic" is a word. That's been giving me fits lately (I lost my dictionary unfortunately), so I thank you for that affirmation.