Short Meter Poems

in-side or up-there
god's geo-meter wont say
swords have edges too




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Leader(ship)

Each ship is in captain’s hand;
Voyaging to distant land 
Midst waves of the vast ocean....

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Poets count on fingies
To get the meter right.
Scribes of prosy thingies,
In randomness delight....

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Sweet water 
Turning bitter 

At the meter

Is it a meter 
Or a converter?

To flow cash
Turning taps!...

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Ornery
   Poetry
   Meter like
   A gnarled
   Oak Tree

   Eloquent
   Poesy
   Ethereal
   Far from me...

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Poetry is heavy idea
     beyond rhyme and meter
     conveyed by the poetic soul
   sensitive reason for existence...

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P-en
O-pens
E-very line's
M-eter and rhyme,
S-oothing and inspiring all through the time.

Form: Acrostictractys...

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Poetry's an arduous art.
It requires skill and meter
and a poet with very rare heart,
or he will tire and teeter.


29 December 2014...

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eager eyes watch the float jump
tradition passed from elders
this year could be different
rad meter training




08/25/13
© All Rights Reserved...

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The rhyme,
  my consort

The meter,
  my friend

The music,
 my mistress

On whose love,
—I depend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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You're my poem
My consummate rhyme
And I could reread you
Time after time
Flowing in meter
Perfect in sync 
Inscribed on my heart
In indelible ink...

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My poetry really does suck.
I look for true rhymes, but get stuck.
Though my meter is fine,
When you follow each line
you’ll see that they all run amok....

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Sometimes I get so sick of rhyming 
All the meter and structure of rhyming
When I just need to say
What I've wanted to say
Without worrying about rhyming...

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ancient redwood gleams
softly through the mists of time…
mayfly flitters by

-08 Jun 2014-

Average Lifespan:
Redwood Tree - 600 years
Mayfly - 1 day...

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Sapphic works are hard for a novice writer.
Tricky is the fact of the meter changes.
Stress or non it can but confuse the reader.
Writhes here  my sapphic....

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I truly apologize to any reader.
I've run out of change for my poetry meter.
Please send me some quarters or a quartette.
The meter maid has not been by yet.....

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Mayhem's mistress of sweeter meter ~
                             prime time's rhymes - Nina Parmenter!

1/13/21

'Tease a Friend' contest
Sponsor: Bobby May...

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There once was a poet named Bieter
Who, when asked how he measured his meter
Said, my rhythm's kaput
So I just use the foot
Which is about the size of my peter...

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well   you got me beat

                                         the wrong end

                                      of the meter stick





MagiCicada13...

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GIVE AN INCH 
"i gave her an inch, but; she had gone all metric and took a meter"

Indiana Shaw...

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Free verse is a form of poetry
describing various styles of poetry
     strict meter or rhyme
     strict meter or rhyme
correct form to be eligible for contests...

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I
mystery in seeds:
real to me, small, flat gourd seed
now, shoots at window smile

II
Flat white seed planted
a meter from window
three weeks: hi from window...

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Sitting in a breeze,
Soaking in the sun,
Feel the beat beginning,
Pulsing on the run.
With a common built in ease
The sights and country scan
In a hidden meter....

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M-ake
E-very
L-ine
I-n
S-onnet
S-ublime
A-s

R-hyme
A-nd
M-eter
O-ften
S-how

Topic: Birthday of Melissa B. Ramos (January 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Ghost - A Haiku

liveliness meter
a female, active ghost sneers
at the perfect wolf

perfect is the wolf
unholy, active ghost sneers
life story meters

5/29/19...

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