100 Words Poems - Poems about 100 Words

DON'T STOPIF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

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As I was reading my poem to Deborah…a daily ritual I adore…
she stopped me saying, “Jim, I think I’ve heard this poem before.”

Words that immediately began to echo…to reverberate in my ears…
w...

The Third Bomb

...Clowns cackle at the purple plume
the global order is so unsteady.
Others only see coming doom
yet most think it's too late already.

Two bombs were dropped on Japan
humans always take things t...

Fragrance of Love

...FRAGRANCE  OF  LOVE

   From deep within my heart
    I can’t let myself apart 
    from you! My Darling,
    craving my yearnings!

     I am drinking desires of dormant dream
     with emer...

Extraordinary

..."I've 
noticed 
something 
about most good 
people, with myself 
as well sometimes: 

How maybe life's not all 
about putting up fences or 
walls or marking down lines? 


Maybe life's al...

One Hundred Words Words Life and the True Cost of Freedom

...Kept wonton and willing, the new day's many, flower' petaline; all opening up to the moment. 

If but only briefly, and if but only merely, and if but just once; now all beholden under the gracious...

100 Words the Closet Door and the Modest Carving

... "...and 
the modist 
carving 
into the 
closet 
door 
read: 

"I do not place my life, nor my trust, 
my belief nor my faith within 
the 
resume 
of man, 
nor within 
his cause...

Rhyme For Rhyme, Sail Lights of Deepest Sublime, a Set of Double Rhyming Sonnets

...Double Rhyming Sonnets, Each A Perfect One Hundred Words

(1.)
Rhyme For Rhyme, Sail Lights Of Deepest Sublime,
A set of double rhyming sonnets

Rhyme for rhyme, poetry's seeking heart yearns
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Where Green Forests Wrap Desirous Land

...(1.)
Where Green Forests Wrap Desirous Land

Across the midnight divide in a shroud,
this soul sails upon glistening gold wings.
There with vanity and what pride allowed,
my seeking heart wande...

Double Chained Sonnets, Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames

...Double Chained Sonnets, Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames

(1.)

Nature's Beauty, Our Vanity So Shames

Nature, deepest  hues set to color life
life its temptations, bringing moral strife
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In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

...In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into blue heavens's...

Once Upon a Time

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Weren’t we all fifteen
Once upon a time…
And the world
Revolved around us and only us?
Parents were no more
Than convenient caretakers
Who had no idea
Of what was involved
In the si...

Words Don'T Come Easy

...We’ve been asked to pen one hundred words
Perhaps I’ll write about butterflies and birds
I must not write  a poem about floating turds
as words such as turds are used by nerds!
 
The...

Pristine

...Oh, jungle, deep ...
hug me close your jade breast -
I long to hear a thrum within ...
let your warm whispers tickle
the tympans of my ears with
sultry songs of your essence ...
and your ta...

Seeking the Green Sea

...Off I go to seek the green sea
Under the toe sand I feel
With water drops splashing me
I look to the sky with stars in my eyes
Wondering which one I should wish
Her heart I haven’t felt wishing ...

Red Herring of Lapsing Time

...Fall’s felicitous red herring —
the mystery of leaves morphing.
The autumnal applause fairing.
Verdant heat and daylight dwarfing.

The horologic ticker chimes,
as lines are drawn on pumpkins p...

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