Best Abbreviating Poems

Text Speak--A newly developing dialect whereby the speaker can convey a lengthy thought by abbreviating phonetically or through the use of substitutive characters.	

Any attempt to...

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As a clock's hands are advancing forward,
By cubits time is abbreviating our stay.
As incoming tides are rushing shore-ward,
We busy ourselves doing things our way.

But God...

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That English man with an English tongue
Abbreviating the world into song
Nothing he wrote was ever long
And yet to every piece the sense clung
Making English days...

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For certain my gut feeling was telling me stories, abbreviating decrees filling my soul with sunshine 

My heart was a rock but now the tender...

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Those eyes trapped between thick lines of kohl, frigidly stare

But yet glued to the screen.

Those eyes tire with the glare

But are possessed by a power...

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spiders slick so
slippery master the
sorts of sane. me; this
tree draped over me,
i can taste vulgarity 
like dust cracking the
air. move back, away,
all touch is a...

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You begin with a suggestion,
that you place in your own mind willingly alone,
then redundantly play that suggestion,
willingly in your own mind again and again, 
to...

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You start abbreviating the pretention,
caring for the end of a perennial revenge –
of slain truth, finding depth in arguments
which will spawn more violence.

Come my friend,...

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Hands of Time
Written: by Tom Wright
1/25/2018

Time is a commodity which we all possess,
But each is assigned contrasting amounts.
A commodity that man cannot suppress,
It’s what we...

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