Best Brevity Poems

A grey frame house and backyard swing
call out to me
from somewhere buried deep in time -
a memory.

A river front and 60’s band
are beckoning -
symbols of beginnings of
my reckonings.

Ostensibly,
I cannot travel back in time,
or I would be
there dancing, not making rhyme.

Oh, can it be
the parks and...

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BREVITY – the soul of wit

One was red, one was blue
the pair - a sneaker and a shoe
so he laughed as he retold
the story given him by mother
that his brother wore the other.


John G. Lawless
7/7/2015

submitted to – Brevity – The Short Of It – poetry...

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The Wake Of Sadness, In Youth's Brevity

Vagaries of wondrous youth I so miss
Sunset, its purple hues, her tender kiss
Bacon and fried eggs, waking to dawn's gold,
Sweet things one remembers when getting old.
Warm fires, those heavenly campfire nights
Love's delights when making up after fights;

Rose garden and...

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words are not just words
thoughts expressed
in thought
in speech
in action

some are full of thoughts
beginning before words
just to remain thoughts
never see the light of day, or...

others are voice
continuation of thought
of thoughts not thought
of thoughts thought, and finally...

then there are actions
continuation of voice and thought
from thoughts voiced
from thoughts...

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her kisses were glacial...honest
she devoured every star on which she rode
at times, amber spirits would peal the veneer
expose the pulp of her mind...scarred...
one night the shine sprinted from her grasp,
living dullened that wild horse stride...
she curled up in my heart palm, 
wilted and worn-like a...

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I lay on the bed puffing and panting
Couldn’t get comfortable no matter how hard I tried
I twisted and turned,  oh how my stomach ached
When will this pain be over  - I can hardly take any more
With one last push  ……
I got the...

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The last of the cortege had shuffled quietly away
leaving him alone to face the first of countless days
bending, threw one more handful of soil into the pit
a final act of closure after that it would be it
at the kitchen table head on hands with empty...

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Brevity—Quick Changes

A brown-eyed girl named Sue;
Loved to wear dresses blue.
On the first day of school she saw a girl she knew
Who stated, “That dress color is not suited for you.”
Next morning she wore a dress of grey;
She could not wait to hear what others say.
A...

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In the blink of an eye,
and the kink of a stye,
or the filibustering sigh
of a speaker,
the clock rolls its hands
to the sounds of  big bands,
as the hand of time grows weaker

Levity/ brevity merge into one,  storm’s 
darkening clouds;  sun’s briefly shone;

We really...

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The Mexican Cock stands tall when the hens are around, 
Glancing, strutting and pecking his corn off the hot ground.
Cock a doodle doo, says he
Do you want to marry me?
Off he goes into the chicken coup
While the chicks tiptoe around his poop
He puffs his chest...

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This BREVITY poem I wrote was for Casarah Nance's
contest. Closed already! So printing my poem anyway

I love my job,
I really do. 
Even though my hours are long
and the benefits are sometimes few.
I make the coffee for the crew,
and a zillion other things
for them I do.

Jobs...

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Gravity Brevity

If brevity matters, dreams race swift than nightmares to catchup,
No muck and mire, no festering around, nothing to patch up,

A soloist than an orchestra, focus on one than all,
Critiques take a high note to second guess, a rise from a fall, 

To explode in...

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My fourth concussion
                 and first skull fracture
                      ...

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We Take For Granted:

       Lungs Filling, In – Out …
       How Respiratory Come About
       But Resuscitation To Our Mouth
       Keeps Soul,...

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[Brevette form]
The Brevette, created by Emily Romano consists of a subject (noun), verb, and object (noun), in this exact order. The verb should show an ongoing action. This is done by spacing out the letters...

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