Best Lancet Poems

The willows have wept
Lancet leaves, tears in the creek
Dream in their prison of ice.

White sycamore roots,
Twisted and gnarled, form islands
And pools, a necklace of pearls.

The...

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So small but big in agility and all kinds of play
such strength is here to stay not go away.

Now among humans is the burning sun
against...

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Thoroughly thoroughly wash wash hands with soap and water
Getting out all the equipment..like a hospital operating room
Cleaning hands by using alcohol..could I get drunk from...

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Unclasped my pearl necklace
and loosened my long, straight hair,
opened the buttons of my dress and let it fall,
took off my lingerie,
tearing the delicate silk,
and left...

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( Cancer as well as the treatment for it take a terrible toll on the afflicted. At the end of the day either or both...

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SATURATED IN SOLITUDE

The solitary moon moves slow across the still sky
Sprinkles silver dust on the seizing elixir of solitude 
I drink to the dregs as...

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I wish i had been born to you
I truly wish i had!
The only dream i want come true
is to see this wish sail safely through
Eternal...

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the soldier knows many of the 4,500 who died 
in bashing Iraq,
the soldier may be one of the 32,000 who have been wounded,
or s/he may...

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Intolerance weaves threads of hatred 
in the fabric of our scary times,
innocent blood is shed in madness, 
fanaticism spreads like wild fire, 
life is splintered...

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piteous is thine case oh constitu! 
Thou upholder of the fundermental right of thine land 
The sole inspiration of the activists 
Who advocate equity in...

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“Winter of despair grips the fallow mind,
as lancet wind of desolation slices solace, 
the song of sad bird freezes in silence”- by poet 


In the...

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frost grips fallow ground
lancet winds slice solitude -
frozen silence cracks

December 16, 2019
Syllable count : 5/7/5
Checked on howmanysyllables.com 
Contest : Writing Challenge-Winter Haiku Or Senryu
Sponsor :...

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With every Bannockburn there comes a Boyne.
The gods grant grain, alleviate our lives,
then send us weevils, whitefly, worms (and wives!)
They raise us up – then...

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Vortice violet.

A shoddy glow of dull light on shadow.

Shine might on ebon canvas.

Dark strikes with heaven's lancet.

Ray by ray day by day grotto, 

With thoughts...

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ice clasps barren ground 
lancet winds slice solitude … 
frozen silence splits

January 9, 2021
Contest : Hi-Ku (6) Place Promise
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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