Best Parsimony Poems


Premium Member There Goes the Honeymoon
...My best friend just had 
   her wedding ceremony
She's as hap-hap-happy 
   as a new bride can be

What's her groom's name, you say
  Why, it's John P. Marconi
We suspect she doesn't know
   ......

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Categories: parsimony, identity, wedding,
Form: Light Verse
A Modest Proposal
...A Modest Proposal
By Roy Merritt

Doctor Swift wrote it anonymously
His delicate modest proposal
His idea to save the poor Irish 
Was to make their children disposal

He was lampooning Petty ......

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Categories: parsimony, children, food, history, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Knife's Edge
...the tattoo on her eyebrow frowned

at the sight of yesteryear’s cutlass

the well-rounded blade had become

blunt dull and worn down from overuse 

and yet straight to the point of salvation
......

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Categories: parsimony, death,
Form: Free verse

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Opposing Hands
...I strongly believe that the wheels of fate
Are not controlled by some empty chance,
For if they were, I would not have found
Your life-turning love and gripping romance.

I believe there’s some ......

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Categories: parsimony, love,
Form: Verse
Poor Christmas
...One dollar and eighty-seven cents, that was all
And sixty cents of it was in pennies 
Pennies saved one and two at a time 
By bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher 
Until on......

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Categories: parsimony, christian, christmas, daughter, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Longing, Remembering the Sway of the Primal Guide, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem
...Carlos Bousono’s poem : Recordando a pastora imperio

                         for Damaso Alonso

(Poem published in the collection : Metaphora del desafuero, 1988, and dedicated
to Damaso Al......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parsimony, devotion, , memorial,
Form: Free verse


Absent-Minded Guy
...The overhasty mind gets cluttered
often losing concentration,
not doing chores or things 
rationally, but overloading
itself with unneccesary thinking;
it happens to me sometime,
leaving the ca......

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Categories: parsimony, confusion, family, funny
Form: Free verse
At Sixes and Sevens
...Somewhere decorum, somewhere pandemonium
Somewhere parsimony, somewhere bleeding heart
Somewhere love, somewhere hatred
Somewhere revenge, somewhere forgiveness

Somewhere bondage, somewhere lib......

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© Gargi Saha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parsimony, confusion
Form: Free verse
The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Two
...and Par-Policy:  Dump Rotted Produce…
and Pitch-Pit-Grain- Pro-Ruse

It Was Due To Prior-Parent’s Vain-Disobey, 
so They Diminished, That-Dare-Day…
The Delectable…
 and Passed Up The Palatable ......

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Categories: parsimony, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Time
...When I look about and gaze,
And see the stars blaze,
I look about and see,
It runs faster than the bees,
What is it?
Oh! What is it?
That never turns and waits
For us at any rate.
Yes it is o......

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© Gargi Saha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parsimony, timetime, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Hearts Unite
...Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
  Pledge their troth in sanctimony

Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
  The likely cause, ungentle parsimony

All that money spent on pomp and ceremon......

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Categories: parsimony, conflict, marriage, money,
Form: Monorhyme
MAGNIFICATION
...Close up, on the smooth couth
meretricious pod, vibrantly
violating my optics violently,
even through the microscope.
Its swarthy stare is maliciously
resplendent and evoked from 
parsimony.

......

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Categories: parsimony, adventure, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jt Will Be Back
...
To Phillies fans, there is great news as of late.
This season, J. T. Realmuto will be back behind the plate.
Many consider him the best catcher in baseball.
For both hitting and fielding......

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Categories: parsimony, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Makita Xii: Loveless Death
...Omnifarious cancers
Appear to elutriate the air
To the sharp turning leaves of parsimony
as fallacious acts brand us
and the flourishing hunger
betwixt our passionate fidelities
with loveless hues of......

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Categories: parsimony, life,
Form: Verse
Kleptocracy
...Parsimony whines in the waking dusk

As heedless she scourges society

Painting nature's aroma by a musk

Garnering exclusive notoriety


Phalanges caress the waking dusk

Mauling the ****......

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Categories: parsimony, political,
Form: Verse
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