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Best Scanty Poems

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Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: scanty, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel 
but with just one room.

My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so...

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Categories: scanty, funny, holiday, me,
Form: Rhyme
Finding Forgiveness
Finding Forgiveness


Can you forgive my humble home?
A cardboard box my diamond dome
Can you forgive my scanty clothes?
The least that I worry of my woes
Can you...

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Categories: scanty, forgiveness, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Futuristic Christmas- For Contest
Twenty fifth of December, three thousand and four
and already I'm down in the dumps
we're round at the neighbour's via tubes that save labour
propelled by some...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scanty, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Big Five Here We Come
Wow is this for real, my boy lollipop,
My best ever destination, da, da da da,
Is a trip to the park
I love it when it gets...

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Categories: scanty, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Time Ebb and Flow
How vast and pervasive is the Moon?
Hugeness hints there stand two
Orbs and a turbulent stream
Simply like the dawning sun
All over the half-moon horizon.

On the shore...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scanty, adventure, destiny, dream, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Passion With a Pen

                       Passion with...

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Categories: scanty, adventure, courage, leadership, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Solitary Traveller
Down the endless road I 
Walk.
The road of life or you 
May call it the road of 
Torment-but know I the 
Name.
Along I walk,the trees...

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Categories: scanty, allegory
Form: Narrative
A Little Patience
A little patience,
Tomorrow shall come
And you’ll be a day older.
Just a little patience,
The egg shall hatch
And the chick shall be cock.

A little patience, 
The night...

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Categories: scanty, introspection
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member The Old Country Church
Wending my way down a country road in my air-conditioned car,
In yon vale a weathered church steeple beckoned me from afar.
'Twas Sunday morning and the...

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Categories: scanty,
Form: Rhyme
A Farmer's Eyes and a Sailor's Shadow
A thorough yield
On a farm field of far east
It took me time to realize
How far I am to my far east of coast

Call of my...

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© Gokul Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scanty, age, analogy, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Political Terrorism
Life is a combination of different strata and classes
with the upper classes feeding on the states of the lower
which is the usual, displayed in most...

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Categories: scanty, adventure, africa, america, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 12
In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in...

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Categories: scanty, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Class Reunion
A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's...

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Categories: scanty, change, high school, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
War
How has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the...

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Categories: scanty, bereavement, death, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs