Best Shorter Poems

a hungover farmer went one day

to a blacksmith shop to buy some hay

please dont think this funny

for he had no money

and so went home less vertebrae.
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Watching young girlies walk by in the mall
Can still get a rise out of me
With their shorter than short shorts and halter tops
Tsk, tsk, thinking bad thoughts, are we?

Just purely for their copious youthful energy
This exuberant younger generation
It's got nothing to do with gawking or...

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How I love the shorter evenings, fire burning, lamps aglow.
Sunburn and dry sandwiches are seeming long ago.

The leaves already fallen and the trees completely bare,
The snow is pretty on the ground and winter's in the air.

I've had a hearty breakfast, there's a casserole to cook,
I'm...

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she invited chaos
into her life
now it won’t leave
the guest becoming
the bully



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 1, 2019...

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Two parties with a fifty-fifty chance
Of getting the longer half, but in this game
Of sheer luck, one gets the wish fulfillment
One literally comes up short
When the wishbone splits in two

How sad to end up with the shorter half?
Close, but no cigar. An unlucky break
Then lady...

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Its long way but shorter, 
easy way to reach faster,
do it today avoid later, 
Never delay make it faster,
Hearsay never counter,
Always is a trickster,
Stay away never tester,
You hey take foster,
 One day gonna be greater,...

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The days grow shorter on the spindle 
of North winds crispy, frosted breath
and winter patches white o'er brindle
where autumn's bow has left her flesh.

The hours dwindle brushed by twilight's broom
that paints the dark revealing moontide’s dawn
and icy moonshine drips from lunar looms
to drape the earth...

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Shadows of the year begin to fade early upon the forests and lush green fields,
A gloom both pleasant and soothing relaxes all after the glare of summer days,
September hangs in the air bringing to morning and evening a pleasant coolness,
Leaves burning on bonfires smoke rising...

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             The English language~ lovely.
             To crush poetry to the size of a pea, balmy!

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Long days seem pass
Yet of shorter days will there be?
Did time simply dissolve fast?
Yet seems of time I did not see

Days with never the nights
Yet of nights there never seem to end
Were it days I did not see light?
Perhaps simply time I never knew when

And...

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The days are getting shorter;
By half-past eight it’s dark,
With fewer hours to frolic
At the beach or in the park.

The summer’s slipping swiftly,
Getting ready for the fall,
Though the temps and the humidity
Have hardly changed at all.

I won’t mind the colder weather;
It will fill me with delight,
But...

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Without a brake in sight,
Like a relentless flood, I might.
My emotions overflow,
Defying reason's flow.
I deceive myself; it's not one more of my flaws to write,
I'm weary of not grasping how, or when, or what's right.

I’m searching for a conductor,
A call to order, A voice to...

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Watching young girlies walk by at the mall
Can still get a rise out of me
With their shorter than short shorts and halter tops
Tsk, tsk, thinking bad thoughts, are we?

Just purely for their copious youthful energy
This exuberant younger generation
It's got nothing to do with gawking or...

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graveyard shorter path...
fumbles six feet down
...schooled by the moonlight

8/15/2018...

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Days are getting shorter
shorter for me.  Pain everyday
sorrow on my shoulder,
memories fading so into the past.

Looking forward to that day
when the angles will carry me away
to that golden shore,
     so far away.

So I can lay this old
body down forever more,
to...

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