Best Shortie Poems

blooms, bashful maidens
bowing down timid and shy
at first macho touch

Placed First
 A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest...

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*Image of Japanese Elm Tree by CBC.

Japan Surrenders

Japan's crimson sun disrobes a dawning night rise sky,
An elm tree parasol's her coral samurais while they lie.

2022 February 22
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 February 23
*2nd Place*
Bite Size Poem No.37
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2022 March 01...

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winking moon
behind saffron clouds
playing hide-and-seek
with the stars
and me




21 February 2022

"A Brian Shortie Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Brian Strand
1st place...

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Spike is my name as I stretch and yawn on this beautiful sunny morn
Poking my nose through leaves and debris I sniff the sweet Spring air
Inside my den I hibernate through winter’s cold away from harm
Kaleidoscopes of colour and warmth permeate my prickly skin
Enough of...

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7/12/02



A Modern gangster’s life isn’t always strapping a tech nine.
 Or a drug deal gone bad, sometimes you gotta walk the straight and narrow. 
Walk a thin line.
It’s the lyrics, words of the heart, livin life where you come from 
is the start.
Fancy cars, the...

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The child within us weeps at marble headstones 
pallid wilting flowers dark plume wreaths scatter 
harpsichord of heartbeats waltz on grey day plot  
wind chime soul petals float past afterlife clouds.



Contest : A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE

Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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I miss you with each passing day
                                   I see you as...

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Bink & Gollie...
they're so jolly!
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Bink's a shortie
Gollie acts 40!
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Best friends forever
nothing can sever --

not outrageous socks,
nor tripping over rocks;

not difference in height,
nor temporary spite;

not either family tree,
nor lack of royalty;

not crippling stage fright,
nor setting Fred alight;

not withholding pancakes,
nor stretching out in backaches.

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No misunderstanding nor folly
can...

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The Lord crowns the year
with goodness. Paths overflow
with new abundance.


January 28, 2022
entered in Beata Agustin's Newness Senryu contest      placed 2nd


February 22, 2022
entered in Brian Strand's Shortie Poetry Contest     placed 1st...

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I dreamt last night that it was summer
            and I was in a sunlit lush green meadow
where flowers were swaying in the gentle breeze
       and I was sitting...

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Blissful to share with the needy ones’ welfare
Hearts that care engage in blessed love* affair.

*1John 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

February...

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I am a Nightingale…
 singing a song of lavender dreams and hopes, under an ultramarine canvas blending turquoise sky and sapphire ocean, 
                      ...

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The more you traverse, the less it seems.

                    Though, at times the terminus looks nearer,

           ...

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When noxious nights are moonless and dismal days sleazy, 
to walk life through the morbid mist of misery is not easy.

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September 27, 2021
For A Brian Strand Shortie Contest...

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She’s a short-spoken woman he told all.
She’s short-legged? I asked, not at all tall?
Short-sighted? Another yelled from a wall.
She’s a shortstop? My uncle yelled from a stall.
She wears shortie nightgowns was the next call.
About to see a short temper on the man with the doll....

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