Best Succinct Poems
It’s hard to write succinctly.
It’s murder to condense;
So lengthy poems quite often seem
To be the consequence.
It really takes a special skill
To trim or cut in half
The thoughts you must compose
With just the wheat but not the chaff.
Consolidation is the key
But when I’m taking stock,
I’m well aware that discard key
Will not fit in my lock!
Strange things happened that last time my Grandpa drove to town
He scrapped a nine eleven and mowed a phone booth down
Folkies in the future will very likely sing
The man trashed a McDonald’s but spared a Burger King
It barely made the papers, just local news in some
Someone should have told them that there was worse to come
Spielberg’s gonna make a movie, if the rumour’s sound
Of the total devastation when Grandma drove to town
19 December 2018
For Succinct contest
Sponsor Michelle Faulkner
Unconventionally brilliant
Champions that are resilient
To being rocked down the chart
Living forever in our hearts
Sounds make you want to break free
From the boundaries of conformity
Let them rock you til you drop
Play the game, never stop
Like Mercury rising up the gauge
Under pressure to perform on stage
A kind of magic then ensues
The crowd erupt so enthused
The show must go on still
That would be Freddie’s will
He wanted somebody to love and trust
Not another one that bites the dust
Mr Fahrenheit will live forever
Their songs so many will treasure
Killer Queen come what May
But not without the great Mercury!
Love God with heart's best; from Him don't depart
Bestowed on you is protective command
Triumphantly around promised land's rampart
Fulfill with faith, pleased by the Lord's demand.
Love your neighbor as yourself thru God's grace
Heavenly role midst golden rule indeed
Purged from sin's death wages and guilt's disgrace
Fulfill Saviour's statutes in word and deed.
Awed by the Almighty's glorious presence
I stand before Him humbled, yet grateful
Sealed with perpetual spiritual incense
For grand stewardship, joyously faithful.
"Love God and others"* is blessed commission
I strive to do so by His compassion.
*Luke 10:27 ...He (Jesus) answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
December 29, 2019
6th place, "Movie Magic" Poetry Contest
Chosen film: "The Ten Commandments"
Sponsored by Gregory R. Barden; judged on 3/21/2019.
Sort your thoughts out and make sense clear,
Use moments well to write your play;
Choose not to shout but weave fond cheer,
Calm voice can tell much more each day;
Indulge fond heart with feeling facts,
Note how you live within your means;
Charm ever starts to mind fine tact,
Touch feels joy give a happy win.
Be truly wise with fragrant poise,
Expect to see truth that sets free;
Ask for the price to hurl your voice,
Urge kind beauty with courtesy;
Triumph over pain despite your hurts,
Your soul now gains something from dirt.
Leon Enriquez
27 August 2015
Singapore
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Pursue the truth at its finest
Pursue it for what you know to be true, what defines how you feel
Not it's relativity in regards to others
Pursue yourself
In the sense that in this world everyone strives to be so different without realizing
That it just makes you the same.
Instead pursue the ideal of knowing oneself because that is the way to be unique.
After all there is only one you.
Pursue your own thoughts.
Let not these words be the motivation to discover what should be uncovered
Let the want, the desire, to better know the real you forge a passion unmatched by anything else
The pursuit will not always be met with open arms
Opposition is a must for change to occur
Without it, there is nothing to challenge or push someone to become better
Mediocrity is a disease that cripples the mind
The mind is the tool in which everything else is made possible
If you do not push it, use it to define what you see and what you feel
Then it is a waste.
Pursue nothing but the passions of the heart
The chase for the light will lead you out of the dark.
IN LOVE THEORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
THINGS DONE AND GET IN RETURN IS TIMES TEST
LIVE WISELY AND BE PEACEFUL AND WITHOUT SORRPOW
AND THAT NO ONE TELLS THAT YOR ARE WRONG TOMORROW
SO LOVE IS A NATURAL PHENOMENON WITH PROPER CONSCIENCE
WE HAVE TO LIVE IT FULLY WITH PROPER SCIENCE
HATRED IS A THING THAT I DISLIKE
PROPER MANAGEMENT I LIKE
Succinct and Full of Joy
Oh, this expansive form moves from side to side;
most of the time it is free to roam the arid landscape of expectation, the things one
hands down in time and fashion – the control we relinquish,
the automatic retributive response to morality,
to limitations – but my fervent brother,
my whole hearted fellow, there is more.
Beyond the barrier of occurrence,
There is faith – a beam pure and simple
– a salient focused vibration melded
strong in love a forbearance,
you cannot hold it in your fingers
but it’s weighty still, it lingers
in the void it seeks to fill,
in those sparse moments of
doubt and fear it seeks to wrap you,
hold you near, near to where
holy Seraphin herald the
coming of your soul’s inclusion – away
from this dream,
Away from the roadway's folly,
to a place succinct and full of joy.
Drudgery beckoned,
between starched linens
and mango colored fingernails
ripping, tearing, the rent fabric to
blissful shreds of compliance.
He needed nothing but his own
smile
dancing nightly with vice and
tremors and all the things she
craved but refused herself.
Until one night,
when followed by her
conscience
up to the painted boudoir of
fragmented portraits,
she fled
Fate,
arranged between strangers
on a reckoning
of blunders,
and found the reflection
she needed most
to obey.
See what you are in sires estate
Just as a star can shine your fate:
See succinct glow in words that come
To simply show a gain you sum:
See how the fool can be made wise
By grace that cools the feel you prize:
See in a glimpse the glimmer here
In touch within that purges fear:
See what you see in message told
Where what will be shapes what unfolds:
See visual art that speaks delight
In craft that starts from mystic sights:
See in the end the burning fire
As desire tends to find fond sire.
Leon Enriquez
18 June 2015
Singapore
Cream clever cites
Blunder blames bite
Speak succinct sounds
Prime profound pound
Drill deeper dance
Charm crafty chance
Live laughing laze
Meet mindless maze
Drill distant doom
Glance grouchy gloom
Pay plenty praise
Rich rapture raise
Niche nimble near
Fun foils fear
Be blessing bright
Seek soaring sights
Leon Enriquez
06 November 2016
Singapore
Caution the freeway
Muffle the the noise
Scour the earth
Search out his boys
With regret
Inform them their father lay dead
Succinct in his bed
And tell the to put aside there grief
The time has come to anoint a new Chief
Sweet foods can fling
Urge that now stings
Grief can speak plain
Ailment that strains
Reach for a way
Yield to harsh stay
Dreary this lot
Indulge sad thought
Appeal to form
Bloom in odd norm
Expose the threat
Trust in mindset
Treat each new day
Expect bold sway
Set in sure time
Meet broken rhymes
Express your pain
Live harsh restraint
Love yourself first
Indulge vain thirst
Touch what must be
Use cheer to see
So much lays waste
Note style's sweet haste
Opt mime and quest
Work out your best
Allow time space
Live well your face
Impress your heart
Groom mind with art
Now hurl sweet rhymes
Seed craft's sure time
Feel that sad line
Ask help divine
Truth and trust steer
Expect help here
Leon Enriquez
27 February 2015
Singapore
She said that coats rabbit.
So, you know it's not Mink.
No, this time I've had It.
You're going in the drink.
He was tied to an anchor.
With her kiss and a wink.
She pushed him into the river.
Said succinctly, Mink or Sink...