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!...
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Categories:
succinct, on writing and words,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
succinct, car, funny, grandfather, grandmother,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
succinct, hero, music, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
succinct, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Sonnet
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...
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Categories:
succinct, change,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
succinct, writing,
Form:
Shape
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...
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Categories:
succinct, joy, life, truth,
Form:
Free verse
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...
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Categories:
succinct, faith, imagination, time,
Form:
Ballad
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...
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Categories:
succinct, cute love, love,
Form:
Couplet
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...
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Categories:
succinct, inspirational, introspection, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
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...
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Categories:
succinct, change,
Form:
Couplet
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...
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Categories:
succinct, loss
Form:
Free verse
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...
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Categories:
succinct, change,
Form:
Alliteration
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...
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Categories:
succinct, blessing,
Form:
Couplet
Word wise way
Pique prompt play
Jazz joy juice
Oomph odd ooze
Seek sweet style
Wear warm wiles
Street smart sway
Dance dream day
Glimpse grand gaze
Meek mind maze
Taste tough times
Cheer crafts chimes
Best be bold
Feel fear fold
Vet verse vibes
Treat taut tribe
Hues hurl hints
Move mind mint
Leon Enriquez
27 October 2017
Singapore...
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Categories:
succinct, allegory,
Form:
Alliteration