Best Succinctly Poems

Keep it brief, compact, concise.
Say it precisely, shred excess words.
Use exact simple words, chosen carefully, 
    pithy and strong to convey what you mean,
    with no fluffy stuff or beating around the bush

Short and sweet the aim, 
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Why waste words when a haiku will do.
When rhyme and limerick make music redundant.
When meaning and message mean more to you
   than twaddle and tripe, and rants arrant.

Words we love, for their sounds and spirit.
Cogent sticky words that you can't not notice
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Is the cruelest of all cancers ironies ?

Not that it is to be met 
or end in death ?

Nor the suffering the disease itself
inflicts ?

On both the terminal and those left ?

But rather how it brings us together
than ever before ?

Unfortunately to late ?

And how...

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Since brevity’s the soul of wit,
I briefly might contend
That mine sure has that brief part down:
I’m always at its end....

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