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Best Tarries Poems


If the Good Lord Tarries -
in five thousand years
our entire planet may be
a cemetery…

***Cremation anyone? Burial at sea?

For Susan’s contest...

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Categories: tarries, angst, planet,
Form: Senryu
It Tarries
things
like rings
just playthings
unfit for kings
romance, forth it springs
to share love's song, it sings
my voice, tarried on night's wings
soul's symphony, to you it brings
this melody within my heart's strings


November 4, 2019
Rhyming Nonet Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina...

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Categories: tarries, love, music, romance, song,
Form: Nonet
Time tarries not
Time tarries not for anyone,
Still, I can't outpace my shadow.
Forever chasing what’s begun,
Success, in its season, will show.

Not minding little yet achieved,
Time tarries not for anyone.
Though dreams remain still unrelieved,
And countless tasks are left undone.

Old age begins its quiet reign,
The clock moves fast with every...

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Categories: tarries, anxiety, hope, introspection, motivation,
Form: Quatern

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