Best Terse Poems

If you insist
on doggerel verse,
show mercy then
and keep it terse.

Fifth Place, Laconic Verse I, Giorgio V....

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Villanelle: Whose terse lines lie entangled in the colophon
  
 for the author - male or female, prince or pauper, playboy or priest - of the
   THIRUKKURAL*, the reputed "bible" of the Tamils, the principal Dravidian race  credited with having engendered...

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One love is so dear and precious for anyone.
To live without love is definitely a devilish pun....

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Digest signals
By understanding thoughts
Brought forth
Through suggestive forms
Cooled through the sky
Communicating
Without a word

Russell Sivey

Contest: Laconic Verse I (old/new)
Sponsor: Giorgio Veneto

11/23/2013...

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Verse in lines of words :-
One.
Removes all the :-
Fun.
What makes it much worse is,
It’s verse hitched to hearses...

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at night, I think, it's really worse 
coldly still and quiet dark 
stubborn muses, rusted curse 
careless drops on vellum stark 

a captured fleeting moment 
life gets balanced on a pen 
turgid rhymes and syntax foment 
only stoke an unslaked yen 

in some inkwelled vision...

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Two Line Terse Verse

Here it is and be sure not to miss.

Do you know what I like about a small cottage
When in never will require very much wattage.

Jonathan Thesarious Hilarious Horn...

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Disperse Into Times That Are Terse

Though there are times that are terse
What had happened should rehearse;
When we did,
God forbid;
It could end up being another curse.

Jim Horn...

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“terse verse”


i mince
my words...

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You give us just the same old beat –
no lilt or swirl or surge or sweep.
If you wish to dance a line,
why can’t you make it ring with rhyme?...

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I didn't know 
          that I'm the first
I didn't know
          you were coerced
I didn't know
          your every verse
I...

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weather - cold
I - old
trees - to bed
nose - red
head - aches
pumpkin - bakes
weather - worse
autumn verse

NB: this is my loose translation of the following German poem circulating online.

Wetter: kalt
Ich: alt
Laub: bunt
Nase: wund
Kopf: Schmerzen
Abends: kerzen
Winter: in sicht
Herbstgedicht...

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A verse, a verse,
remarkably terse....

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