Best Terse Poems
Terse VerseIf you insist
on doggerel verse,
show mercy then
and keep it terse.
Fifth Place, Laconic Verse I, Giorgio V....
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Categories:
terse, humorous,
Form:
Epigram
Villanelle: Whose Terse Lines Lie Entangled In the ColophonVillanelle: 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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Categories:
terse, appreciation, bible, celebration, dedication,
Form:
Villanelle
Poetic TerseOne love is so dear and precious for anyone.
To live without love is definitely a devilish pun....
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Categories:
terse, introspection, life, philosophy, social,
Form:
Couplet
Terse CommunicationDigest 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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Categories:
terse, life,
Form:
Free verse
Verse Too TerseVerse 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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Categories:
terse, humorous,
Form:
Alliteration
Sweetly Terseat 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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Categories:
terse, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Line Terse VerseTwo 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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Categories:
terse, philosophy,
Form:
Couplet
Disperse Into Times That Are TerseDisperse 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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Categories:
terse, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
Categories:
terse, color,
Form:
Free verse
Terse VerseYou 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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Categories:
terse, imagination, music, on writing
Form:
Quatrain
A Terse AffairI 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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Categories:
terse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Narrative
Terse Verseweather - 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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Categories:
terse, autumn, seasons, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
terse, humor, silly,
Form:
Light Verse