Best Tet Poems

Snow
Falling 
Creating
A white carpet
That dazzles us with its sheer brilliance                         
Spring arrives and the carpet is no more
Buds now appear
Birds singing
Flowers
Bloom.



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Waves
and spume
tickles toes
as I paddle
on the shore ... reliving my childhood days

Sweet memories come flooding back to me
a tiny tot
having fun
in the 
sea

Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Charles Messina


4/28/19...

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Oh, 
My love…
Where hath thy,
Gone? In deeper,
Sorrows where slings, arrows, and swords are drawn…

For I will love thy ways forever still,
In foolish dreams…
Love doth spill,
Beyond…
Streams.




April.24.2019
Tetractys This Poetry
Sponsored by: Charles Messina 


A Tetractys poem can be done a few different ways. It is a 5 line...

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Sleep
A Taste
In This Life
Of What Awaits
Streams of Consciousness Slowly Leaving Earth

Returning Whence We Came -- To Our Maker
Our Primal Source
Of Life and
Of Love
Death


April 24, 2019
Entry in 'Tectractys This Poetry' contest
Sponsor:  Charles Messina...

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I 
dance with
the ocean
jumping blue waves -
soaking in its stretch of sun-drenched beauty

When the sun sinks low, I dine with the sky
as I devour
dusk's hues and
imbibe
peace.

April 26, 2019 for the Tetractys This Poetry Contest of charles messina...

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Viet Nam has left many with mental pictures
Images, that some, just couldn't forget.
And when it was over and troops were home
Many vanished, living alone with their regret.

Some found themselves living on the streets
Disrespected and blamed for an unjust war.
Spat upon by some, and psychologically ill
Now...

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Why
			             do I				
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The dragons mottled the streets with colorful wonders..
As they danced, twisted and soared into the glassy air.

The Ao DAIs, like blazing flames,
Fluttered in endless joy on the first spring day--
The breathing gale hummed 'HAPPY NEW YEAR'.

Bouquets  of daffodils and pots of lillies,
Ablaze, filled the...

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Condemned

nice
house had
christmas trees
and children sounds
asking, “Ma, is it time to come in now?”
oh how we stretched forth here and became grown
voices are still
haunting now
glory
gone
once
favored
domicile
all move in new
what fools destroyed your beauty day by day?

7/10/16
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Dive bomber carpenter with red-stained teeth
suicidal
buzzing sound
creeps me
  out

4/24/2019
Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Charles Messina...

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Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were the combat place of plan
Tet brought the war to cities...

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Dark
                         Dismal
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VietNam War – TET

war
60’s
Viet Nam
youth quickly lost
Greyscale TV’s final shock and awe

Written April 28, 2019
Contest: Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Many rose petals floating downstream on a gleaming river
They move so slowly, almost getting lost in the sun's white glare
The monks on the riverbank seem lost in idle reverie...

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Gourmand - TET

Sight
Smells Good
Tastes good too
Let me touch it
My four senses all like the beef jerky

My fifth sense hears the complaints of my choice
What do I care
it's sole food
old shoes
choose

Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Charles Messina
April 25, 2019...

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