Brevity Poem Poems | Examples

I swayed to your bamboo flute         
                           delicate
hollow purity reverberated 
into marrow sallow  
tenacious sounds sent forth
                        healing
                                    peeling
seedeaters, woodpeckers 
                                  finches —
                                   inches upon inches
who harboured in bamboo’s unstinting growth
                               their arbour …

witnessed I a wakeful field from which 
                   spaciousness sprouted 
                      into a bamboo life
                          inviting tranquility 
                             rooted into inscrutable 
                                         golden loam — 

        they stood flexibly erect
                   waiting to serve …


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4th Placement: Premier Contest 
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Oct 26
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[ Poet’s Note :
This poem is an expanded version 
of my Brevity Poem : Bamboo ‘26 : 
Gold Placement Winner : 
Allpoetry Oct.26]

hot crusted bread speaking truths 
labouring backs bent over ovens
cows chewing cherrywood cuds cosy 
what could be more knowing    
as Nature spreads tranquility tacit ?

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GOLD PLACEMENT WINNER POEM 
Contest : Brevity Poem : Allpoetry August 26
5 words x 5 lines
Prompt: Dispersion

This BREVITY poem I wrote was for Casarah Nance's
contest. Closed already! So printing my poem anyway

I love my job,
I really do. 
Even though my hours are long
and the benefits are sometimes few.
I make the coffee for the crew,
and a zillion other things
for them I do.

Jobs are important!
So I'll hold on to mine,
because never again do I want
to stand in the unemployment line.


Sometimes I feel unappreciated,
in this job I've been given.
But I know as a wife and mother
it's the best kind of livin' 

However, at times, I YELL,
"Enough! Enough! Enough!"
And to my husband I say,
"Here, you change your son's diaper.
I'm finished for the day."

"The children are all fed,
and your wife is going to bed!"




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