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
porcelain smile
painted red
ballerina pirouettes
sequined tutu glitters
as she twirls
to the tinkling
jewelry music box
contest Brevity... 18 words or less - Swanlee
18 words © 4 months ago, Sharon
Short is what you will get
Six is this poems exit
Brevity I had to look up
The Dictionary was my key
One more line and I am done
Six is the end for me
Contest: Brevity
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
Date Created: 10/01/2019
N/A Bummer LOL
Start of spring a fount of
petals drops to the ground
dressing the green. A wink
of amorous scene of
a warm life draped in dreams
hued in cherry blossoms.
9/30/2019
Poetry Contest: Brevity Poetry Contest No More Than Six Lines
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
The sky falls with the snapped strings of stars
like the fragile kaleidoscope of broken dreams.
I write then lyrics of the sunburst dawn,
paint the day in colors of unfaded hope.
Spectrum resonates with the melody of heart,
I sing the song of beautiful life in silent twilight.
September 30, 2019
Contest : Brevity Poetry Contest Not More Than Six Lines
Sponsor : Caren Krutsinger
Young men must often choose right or wrong
Choices are between joy or sorrow
Ah, and the memories short or long
Live for today or for tomorrow
When a red dress is looking sublime
The rules get fuzzy at closing time
9-29-19
Contest: Brevity Poetry Contest No More Than 6 Lines
Sponsor: Carol Krutsinger
As the moon steals the skies from the sun
And the stars twinkle way up above
I wonder will I ever find that one
who can share an undying love
contest:'Brevity Poetry Contest No More Than Six Lines'
Sponsor:Caren Krutsinger
Passionate nostalgia of our last embrace,
the way we fervently shaped to each other -
is as bittersweet
as the wildflower pressed between a love story’s pages.
Susan Ashley
May 26, 2019
~ First Place ~
Contest: Brevity Poetry Contest No More Than Six Lines
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
In chain-link of night
that beckons trees to crawl
stale the wink of stars inked by tears,
holding her captive within sweet
time’s passage,as his farewell voice
chafes a widowed skin;
and a body wrought from need
of safe refuge denied by rain,
pierces curved bones
while traces of evening pale follows
her gait quite slow as tresses bow,
on aisles of candles waning
till maiden veil slips on arms,
prized keepsake treasured well
on anniversary spent alone.
7/12/2015
Contest: Brevity--The Short Of It
*less than 100 words
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