Pirouettes
...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...
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Categories:
contest brevity, dance, music,
Form: Free verse
Brevity Contest 6
...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 Kr...
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Categories:
contest brevity, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Start of Spring Six
...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 blo...
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Categories:
contest brevity, spring, tree,
Form: Free verse
Silent Twilight- Six
...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 resonat...
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Categories:
contest brevity, dream, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Rules For the Young - Six
...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...
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Categories:
contest brevity, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
That One 6
...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
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Categories:
contest brevity, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Bloom of a Wistful Wildflower
...Passionate nostalgia of our last embrace,
the way we fervently shaped to each other -
is as bittersweet
a...
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Categories:
contest brevity, beauty, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Alone
...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;
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Categories:
contest brevity, grief, woman,
Form: Lyric