Long Succinct Poems
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Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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Categories:
succinct, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
succinct, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
succinct, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially inviting me
into the management...
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Categories:
succinct, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion, humorous, nature, writing,
Form:
Free verse
I Was There
Where was I on "Bull" Conner's day,
When the world saw white-hate on display?
Attack dogs, hoses, and lawmen's feet,
Blacks felled like timber on a southern street.
As fists and batons flayed the air,
Hate left the wounded laying...
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Categories:
succinct, emotions, imagery, perspective, racism, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Resurrection Machine
In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...
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Categories:
succinct, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
succinct, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Words Specifically
Collecting words has
resulted into a lifetime of gathering.
now I am choosing which
words to send you;
I send you choice words on special days,
and specific words on chosen days.
I share words that are specific to
‘’The cause’ ’or...
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Categories:
succinct, emo, extended metaphor, simile, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of Potential
beyond our time and place a clumsy confusion of Primordials dwell
they play with notions, forming bubbles in child-like wonder
they meld and morph, shaping membranes which burst asunder
falling under the...
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Categories:
succinct, analogy, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Receipt
Can't decide if there's anything ever worth sayin'
Done a lot in 23 years but feel like I've done nothin'
Opportunity cost, I hear the clock tickin'
Killin' time in Vietnam people watchin'
Seeing the way these ppl...
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Categories:
succinct, change, community, corruption, courage, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
The Intricate Mysteries of Being
An albatross flying across the Antarctic
A telescope monitoring the intergalactic
A horoscope sharing interplanetary
plastic
Let’s elope while we still think each other is fantastic
A quiet analysis of all that you...
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Categories:
succinct, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Unshackle My Verse
Wordplay Beats Ban Adverse
In 2184 the thought-police declared war
On embellishment, feeling and emotion in literature and articles in any form.
Succinct 'plain English' was the name of their game.
Google's Knowledge Graph spewed out the answers to...
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Categories:
succinct, literature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Failed From Far
The most awaited result got announced, but
Internet hadn't landed the soil of my country then.
Televisions were tabled in few pocketed places,
Still they worked, minute and achromatic.
With huge audience circled, signal was word alien,
Viewers would...
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Categories:
succinct, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Verse
Aha Eureka
Remember when that flash of insight
last self-ignited in your expectant thoughts
blasting away the fog of uncertainty, complexity and doubt.
A sudden aha Eureka answer, pure, simple, so succinct, beautiful.
To some this flash of aha is called...
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Categories:
succinct, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Failed From Far
The most awaited result got publicized, but
Internet hadn't landed the soil of my country.
Televisions were tabled in few pocketed places,
Still they worked, minute and achromatic.
With huge audience circling, signal was word alien,
Viewers would holler in...
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Categories:
succinct, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Verse
The Prismatic Self
Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet
The Prismatic Self
See the wooden stage, markers for my feet, bright...
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Categories:
succinct, angst, confidence, introspection, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Tails
We are primates, one and all
And our heritage is not from the fall.
The primate group is where we’re from
And no matter how far we’ve come
We owe our past through ties of time
And that’s the purpose...
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Categories:
succinct, science,
Form:
Verse
Circle and Cycles
Stillness feels deep here in these halls;
Silent vistas offer relief;
Death brings sure sleep at curtain call;
Cold agendas in grief's sad brief.
Long passageways and rows and rows;
Lonely sailings to unknown shores;
The dead don't say what yonder...
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Categories:
succinct, birthday, , memorial,
Form:
Quatrain
Whirling Wheels
Listen! Here come the horses,
War machines, a myriad of forces!
'Whitewash', the white horse, is first,
Those deceptive words rehearsed.
Peace as a pretense to conquer,
Glossy until he grows stronger.
'Butcher', the red horse, unleashed,
Civil unrest and sword unsheathed.
Laying...
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Categories:
succinct, bible, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuality in schools.
While closing up the...
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Categories:
succinct, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
At Once Into Blind Empty Space, At Once Into Her Arms
At Once Into Blind Empty Space, At Once Into Her Arms
How can it be
Something so unwittingly described
Can break me
Remake me
Turn me to the sorriest of fates
And still fill my heart
With this happiness of late
How can...
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Categories:
succinct, loveme, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
Combatting Inherent Bias
This poetic attempt an abbreviation
how biological insemination
(minus in vitro fertilization)
seeds latent Homo sapiens reproduction
possibly since moment of conception,
whereby inchoate progeny
impossible to sustain
fantastic, holistic, terrific... weatherization
against prejudicial germs
that elude uterine infiltration
entering womb thru fallopian tube,
or courtesy...
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Categories:
succinct, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Valentine
Journey Journal Page
MY VALENTINE
(For my darling Ann)
By Leon Enriquez
Valentine’s Day brings a fond trace
A certain way your soul binds grace
In your deep eyes my darling dear
A pulse, a sigh frames love right here
~~~~~~~~~
Poise in pure...
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Categories:
succinct, blessing,
Form:
Couplet
Unaccompanied Paths
Once upon a stranger
A girl A well intentioned woman
With open and adorned soul
Askance behind silvered eyes and sighs,
Revealing her concealed seraphic smiles
In an unending sequence.
Yielded in gleams in day dreams,
With folklores and odes chronicling her...
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Categories:
succinct, bullying, child abuse, confusion, dark, depression, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11-6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
succinct, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme