Pithy Poems


Premium MemberSumming up America's Election in Four Pithy Lines

     Trump won, Harris lost
       Gobs of money, the election cost

     Polls wrong again, predictions tossed
       Revelers and grievers, both get sauced
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Categories: pithy, america, celebration, funeral, political,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberThe Quandary

Our Earth has been hot...
     Our Earth has been cold...
          Through times that were not
By humans controlled.

Cooling and Warming...
          Nature transforming?
            
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Categories: pithy, earth,
Form: Light Verse


Contest Pithy Pants 2

I bought a pare of pithy pants
But I found a pit in my pants
A pithiest is a plant so 
I grew out of my pants

Now everyone can see me grow
Without no pants
That darn pit in my pants


Contest Name: Pithy Pants 2
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy
Date Created: 02/09/2019

pith·y
Dictionary result for pithy
/'piTHe/
adjective
adjective: pithy; comparative adjective: pithier; superlative adjective:
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Categories: pithy, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberIf I-I Will

If I-I will

If I poke myself in the eye, with a needle-I'm blind
If I hold not my breath under water I'll drown
If I cut myself with a knife I will bleed
If I feel and acknowledge the pangs I receive I will cry
Pithy
Aphoristic, compact, epigrammatic, epigrammatical
More important If I don't repeat nor acknowledge--
  Jesus as
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Categories: pithy, allusion, anxiety, character, depression,
Form: Free verse

Pithy Empurpled Writing

Magniloquent words of
 an empurpled writer.
Where lofty, yet showily expressed 
words make details brighter.
 
Concise, rhetorically composed
 words made solely for an effect.
Causing pithy comments to draw
 a picture, for readers to connect.
 
The complexion and pigment of colorful
 words then meld into a spectral light.
Blended with the authors passion
for the topic, causing both to
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Categories: pithy, art, education, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme


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