Short 120 Poems

This tree,
a leaf
I compare!....

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120
I hope the
Rain holds off
Until I 
Can get inside...

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Atop his fence pole,
the rooster has come to roost;
behold the droppings....

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Said the Guru - Saying:    120
Time in time is your birth
When you exit it ends
©Al Juman  5/ 20/ 1997...

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Gathering, 9/120
          

Poems come as mid-
Night turns.  We run out 
To the moon hoisting baskets.
=...

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HAIKU #120


Ink on paper
Stray words converge;
Haiku fragment

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Leon Enriquez
22 Nov 2020
Singapore...

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Epigram #120:
WORD


Check on your heart health
Your word frames your wealth

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Leon Enriquez
02 July 2015
Singapore...

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The skin on the tips of my fingers
is peeling off! Help me!
So is the skin all over my body!
Help! Oh wait!
So is your skin!
It’s all natural!
Nothing to fear!...

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Have you wondered why the sun's so far away
Coz any closer, on a Florida beach, you'd use words profane
You'd fry like a lobster
Like a deep red monster
The heat at 120º Fahrenheit gives one inexplicable pain...

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who
what
    is that,
    where
    o
    where
continuity
      brings 
         forth
sounds
words
pictures
    into
      my mind..
..to change
       my
         mood

inspired by Brahms Op 118 intermezzo clip...

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her copper desert

flames old pyramid's headstone...

earth's timeless mystique


incense fill the wall

to seal odor of glory...

preserving legends 




PremiereContest 120: Brian Strand...

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rumbustious, quick-tempered and quarrelsome
turbulent and troublesome

redirect all that energy
and strive rather to be fearlessly awesome



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted for PREMIERE CONTEST No.120 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - December 29, 2017...

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Julie, after your passing
snow fell on Manhattan.

You were not there to share
flakes falling fast. silencing

the streets, slowing pedestrians
on perilous sidewalks, but I, 

sweet sister Not-of-my-blood, 
sister of my soul, I was 

there for you in the city 
of our hearts....

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uno por dos por 
tres por cuatro por cinco 
son ciento veinte

Traducción: [Translation:]

[one times two times three times four times five is (literally, "are") one hundred twenty]

Recuento sílaba española por: [Spanish syllable count by:]

http://marello.org/tools/syllabifier/...

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Premier Stalin was a gangster
  an armed robber who
'became' a Marxist
  'progressive'

Murdered 120 million
  of his fellow Soviets
Seems to me his 'career'
  was regressive



_____________________
Thanks to Sand Blown for
the changes made to this
poem on August 22, 2020
Your question, well-taken,
S.B.!  Appreciated! ~gw...

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Love Blooms

Sing to me like a lark;
let your songs calm the dark.
With dawn’s cool, fresh, night dew  
love, like a bud, blooms new.


Date:		09-19-2019 
Contest:       	Arbitrium Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsor:      	Gregory R Barden


Name of Original Poem:	Love’s Like That
Date: 	      		        02-09-2018
Contest Name:      	        120 Words
Sponsor:     		        Silent One...

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a drum beats in my heart, of my Ojibwe spirit ancestors
it fades in the forest and beyond in the sky azure -
down flutters an eagle feather, that I place in my wind swept hair


___________________
May 26, 2018


Poetry/Sijo/at dawn
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1026-120-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under Pseudoym.


Written for the Sijo Contest
sponsor, Heidi Sands


Honorable Mention...

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Tragic Halloween
 
Through the streets of festive Seoul--


Ghosts replaced the youth!*






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     30 October 2022






* In Seoul, South Korea, thousands of young people
filled the streets to celebrate Hallowing, today.  Unfortunately, 
more than 150 young people died, more than 120 are injured, and 
some 270 are missing because of a crowd crush. R.I.P.!
My condolences to the families of the victims....

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The whisper in red

I had been watching TV
And as often happen when I watch
A minute sleep only
A wisp of a young woman in a red ballerina dress.
Sat on the floor leaning her head at my leg.
When seeing I was awake, she got up
And disappeared silently as a falling leaf.
Later that evening I watch a French art program
And the lady in red was painted 120 years ago.
Was the one, the expert, spoke about
They knew it was Degas but none knew who she was....

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Good morning day light
It is good to see you again
You've brought with you a bright new day
And the promise of things to come
Eternal optimism comes with the light
For today anything is possible

Good evening night shade
It is good to see you again
You've brought with you a peaceful evening
And the promise of dreams to come
Eternal optimism comes with the night
For tonight anything is possible


Contest: STANDARD NO 120
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
9/29/18
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Church bells and bluebells
Sparkling dew on the flowers
Celebrate birthday

The bees are buzzing
With golden crowns bright and fine
The birds are singing










A colorful floral greeting to you on the big day 
A friend always remembers your birthday - but not the age :) 
A big and warm congratulations to you on your day, Demetrios :)







  15.08.2017
- Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
- Copyright © All Rights Reserved 
- www.howmanysyllables.com - Haiku 5-7-5...

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