Short 140 Poems

140
Am I coming
Out of left field
When I tell you
What delusions
I think are real...

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Ring-a-Ring o'Rosies
Oh I hate runny noses
A tissue! A tissue!
No don’t wipe it on your sleeve!...

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Epigram #140:
EMPLOY


Zest and cheer find joy
Love and truth employ

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
07 August 2015
Singapore...

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Epigram #140:
EMPLOY


Zest and cheer find joy
Love and truth employ

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
09 August 2015
Singapore...

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Bertha Saylor just loved fish and chips
And they all settled down on her hips
Her buttocks would groan
When she weighed ten stone*
But the seamen could all come to grips


*ten stone = US 140 lbs...

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Showers
of silhouettes,
rookery in the rain-
Springtime just around the corner
Again

Ekphrasis inspired by Rookery & Rain-Gertrude Hermes

http://www.northhousegallery.co.uk/image.asp?ImageID=140&exID=40...

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Quatrain #140:
FATE


Free will sets free that certain flow,
Aim just to be a soul that glows;
Touch love deeply to transcend fate,
Expect to see beauty that shows.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
17 December 2015
Singapore...

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ignorance is bliss

                                   baby bunny in the woods -

                                         monitored by lynx









05.11.2018
Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved

Syllable : 5-7-5...

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passion in my words will never go unheard,
desire in my soul...consume you whole-

I need my quill,
 you are my parchment-
   and my pain.



140 Characters total
Characters counted at howmanysyllables.com

Tweetable Contest
March 13, 2017...

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Trump Should Quit

There is something that majority must admit;
Trump as our President he  should really quit;
Is always wrong;
Make move along;
Us and the entire world would surely benefit.

Jim Horn

This is my 5,415th poem. Have 140 to go until 5,555....

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such
   thoughts 
         soft
         sensual
envelope,
  contentment
overflows
    in
    a duvet
of
sound..
           surrounds,
hides
love
  that encounters
then..
        develops
to
its
conclusion

inspired by Mozart clarinet adagio clip...

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Grandeza muito grande II

Um governo
ou uma empresa
para fazer história
tem que ser algo em que, 
quando as pessoas pensam 
elas dizem:
140 caracteres?,
não vender pela Internet?
'eu não entendo, 
não entendo.
[...] eu acho muito estranho,
 acho muito diferente....

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The moment a metal cog stands suspended
on the whiteboard by a pair of visible strings & springs
Ah! But one invisible string, one invisible spring
keeps the whole from falling apart!
The genius who discovers this secret
will have his name repeated across the universe for eternity!...

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wide eyed
in the midst
of a sleepless night
she lay entranced
as moon shadows
languorously
danced against
the lonely
barren walls
of her bedroom



AP: 2nd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on November 24, 2018 to CONTEST NO.140 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST...

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The Butterfly and Flower

beauty colored wings
filtering flapping flying
Insect so beautiful joy
such joy to  flowers
seeking nectar from the blooms
 Aster’s, Milkweed’s,  Marigolds


4/11/18

Contest: PREMIER CONTEST 140 , ANY FORM OR NONE, ANY THEME, UP TO A MAX OF 20 LINES
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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There was that bloke: 
That war poet?
Rupert Brooke
He apparently said; and I quote

I suddenly realised that 
The 
Ambition of my life has 
Been - since I was two - to go on a military expedition 
Against the Turks

That's a bit much, isn't it?
Like a cup of
Oniony tea

I will beat Thomas 

And if you got into a car
The instructor wouldn't
Say 
To you, "Well
What do YOU think?"...

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You work up the gigabyte of courage it takes 
one to cross the gigabit gulf that separates us
on this vast and coldly digital sea of loneliness

I ponder a terabyte's worth of polite words of
of reluctant decline that serve but to make the
depressing of a button, less depressing for me

Then, I precisely calculate the optimal phrase
that will satisfy my purpose and the data storage
required for a rejection, in 140 characters or less

SRY DWF IDTS L8R...

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As the sun slip slides down blue skies and sets,

streaks of pink, mauve, and gray clouds pave its way.

And the night is wrapped in a black silk shawl,

whose dark threads snuff out the last light of day.


(Arbitrium Divisa)


12,22,2019
Arbitrium Divisa 5 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden


Reference poem:
(A Black Silk Shawl)
Sept. 20, 2019
Because It's A Tuesday 140 - 140 Sonnet Cash Prize Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: William Kekaula...

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You do Poetry
I try to do rhyme
But my beats do not shine

My son George 
Well he does Grime
140 beats a minute at double time

Until the day we do meet
And you knock me off my feet
I will just carry on marking time

One step up and one step down
No talent at all from me 
That I have found

So I will start my own new genre
And then will call upon Ya

Grime or Rhyme what shall I do
Other than learn from you

Poetry is new to me
But I do concede

I like it..

DAMO...

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