Short 15Th Poems

brakes screech -- a large ginger cat runs across a road

for Constance's monoku contest, 15th December...

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April 15th
and taxes are due. . . 
is there a blood moon
or just a lot of people
seeing red today?...

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Chocolaty sweets for my sweety,
Fragrant beauties for my beauty,
Why the long face, hello?...

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Now that I'm dead I can finally relax,
worry free of April 15th and filing my income tax.




3-22-17...

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tall trees bow and sway
in the howling wind and rain -
a red hat flies past

written 15th March for Constance's haiku contest...

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‘A Thorn, Is A Thorn’   15th Senryu



        A Rose, Compliments
The Blossom-Dew … Then Thanks It
       But The Thorn-Bush Bit...

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Eggnog

A creamy rum concoction, flammable as the yuletide log!



Written Nov.15th, 2015 for "Food 2: Holiday Connections - Poetry Contest"....

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your . is on
and i did 
say that
one day
sometime
i would
gladly drink
from your chalice lips
not a sip
but sup
on your time
of the month...

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Nice home by the sea
All I ever hoped to own...
Now it is all mine

© Apr 24 2010 Charles Henderson
Placed 15th in Raul Moreno's "Journey" Contest...

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April 15th was Jackie Robinson Day
My boyhood hero who led the way
Allowing those since
To follow his prints
This spirited man, a pioneer he did play...

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peacocks flash color
moon dances to notes of flute...
nightingale betrayed.




Dated 15th March, 2019
Contest Writing Challenge 2, March 2019 - Haiku- Poetry
Sponsor Dear Heart
PS syllable counter = 5/7/5...

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Lovers' secret tryst 
Highway men hold up coaches
Hirsute werewolves howl and hunt
Hairy lovers howl
Kiss and hold up stage coaches
Dinner date with passengers

Jack Horne for Russell's Full Moon contest, 15th October...

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A steaming forest: 
pterodactyls soar,
and tall dinosaurs 
eat leaves from high trees 
as huge predators
prepare to attack.

describing a picture in a book I remember loving as a child

written 15th March for Joseph's Tableau contest...

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A Home



I find solace,
After day's weary jade,
My favourite home.





Written 21/5/13

Now Entered for contest "Home sweet home" by SKAT A
Awarded HM

Now entered for "15 contest" by Casarah
It's my 15th poem posted on soup...

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What is a birthday?
More importantly,
What is a birthday for?

Mark another year of life
From day of birth
I think not

To me
A birthday is embarresment
A black spot on the dreaded ides

I'm 15 on the 15th
I hate the attention
It's hell on earth...

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I survey the wintry-looking landscape
rain lashes the window pane
and the garden is soaked

The bare trees, rose thorns and holly bushes 
seem to look sad as they stand
upon the soggy lawn

Jack Horne, 15th January, for Nette’s Through my Window Kimo contest...

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Bowled over completely
By the sight of flowers
Beside the babbling brook
Breathtakingly adorned
Balancing on tiptoes
Before my eyes, poised like
Bolshoi ballerinas.

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Contest: Pleiades- B
Sponsor: Kim  Merryman
Placed 2nd
15th August, 2016...

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From behind veiled clouds the moon awaits 
hesitantly. It’s time to greet
restless souls that roam on Halloween.
What shall it be....a trick or treat?

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15th October, 2015
Contest: Halloween Moon
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Placed 1st...

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In the sun you dictate the pace, 
confining me to thick night;  
still you are trampling on my tail.
Cruel man i kiss your heel.
Coyote strolls not in the  day,
just man wanders not at night.



Name:Kayod5
Contest title: Night Creatures
Date: 15th Jan,2015
No 2-Rattlesnake....

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So many paths here,
which one leads to your sweet heart,
my destination?
Light a candle there my dear
and keep your heart's door ajar.




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Placement:1st, (February 2011)

Contest:12-IN-1...Choose Your Forte!

Sponsor:John Heck

By:kashinath karmakar (15th Feb.2011)...

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it's when i miss you most
that i scribble thoughts
in love and longing

ever so intently
i fold my every note

take aim and hope
my paper airplanes 
find their way to you



AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on August 15, 2022 for contest PAPER AIRPLANES sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS  -  RANKED 15TH...

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She has waited too long to see the world.

               Time is running out on her.

               When will she be set free?


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     Visual #2
     Paul Callus ~ 15th February, 2015
     Contest: In Praise of a Kimo
     Sponsor: Nette Onclaud...

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The flamboyant Pierre Elliot Trudeau,
Canada’s 15th Prime Minister, known for saying fuddle-duddle you know.
Also established the Charter of Rights and Freedom,
Wish he was still alive, we surely need him.



Written October 9, 2012
For Andrea Dietrich’s contest
“a fresh batch of Clerihews”...

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I danced with crabs that night
as scores of rabbits, piglets, chickens, dogs and cats
took to flight.

They waved at me,
all wearing little party hats,
you see.

I'm blue -
I thinking that's
true.

I danced with crabs that night,
all wearing little party hats.
True?

written 15th September for Mohan's Minichu contest...

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The weatherman predicts
this April will be wet.
I thought I'd buy a mac
and pair of welly boots.
(I put my sandals back).

The weatherman predicts
a lot of rain ahead.
It's sounding pretty stark -
no sun at all this month.
I need to build an ark...


* mac - raincoat

written 15th April for Andrea's April Showers contest...

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