Short 300 Poems

Thermopylae, Thermopylae
King Leonidas at
Thermopylae...

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A haiku went viral-
nobody keeps kneeling and 
and kneeling as if bow?....

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bold rolling thunder
lightning quickly strikes twelve times-
perfect 300...

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Priest Antonio Vivaldi of Venice
wrote Farnace an opera piece
It was Vatican barred for 300 years
happily in 2022 we now will hear...

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300 fierce warriors of Greece
Believed they could conquer Cochise
The Book of Life said
He was already dead
And autopsied by Warren Peace...

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Epigram #300:
FOCUS

Dream a fond dream with heart and soul,
Forge mindset theme with body whole.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
05 January 2016
Singapore...

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Knock the pins over.
Just roll the ball down the lane.
Then you have a strike.
Try for twelve strikes in a row,
you will have a perfect game.
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The Real Pheidippides

Athenian messenger Pheidippides
Died 30 years before the birth of Thucydides
Most famous hemerodrome day-runner
Ran a 300-mile ultramarathon stunner...

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They waited 300 years to the day
For a virgin’s dumb fingers first to lay
	Upon the dark candle
	And light its black mantle
The witches are back – now there’s Hell to pay

*Hocus Pocus...

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                                                   intoxicated
                                             celestial phenomenon - 
                                              northern lights magic...

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What will we look like 300 years from now
With the progress being made, will we still be around
Supermarkets will be teeming
There'll be bashings and beanings
Everyone wanting their share of leaves by the pound>center>...

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Quatrain #300:
WORD


Word the sure feel with charm and ease,
Offer to heal as mind finds peace;
Room grand goodwill as passion shows,
Delight fine thrill with joy's increase.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
22 March 2016
Singapore...

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Trapped, like Napoleon on Elba, cursing himself 300 straight nights.
There's no escape from MY desolate coast"so I longingly wait nights.
The moon comes and goes on restless, disenchanted, chaste nights.
Will I be an old maid before the next"dear and playful"date night?...

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An ode to my career less writing career,
The slightly altered vocabulary,
And the advanced insanity-
My brain pulses with,
My victory,
Is unheard of,
My sense of rational mentality decays,
Subtly with each passing note,
Every scribble,
Every completed piece,
Every outpouring,
Of the soul....

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I loved you 
I loved you 
I loved you 
Like rain in July
rolling across heated streets
Dancing with the trees
With each successive gulp
Of thunder
The Sky breaks free
Leaving no piece of dry land
But like the rain
It came and went 
Leaving only a reminder in the 
Air that once there was a deluge...

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Grandpa is a peanut buff.

He buys them raw, roasts them
at 300 degrees, 
a heat sufficient to kill germs 
and purge unworthy thoughts.

Granddaughter samples them,
still warm from the oven,
a new taste experience.

She chews slowly,
as her eyes reflect an inner light.
"These are good," she says.
"I'm making peanut butter,
 in my mouth."...

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 “The point blank of our firelocks,when attention
is paid to the loading, is known to be about 300 yards” 

      Lewis Lochee  Elements of Field Fortification
         
  
            examine each word
within musket-shot of shore
   point-blank as you aim
   over the placid waters
aim for sweet spot not the throat


11/18/2019...

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dragonfly
300 million years
wiser than I


Dragonflies or "odonates,” are among the most ancient insects and were some of the first winged insects to evolve, about 300 million years ago. While modern dragonflies have wingspans of about two to five inches, fossil dragonflies have been found with wingspans of up to two feet!
~threeriversparks.org...

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300 circles of Sudbury lakes

looping and winding in all different makes.

Rising and falling as crust on a bread,

to cooling and stalling when yeast's at a head.

Coming in swells of white bubbled zest,

to finally receding that drying is left.

Warm in the shallows and cool the deep

while hugging the wind and sun for heat

Sudbury circles; water or ice

Sudbury circles; visit us twice...

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Looking back at the Earth, I can't really describe how beautiful it is from 300 miles up. Looking down, you can tell it's a planet. The sky is black. There's just a thin blue ribbon, what we see as blue sky on Earth. You realize how small it is and how fragile the planet is. - Astronaut Mike Good


cradled by darkness
earth's scattering, lustrous breath
fights fragility

5 May 2016...

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My God I thought Christ had just returned...I was in a dead sleep when one of the cats jumped up on this 300 button multi function electric Casio keyboard and caused it to play a church organ demo...trumpets and all...on volume level 14. As I was frantically searching for the on/off button my daughter Violet walked in all sleepy eyed and asked..Daddy, why are you playing the piano in your underwear again?...

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Rose quartz reposes
in peridot buds
Jade trees dangle
Ruby Reds
Unafraid 
lapis jays swoop
on a topaz cat
with emerald eyes
lazing
under a citrine sun 
Amethyst iris preen
through amber rays
of afternoon 
the shadow 
of a moon stone
whispering
behind an aquamarine sky
A silent pool meditates
in turquoise


1st Place
Contest No. 300 Premier
Sponsor:  Brian Strand
6/21/17...

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the scalding smoke
smothers
raging wildfires burn with bestial fury
toxic smoke saturates the Lower 48
smoky air sears through lethargic lungs

AIR QUALITY ALERTS!
AQI 80>100>300>400+
Codes Orange>Red>Purple>Maroon

purple dots proliferate on the map
N95 masks stage a comeback
The Big Apple suffocates in orange haze

the smothering sky
smolders...

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Roses are red

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Do one to me as I’d do un to you
What if I told you violets are red instead of what you perceive to be blue
The stars are 300 thousand suns, times distance to you
Marvel at experiencing existence 
The ashes of the Phoenix rise up in abstract vividness 
What we are is positively limitless 
So when you ask me why roses are blue 
And violets are red
Vise versa instead...

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LIFE a monostich verse

living out day dreams , in the present

You may read more of my monostichs tomorrow in my first of  2016 kindle ebook 'MONOSTICH VERSE (check out this poetic form on wikipedia)

You may hear me recite much of my PS anthology (in over 300 clips) on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro.


Catch my short forms @strandpoet on twitter

Read examples of 66 poetic forms in 100 poems in my kindle ebook BREVE...

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