Short Anything Goes Poems

wax of rage flares me
as candles lift hymn of night---
realization



Premier Haiku ll: Anything Goes
4 Sept 2017...

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anything goes
when
you're
going

no
where

no
w
h
e
r
e

(a?n?y?t?h?i?n?g?g?o?e?s?)
...

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There was a tolerant man
Tolerance was his plan-
He, to decide which is & is not,
Judging tolerance was his lot-
Methinks..he often loses the plot...

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A rainy day
for doing nothing
skies so dreary
bones so weary
cop some z's
lounge around
anything goes
watch TV shows
you'll only miss
a rainbow...

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Window Pain/Haiku

dreams gaze outward
through opaque memory
old windows lie


6/24/2017


submitted to Premiere haiku contest II:  Anything Goes...

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Don got the boot 
    for wearing a suit

  Recruiters said, 'Anything goes'
    so Don pierced his nose

  Now he's a hot commodity
    instead of an oddity...

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In this age of “anything goes”
Decency is not a priority as we know
Preferred the old rules
Call me an old fool
Twas a different era things were slower...

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The economic woes that no body knows
Pork scratching eaten from scrapings between toes 
Man must eat
What ever the meat
No money anything goes





*Economic woes...

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Pete's dive bar piano man 
Play the guests all requests
Popular sing alongs
Pleasing with tin pan songs
Prime tunes everyone knows 
Period piece musical 
Porter's "Anything Goes"...

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 The tiniest egg
Sanctuary for new life;
Dinner for many.


Entered in contest: Enter the 'Premiere haiku contest II: Anything Goes ' Poetry Contest; sponsored by: Chris D. Aechtner...

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What has life in store?
Milk on bed and milk when dead.
Why sulk all along?




P.S.This poem is based on the Hindu customs of burial. Attending a funeral recently taught me this very essence of Life....

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He 
Witness 
My sadness 
Tears rolling down
He wiped the tears away and held me close.
He never asked what brought them on, he just 
let me be me
and loved me
with my 
tears.. 


Contest: Anything Goes
14th Place...

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   the press of the crowd
     reset trouser creases 
   glad-handing, back slaps
     he almost kissed a baby!

   compared to a county fair
     guernsey cows, who cares… 
   cloth diapers attack the nose
     NYC’s homeless, anything goes
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Life is not forever like a candle it burns 
Taking you through all the twists the turns
Be wary as your flame only lasts so long 
It's your light in the dark if anything goes wrong
What I'm trying to say is look after your flame
As no two candles ever burn the same....

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lonely crescent street
                                    through a meadow in moonlight
                                              glitters big sickle 










Contest: Premiere haiku contest II: Anything Goes
Sponsored by: Chris D. Aechtner
RAJAT KANTI CHAKRABARTY
04-09-2017...

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The beastly beast of Fectorath
The foulest thing you’ve met
It’s ugly as a bulls back end
And have you smelled it yet

The stench is just, quite awful
It smells like something’s dead
And little do you realise
It’s hiding in your bed!







Honourable Mention in
"Anything Goes Again"...

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A  Anything Goes
N  Nurture
Y  your rational
T  thoughts.  
H  Harvest
I   inspired,
N  noteworthy
G  genius.

G  Give equal
O  opportunity an
E  enlightened
S  springboard.

P   Posting poetry
O  offers a
S   superior
T   testing ground for

I  insightful
T thinking.

March 16, 2021...

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herds of cows go home
    raising clouds of dust behind 
    dusk comes a- calling

Contest Premier Haiku || anything goes
sponsored by Chris Aectner
Date June 24. 2017

Footnote
A typical village scene in the cow belt  region of North Indian plains during sunset  called ' Gowdhuli' in Hindi marks onset of twilight...

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Emotion is like the ebb and flow of water  
it comes pouring in and then it slowly goes 
Hold on tight to love but release your woes  
fill your mold with clay be a creative  potter 
for when it comes to art, anything goes... 

Dec 4, 2021 
Sponsor	Line Gauthier
Contest Name	Bite Size Poem #31 ...

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Suited up in dachshund —
In New York and San Francisco, anything goes!
Tourists stunned.

Lifts off the bench,
man walks with fur suit and bimbos
and stench.

Full park —
manic side throws
barks.

Suited up in dachshund,
man walks with fur suit and bimbos.
Barks!

9/3/2020
Mohan Chutani’s Let's Minichu on Bizarre...

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He’d take dates back to his place for late-night 
pancakes smeared with golden butter, doused 
in luscious boysenberry sauce. 
Halfway through this small repast, 
he’d lean forward, letting 
moist berry lips move 
softly over 
his lovely 
lady’s 
mouth.

For PD's Kissing Game Poetry Contest
and now for Nathan's Anything Goes...

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The beauty of the dream
Even fools are allowed in
Misinformed and crawling on narrow stony roads
Yet in this land anything goes
We all have the right to our opinions and views
Apparently even old fools
One day soon
Guns will be taken
So that freedoms truly rule
As the clowns dance
One day
Poets shall rule

Remember this! Obama was no fool!...

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My parcel of quietude becomes yours
while we listen to the same monastic silence,
gazing at clouds alone and  together
until we rest lovingly inside our gentle, holy world.


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Gregory R. Barden's Liberum Divisa Contest
Posted 05/04/2019
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Excerpt from ' Anything Goes On A Sunday '
Originally written 12/29/2016...

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Fierce was their hatred for Reagan
   Now for Mr. Trump all the more
At his State of the Union Speech
   The Dems aimed to even the score

Trump's backers still cheering
   his "Best is Yet to Come" close
Ms. Pelosi ripped up all his notes
   then struck a defiant pose...

'Midst all of Washington's partisan woes
   Nancy Pelosi proved nearly anything goes...

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    Whither rhyme and meter
      counting the number of feet or
    sustained metaphors, sharp similes
      framework for what we called poetry

    Alas, today, almost anything goes  
      slams and raves some tend to ‘fave’
    while others dig obscenities and graves

    I hear tell there’s ‘a poetry revival’
      ~ though I sense a fight for survival...

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