Short Apostrophe Poems

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Custodian of Apostrophe's Apostle

Who done it, steed?
Who said what's read
between the lines marked
with ad hoc diacritic dashes?...

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Nostalgic in noon
                                                  Apostrophe in desire
                                                    Linger kiss on you...

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A humble plea


Dear Soupers, may I make a humble plea –
Please  give due thought to the apostrophe!
This fairly simple  mark of punctuation
Has often landed in the wrong location!...

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Liberty Bell, cracked and muted after the war
Apostrophe after every catastrophe under par
Homerun in the Long March of Second War
Coins on cairns of foes and heroes in jar
An exclamation point in war under par....

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once lives discovered
inevitable transformations
illegal apostrophe vortex.
whippersnapper extractions,
are whisperings enough? 
virtual transitions
all lives interdefined
never ending romances
beyond our now nowness
TAXI!...

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My letter eye has van'shed
  Eye see t's really gone
Mak'ng each new poem a challenge
  that could take a whole day long

Yet thanks to the apostrophe
  and a l'ttle b't of creat'v'ty
Eye see no need at all to fret
  Tomorrow's poem today you'll get...

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Wire taps
Wired traps
Wilderness
Bombs
C4
9mm’s
Nutmegs
Magazines for guns
Sharp Blades
Original Guns
Get ready for battle
Maniacs
The team blows up
Silent but deadly
Throw your muscle!
Scream!
Belt of equipment
Guns of apostrophe. 
Stealth for life....

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More than a little bit transient 
except when I look in your eyes; 
My soul frozen by your cement
grounded by faith my spirit flies; 
Balance is what you emphasize 
without a ‘you’ there is no ‘me’;
Our lows are the flip side of highs, 
the yin yang of apostrophe....

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Just to let all you folks know
  that my good old keyboard's kaput
Can't f'gure out the reason why
  but eye (Gershon) can't type the letter eye

So for the next few days, an eye
  or an apostrophe w'll have to do
My poems may be sl'ghtly obtuse
  As Eye make for th's keyboard a noose...

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I just realised i.m writing for you
did you see me drop that apostrophe
Anyway back to the gore
De-sleeve my arm
on the edges
of a broken bored
Now was the you i was talking about was it you
or was i talking to me
and calling me ewe
You use an excuse to introduce
me really idiosyncrazzzy...

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Harmony
Now sets spree


Masquerade
Disguise trade


Paradox
In closed box


Escapade
Hurling made


Engineer
Shifting gears


Apostrophe
Frolic frees


Emotion
Change fashions


Impulsive
Stress practice


Afterglow
Moments flow




Leon Enriquez
12 December 2016
Singapore...

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SAARC, SAARC, why do you shirk
Bearing the dream-cargo of the sub-continent Indo-Pak?
Big Bro Indie, and Small bro Pak
Stomach dreams of SAARC.

SAARC, SAARC you are a vanity trophy,
Never more than an apostrophe.
Billion SAARCians apostrophize,
O SAARC, O SAARC
You are under the placoid scales of a shark....

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Miss Barker, let me say a word,
though this to many seem absurd.
Your attitude I find pragmatic,
not judgmental, not dogmatic.
So poetry is not your strength
though some will go to any length
to immortalize themselves in verse,
writing dogerell, if not  worse.
Avoid concerns to you so alien.
Be what you are, a Pomeranian....

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Choice knows the play,
Allow for zest;
Live well this day,
Make love your fest.
Align your heart,
Ply a sound feel;
Opt cheery start,
Sense sparks kind will;
Touch tells you now,
Rise with sure stride;
Observe endow,
Prime your own ride;
Heed that sure need,
Etch poise that feeds.




Leon Enriquez
31 October 2014
Singapore...

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Inspired by the write of you
creamed through a paper sieve to cup
with both hands the leavings that you trail
 the write of you

like the chewed edge of hand pressed paper
like the apostrophe of lash on the cheeky page
I ogle the syncopated semen-antic drop of
 the write of you

how often does the wonder of you flash
across the film of my eyes unable reach
for I am so enchanted with the coffee-au-lait
 write of you...

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They call me yours.
Referring to me by your name
Apostrophe ‘s’
Like I belong to you.
An item you’ve forgotten
Or have to pick up.

The issue is
That’s not true.
I’m not.

I’m not yours
And you’re not mine.

You of all people
Have made that clear.
But explaining it to them
Is annoyingly futile.
They’ll continue their teasing,
But only with me.

They call me yours
But I know they never call you mine....

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Copley Square – circa 1955


Copley Square, cobblestone streets,

chattering liars

rattling farewell to midnight’s

dampened, dwindling fires.

Gas lights flickering

trembling at passion’s passing –

two hearts bickering.



9/13/2017

submitted to – SEGUIDILLA – Poetry Contest


howmanysyllables has a few quirks
it counts the apostrophe in “passion’s”
as a syllable and also counts the dash (-)
as a syllable....

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You are my life's apostrophe
The part that has always been missing in me
You're right where the hyphen used to be-
You are my life's apostrophe

Once a question mark was all I had? 
And commas dominated my soul, 
Semicolons; separated my dreams
And the ellipse was firmly in control...

Then you placed your brackets around my [heart]
Your braces around my {soul}
Your parentheses surround my (dreams) 
You're the exclamation mark in my life so droll!...

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Friends are on vacation;
They’re sending lots of pics.
So nice of them to share their trip -
Just takes a few quick clicks.

We’re staying close to home, though;
No travel plans for now -
Perhaps a drive to visit pals,
If schedules allow.

In prior years we traveled
In the states or overseas,
So other people’s pictures
Do not readily appease.


*Poetry Soup wouldn’t let me use
an apostrophe in the title (People’s).
It’s a “special character!”...

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“It’s” with an apostrophe
Means "it is" – all the time!
Using it another way
Is quite a grammar crime.

Whenever I encounter writing
With a misused “it’s,”
My pressure passes by its boiling point
Before it quits.

“Should of,” “would of,” could of”
Are annoying, to be sure;
And for “there,” “their,” “they’re” confusion
No one seems to have a cure.

But the most frustrating writing error
Is, I do believe,
Using “it’s” instead of “its” – 
It’s my number one pet peeve!...

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