Short Bards Poems

a brethren of bards
starry pens nights of romance
write with the owls nod...

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Before the greatness of the sea
all become inspired bards
without writing any verse...

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at night the stars
by day, the flowers
all time, bards
creators. of beauty. poetry !...

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Homer,Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Eliot
Soyinka, Okigbo, Osundare
Now me, recycling human ideas...

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We're poetic wraiths,
Poets' souls in motion, bards,
Brainiacs, our muse,
Singing around our planet,
Nature, Love's dreams, far beyond........

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Deep scent of ennui
touches the young
who refuse to see
the beauty around them.
Time reined in the Muses,
put out the flame of the bards,
and extinguished awe of science....

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My rhyme comes not from my mind
My rhyme comes from the divine
Whispered to me by the dark lord
The one who made, in the past, the great bards
The one mystical, beautiful, wizard of words...

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there was a woodsman that lived in rosewood
approached a nymph sleeping in underwood
a gambler loved by the bards
sat down with a deck of cards
with sleight of hands lost his axe, boots and hood

4/11/2018...

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Sleep tight your mom guards thee
Keep light for song bards be


Singing to you all through dreams
Bringing true blue fall moon beams


Don't take breath from dear sweet boy
Won't wake yet,come near, meet joy...

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A whole is normally the sum of all of its parts
Cept in politics, stumps even us most clever bards
All rules are out the window
The world is in limbo
We'll soon come to our senses and this era disregard...

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What is love?

The Bible and the bards have long since honed 
 A perfect exposition of this force,
So though my heart this power of love has owned
I'll simply, such discerning words endorse.





Sponsored by: Faraz Ajmal

07/08/18...

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Black and red of cards
Men in deck of cards
Wise and great in name
Shocked the World in fame
Rise and fall in flame

Rulers of land
Feats over sand
Charlemagne, David
Alex, Julius

Bards of right
Conquerors
And mentors

Four Men
Of cards

Kings...

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Eugenia, delight
Bold, fiesty, fiery
Daughter of God,
Lover of music, sculpture, bards
Teacher of mercy, mercy, kindness, concern
Fearing man, yourself, the world,
Who would like to see rivers, mountains, plateaus
A resident of Columbia, SC
Fain, or the pleasant one...

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Mysteries of love 

endure through time immortal 

“ner to be revealed 

Sought for by Minstrels and Bards 

Kept selfishly from mans grasp 



It’s very nature 

defies simplification 

Fantasy or real 

Only through experience 

can one say “I understand”...

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Slept and slumbered under the quinine stains we wept,
On a poignant bard’s weary nib we slept.
Yearned we to spill  on to paper,
Him caged sore thoughts for later.
Weeping words we lay folded,
On table, heart moulded.
Sorrowed dirge lament,We repent,..................dissent ...

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Are you in blues? Read ''In the Calm of Blue"
The best anti-depressant,is it not true  ?
She churns out ambrosia for the thirsty bards,
Her golden pen is always ready to lead the queens of words.
Her poems bring for us the nectar of divine bliss
Pandita Sanchez, your poems I cannot afford to miss....

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Nature

You’re the puzzle that baffles the wisest of men
You’re the mystery that guards the sacred scroll
You’re the beauty that inspires wizards and bards
You’re the bait that lure enlightened souls
You’re the guardian of the secretes —known and unknown
You’re the past, the present, the future and beyond…...

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I think that there shall never ever be,

Another poem as lovely as the poem "Trees"

Joyce Kilmer to me is the bards' epitome,

Since his simple verse soothes like an August breeze!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 3 in  Russell Sivey's "Poetry About Poetry" Contest - January 2013...

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'Tis fairly certain that struggling bards such as this old bloke,
Are seldom honored or make any money 'til after they croak!
Ah, just the thought of the pleasure that it would bring,
To nab First Place in Bobby's contest just for the honor of the thing!

Entry for Bobby Mays' "I Am A Winner" Contest
(2 March 2019)...

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Poetry turns from the common man,
Turns on its arrogant heel,
Stalking away toward the cloistered academe.

Nothing is duller or deader than
Poets unable to feel
Love—or compassion, or dream the lofty dream.

Thus poetry turns from you, from me,
And talks to itself, indulgently,
And nobody hears. Quite understandably....

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Why then poetry …
why not prose
the answer prescient
to those who know

On wings of light
it comes unsought
abrupting time
on breezes caught

Why then poetry …
the world in verse
within whose lines
the Bards converse

The oldest questions
age sublime
within its torrent
—within its rhyme

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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Recreating the mid seventies
With the Delfonics
Alive and Kicking
Snafu and String Driven Thing
Bedsitter land imagined
on the suburbia lengthwise
red duvets changed frequently

It seems so damn unfair
to live in the past
and today
the songs don't have rhythm
tattooed bards
by the wayside
so waif like
sing out their DNA



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       Swan so vivid
         so graceful
       and courteous
   cascading on water
           tranquil
        like a dream...

         the bards
      so many times
galvanized our thoughts

    And unto this day
    This very moment
     this very second
            again

          the swan
      ‘pon our lives
           embark...

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From days of yore, from ancient times long before,
     were prophets, and bards and sages;
these men of lore, who wrote of fate and more,
     were scribes of the scroll of ages.

Today we know, from what the documents show,
     that these men were highly revered;
so long ago, these souls spoke of tomorrow;
     and now they have all disappeared....

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Didactic verse is good for you
No matter what they say.
Constrains your vice till you think twice
Before your morals stray. 

It’s literary spinach, yes…
Eat your vegetables in verse:
Avoid all booze, lewd lust refuse
And never ever curse.

A poem must be purposeful
`Else should not exist.
Advise and preach—best bards beseech
Temptations you resist!...

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