Short Black Eyed Susan Poems

peering out
behind a fence
lone black-eyed susan



posted on July 17, 2018...

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cigarette burns
up and down her left arm
morse code s.o.s

1/20/13
Black Eyed Susan...

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Flowing life force stay
give me another happy....
Taps plays soulfully

For contest sponsored by Black Eyed Susan...

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winter wind blows 
as cherry flowers bloom...
red fruits appear


CONTEST:" 1 Cherry Blossoms Haiku " sponsored by Black-eyed Susan....

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he staggers out
after beating wife to coma...
cirrhosis is near



Contest:" Single senryu-No Nature poems please" sponsored by black eyed Susan...

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Time To Fly


Enjoy your life and let your spirit fly
Release your time here,  reach for the skies


Contest by:  Black Eyed Susan
September 2, 2012...

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Time takes away hurt
But moves slow when you’re in pain…
Alarm is beeping

Russell Sivey

Contest: Senryu
Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan

10/5/2013...

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The woman
gyrating in the club,
my husband’s lap.

January 20, 2014
Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: 1 senryu on anything except love 
Sponsored by Black Eyed Susan...

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Man sits in shadows
Darkness consumes all of him…
Blackness of the crow

Russell Sivey

Contest: 1 senryu any subject
Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan

5/24/2013...

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tiny parachutes

free-falling in the wind...

pink stars at sundown
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For Cherry Blossom Contest:
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She complies with the powers of his eyes
Her heart catches fire when she sees her prize

Contest: Any NEW rhyming couplet - only 1
Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan

6/8/2013...

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Material - human greed
          In January sales half price
          Not for - you need





25.01.2014



Sponsor //	Black Eyed Susan
Contest Name //1 senryu 
Deadline //2/9/2014 12:00:00 AM...

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Wanted to pen a Limerick
Needed a comedian sidekick
Nothing funny to wit
A pun to make sides split
Some ole' fashion humor dipstick  


Inspiration: Black Eyed Susan' contest not an entry...

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Her eyes grate on tainted hall

Where love's ember pranced inside

A vignette slowly dimming...

While night's coal glistens




7/7/7/5 Syl Count
5 Lines Or Less Contest...Black-Eyed Susan...

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Lonely and in silence I eat chocolate cake  
When I arise my dessert walks behind in ripple shake

Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan
Contest: 1 rhyming couplet or 1 rhyming triplet...

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he went to college
'pon borrowed money played wild...
reaps remorse four-fold  

Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan
Contest:Senryu/Any Subject
This 24 day of May, 2013
Only one Senryu...

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I drift slowly,walking through the garden of bliss down stream,
"Go back son!,it`s not yet time" shouted a voice from the supreme.



CONTEST:"Time-single rhyming couplet" sponsored by Black-eyed Susan...

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ONE five-minute break
at work playing games, mistake
exaggerated

butterfly dreams cease
cocoon gone in a heartbeat
catepillar weeps


8/5/12
For Russell's "Two Worlds Colliding" contest
Black Eyed Susan...

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Orange pumpkin sat
Upon dining room table
Sliced by long sharpe knife
"Twas spicy brown on inside
Frosting and icing cream cheese  

Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan
Contest: Single Tanka...

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Time is yesterdays tomorrow, tomorrows yesterday, grasped for and then lost
We fight for it and attain it, then waste it, only then to find out what it really cost.

Entry for Contest sponsored By: Black Eyed Susan...

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One day at the library, Susan

put shades on to give the illusion

she was reading at work

till her head gave a jerk!

A snore woke her up from her snoozin’.


(For the Any New Limerick contest of Black Eyed Susan)...

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All natural flavorings good
Especially added to teas, food
Beaver's castor gland
Is source of such a flavoring
Used in candy unwavering
Now starved after

Sponsor:Black Eyed Susan
Contest: Tail Rhyme Time...

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gold butterflies in noon fields
of sunflowers and daisies
greet black-eyed susan delight
yellow warblers sing

in the heart of hot summer
the song lives on forever
on the blooming paths of time
tales of summer love...

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There was a born blind boy from Bauchi
Who grew up in the land of Auchi
Seen, taken for a begger
Unknown successful cobbler
King's own, a born blind boy from Bauchi.

Any New Limerick contest 
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G~rief gobbles up happiness
R~emoves gladness, swallows whole
I~nternal agony lingers
E~very second despair weeps
F~orever engrained 'pon heart  

Sponsor: Black Eyed Susan
Contest: Grief
Written: September 28, 2013...

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