Short Caprice Poems

rich folks who complain

                    of boring dinners, champagne

          hobo says, insane!...

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Our POTUS has no love for peace
For profit is earned by caprice
No treaty will bind
Donald Trump's mind
Its locked on to greasing the fleece!...

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Don’t ask me 
if I want to spend my whole life 
with you.

Sometimes I don’t even know 
if I want to spend my whole life 
with me....

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an oddball aunt and her quirky niece
were known for their joyous caprice
without saying why
they’d soar into the sky 
traveling happily south with the geese


12/30/21...

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May be a freezing cold day in January 
but hearts are full of hopes and warm 
now let’s melt the ice surrounding us
at least for the rest of the year, 
and for the sake of worldwide peace
but with no caprice
...

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PEACE
I am filling my soul with poetry of peace
Are they going to want to cease
Nobody cares and nobody release
Let's face toughest question from our own caprice
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando November 23, 2016...

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MY CAPRICE
I am dreaming about the infinity's peace
Is there anything we can exchange to cease
I am watching compassionately the wonderful fleece
Don't we expect the caprice, oh my Caprice
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando July 25, 2016...

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slate gray day's
nocturnal mood
souls sensitive
often brood

upon nature's
whimsy, caprice
yearnings stillborn
know no peace

darkness settles
in forest, meadows
'pon every plateau ~
doused, flames' embers
in shuttered chateaus...

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lanquid
dulcet cashmere
sweet lilt felicity
rich graceful enchanted bliss
caprice



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020, Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on May 1, 2018 for PREMIERE CONTEST NO.145 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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missing, the magic
  stars shrink
the moon cowers
  all that's sweet turns sour

heartfelt sighs
  comfort food
steam baths
  no good, no good...

O, before ye despair
  love will repair
nature's caprice, no one spares
  ~ angels in heaven yet care...

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Poetry garden of roses
That you seeded in my mind
Where was deserted far
As you watered
So passionately with love
From your eyes tunes replenish
Nourishment for my heart
Colorful rain pouring
You like
Painting rainbow beams
in To my heart
Sweet caprice of spring
Nature of summer
You are...

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As seen,
unfed,
nourished by atmosphere.

It waits,
crying,
waiting to stake its claim.

Silver,
tarnished,
leave me in your wake.

Ashamed,
alight,
captions flee this scene.

So strong,
unkind,
the promises fade to ash.

Blisters,
unhealed,
will mark the villain's face....

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I ask this of you
Never to trifle with my affections
My precious little heart can't hold it
For a caprice it's not built
It's banks are full to the brim
and the walls are but weak
Please do not break my little heart
There's not even one unscrupulous bone in me
If you do not fancy me, let me be gone...

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OPEN UP YOUR EYES,
DON'T BE SURPRIZE,
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY GRAND PRIZE,
HE PAID A PRICE,
SO THAT WE CAN HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE,
TO ENJOY LIFE AND BECOME ALL THAT WE CAN BE,
BY NO MEANS SHOULD A BORN AGAIN BELIEVER BE IN CAGED BY BONDAGE,
OR STRUGGLING WITH SIN,
THE CHAINS HAS BEEN BROKEN.

WRITTEN BY CAPRICE LONG...

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GOD IS THE ROOT,
WE ARE THE VINE,
WE ARE SUPPOSE TO REACH OUT TO THE NATIONS,
TOGETHER WE STAND,
DIVIDED WE FALL,
IN THE BOSSOM OF CHRIST,
NO HARM CAN TOUCH US,
WHY?
BECAUSE HE HAS A SHIELD AROUND US,
MEDITATE ON GODS WORD DAY AND NIGHT,
WHY?
BECAUSE IT BRINGS HEALTH TO THE SOUL,BODY AND MIND.


WRITTEN BY CAPRICE LONG...

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pleasure
      caprice
objects of
           desire,
feelings of
        the heart
drift   
on uncharted 
seas
where inhibitions
depart-
a voyage of
           discovery
to excite...
     limitless
in audacity
      breathless
      frantic
vehement
ardent..
       treasures
to savour
     again
       ..and
          again...

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My dearest, be my love,

That special gift from above,

Together, let's join our hands,

And live as love commands,

In faith, joyfulness and peace,

Let's enjoy our romantic caprice,

Our love's of costliest prices,

Be my garden of spices,

Use all your amorous devices,

Take me to dreamy paradises.



04/02/19
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The moon had risen its light
Into my bosom taking a flight.
Lofted from pedestal, arise
from this life's caprice
so delight
still but cries.
Life's mortality lowed, renounce
Its memories; never pronounce
The blades, the grass forbade.
Yet the cup of mad,
the death, announce:
Love is bad.
If you yourself, befall;
Then you yourself, a fool....

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So wise was God to hide
your eyes from my eyes.
My delight was cast aside
then I asked to him why.
 
He gave me only silence
and the stars in the sky.
Night shines the absence
that aches during the day.
 
I didn’t reach you near,
waiting me by the lake
But learnt to win the fear
to lose your heart’s sake.
 
Love is blind like Justice
heightened by caprice....

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Dreaming 'pon the snow white beach in peace
Inhaling the sea, in reverie
Recalling our  flame brings caprice
Dreaming 'pon the snow white beach in peace
Once again love will find release
Ignite our flame all parts sensory
Dreaming 'pon the snow white beach in peace
Inhaling the sea, in deep reverie

Inspired by Andrea Dietrich's contest

Written December 2013...

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Couplet
The smell of new mown grass so sweet  
The green of spring here at our feet
 
Senryu
sweet the  taste of honey
taken from its rightful owners
sting, pain and pleasure

Quatrain
Nothing sweeter than a baby's skin       
Soft, smooth and as fresh as morning dew
Unmarked still by the caprice of life
Remembering when all the world was new

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A sunny day in shades of Monet
As autumn breezes begin to blow
A poetic thought I must convey
Of my depth of emotions that flow. 
Words that may share my sensitive soul
A contemplative valve of release,
To express such elation, my goal.
Enchantment of a Poet's caprice…
Dreams of being a poetry queen!

9-29-19

Queen Of Day 9 x 9 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: charles messina...

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I’ll to the Isle and stay awhile
You know, it was just a caprice
to be with you and seek for peace
but now your smile doth me beguile
My sweet, our love can never cease

When I saw you. Epiphany!
come rain or shine you must be mine
Oh now dear love give me a sign
may I enter felicity

My love is not ephemeral
and nor, my love, ethereal
it is my dear ineffable
but  is in fact quite physical...

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I  trip among  sewage of lanes,
Vacant parks, garbage junk
Reveal  this aimless wayfaring
Arrogance tagged as pride—

Drunk on caprice, humans become
Wares used  for amusement.
Now emptiness haunts me alive
An existence,  rotting.


Choose An Octavio Paz Line 
For contest--Nette Onclaud
Aug 22, 2019
Line 3--  “… an alien life, a life unlived, not lively, hardly ours.”...

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In this country of one’s mind
east and west are so defined,
warring factions ne’er at peace
forked tongue steeped in caprice,
pounding within one’s brain
mental image a constant pain.
So please let one strive to rove
amongst the evergreen grove,
to a remembrance that drove
one to the rugged coastal cove,
to an interaction that wove
in one’s implicit treasure trove!

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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