Short Devised Poems

SHAPE FORM digitally devised drawing...

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Glowing that devised shadow
dust of love and reverie
 of when we yearn blissfulness...

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while my vision bemist, appeared a fantasist
who destroyed my disguise, devised to devilize...

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A limerick-composing old man
Devised a most devious plan.
Rejecting convention,
I fear I must mention,
He fried all his verse in a pan....

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A man named Fred lived on Poopy Lane
Dogs took dumps on his lawn time and again
So he devised a plan
Set up a big fan
Blew away the odor especially when it rained...

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A man named Fred lived on Poopy Lane
Dogs took dumps on his lawn time and again
So he devised a plan
Set up a big fan
Blew away the odour especially when it rained...

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After, they asked if I knew the truth about her 
From said head, I plucked out mine own eyes 
the pulling strain from your tether
which devised
a glimpse of the nether:
everyone wore leather....

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There once was a lady who loved ice cream,
see, she had no teeth so it was her dream;
so silky and smooth-  lick, lick,
it was cold and creamy thick;
a delicious devised diet regime !...

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A man named Fred lived on Poopy Lane
Dogs took dumps on his lawn time and again
So he devised a plan
Set up a big fan
Blew away the odour especially when it rained


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Sinuous arms reach West and East
And curved with a gentle bend
Told me the nearness of a dear
                eternal friend,
More strand sprouters
   came to join
Whatever fun could be devised by merging
     thoughts....

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How slight
The petal of
A poppy,flowering-
So much like us,beautiful,yet
Fragile


NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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Beauty
free from above
embedded in our heart-
His loving-kindness ..ready to
impart

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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There once was a small young man from Flagstaff

Whose girl said he was too short by one half.

He devised plan giving others great laugh

For with big grin

His stilts did win

The hand of this beautiful blond distaff...

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Till now,
You didn't answer
My many letters sent.
No reply to my hearts' longing.
Elegant words devised for response failed.
Now, who is knocking on my door?
You, grinning sheepishly.
Gone, my gloom, then
Till now....

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Desire
welled within-
words became a promise
so sublime,to love now and for
all time.

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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Jephthah the judge,from Gilead he came,
With this difficult word found long-lasting fame-
For those upon the losing side
He devised a cunning plan,
Asking of his enemy,to pronounce it if they can

Note Full story -Judges 12:6...

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my heart now missing
a souvenir that you took
displayed on your shelf
quickly forgotten
hidden behind the others
you, the knave of hearts
a true master of the game
no deviations
from the plan devised
me, blindsided by moonlight...

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Hurry
Takes its toll as
In our daily stroll,we
From deepest ruts of blind alleys
Quicken.


NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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We had
met and conversed,
a rapport on first sight-
a chance meeting to a life's time
delight

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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The warmth
Of love's invite
Encompassed my desire,
In two soft whispered words of love,
Be mine !

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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LIMERICKS

Lear we are told devised
Limericks long ago
Little rhymes of five lines
Letting laughter lines flow
Lusciously lewd ones
Less crude but demur ones
Leaving a happy glow

22nd October 2020
Pleiades 3 contest
Sponsor - Joseph May...

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MY FONDEST MEMORY
My love
Beguiled me,with
Soft sensuous lips,sleek
Long thighs with rounded hips,twinned heart's
Enlaced

NOTE:AMERICAN CINQUAIN (an imagist stressed version)WAS DEVISED BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (William Soutar Epigrams are a similar wordplay form)...

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