Short Examples Poems

people watch people
habits become examples ...
plants teach better traits


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To each their own state,
Be they stronger or weaker,
You are still the same.
Examples, not excuses,
Seek and set as you improve...

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Intrinsic living
an long stinging injury.
Some apparent end
with an smart hidden counter
just examples motivate.

(5-7-5-7-7)...

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I Feel entitled to your womb
citing opposites as examples
you make such a discase for youself
Delighted you be my unaccomplished....

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Edward Manet painted with a light touch
many famous examples remain of such
He admired Impressionist as a group
but left himself out of that particular loop...

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Why am I always looking around
Searching for answers
Truths to be found 
Examples by others
Left laying around
I can’t find my voice
Or believe my own sound...

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I can love you like Rumi did to Sham, 
but, I'm very bad at setting examples
- I cannot marry you my daughter to keep you close to me.....................................

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Rich and poor, good and evil, light and dark
Juxtaposition examples living on a lark
Sliding down a hill in east Central Park
Inviting hot and cold, benign and stark....

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Love is gentle.
Love is kind.
Love is sudden.
It comes from behind.
				People get trapped in love.
				As life goes by.
				And for some examples,
						You and I....

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Affable people
are likeable fools
Divorced from the moment
their banter unspools

Affable people
in search of a creed
Amusing examples
— of folly indeed

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
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NAANI EXAMPLES
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POETRY
Poetry,
feelings, emotions,
exposed souls,
truth or fiction
 
NATURE
Nature,
biodiversity,
natural wonders,
in death, infinite ...

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We are Wee
The mighty 
Wee
We are the 
Leaders of 
Tomorrow
Thinking of 
the glorious 
Morrow
We are 
Children 
that will 
make a 
healthy nation
For the best 
examples of 
God's 
Creation.

We are......

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location
changes our
view

Inspired by 
Examples of such land art by Richard Long include

A line in the Himalayas 1975
A line in Ireland 1974
A line in Australia 1977

Literarily a 'living ' landscape picture...

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Carlos and Hanna, husband and wife,
your examples taught me about life,
honoring family, marriage, and friends.
Much is lost with your premature ends, 
and though it's too late to let you know - 
Oh my God, I miss you so....

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Three Word Acrostics

Three
Harmoniously  
Readable
Enter
Each

Word
Organized
Reading
Downward

And
Correct 
Rules
Organizing
Sentence
That
Involves 
Contest
Sample

Three Word Acrostic Examples for Contest...

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Watching episodes of The Tudors, I 
cringe at examples of King Henry’s
pride and ruthlessness, casting off
wives and devotees with ease.. . . 
As he gads about with 
a new flame, an axe
falls again and
again on
Cromwell’s
neck....

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History is replete
with examples of the incomplete.
Which is why we have historians –
or should they be called restorians?

Theirs is the patient art
of piecing history back together,
what men and time put apart,
with results not much better.
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Among all of the living beings on this planet human great,the way human going great goodness plays.Goodness a quality of God and he hand picked some human to set examples and preferred this to copy and past all his creations to make a heaven between Earth and Sky!...

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moments of enlightenment-
                                        just one breath in length

Read examples of 66 poetic forms in 100 poems in my kindle ebook BREVE and

hear me recite my PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro or

catch my short forms @strandpoet on twitter...

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The Whole Universe is a treasure of knowledge
                                   The Sky is a symbol of wisdom
                                  Planets and stars are examples         
                                         Oceans mean its depth
                                          A great study needs...

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She looked much like Miss Elizabeth Bennett though very ill without Mr. Darcy
Nor had she the determination to speak up as Elizabeth had in this age of 
suppression
So accomplished, reading, singing and playing the piano all day.
Beautiful that she was, she set no examples for improvement nor remembrance....

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Always remembered 
When life was a feather
Us greeting our pleasure 
As examples of following 

Age old places and its glory
Valued our perception 
We ruled our reasoning 
But not our sentiments 

Unforeseen needs and impression 
In our contemporary 
With fine arts of misery 
And fondness of outbreak...

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Family Man

Loves
his wife
and children
working weekdays
sacrificing his needs for theirs, willingly.

Repeatedly setting the examples 
his children watch
learning how
to grow
up

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form: Tetractys

Dedicated to my son-in-laws and family men everywhere....

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BLIND DATE

Blind date -
He’s late

She’s HUGE
Wears rouge

Red lips
Huge hips

Looks weird
Got beard!

He heaves
Then leaves!

LATER ON TODAY I WILL BE PUTTING UP A NEW CONTEST CALLED FIVE FABULOUS FUN FOOTLES. I HOPE YOU WILL BE INSPIRED TO GIVE THIS FUN FORM A TRY

21st October 2016...

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Perseverance, ingenuity: hallmarks of great mind...
Examples which we Earthlings are expecting more to find.
As NASA's news now streams from Mars, where there is little air
And yet they're setting up the helicopter dispatched there.
With AIR as so essential for the flight of an AIRcraft
We'll see if JPL designers are clever - or just daft!...

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