Short Expounds Poems

Z-oom 
Y-our 
R-eal 
A-ppearance 

E-xpressing 
S-weet 
M-ood 
A-s 
B-eauty 
E-xpounds 

Topic: Birthday of Zyra Esmabe (July 14) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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The world is a symphony of sights and sounds
But with special talents, we see and hear the surrounds
Nature is everywhere
Everywhere to share
Carrying on as usual as our daily life expounds...

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Love Story 

I saw you yesterday
A brief moment of the past 
Black & white movie 

The sadness lingers
I couldn´t make you love me
We danced tango 

Voices on TV
Expounds my deep loneliness 
Your silence pains me....

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I listen calmly to him
Slowly nudging him on
As he expounds on philosophy
Hidden gems are revealed
Polished and inspected
This one owns a gold mine
This one has hidden gems
I love to see them exposed
That's why am silently probing...

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haiku loves nature 
senryu human nature...
tanka expounds both 
no matter how much I learn
I only know a whisper






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Haiku, Senryu & Tanka Too" via wattpad.com...

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FABLE 1


Free and easy
Works well for me


Spin a yarn here
To fund more cheer


Tell fond story
In words easy


Speak words profound
As thought expounds


Squeak a swift ooze
Watch fable cruise


Hurl the passage
Sign bold message

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
13 July 2015
Singapore...

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Celebrate writing 

Celebrate your wit

Celebrate fighting

Celebrate your hit

Celebrate your mind

Celebrate thinking

Celebrate your kind

Celebrate singing

Poetry celebrates 

Good heart relates 

Wide mind elaborates

Thoughtful gist expands

While theme expounds

Celebrate madness

Singing fairness...

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He says avoiding and giving in magnifies and expounds by ten. Troubles that is, if we don’t face them. “You haven’t been where I am,” someone says.
He answers back, “Look at the sorrow in my eyes. Look at my scars. I have suffered like any man. I am the Lamb, but I am also the Lion. You are Lions. And what are Lions? That’s right – mean sonsab****es.”...

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Like a shadow it is
Dark and unknowing
Unsure of who, what, when or why
Can you see it or can you not
Only transposed by the light
Chasing forever your soul
When seen there is fear
For the pain that lingers.
Appearance always changing
A face unrecognizable
To whom it once was.
Grief expounds borders
Spilling into aspects
Never realized.
Dormant no more...

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New cites now found
As reason bound


Sounds come around
With finds profound


Here time expounds
More rhymes that ground


I heed strange sounds
That writes may pound


What goes around
Flings ample sounds


Expound strange grounds
Sounds found astound


Lost sound yet found
Rhymes ply not bound




Leon Enriquez
12 April 2017
Singapore...

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In the moonlight
Where clouds cast shadows
Dark and fierce

There’s a haunted house nearby
Dark even in the full moon

It’s all boarded up
Fear envelopes all around
Light in one window

A cemetery
Exists within perimeter
Terror expounds

There are dug up graves
Where skeletons used to lay

Now they party
Within the haunted house
Dancing with the ghosts

Russell Sivey...

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Grateful all the hearts 
that are not Golding
 grateful are those parts
 that are swollen 
with tears of abundant
 Joy crying flowing down the cheeks
 overflow grateful or the heart 
that expounds and rejects the negatives
 of man's ill effects
 grateful are the spoken word 
to the one and only true 



9/24/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Sijo from Korea
Shows theme of unrhymed style
Secured by three long lines
Setting clear start at first 
Second expounds it well
Steadfast third as ending
Spirit of truth* expressed.

*2Corinthians 13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

January 25, 2022
2nd place, "Write About a Form" Pleiades Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May; judged on 2/19/2022....

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Finesse frames sure choice
Heed elegant voice


Fortune in good health
Primes excellent wealth


Story in plain view
Tells all about you


Listen to the wind
Touching yet unseen


Intent funds fond tact
To discover pact


Sense stillness within
That expounds unseen


Inside and outside
Swift moments decide


Seek then what seems lost
Yet notice the cost




Leon Enriquez
22 September 2014
Singapore...

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Tragic tale of woodland magic;
magic expounds on the tragic.
Dying unicorns start crying;
crying unicorns are dying.
Hosts of fairies attend their ghosts;
ghosts can't console those grieving hosts.

Clear streams fouled by a pixy's tear;
tear-tainted streams had once run clear.
Stars bleed their sadness onto Mars;
Mars flushes with the blood of stars.
Night flickers with candles of light;
light vigils confetti the night....

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