Short Fancies Poems

I’m in love with A
Alas she likes B
B fancies C
But C wants me...

Read More

Floating on the winds
 of summer, he glides with ease
towards  the  flowers;
selecting one he fancies,
 monarch sits upon his throne

(3)...

Read More

cove of stark comfort
simplicity of forest
verbena-pine scent
I don’t care if i see stars
immersed in sylvan fancies

9/14/2020...

Read More

foolish is the man who may,
ego driven, self fancies hey,
though just a mortal drip,
engorged but nondescript,
self esteem soon fades away...

Don...

Read More

November dreams of beauty of my garden in springtime,
planning horticultural fancies my garden has never grown.
Dreaming of it in November is easy part of gardening....

Read More

Fiery furnace-filled flames,
Fabulously flash-flare;
Fantastic feelings flow,
Forming flamboyancy;
Flirtatious fancies foam,
Fabricating frenzy;
Freedom flutters fondly......

Read More

He fancies himself a Yankee Doodle
He does, my nattily coiffed French Poodle
   Struts with nose in the air
   Flaunting his layered hair 
Just got him a playmate ~ a grizzly bear...

Read More

Her real name's Jan, the Mistress of Mirth
She tickles our fancies with every verse
Where are our “fancies”
Are they inside our panties
With two minds like ours it could have been worse

© Jack Ellison 2015...

Read More

I might write like a landscape
In any form and shape
If my judge, yet, with fancies
Does reject my masterpiece
I'm not a faded flower
This I know that each lover
Faces platonic effects
And, at the end, resurrects....!



01 June 2022...

Read More

   deeper, deeper plunge
   in darkening woods
   branches fallen
   cross your way
   as you fall
   where once you stood

   sunlight gone
   sounds unnerve
   skin crawling
   while fancies swerve
   like fairy tales
   enthralling
...

Read More

He fancies himself Mark Twain the chicken slayer said.
His hat is ridiculous, I would not wear it even if I was dead.
Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? You mean asked a reader well bred.
Not sure said the chicken slayer, but look at that stupid hat on his head!...

Read More

Summer may scorch my spirits; fall may make my fancies faded;

Winter may freeze my thoughts; wait for spring to get them elated.





YOUR BEST RHYMING COUPLET #3 Poetry Contest
Couplet poetry form only.
Sponsored by: L MILTON HANKINS
Date: 12-10-2021...

Read More

Quite uneasy feel I
to break,this shell
mesmerizing it is!
The laughter, the
innocence, Oh!
I the child, my world
the nuisances, the
joys,the fancies
makes me, reluctant
to leave it!
My days end with
"I am I grown up?"
My heart leaps
up for it again!...

Read More

This
me that
you drew well
wears just my face,
but she fancies wearing your dearest heart.
Let me draw this me the way I see me,
for just I can
draw me as
I see
me.


Aug. 12, 2020
Double Tetractys Poetry Contest - Photo 2
Sponsor: Eve Roper...

Read More

The white rose she held
simply untimely miscue
dumped its white pale skin
in its prime, pierced her heart
this very day, and many more
with spun fancies that she dreams
in her sleep, she did run
as her heart did break
like the
white beautiful rose
that she was......

Read More

The blue, blue skies of Manhattan.

Scores of bird's going off for the night,
hoards of flightful fancies,
singing through the clouds,
flying tall and proud.

Sea breeze,
chills and the big freeze,
the solidness and frost bite in my toes,
my goodness I need to stop moaning....

Read More

unspoken,unsaid
swirl,whirl
ripple,ruffle
tease,torture
delve,funnel
foreboding burrows,
in narrow tunnels;

Fazed,crazed
imagined fancies,
unnerve,unsettle
weigh down
upset perturb;
abound and tease 
with imagined dis-ease.

Inspired by John's latest contest...

Read More

A roller coaster ride through passing fancies
full throttle through the depths of clanging climbs
let go, be free, succumb, you are no longer one
hands touch, eyes meet, tomorrow we’ll do that again


©8/7/2018

for – A four line poem on what is love – Poetry Contest...

Read More

pupa taps a
pulse
in humid mounds.

chaste cicada quivers in the ground.

sighed fermata
thrills
the earthen chambers.

bare cicada fancies in the strain.

lewd sonata
lulls
the velvet void.

sole cicada chafes his greenest feign.

baffled hall
replies
with no applause....

Read More

Petals wind-dancing,
shed no tears in spring.
Elated blossoms,
shimmering showers,
laughing their bright hues.

Pungent perfumes
delight senses,
tickle fancies;
a spring scent-fest.

Translucent
dancing Fey
celebrate;

Spring life’s
precious;

Gold.
...

Read More

(Written in the voice of the Bride of Frankenstein)

Where did you get your hair done, Cruella

My beast fancies a streak of vanilla

  Flames from your hair dryer?

  What brand? I won't buy 'er!

That hair contraption could be a killa



Written for the Techno-Limericks Contest...

Read More

The writer always
wants to sing
And the singer
wants to paint
The painter fancies  
he could dance
To the dancer
songs conflate

The greenest grass
it seldom grows
Where you now
make your bed
As wishes stray
and hopes betray
What might have been
—instead

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

Read More

So low gathered these puffy hues
Like unbuttoned coat of the king
Ready to astonish all 
Bashed the cheeks of mountains there
And the roofs of poor and rich 

Amid the downpour, a kid
Like a lonely star came out
To nurse his crazy fancies
And gossiping with splashes there
But his mother wailing hard...

Read More

DISTINCTIONS

designed
  to stimulate
the sensory
 experience
to create
to celebrate
inspire
 fleeting fancies

a renaissance
of
originality
with
  surprising
ephemeral
 experimentation
 of
meaningful
 encounters

everyday
 aesthetic
pieces
 simultaneously
 sensual
&precious...

Read More

a knock at his door
  signal of war
he knows no more

arrive at the line
  cigarette kills the time
silence jars his mind

bullets float past his head
  he fancies himself dead
meadow's splattered blood-red

he chokes, gags and he runs
  falls to the ground, done
glorious victory, hard-won...

Read More