Short Festivals Poems

Fall is here
festivals in full swing
Indiana...

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Used in festivals as lighting the way for the souls of our ancestors...

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Festivals taste like cakes,
Happiness,the sweet icing,on top of cakes!...

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Ladles,
Not serving
Bellies on festivals

Ladles,
Not giving festivals!...

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Orange, Yellow, Brown

The trees adorn themselves well

For fall festivals...

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walking wooded trails
spiders host fall festivals
i'm cotton candy
...

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It's Christmas Day
  Chanukah too
A day of salvation
  for Christian and Jew

Our rituals differ
  That much is true 
Yet we all unite
  in the Festivals' Lights...

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harvest festivals 
a day of celebration 
gathered together 
pilgrims and Indians feast 
thanking our almighty god 


A Thanksgiving Tanka Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins 
10/24/2021...

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I fear 
the flavor of fruitfulness,

the fullness of tables, 
burden bent
by fleeting bounty

I dread the feast;
festivals 
of frivolous indulgence

because I know 
Famine rides hardest
where blessings rot....

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Freakish Fanny fled fine Finland
For far-fetched Formosa fields,
Forsaking fantastic fiords forever
Forfeiting flourishing forests,
Frigid fertile farmland, festivals
Forgetting feared future fighting.

written January 22, 2022...

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When Summer her beauty displays
not short nights nor lengthy days
not vacations or tourist sights
not the festivals nor village fetes
not the wildlife nor abor foliates
but the garden I would suggest
all nature in flower,eye-catchingly dressed...

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see the petals form
follow on early spring
storm on daffodils
you have your festivals
to arrange

See the tulips gallop sun dance
Celebrate the green portals in the garden
prestige your sun bronzed shoulders
hoe down to the soil





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Owls
Through the
Lapland snows
See Santa hug
Children’s wishes in festivals of joy
Reindeer wait in barren birch through long nights
For Aurora
To string lights
In Jule
Fire

11-26-20
Picture #3
Contest: Tetractyrs #6
Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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Why peoples
of all kinds
rally eagerly
to festivals and fetes
crowd temples and churches
to celebrate any 
wondrous cause
in joyous applause
Then see them gather
with the same harmony
as they rush to their
inane demise
in times of wars
in opposite mores...

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Nineteen sixties make love
Not war, flower power
Naked at festivals 
Nature taken to the
Next level, until our
Normal human acts of 
Nastiness, did return.

30th April 2017.
Contest:- Pleiades N.
Sponsored by Kim Merryman.
Checked on how many syllables. com....

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When lanterns paint the sky,
I'll weave tulsi trinkets, celebrate divine sight~
while stars fly..

Wings of new moon,
flare as festivals of delight,
in tune.

We praise,
eternal light~
rays.

When lanterns paint the sky,
flare as festivals of delight~
rays....

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Wild rides,
Bright costumes allure,
Like Broadway,
In hard times,
Distorted laughter echoes, 
A cheap treat for all.

Gaudy lights,
Masks with painted smiles,
Festivals
In the dark,
A house of many faces,
Screams of sheer delight.

By sabina
written 8/15/11
contest: Carnival...

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Autumn festivals
harvest times to remember
ev’ry November ...
holiday season's delight
no time for anger or spite. 

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written November 6, 2022
submitted to "A New Hiku Footle Tanka " Poetry Contest
sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Fall

Towns alive with football games, festive parades and county fairs
while nature dresses for sleep in her nightgown of earthen hues.
Festivals hushing at the end as she beds down....Grand is Fall....

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crimson autumn leaves
rustle against the window...
storm winds are coming

10/26/18

Haiku-Senryu writing challenge October 2018 contest

Sponsor: Dear Heart


6/28/19 Submitted to Your Choice Seasons-Festivals Verse, Any Form, Any Choice Contest.

Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Hope's lights dim in November
  barely flicker in December
They reach their nadir just before
  the onset of harsh winds' roar --

When two festivals of light appear
  to melt the drops of frozen tears
Be Chanukah or Christmas your cup of tea
  Season's greetings, joy and glee...

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OUR IGBONO FESITIVAL
Ally,
Have you heard of Ibono? Have been to Ibono before?
Our Ibono festival is one of the longest festivals. It is the most interesting 
Festival on earth. Will you like it? Will you come?  Intimate me if you will come.
And intimate me also if you will not come....

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Bright
cascades
of swirling 
leaves, festivals,
blankets of frost, snow,
Thanksgiving gatherings,
hot cocoa and board games
by the fire, plans for
Christmas—reasons
autumn so
thrills my
soul


September 21, 2021
Contest title: Merse--Beauty of Fall
Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudbury...

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Festivals are celebrated
In grand feasts, a socialized and modified way
Only feasts are remembered
But 
Neither the interesting and mysterous stories or fairy tales
Nor the unique, strange, never-met ancestors
For they are too far away
To be understood
By the stonely hearts of this modern world...

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fly me to belgium 
for i want to meet the queen
and get a glimpse of 
the man who is the reigning king

fly me  to belgium 
for the festivals and things
i'd run with the hip
and ageless in the cool streets

fly me to belgium
for i want to  see dinant
hear those saxophones
and get lost in all that jazz...

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