Short Fives Poems

Remember music
being played on forty-fives
what's new pussycat...

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bet

the car

three aces

lost to four fives

walk



*Lanterne for Brian's Contest...

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Lombada painted&poetized
well deserved her high fives
Famed as a troubadour
years ago in days of yore...

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So cold
The kiss of death
That downs the autumn leaves
To burn in crimson flames beneath
Her ice


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FIRST PLACE: In Brian Strand's contest - High Fives...

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work the ground
the time factor rendering it automatically profound
give balance to these ephemeral lives
against the nonsense of the ether's electronic high fives....

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Elephant Butte Lake,

You see Rattlesnake Island,

Can you swim that far?

You swim as far as you can,

Out to the island and back!


~For Brian's High Fives Contest~...

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Enjoyable being bus greeter
Getting sweet or angry high fives
Seeing quickly who needs me
Who might blow up today
Who has a birthday
A great heads up
Bus greeter
Daily
Sweet...

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We all jumped in with our high fives
Slapping and popping and loving it
Then the pandemic came along
With lots of warnings 
We do not care
We still meet and high five
and hug and live and love...

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Listen to poem:

High fives all round for Five fingers, Five toes
My pentagon poem has just Five lines
Five minute iambic pentameter
Each line has Ten syllables, Five by Two 
One for each human appendage and sense....

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GOLD DUNES
……………….,,,’’’,’………………………



soft
candles
of waxing moon
flame earth's gold
dunes




©
Lanterne Form
For Brian Strand: Fours and Fives
By: nette onclaud...

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When one meets one
Two is made
Three is company
Fours got it made
Fives in the middle
Six hot on the trail
Sevens just there
Eight don’t care
Nine with its tail
Ten there for fun
All this when one meets one...

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Wiggzy Wormzy
Burrowing
Saying neighbourly hies
As he writhed
From top to bottom
Of the veggie garden

Wiggzy Wormzy
Waving
Sharing friendly hi-fives
As he cantilevered
From leaf to roof
Of the veggie garden...

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Aw summer is here, seemed it would never arrive
Makes me sing happy songs, thank goodness I'm alive
Alternative really sucks
Not even good for ducks
Feel like skipping along giving peeps the high fives...

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High Fives for June 6-10-25
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Juneberry

garden chameleon
green leaves turn red then purple
nicknamed sugarplum
berries of blue in clusters
hedgehogs feast on summer treats
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Be a Beast
Wake up everyday and feast
Be like bread
Rise like yeast
Two fives don't equal a ten
Quick math don't try it again
I'm the king, that's me
Never give way to the heat
Let your fists flow with the beat
Be a Beast...

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At last!
Vacations! - 
High fives and hugs,
Camping out, and picnics -
Fun time!

All well - 
Um, for now 
Later, of course
We will have to face truth -
‘MORE WORK'

For Dr.Ram Mehta's contest
Syllable count checked - 2/3/4/6/2...

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Sultry summer night;
stars are winking at the moon.
As I gaze at you,
ocean’s tide rolls in. . . . We kiss.
Stars now wink at us! What bliss.


For Brian Strand's
FOURS AND FIVES single poem of 4 or 5 lines,
any form or theme Poetry Contest...

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It’s autumn so I’ll plant my bulbs and then water the plot
My wife said last years didn’t grow, are these a different lot
She said they’ll brighten up the spring, how many have you got
I said there’s forty twenty-fives and ten are fifty watt...

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They made judgements
Because of her size
She saw the snickers
Inside their eyes

They made judgements
Based on her hair
She saw their high fives
Way up in the air

They made judgements
Based on her age
She rolled her eyes
Being a sage...

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Sponsor	Brian Strand
Contest Name	FOURS AND FIVES single poem of 4 or 5 lines,any form or theme 

sadness when they early go,
and break the string of time n flow,
we do our time, the sentence slow,
a death attains our freedom, no? 
Don...

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Crappy weather aside, ecstatic to be alive
Thankful for so many things and all that jive
The sun, the stars, the air we breathe
Rivers, mountains, and stately trees
With ear to ear grins and joyous high fives


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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You bring the mail unfailingly
In sun and wind and rain
With cheery smile and bright “Hello"
And "Turned out nice again"

May I suggest a strategy
To brighten all our lives
Bring a million pounds from Ernie
Instead of twenty-fives!!...

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It can be managed
wisely or wasted spent on
worthy or wicked pursuits.
It cannot be bought
sold ordered to stand still or
saved for another day—time.

Image 4


Date: June 10, 2019
Contest Title: Fives and Sevens
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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My true loves asleep
Beneath a blanket of clouds 
And I but his lullaby
Dancing a lament
Raining tears of sorrows grief
Lightly I float by your grave



Picture #1

7-3-2019

Fives and Sevens Contest    4th Place win
Sponsor:  Joseph May...

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foggy somber day
looking out over the pier
for maybe something someone
semblance of echo
deep inside to convince me
somehow i am not alone



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on July 6, 2019 for contest FIVES AND SEVENS (#3) sponsored by JOSEPH MAY  -  RANKED 2ND...

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