Short Four Hundred Poems

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Premium Member Kentucky Mammoth Cave

Kentucky boasts about her Mammoth Cave
People exploring it are quite brave
Four hundred miles
Giving them trials
Exploring her passages is a fave.
Form: Rhyme


A Three, Five

A Three , ... Five, ... To Twentynine Bell's Show!

Past Four Hundred Thirty.

Snow, Snow, .... Snow's!

                  Morenstow!  .... Go, Goes!
© Mike Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member who measured this

Bee's wings beat eleven thousand four hundred times a minute
According to a scientific manual for children
I stare at this fact
Wondering
Who measured these beats
And how?

Premium Member Four Hundred Bananas

Devour about 400 bananas a year Swinging through trees, why is it unclear Ancestral, could be On my cereal, yummy Scratch my neighbors bum, his name is Peter
Form: Limerick

Winter Squash

Blue Hubbard, or Butternut -
    A squash is a squash.
Bake at four hundred degrees
    'til the flesh is soft,
    sweet like a candy,
        healthy, and
            fresh!
© Chad Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epulaeryu


Premium Member Kissing a Fish

Just had a thought, how about this What would it be like to kiss a fish Not very appealing Might send me reeling Number six thousand, four hundred and eight on my list
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Kissing a Fish

Just had a thought, how about this What would it be like to kiss a fish Not very appealing Might send you reeling Number six thousand, four hundred and eight on my list
Form: Limerick

Barnacle Goose's Life

Barnacle goose kid
Jumps from four hundred meters
Starts life through struggle 
To eat green grass on the shore
Mother shows- Life is thorny

April 22, 2021 
Chattogram © Mahtab Bangalee
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Sir Isaac Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton was a cantankerous old soul But more importantly, was known for a different role When the apple fell It's gravity he telled His fame has lasted four hundred years or more
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Funeral Home Crasher

Funeral home crasher
observing peoples raw grief
tallies visits up

no one questions her
assume she knew deceased
its rarely the case

over four hundred
I am askance and concerned
at her weird hobby
Form: Senryu

Naughty Ham

The Church of Four Hundred Rabbits*
Needs Vows of Silence from blab-its
The Altar wine
Is so divine
That monks and priests probe loose habits

*Prior to Lockdown, Nottingham's
400 Rabbits Tequila Bar 
Form: Limerick

Premium Member when people die

when people die they become forever that age
forever six
forever twelve
forever twenty-four
forever nineteen
forever three
what if we don’t die?
What if we live to be three or four hundred?
What happens then?

Premium Member Four Hundred Questions a Day

Here's something every new parent soon learns A 4 year old asks 400 questions a day, their minds yearn Craving to discover life's secrets No holding back their keenness Alright li'l poopers, youse got too much time to burn
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Wow Out of Sight

four hundred million stars born each day ~ somewhere beyond our milky way 

give or take a billion or two ~ the same amount die every year too

you can’t see what i’m trying to say ~ me neither they’re too far away 

By 
David Kavanagh 
3x17
Form: Monoku

Premium Member afraid of an old man

they said he was a lunatic
I heard he howls at the moon
an old man with a lopsided gait
I thought he was four hundred years old
He smiled at me once when I was eight
I was terrified, believing the rumors
never realizing I would be his age some day

Death and Chainsaws

The chainsaws are roaring
this Friday morning
dissecting the tree
that meant so much to me.

I counted the rings,
amidst broken things,
over four hundred years,
I count through my tears.

I try to let go,
not let my pain show,
I struggle to sleep
as the great Oak weeps.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Four Score Leap Year

Listen to poem:
It is like that of a leaping rabbit who hop on all four,
Twenty-twenty, would then leap an added four more,
Leap at each fourth year, a day February would score, 
As for a century leaps at every four hundred years.


2020 January 19
Great Leap Forward Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Beth Evans

Premium Member Australia Is On Fire

catastrophic year
australia is on fire
koalas dying

apocalyptic 
more than one hundred degrees
affecting ocean

year of the fires
devastating marine life
australia crying

debilitating 
four hundred eighty million
animals have died

catastrophic year
australia is on fire
koalas dying
Form: Haiku

Target In the Sights

Long range shot
Four hundred and ten yards
Almost touching distance by magnification

The target there - be careful
Taking note of wind drift
Now another click

Steady
Be steady 
A most gentle squeeze on the trigger

A good shot ,target hit and down
The man who was he ?
What was his name?
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Talking To Himself V V G

Another dream
              I am
              I think
of my Red Vineyard
sold for just four-hundred

It is expensive here.
I pay in pictures

Up to now all is well..

My depression is to great
                         to bear!
What is to be done?

VAN GOGH committed suicide in 1890 just 37.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Clearway heros, led by Jeremy Olson

This company action, has thwarted the slaughter of almost four hundred  B C
Ostriches in Canada, that are essential
Key workers? In helping with avian flu
Antibody rescearch.' My hat off to you
Jeremy..You are a true leader; and your
Co-workers are hero's also.' I wish your
Firm all the sucesss possible.'
Form: Narrative

Four the Love of God

four things that happened 
that day that we fell in love: 
the four doors opened 

forty days at sea 
ended and sailors saw land 
four hundred children 

cracked four thousand smiles 
for forty thousand pilgrims 
trekked four million miles 

for a chance to be 
near the God that made that day 
that we fell in love
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Bridge Of No Return

Hundred steps I made
From soiled ground to the bridge of cursed shade

Three dungeons of heroic souls
Locked up over four hundred in shoals

Living souls of eddies drilling
Dying breaths of  bodies shrilling

Hidden story of men of courage
To die in Atlantic is sweeter than bondage

Eighteen hundred and three was the year
Freedom is the peal in every man's ear.
Form: Elegy

Who

Who really was that bawdy bard
Who held the world so mirrored.
Who chose a pen name for himself
and another for his wife. 
Anne hath a way indeed she does
and will shake spear  at time.
The man could spin a tale or two
he holds me rapt still yet
From all four  hundred years gone on
since e'er he trod the globe
I know he's laughing at us yet
What was his given name?
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Ryan Trip takes a Trip on a Lawn Mower

in the summer of 1997
Twelve year old Ryan Tripp made a 3, 366 mile journey
across the USA raising ten thousand and four hundred dollars
for a sick baby living in his home town.
He took this trip on a twenty-five horse power mower
from Salt Lake City, Utah to Washington, D.C.
He was followed by his adoring parents and grandparents
in pick-up trucks, insuring his safety.

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