Short Greats Poems

flies like butterfly
and his punches like bee stings
the greatest of greats...

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William Butler Yeats
respected as one of the greats Awarded
Awarded a Nobel prize
being tone deaf  is a surprise...

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...Can i help you ?
The good salesman sells what he thinks they want
The greats shows them what they need
The best ask.......

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The slice of the skates creates
An atmosphere of greats
They fly on the ice
Not the least bit of nice
A game of ego awaits....

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Sixty-five years- still Mates:
    three Children with Spouses, five Grands, three Greats;
      thankful for our Happy Fates!
...

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Create
The best version
Of yourself

Every morning
You have a chance
To create
The best version
Of yourself

Bright and shine
Yourself
You will be
The great of greats
...

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Gallant as Michael
Symbol of vision and pride
Guards our heroes past


Michael is the chief of all angels of God. He is also the guardian angel of Israel
For Carolyn's 'Bald eagle in cemetery' contest...

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Dedicated to the Boss, Bruce Springsteen
Song writer of greats like Rosalita, Jungleland, and Bobby Jean
Still working on a dream, forty years strong  
His amazing, live shows like marathons more than three hours long...

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I remember when children were a blessing
For some, they seemed a burden to carry
Happy mine are all grown up, I’m confessing,
Now I have great-grandkids – it’s scary!
I’ll never have great-greats, I’m guessing.

Written October 12, 2022...

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Sonneteer Petrarch, with
      Shakespeare, set the standards:
   so little space - fourteen
            short lines, each with just ten
         syllables. Yet greats like
                 St. Vincent Millay weave
               scripts pregnant with meaning.

[pleiades]

Written 21 Oct 2020...

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Listen to poem:

Lugosi lays, Chaney scares, creeps the dusk,
Price fades, Karloff, clomps, all ashes and dust,
Past-timed preferred actors all,
Scary times, hair raised, jaws fall,
Greats, long unseen, memories hold, hearts crush.


2019 October 16


PS  Grammar Checker
RhymeZone
howmanysyllables;
10,10,7,7,10...

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Where I am, no man can find me. 
My mind constantly confines me.
My voice is not the one inside me.
I’m lost inside, and only God knows where to find me.

I’m not afraid of death, it greats me.
I want to kill my demons, but they cheat me.
I say that I’m doing fine, but they defeat me.
I’m trapped inside, and only God knows where’s the real me....

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Mystery

Appearing as 

Mysteries of her life..

Rich mysteries she says:

Lost in a cornfield

Age 4..with Burke

A venture too far

Into the mystery..

The mysteries of

Animals

Singing

Cycling and running..

And her children

Grands and greats..

Over 90 years..

An inspiration

Rising in this

Christmastime as

Mystery......

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[Second go at ‘a poem in six lines’ contest]


When I get to heaven, if I should be so lucky
I’m gonna get some rubber boots and find a field that’s mucky
I’ll ask around to find out where the coolest folk hang out
Then I’d ask Elvis if he knows if Bowie is about
Once I’ve got his autograph, what’s next is best of all
I’m gonna organise an ‘All Time Greats’ pop festival...

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NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day2
Eloquence
Shorts

Many of the greats in poetry are said to be eloquent beings,
Well-versed in language as well as the human mind, soul, and heart.
Their legacy of distinct impressions;
Such aureate diction surely leaves the world a more vibrant, colorful place,
But at times I wonder: Do THEY leave this world more vibrant?...

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Garth Brooks, a wonderful singer is he.
He sways the crowds with his melodies.
The youngest of six, he began
his career by listening
to songs from Country’s greats.
To emulate them
became his quest.
Three cheers for
Country’s
best!

© 2013 Connie Marcum Wong

Note:
I watched a T.V. Special staring Garth Brooks last night and it was
simply the best. I hope some of you watched it too....

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SECRETS!
 on and see greats.
Don't be grateful 
until you light
Your cigarette of secrets.
Mourn me till I come to live till eternity.
Treasure your certainty
To be content in your quantity and quality.
Age is just number
 But grace is a number of experiences
Unmerited yet merited
Grace is the key to confidence
Hence don't be measured by guilt
But be patient with God who knows ur secret...

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WHEN I FAILED
Tears is what strolled past me
Lost and sad is what i feel
When it all crush me clean
My tears is full to the brim

Now i know life is not as it is in movies
And not as seen in the Disney’s
The greats are not made by eases’
I failed but still do not cease

Life thought me hard so young
I saw my life crushed all along
Now i see life so real; not long
I fell and disappointed but now strong...

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Eighty-five
Eighty-three-
we're so blessed.

Three aged kids
five grown grands
two small greats.*

Pray we stay
well- to watch
our babes grow.


January 27, 2023

Contest: Tricube Poetry Contest
Sponsor:  Sara Kendrick

Rules: 3 lines in each stanza, 3 syllables per line
Leave the reader with questions
and/or open-ended thoughts.          

*Third great-grandchild due this coming June!...

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It takes a man with fiery guts
To stand the heat of the spiteful lots
Of little greats still untamed
And future stars still unnamed.

The sweat never ceased to fall
And the stress really took a toll
But success came out after all
Making the stress worthy of all.

Though no thanks be said or showed
And no hats be tipped or bowed
Always remember you are beloved
By those hearts you ploughed and sowed....

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The crack of the bat, game’s invocation
From stadium to sandlot, all the same
Temples to the spirit of our nation
Listen closely, wind whispers ancient names
The greats in attendance at every game
Rejuvenated by the youthful heart
The soul of our sport, true performance art 
Its palpable spirit, real as it seems
It beckons you, invites you to take part
Become the legend on the field of dreams

4/11/16...

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Buson had his comb
and Pound, his blackened bough.
But I am no poet.

I do not rage. Rage
is not for me.
Inspiration does
not peer through my ribs.

I cannot talk of Michelangelo
Or tell of Grecian Urns. No,
Ozymandias has not looked upon
My works.

What I write will not
Stand up with the greats
Sadly, I am no
Neruda, Poe, or Yeats.

I just spend my time
Reading The Rime
And failing to create....

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One of God's greatest mysteries,
is the creation of women,
Always searching for perfection, remaining driven,

Society's greats born from their womb,
Their stories still shared, even from the tomb,
They are the mother of all creation,
A representation of past,present and future,

A women plays many roles in her lifetime,
Nurturing and loving till grim's calling,
She takes your breath away,
Gives you motivation, when all others fail....

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TOO SIMPLE  TERMS

SIMPLE TERMS

Absence of all, somewhere I am,
At the infancy of the well measured.

I’ve tasted the honey,
But don’t know how is made.
I’ve constructed a shack,
Without plans or foundations.
I’ve wondered how the river flows,
While fishing with my bare hands.

I look from below at the work of the greats,
Knowing so well I’ll never be there.

I think to myself in too simple terms.

Luis M. Lambert...

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She greeted the universe before the sun rose

Blessed but looks of defeat contoured outside physically

She fought and fought in learning how to hold her head higher then a so called addiction

Follow the bear paw prints 
Hear the bear 
Bear hears you

Always knew a place for her with all the greats in all entity awaited

She was blessed to make a change and learn 

On her way to a new addiction

A healthy lifestyle to learn...

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