Short Heartier Poems

The oldest man drinks quick sips
Of the Ebony’s night poison
hoping that the meager amounts
wouldn’t accumulate in the soft organ tissue.

But the tricky gray emotions 
Would trickle up from the bog’s soil
Building in the heartier parts
of the man’s main pump--causing rust....

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Christmas tidings boldly blare
Limp hands raise; taut lips flare
Minstrels and accordions pair
Rite, decorum forthrightly pare
Songs, instruments roundly declare
Strum the harp 'till spindly strings wear
Clang the cymbals revelry to share
Ring the bells no mirth we'll spare
Sing the melody a heartier fare
Loud your anthems fill the air...

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Spare me your pity and give me your spite,
‘tis a heartier diet for my kind of sprite.
My mothers are banshees who prey on your tears,
my sisters, the furies who feed on your fears.
The daughter of those who wail in the night,
the playmate of sirens, who in sailors delight.
In this land of faery, nightmares are formed;
my lips are the gateway, knight, be forewarned!...

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Squinting bush brown fertility
depends upon the rain.
Bright-eyed with possibility,
a vigorous refrain.

~

The eyespot-wings are glorious
with great downpour of storms.
They’re heartier, victorious -
This leading male performs.

~

3/24/2023
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Sponsor: Joanna Daniel
Syllable count: 8/6/8/6 8/6/8/6
Rhyming pattern: abab abab
Used howmanysyllables and rhymezone
Theme: Nature...

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Sunbeams serenade my window pane
Imploring restful notes to disdain

Abridging curtain the bright melody doth strain
My top sheet covers the harmonious chain

Gilded streams strike heartier refrain
But dissonant chords cloud my brain

A glistening symphony of metric lines retrains
The cerebral rhythms course through my veins

A chorus of light waves entrancing crescendo maintains 
From ingratiating pageant my body no longer abstains




Stephen Parker
August 14, 2012...

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