Short Honed Poems

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Paradoxical Laughter

A well honed

Paradox

Results in laughter

Which clears the deck

Of all of  

Refined arguments

And questions...
Categories: honed, beautiful, irony, words,
Form: Light Verse


The First Poem

God is
a finely honed machine
You are born 
just to be replaced
Your smile
will smile once more
But on someone else's face
Categories: honed, life,
Form: Free verse
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Moms and Daughters-In-Law

Mom’s words cut like a knife, honed razor sharp
Which shattered my new wife
Mom now, after years of strife
Says I married up in life!
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: honed, conflict, family, mother son, wife,
Form: Englyn

Whispered Knowledge

Knowledge whispered in hushed tones,
he listened in silence and concentration all honed,
he now whispers to others-who may or may not listen the drone.
Categories: honed, philosophymay,
Form: Free verse
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What Doesn't Kill You

The vicissitudes in life I've faced
Have neither dulled me
Nor defined me.
I rather like to think, instead,
That they have honed me
And refined me.
Categories: honed, introspection, life,
Form: Verse


Neither Nor

Truth thrives in contradiction
  the difference sharply honed

A neither nor redemption
  as zero-sum is known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Categories: honed, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Chest Thumping

May you be honed 
and strengthened 
by the humiliation
of occasional defeat.

Yet, in triumph,
may you shun urges
of chest-thumping
arrogance and conceit!
Categories: honed, grandson, growing up,
Form: Didactic

One Deep Thrust

To pierce today’s attention span,
fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust
—one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Categories: honed, words,
Form: Rhyme

One Deep Thrust

To pierce todays attention span,
  fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust,
  —one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Categories: honed, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Renewed

Squeezing out a different meaning,
with each new moment passed

The choices honed, all time dethroned
—no instant first or last

(Mackinac City Michigan: July, 2019)
Categories: honed, time,
Form: Rhyme
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Fireflies

Specks of honed firelight Grinding out the light of times Flies run in the dark Lighting up the night spaces Bringing harmony to night
Russell Sivey
Categories: honed, life, nature,
Form: Tanka
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A Cold Winter

The winter has honed its attack.
“I'm freezing!” my butt shrieks alack,
as up climb the freezes
from toes passed the knees-es.
It's so cold my foreskin grew back!

12/30/18
Categories: honed, humor,
Form: Limerick
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Expression Stressed-

Solid words liquefied; Bound and told horrified; Ancient own; Dooley honed ; I am that child Buck-wild
7/8/21 Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories: honed, analogy, character, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
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Feed Sack Dresses

A combination of Haiku and Kyoka

designer originals
from feed sacks
after the chickens were fed

her artist's touch
honed with the aid
of her foot movement
on the treadle machine
© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: honed, clothes, middle school, mother,
Form: Haiku
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Upon An Infinite Flight

When the morning lark has honed its  silver chirp,
a dream-like canvass floats into a higher octave,
setting passages alight with sun filled prospect as eternity dissolves its outer limbs.
Categories: honed, beautiful, beauty, birth, blessing, dream, feelings, flying,
Form: Prose Poetry
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On Edge

Listen to poem:
Swords have two sharp edges.
Knives have two, one is sharp,
the other blunt, till honed.
Cliffs like blades are 
one-edged glades, stoned.
But on edge, on a ledge
and stoned,
it's one-sided.
Categories: honed, nature,
Form: Free verse
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Zen Mode

here we are
moving up and down
between polarities
in the play of life
until soul is honed
that resistance ebbs 
then boundaries blur
and our vaporised self
is finally free

26-December-2022
Categories: honed, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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Thought of the day

do we secretly hope
for a benign flame to rise
ushering bliss in each pore
imbibed by us in surprise

if this be our desire
have we honed our intent
to invoke God’s grace
by granting love consent
Categories: honed, joy, love,
Form: Rhyme

Cap'N Crunch, Cereal Filler

When I was single and living alone
Cereal curbed my tummy’s moans
Eating Cap'n Crunch
Breakfast, dinner, and lunch
Was a cooking hookey I honed!


10/4/11
Received 2nd place in "Cereal Limerick" contest
Categories: honed, food,
Form: Limerick
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A Beautiful Woman

A pearl smile A jaunting daunt Eyes point check Body on point Wet lips Lusciousness Sound mind wholesome spirit Blessedness Woman honed beautiful
9/17/21 Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories: honed, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, woman,
Form: Light Verse

A Diamond Mined

Reducing a book
down to one chapter

Reducing that chapter
to a paragraph honed

Reducing that paragraph
to one lasting sentence

Reducing that sentence
 to a word
— truth atoned

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)
Categories: honed, truth,
Form: Rhyme
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Tri

He hath made The point quite Sincere never trade Your pointless trite Round former great Whose sharpened plight Remains unchanged fate Indispensable when betrayed Honed deeply serrate
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: honed, allusion, analogy, fate, fear, god, ocean, sea,
Form: Other

Rock On

Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One with
Earth Mother
Ever on call
Categories: honed, family, life, nature,
Form: Blank verse

Waste In The Fire

Trimming fat
off his soul
he searched
for the bone

With every 
new slicing
his consciousness
honed

All waste in
the fire
to sizzle
and fry

Excesses
like smoke
rise forgotten 
— incised

(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
Categories: honed, fire,
Form: Rhyme

Love In Friendship

Love in Friendship

Don’t neglect a friend,
Especially in times of difficulty
Friendship is the foundation of real love;
Giving advices and confront each other-hold the hearts together.
A love honed through friendship lasts for a lifetime!
Categories: honed, best friend,
Form: Abecedarian
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