Short Hundred Poems

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A Poet

A Poet        

                       A poet dies a hundred deaths

                       A poem is the executioner
Form: Verse


May

May a hundred lantern will enlighten
You. Yours.
A lifetime with a sublimation, You
May your sky enlighten me. Within.

Grandma

Grandma, the tortoise,
lived hundred forty one years
she witnessed many
animals generations
died at the San Diego Zoo
Form: Tanka

Sharing a Volume

"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read.
Form: Tanka

Sharing a Volume

"Crime and Punishment"
lies open upon his lap.
A fly alights page
two hundred seventy three
and both continue to read.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas
Star of Spartacus.
An excellent actor and movie star was he.
He lived to be one hundred and three.

5/11/21
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member American Pharoah

American Pharoah,
swift as an arrow.
First triple crown winner to date,
since nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.

7/1/15
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member A Hundred Miles

my weary trudge along a hundred miles
       through rugged roads lead my steps~
             to a closed iron gate
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Please Love Him

She wanted to love 
One hundred percent all in
She found his goodness
She explained him to others
Many tried to love him too
Form: Tanka

The Best Snow Day Ever

Crashing salt trucks 
A brief reprieve from the cold
But not from the other
Unwanted warmth of
A hundred score burning bodies

Premium Member Loving Pinterest

Pinterest makes me feel happy.
Keeps me interested and fine.
I have over one hundred boards.
Finding Pinterest was a goldmine.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Half His Lunch

If You have only a hundred dollars
Doubling that isn't so much.
But if you give it to a Broker
You just bought half his lunch.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Childrens Blizzard of 1888

Children’s’ blizzard of 1888
January 12th was actual date
Grim reaper busy
Turmoil tizzy
Two hundred children met a death fate

Joyous Wings

Angels
rejoice
more
for one healed
sinner
than for
a hundred
who
haven’t
— sinned

(1st Book Of Prayers: July, 2024)

She Gave All

One hundred percent she gave Nothing left for her now Taking it all, did we
For Contest: "Senryu for Mom"
Form: Senryu

Premium Member We Keep the Thermostat Too Cold

our house is on freeze
a hundred degrees outside
I need a blanket 
I got outside to warm up
Fall asleep in the sun
with the cat

Premium Member Fire

the world is on fire
Its people are starving 
the virus will kill
three hundred thousand soon 
so 
we fire a rocket to the moon

Thirteen Dollars

We scrounged up
Every penny we could
The night the policemen took you.
We had thirteen dollars
For your five hundred dollar bail.
© Sun Lee  Create an image from this poem.

Old Tree and Happiness

a hundred year
blinds covered
in dusty
of the bathroom
exactly
cutting across
on a sunny afternoon
with the space between them.

Premium Member Biden's Hymn

Caught in this web of lies
where volume may the truth disguise
will Union o’er two hundred years fail
can reason over rant prevail?
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Damn - For Lanterne Frenzy

Damn

Dam -
it was
supposed to last
one hundred years.
Damn!


10/8/2016


submitted to – Lanterne Frenzy – Poetry Contest
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Bike Haiku

two hundred riders
tour de France
all ride for yellow

Written on 3rd October 2018

For bike contest sponsored by Maureen McGreavy
Form: Haiku

Untitled #214 / Affirmative Action

He had worked hard all his life, but
he was denied admission
because the other guy was ten points dumber
but a hundred points blacker

100 Poems

one hundred poems
later,

not one preserved.

some words
are written for
one
heart only.

a year of pain and longing.

(1978)

Premium Member Kansas Climate

Kansas used to be brown and dry
She is green with fluffy trees now
She used to be hot in August
Now she is at a hundred degrees in May

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