Short Hyphens Poems

Some days are diamond, some days are diamonds
Hey wait! Somethings wrong, each man is an island
What's good for some
Some fall on their bum
For me, it's diamonds, no ifs, ands, or hyphens

(Hyphens? Well it sorta rhymes doesn't it!!!)...

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Some days are diamonds, some days are diamonds
Hey wait! Somethings wrong, each man is an island
What's good for some
Some fall on their bum
For me, it's diamonds, no ifs, ands, or hyphens

© Jack Ellison 2015


(Hyphens? Well it sorta rhymes doesn't it!!!)...

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Do not remove the hyphens.
The stars were trekking 
on foot.

All that was a mirage.
A hot rood was leading 
to a watershed.   

The wholeness splatters 
on the bank. The water,
takes all the dots and dashes.

The black tree was stark 
naked. No leaves, no fruits. 
Only the singed wood.    

You cannot make the 
matchsticks. You will have 
to rub your hands to start the fire. 


Satish Verma...

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Silence
Light is speech.    the mind
an enchanting thing
picking and choosing.
Our past becomes present
consequences.
Modesty may,might nay must
overcome envy.
Retreat propriety,
rescued by the disposition of angels
in pedantic literalism.
A distrust of merits, style &connoisseurs.
prisnmatic colours,hyphens &lines.
Nonchalance,in lieu
efforts of affection ,interacting with
apparations of splendour.
Sleep

Inspired by the works of Marianne Moore...

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the punctuation of your face
 is all to telling.
 the lifted eyebrows held as hyphens 
 the dropped tongue coma..
 the misplaced earlobed parenthesis
 
  collums from round your throat form
  the strangely pronouced emotion. 

    the semicolon half grin creates
    a harbor for vessels in the viens
    to carry strait to the heart the
    formless expressions.  

 the joy of seeing you smile 
 illimuminates me. 
 and the silence between
 us grows beautiful once more....

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