Short Jots Poems

I know someone who jots down short poetry.
Now she puts what she writes inside a fortune cookie.
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Drip drop, splish splat, flip flop,
tick-tock, drops like clock,
chimes click away
as ice thaws
dribble
jots
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We are born but dewdrops on the green – JOTS IN THE BOOK OF LIFE
And may weigh down our leaf and fall into the dirt – THE EARTH WAITS TO RECEIVE US
Or in time take Elijah’s invisible chariot into the heavens – AMEN...

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Candles flicker like a lover's whisper,
tickling walls with whimsical illusions,
becoming purer, becoming crisper
with cinnamon swirled laughter fusions.

3-7-2020

Reference: Warm Poetic Jots, 12-18-19
Contest: Rithimus Divisa 2
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden...

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From  her thick, littered journal
Notes of passion  burn with love
Against clangs of  dinnerware---
Till hours roam  into near morn
Her spouse digging  through  work’s pile.
Upstairs, she jots  tender  lines

Dreaming  of intimate nights .



Written for SEVENBITS Contest--Oct 3, 2017
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud...

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You Are Here red dot on map                                                                               
Where is the laughter?       					                
twenty! dots ?                                                                                                              -        For  Dr.Ram Mehta's contest Quinzaine...

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Peace plays
Sound say


Truth tells
Worth well


Hope hurls
Sweet swirls


Faith frames
Grand game


Love lives
Good gives


Joy jots
Live lots


Cheer charms
Art arms


True trips
Rest rips


Spread smiles
Sound style


Meet maze
Dream daze


Dream draft
Cheer crafts



Leon Enriquez
21 October 2017
Singapore...

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Sneak preview of things to come
Long drives in the noon day sun
Path walks 
Packing Music jots
Museum for fulfilment
Business ideas sharing
Open windows of color
Used in decor 
New housing market guide
Fill of the inside
Beds of arrangements
Finding time to bud
Tree sprigs eyes a flutter
Pictures with nature in mind
Complements of oil shine
Late dinners with great wine...

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Ferry on the river;
‘Copter in the sky.
Bicycles and scooters
(Some with bells!) all pass me by.

Joggers pound the pavement;
Walkers simply stroll.
Benches are deserted.
(Recent raindrops took a toll.)

Still, I’m out here sitting,
Checking out the scene,
Feeling not quite up or down
But somewhere in between.

As my trusty pencil
Jots each thought upon a line,
It helps record reflections
Found within this mind of mine....

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Dogwood trees are now in bloom,
jots of color in winter's gloom,
white and plum and palest pink,
against gray backdrops, out of sync.

How I love the month of March!
Like silk opposed to winter's starch.
Robins bounce across the grass,
a sign, for sure, that winter's passed.

The winds of March soon sweep away
all that's dull and brown and gray.
A child of March, I feel reborn,
as Spring flies in, on Marchwind's-borne.


©Danielle White...

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In sullen silence
darkness looms my thoughts
writhe with your absence.

My eternal grief.

A maze existence
till heartens soul rots,
ill vex incumbrance.

Longing your essence,
lumbering time jots
muffle remembrance.

My eternal grief.

2/13/2019

Poetry Contest: Writing Challenge, Feb 2019, Roundel Form
Sponsored by: Dear Heart

incumbrance
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/incumbrance
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome...

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Ignoble though our dawn of days,
yet intoned is worthy praise
of legion minds whose reasoned grasp
has ever roared at starry heaven’s
distant vault—Omniscience’
mighty pillars to confound.

Yet I hesitate and wonder,
if we alone proud mantle don
to reason and opine,
or whether listens now
on curved space’
strange and distant shore
an ancient, brooding mind
who jots it all on pages
of a tiny book it is
writing about us.

Seventh place in the Let's Get Technical Contest...

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