Short Likened Poems

The preacher likened to a bird of prey 
Snatches the souls from fire and darkened way....

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My soul is likened to the desert
     your encouraging words
              gave me water...

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scattered thoughts rage on without no direction are likened to~the wind









Alexis Y.
12-27-2020...

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A passionate kiss can be likened to the fourth of July daily.





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08-18-16...

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He likened death to sleep
Safe in God's memory keep
While those without hope weep






2/11/2020
F F I series 72 tercet
Brian Strand, sponsor...

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There is a President, Donald Trump
Thought to have the U.S. stumped
All his policies
Sorry, his follies
Likened to cancer tumours clumped...

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We often experience life
Likened unto a basket of Peaches;
One day life is colorful, warm, and fuzzy.
Then later we find ourselves wrinkled,
And just the pits!...

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How lovely you look
in that perfect dress you chose
rosy lips, in pout 
lit smile likened to love's dawn
that would be heart's best day won
were it my hand that held yours...

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the  soul  of  beautiful  person is  likened to a flower-a rose
to  see rose bloom is  to  see the birth of flower
i see your face in the rose face in the rose for the first time...

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Limericks are mighty fine
Likened to aged great fine wine
Some sweet, some bawdy
Some down right naughty
Secrets found in this short line  

Just for fun!!!...

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WINGS OF WONDER

cool wings of blackbirds
likened to blue angel jets
spectators wonder
a shadow that soars beneath
a cloud that exhilarates

7/17/2017
tanka form...

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Love likened strikes as quick as a viper;
Therewith love's pulse billions grow more so fools.
Love - accurate as a military sniper.
There's fools of unthawed hearts; Than there's love's fools....

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I must be nutty as a fruitcake
      for attending my sister's
         'pre-marital wake'

   Sis likened marriage to 'slow death'
   She didn't want to run out of breath

      So I served her Arsenic 'n Rum in her steak...

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When the hairs are done 
Singing the years 
Total sum
Grey with the journey
Filled with wisdom
Stored sharing
Looking upon
Mistakes of children
In likened halls gone 
Standing to lend 
Strengths mellowing 
Casting
Smooth sailing...

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fresh rain drops return                                                                                      
likened to life’s gift flows                                                                                    
flowering the hills...

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Reflections on a window
Likened images that mirror the yawning morn

Etched in solitude
Always shifting at the hands of time

Perpetually racing the suns arc

Painting chaotic kaleidoscopes at its zenith
To peeling away layers at dusk

Where upon a silhouette of moon beams
That dances in silence
Along its inflected soul...

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M-an's life is too short, 
A-s it's likened to a vapor; 
R-emain worthy before God, 
Y-ou will receive sacred favor.

R-eap what you have planted, 
O-n the twenty-ninth of June; 
S-ow the seeds of love, 
E-ach must be in tune.

R-efrain from doing evil, 
E-vade the endless sorrow; 
Y-ou will harvest the fruits of
E-very seed you
S-ow....

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Oh that such a PARAGON would appear
As one unexplained REVELATION only for me
Of the purist PULCHRITRUDE I can see
BLAZING toward me from one so dear
And having someone ADORE you this much
Is likened to avoiding a sinking of the EIGHT ball
Though it is somewhat of a DISCOMFORT should it fall
There's no denying CHARISMA laced with a magical touch



29 July 2018...

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The chaotic sounds of 
a conflicted emerging thought
pushed and pulled 
Impending anguish is wrought
Words jigsaw a
jagged puzzle
Likened a bursting hose with 
A busted nozzle
Firing out in a rushed frenzy
No time for sorting beginning from ending
Hoping to re-ingest 
as it spews out a flurried mess
Too late as it flows past cheeks
Knowing instantly the havoc it reeks ......

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Life can be likened to a big classroom,
Sometimes it takes years to pass the test.
Each failed test one is filled with gloom,
Life can be likened to a big classroom.
Babes are taught things while still in womb,
In this journey of life, one must do their best.
Life can be likened to a big classroom,
Sometimes it takes years to pass the test.

 






Alexis Y.
08/02/2021...

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Once the gentle panther was loved by all
save dragon, the Devil, who hid in fear.
Believed to be good it held all in thrall
likened to the life of Christ held so dear
for rising after three days’ rest to call,
roaring so loud and sweet none failed to hear.
But wild, they follow to a fatal maul
with a sleek panther of face so frightening,
hidden from prey then killed like lightning....

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Trump's newly-appointed EPA Chief
Found himself buried in EPA grief

To prove he was no party-pooper
He likened Trump to a Giant Grouper

Swimming against an almighty current
Where even the sharks were no deterrent

"Forget the  'U' and immigrant no-hoper!
I'll rename that fish, "The Slippery Groper"!

Well,  Congress agreed to just let it pass
That's God's honest truth, you bet your wrasse!...

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May the narrative of your life
     be one likened to the torrents
    of a creek surging eagerly
   against the rocks and boulders,
  bubbling, gurgling, splashing
 down the slopes - - 
so gleefully!


      May it not be a woeful account
     of many what-might-have-beens
    shrouded in sorry, sordid tales
   of last-minute, scared hesitations,
  of wasted, untaken opportunities
 now remembered - - 
so ruefully....

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She walks swaying hers hips
Propelled by the heeled shoes
Sound from the walk likened to a cat
Causing a stare, all eyes on her
Sisi Eko!! on the stage

Lipstick sticking like smudge
Eyelashes and makeup, rainbow 
colours running riot.

Seduction art form, appearances 
For the highest bidder.
Sisi Eko on the stage where she
Exhales the most.
Sisi Eko  on the  rampage holding
Sway.
(Written on the 9th of June, 2015)...

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A bygone thought
It comes back to
Inspire
It arouses my need
to create and to be
creative
Squatting to do the
Chores of shorter
People
Stretching to do the
work of taller folk
thinking to labor
with scholars
Under thought just to
Understand
resistance training
to bulk up
Feeding the muscle
For endurance
a thought contested
My logic
In the creation of flavor
Might I fine satisfied

Likeded or likened too?exercise...

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