Short Long And The Short Of It Poems

There are long poems and short poems,
Guess which one this is....

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long nights and short days
uplifting songs of His praise….
happy holidays...

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Love is golden
And so are the flits of the flutes
Long wobbles and short darts
Together tell a story
I cannot put into words...

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Living musicians compose
      
     Dead musicians decompose



    The title is Latin for:
   'Art is long; life is short'...

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When winter's too long, we long to say 'So Long' 
                                                             ~ so Spring can come along...

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A girl always knows that she could
But may question whether she should
The long and the short
May often cavort
Because we all know Hollywood!...

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death must be easy, cause life is hard
life is long but, deaths short

time is a number but, age is a plus
age equals experience, time subtracts a sum...

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Happy birthday, Sister Anna, 
This type comes from Japanese court; 
The lovely lines penned in choka 
Are sometimes long, and sometimes short. 

Topic: Birthday of Anna P. Bero-an (March 19)...

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Ted Smith was a very tall guy
His girlfriend, a mere four feet high.
But love went astray,
Ted called it a day;
They just couldn't see eye to eye!


02/07/19

Bite Size Poem #35 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Read Many More Horn Limerick

What will life be worth living for?
There is a beginning of each shore
Even if a long or a short riddle
Every one of them must have a middle
My poems don't deplore and read many more.

Jim Horn...

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EVENTS OF LIFE
  

       Long past with short future in last phase,
       Life tries to glance on the bygone days.
       Millions of events all disarranged
       Distant memories too mismanaged.


  01/15/20

  
 Bite size poemNo.14

 Contest by Line Gauthier...

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Charity climbs to the mountain top
She is strong, she won't stop
Her goal is to worship her God
To offer plentiful praises and to keep raising up from the sod
Long hair and short legs
Somewhat round, but mostly square pegs

Echo sings her chorus
For us
Her voice a gift
A lift
Onto heaven...

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The Sabbath comes in so soon
  Unlike lazy Fridays in June
A light lunch, say grace, turn around
  The sun on it's way out of town

A long night is a gift for sleeping  
  Sabbath rest, all of us keeping
But once again, short is the day
  Synagogue, meal and snooze ~
           ~ Goodbye, Saturday...

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One long ring; that is for me
One long and one short, Mrs. McGee

Two long rings for the farmer Scholl
As the phone would ring a distinctive toll

Down the road on a line of eight
As the bell would ring we all would wait

One would answer; three would listen in
That is the way it was on a party line back then...

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Infallible one born among the weeds
He heeds the call arrested
Some declare another one the clarion
Yet one within attests to truth forever

Time for tares to dominate a conversation
Truth the test evades the seed hopper
Time the tool for cultivating iterations
Long in passing, short in eternity...

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Poetry is more than words,
  some is written—some is heard

Often long—yet sometimes short,
  its power shared in strong retort

 Questions cry—demanding verse,
 with feelings new, still unrehearsed

Its focus like a laser aims,
  at souls that search—time and again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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It all comes down to this:
The female is prized 
By the male of the species
For her sexual allure
And her ability to nurture.
The male is prized 
By the female of the species
For his protective strength 
And his ability to provide.
That’s the long and the short of it.
If they can make each other laugh,
That’s most certainly a bonus....

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You Write,you write
You write,you write till the words become a poem.
Long verse or short stories 
You write,you write.
Maybe a song or a love letter to those that read.
You write you write it must be a joy.
To see the words you wrote in a contest to be judged.
You win a few you lose a few. 
But you write you write till the ink runs out....

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The joyous song and dance man

--- deceased and buried in the 1980s ---

suddenly now on the tv screen

in one of his old movies,

tripping "the light fantastic"

across the tap dance limelight stage.

Ars longo, vita brevis.*



A Latin translation of Hippocrates' aphorism from its original Greek, often translated as meaning "Art is long, life is short"....

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Glacial blue dawn;
Slender pink whiskers of warmth
touch frozen ruins

Icebergs sailing by
scatter rubble in their wake;
Sharp winds cleave hard rock

Jagged shards melting
slowly in shallow sunbeams;
Chill pebble strewn pools

Icy continents; 
Light glancing on still waters
mirrors frosted skies

Long days and short nights; 
Winter rules this citadel
in crisp white mantle...

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the floor is a light with all these crazy dancing shoes tonight 
oh the crazy  reds,whites,glitters ones,the rainbows delights 
the shoes of the dancing night

tips and taps long strides the short kicks 
to the sexy dancing mix

oh how i love this dancing kiss 

put on your dancing shoes and dance the blues and smile the night away


the night walker

20th dec 2014...

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Life is very fragile,
like an exquisite flower,
it blooms with glorious delight.

It’s fragrance spreads
to all those who are near.
It’s aroma drifts to all those in sight.

Life too is very sweet,
and also very short-
It only lasts for a day.

Life’s long day, though short
is filled with goodness, mercy, and grace.
And God Himself is with us
every step of the way....

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ideas
   random  thoughts

pick up a pen
stylo
    what you will

compose

write

those random
           thoughts
long lines or short

one after the other
after the other
after the other
after the other
then stop at the end

what form is this 
I wonder

pick free verse
    I  suppose

and send

   well really

its prose

but  who cares? who knows!...

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What is the value
of faith without doubt
Love without hatred,
peace without routs

What is the meaning
of joy without pain
Words without silence,
sun without rain

Into the middle 
both sides fall within
Dimension redundant,
all endings begin

The yin and the yang
the long and the short
When hands clasp together
—right left to import

(The New Room: December, 2021)...

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What is a poem,
be it long or then short

When in service to others,
to agree and consort

And be it objective,
to run with the pack

Its identity loosened,
its rope to go slack

What is a poem,
when written to please

Each word second-guessed,
each phrase to appease

The critic, the pundit,
the dilettante sure

Your blood for their letting 
—your words but a score

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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