Short Metered Poems

Bright star entangled
twisting in time's cold embrace
     metered life expires...

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trochee anapest or dactyl
stressed unstressed ' syllabil'
metered rythm as you will...

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Metered fast or slow
There's a kind of poetry
In the sound of rain

The Grand Canyon is
A poem about Nature
That's writing itself
...

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about the time
i had some wine.
you had some gin.
we burped chagrin,
and we toasted metered
glee of intoxication
by intrusive manners....

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O Poetry--- 
The sensual,
The beauty,

Ahh, the weight of charm in your lips
 
Is metered
...And criticized, yet still melts sweetly 
In my soul!...

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By chance,
with providence,
the randomness in life,
metered,and free verse becomes a 
sonnet.


inspitred verse in Good samiritan prable ( Luke 6:31) and Rom 8:28...

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The thing I like 'bout poetry
       Not metaphor or simile
  
     Nor metered foot nor probity
       I like it when it smiles at me



        ~ Iambic Tetrameter ~...

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S-onnet
A-nd
R-hyme
A-re
H-aving

B-eauty
U-sing
E-xcellent
M-etered
I-ambics
A-ccordingly

Topic: Birthday of Sarah DM Buemia (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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My 
Patience
Slowly slip 
Each word spoken 
Days become hazy 
Memories wash away
Each breath carefully metered
Time cascades into a river
Currents erase stories forever
Flowing toward vast oceanic fate
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Patience 
is only
for those
who have 
time

The rest
left
to panic
jumping
the line

Sentience
metered
and charged
by the
hour

Despair
given
freely
among
—the most dour

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
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Let every man his poem treasure.
Let every girl her poem treasure.
Whether wit or want or wayward pleasure
Be met with rhyme or metered measure
Let every poem be a treasure.

(The Pessimistic Philanthropist 2012)...

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Your words
they fall silent
but your life
is a poem

Each motion
and gesture
by Heaven
are known

You rhyme
every smile
your eyes
metered guides

To love
written couplets
of joy
— from inside

(To Kathryn: March, 2025)

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With nostalgia,whimsy and wit
Into English folklore he was writ
Showing his loves & himself,without measure
His poetry became a national treasure
metered euphony,a reading pleasure


Tribute to the work of John Betjeman mentioned recently in my blogs....

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At church, young niece asked me in a blink

What mating meant with a curious wink

    “It's a  bird-and-bee's dream

      For girls who reach  sixteen”

Pined she,” that’s not what my classmates think”




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Andrea Dietrich's ONE REALLY FUNNY, 
CORRECTLY METERED LIMERICK...

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My
thoughts - as
words - sputter
as they’re eked out
from my wellspring of imagination.

Phrases become rhymed and metered lines that
start gushing as
I pump them
into 
poems.

For Micahael J. Falotico's
Where Your Poetry Comes From" 2 Tetractys only Poetry Contest...

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Our laughter is no longer 
Harassed under the strict metered 
Of syllabic counts

At a distance 
You neither hear a sound 
Nor a word

Yet whenever there is
A pandemonium, 
Be aware, you’re not in a flea market

But...in the mirthful grin 
Of their malicious lips,
Thank goodness, we’re now on our own!...

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before script
stories
before their histories
told in rhyme and verse
so early humans
can remember
as they wander
gathering plants
they eat
stories
seek
inspiration of land
of flora and fauna
of the song in the wind
they’ve come to know
of mating
before love
lives metered
shaping realities
of tribal minds...

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L-ove knows no bounds, 
Y-es, either day or night; 
Z-one of sky is limitless, 
Z-enith sets things
A-right.

L-ove knows no bounds
U-sing an infinite line; 
B-eyond measure of extension, 
R-estriction is left behind.
I-t is never confined in the metered music sounds; 
N-inth of May Tuesday, love knows no bounds....

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I hear crosswalk signals in my dreams

their constant metered pace is comforting
the command to wait always a touch too brazen

they never change though
-the signals-
they give the same tired palm reading

I take the hint and wave to cars passing by

I can’t see anything but the sun
reflecting off their tinted windshields...

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faces as old and wrinkled as their clothing
a metered gait adjusted to combined needs
gnarled hands held, as always, in support
the sun welcomes their warm-faced smiles

sounds of children in the distance amuse them
an old dog sidles up in search of a pat
the old park bench waits patiently
there is no hurry – their time - is now
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Are there degrees of spiritual freedom,
  or is its breadth just either or

Is the light metered out or self contained,
  and endless in its store

Is the origin of beauty and its pathway divined,
  beatific in its scope

Or can it be portioned, forever to share
  —granting wishes with its hope

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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TRINITY

T he Holy Spirit
R ises to the call
I nterested only in
N urturing the spirit.
I ndenturing not
T he souls of
Y our faithful, but freeing them.


Acrostic is a form where the first word or letter in each line will spell out a secondary 
message if read in sequence. Strictly metered Free Verse but can be rhymed or 
unrhymed....

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to succeed at something, anything is quite a rare feat
failure is a more common outcome, defeat, but lessons are learned
so if you want to get ahead in the world court failure


*Since nette said metered feet was alright [which are not anatomical feet]
I was hoping FEAT would be ok too since it is pronounced fEEt

Poet: Debbie Guzzi
Contest: On Your Feet...

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assiduous
spiritual voices
whisper veracious words:
faith tested
is faith strengthen…
firmed like tested muscles…
flexing mind
expands and joyful spirits
dance as mental quills
ink blood of truths…
hemorrhaging
melodic metered sounds
flowing freely from 
the sable cerebral womb:
delivering new hope
sucking leaking nipples
of undying faith…...

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rise(iamb,anapest)
    meters
TWO
TWO
    meters
            fall(trochee,dactyl)
in my poem they do sit
each the others opposite;

a foot is two syllables long,
lines of them make up my song
any such line..is fine
mono,di,tri..1,2,3
tetra,penta,hexa..4,5,6
hepta,octa..7,8
but..
if this topic still makes you yawn
just keep on with open form!...

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