Short Metres Poems

Two metres apart,
bathed in the light of the moon,
our nearest neighbour....

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in pandemic times we’re alerted
two metres space and face masks on
we all look like cowboys...

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It was a height of 250 metres,
But I wasn’t afraid;
I looked down
And there wasn’t even my shade....

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
tragic marriage laid him low
Memorable metres made him tick
fame with a patrotic trochiac...

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Gerry the giraffe,six metres tall,
greets me over his stable stall
Hello ,as a long tongue licks my face
before we take tea please say grace...

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A
pot plant,
this cycad-
now four metres 
wide
takes
living 
in its stride-
Kew's long-lasting
pride

Encephalartos altensteinii
brought to Kew in 1775 from SA,grows one inch a year....

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Reading the pointing map
Oozing sweet fumes 
Amazing natural landscape
Driving on oil and gas.

Trails of accidents
Rims here and there. 
Inscriptions old and new
'Pure Town' is just few metres.....

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Don't put your left hand in
don't shake it all about
stand 2 metres away
and mumble lyrics
from beneath the mask we
can never take off
no more space to dance
no time to stop
just is
we are this way...

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I dream 
Lush epic
Metres spry and 
Haunting with a dash of
Whimsy


Date written; 23rd Of April 2020

Date posted to contest ; 10th Of October 2022

Contest name ; 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 16

        Sponsor ; Mark Toney...

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Multitude of numbers,
  Multiply, add, divide,
    Minus, percentage, graphs,
      Metres, centimetres,
        More trigonometry,
          Merge with geometry,
   Magic of solving sums.


10.02.2020


For Joseph May's "Pleiades" poetry contest...

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GREAT NEIGHBOURS

Yesterday as the afternoon was coming to a close
The doorbell rang, it was Vanessa holding a beautiful rose,
For you I have just snipped it,
Still communicate, two metres apart seems fit,
Was touched, Vanessa and Neel’s, best neighbours, it shows!...

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Last Christmas I gave you my heart
This year I'm gonna take it back
We're told to keep two metres apart
And caught you and her in the sack.

* * *
17th December 2020

Christmas Chastushka - Rules Revised Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich...

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Life is a race .
If you want to win the race ,
Wait for right time .
In the race of life ,we don't run as we run in hundred metres race .
There is necessary to understand the actual concept of life.
We must accept the reality of life.
Life demands hardwork , sincerity, devotion toward work , sacrifice and more than them....

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*Of The Sea*

taunted torrent tamed
cremating callous crave
melting meagre sigh
hoisted horizon plies
fractured feelings fostered
moaning mystic metres

wielded waves yawned
puncturing pulpy pawn
merging masticated clown

lanky luck leers
vying voluptuous fear
felon fate peered

hoisted crunching creed's
of the sea.
      '20:04:01:18:44

Note: Of the sea....

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Where comes a tree?
a seed planted deep
into the ground of earth
from which it does leap

This then produces wood
grows many metres tall
with branches sprung out
in time its leaves do fall

The paper you write upon
is made from this wood
what would you do?
a pen alone is no good 

So next time you write
think on all of this
that little seed planted
brings you poetic bliss

poetgord@2013...

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The stick stung like scorpion
On his flesh
His face squeezes in smile
Of great pain
He scratches voilently
Trying to find some soothes

He is late to school
And he does 100 metres
All the way
All this he does only
To recieves lashes on his 
back

The teacher has turned to
Be the punisher
As she stood with a face
That is covered with  cloud 
Of anger,that scares all 
away....

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Every goddamned cake
You bake
I shall speedily take…

Not simply for its sake:
The fragile dreams it does awake!
A shimmering bluish water lake,
Where my unsafe love guesses I make;
Off tearing layers of my personal hatred, every flake
While watched from some metres by Eden’s Snake
I should be able to split into two with divine rake
 Resides, on my judgmental tongue
Your cake had never been fake!...

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Every goddamned cake
You bake
I shall speedily take…

Not simply for its sake:
The fragile dreams it does awake!
A shimmering bluish water lake,
Where my unsafe love guesses I make;
Off tearing layers of my personal hatred, every flake
While watched from some metres by Eden’s Snake
I should be able to split into two with divine rake
 Resides, on my judgmental tongue
Your cake had never been fake!...

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I saw you up ahead
By yourself
Off to the side

In the still brown winter grass

Scales tightly woven
At the tip
Releasing only halfway

The nearest pinetree
Over 100 metres away

A Squirrel surely brought
You this far and gave up

Now you will survive
Among my family
Of Lake Superior
Rocks and driftwood

Abandoned birdnests
And other found
Forest orphans

Forever

Loved


02/22/17...

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Gerry the giraffe am I
on tiptoes six metres high

In Africa I was born in the wild
& grew up there as a child

I went exploring as I was  very bold
&  now I reside in the English  Cotswold

I can easily see over my  stable stall
for it has only a ten foot wall

Everyday in my yard,I take tea
& lots of folk come to visit me

With my long tongue I lick clean my face
so some say my manners are a disgrace...

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In Siberia they drilled a hole that was deep
And they heard there a sound to keep
2000 metres into a giant air pocket
And lowered a microphone into it

What they taped was screaming 
And he wondered at the meaning
Some say it was Hell
And they thought the story was a Christian bell

But I wonder at the story
Was he making a point for glory
Or had he uncovered
A mystery that was undiscovered.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Two hearts apart;social distance
Two metres between, in this instance
A viral spark flies across the divide
A warm glow their joined souls provide

All's well in epidemic love and war
That's what men are made for
To  forever love and hold
Till the contract is torn at the fold

Under lock down other gods lose their lustre
Our social graces we muster
United within the Trinity holy and pure
Love becomes gentle and kind for sure...

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Two hearts apart;social distance
Two metres between, in this instance
A viral spark flies across the divide
A warm glow their joined souls provide

All's well in epidemic love and war
That's what men are made for
To  forever love and hold
Till the contract is torn at the fold

Under lock down other gods lose their lustre
Our social graces we muster
United within the Trinity holy and pure
Love becomes gentle and kind for sure...

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Two hearts apart;social distance
Two metres between, in this instance
A viral spark flies across the divide
A warm glow their joined souls provide

All's well in epidemic love and war
That's what men are made for
To  forever love and hold
Till the contract is torn at the fold

Under lock down other gods lose their lustre
Our social graces we muster
United within the Trinity holy and pure
Love becomes gentle and kind for sure...

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The French call it "dix" - the Romans used X
The number of lords that are leaping Xmas
The total of fingers and thumbs on both hands
The base used for metric - both metres and grams
Count hydrogen atoms in compound butane
Downing Street doorstep, our PM's domain
Legs on a lobster and all decapods
Commandments and plagues that were given by God
The number of toes on the end of our feet
The lines in this poem - that makes it all neat...

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