Short Paltry Poems

paltry
on a tiny Island....
earth.

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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One hour on Sunday
Is a paltry price to pay
For all that we have...

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Not paltry or chicken it’s where we sup, if I may sing for my soup...

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"THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD," unquote,
BUT NOT IF PALTRY WORDS IGNORED....

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She holds her memories 
the most        infrequent 
paltry mists        of past 
liaisons               stormy 
strife from   deep within
©2016...

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Those that believe might is right
   Are itching on paltry issues to fight

           Show them in the mirror of gone by times
The perished Cyrus and Caesar’s might...

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Giants and grandeur, the paltry cannot bear
In their defamation, they will write and repair
Atop the high horse, they brag and blare
But end up lackeys stripped of flair!...

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I have become ash
Decayed for decades
What happened?
To my lithe thoughts
And deft digits

That could churn
Heaviness into brevity
And paltry pursuits
Into wee nuances...

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Òpression of the pauper poor,
By Class distinctions paltry whore,
The would be super-rich,
Step on the downtrodden quick,
Think they are better for,
Pathetic is their pitch.

Don Johnson...

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A midst the frenzy of the modern day
L ingers the man who goes upon his merry way
O nly beauty calls him to be true and wise
N o paltry goods force him to sacrifice
E re his own oath he won’t be tempted to betray....

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I don’t like much poetry,
as I dislike most modern art,
there is too much fakery, even here,
in these paltry words, the effort
not living up to standards
I set for myself and others, unfairly,
but still bothersome....

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A lady who entered a nudity contest 
complained the fee was in excess
of her paltry means. To an all male jury
she pleaded: Gentlemen, as you can see
I lack the monetary essentials
but not the bare credentials!...

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Politicians
Tom’s Take
11/6/2021

Paltry
Opinionated
Litigators
Insider Traders
Term Limit Avoidance 
Instigators
Corrupt
Irresponsible
Argumentative
Nasty Temperaments
Self Centered

All are some
Some are all...

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Listen to poem:

A mere mortal
I am to AI.
A demi tasse slurp,
a tiny thought bubble,
blowing in the wind,
pieced to pop with puny plunk,
just a pip spat out.
My brain drained to a pitiful 
paltry piddle, into
the insatiable sea 
of AI's knowledge bank....

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Their expansive views, high-rode with
Of itself, a world inform.
Calm looked on genius of flight;
Jolted about in a storm!

"Hello down there" faerie-obscure
To whom by shops interact.
Trivial, paltry possessors of life;
And oh so matter-of-fact....

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So tiny, so paltry small
Smiling towards the sun
In chorus with them all
One seed of life begun
To join a waving sea
Of fluent amber grain
Makes the bread for me
That I may dine again
Thanks to the sunshine
And nature for our needs
That again we will dine
From those tiny paltry seeds...

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You are the beautiful antique room, 
half-open, decayed by light and familiar gazes.
Lace curtained windows, like eyes that see only the past, 
you offer wistful, paltry promises of enclosure, 
but as the wind whispers through the cracks in your walls, 
you are too cold to offer life....

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Your smile to
me is sunlight. I want to be
in your light, breathing in your presence like a
disciple; I will lay a flower
on the altar of your heart. It is
a paltry offering for so profound
a love. I am made weak by you; you must claim responsibility.




Inspired by Emily Dickinson...

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She Means Everything Horn Limerick

To me, everything she surely means;
Beauty queen you see in a movie scene;
She is of sound body and so energetic;
Husband is paltry as well as pathetic;
Is friends with many health food fiends.

See how many chuckles this gets out
of my wife.

Jim Horn...

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My imagination ran shamelessly amok last night
While I slumbered in beaded sweat, askance that I would
Be peddling ornate coffins to the absurdly rich, then
Second handing them to poorer souls for paltry profit.


Four lines from Dream Macabre
Submitted to Liberum Divisa 4 Contest
February 17, 2021...

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I, of infinity, I grasp
the reins of the foul
breathed beast.
The dragon of
our paltry mountain,
the specter who judges
our endless diversion.
And from the colorless
echoes of the void, I,
of infinity, watch
as the cloud grows.
The cloud that will
devour you
and your dragon
and your mountain
and your souls....

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In a mask he would rarely be seen
Now Trumpty's got Covid Nineteen
I trust that neat bleach
Is within arm's reach
Or maybe my tweetment is mean!

My poem is a paltry effort compared to the string of poems by Jenna Logan

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/it_was_never_a_hoax_1292220

10/03/20...

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You eradicated my heart with your crooked ways 
Everything I see now is a mist haze 
You fukked with my head, messed with my mind 
Fukked with my emotions, and left me behind 
Well fukk you and you paltry heart 
I feel equivocal now we’re apart 
You infringed my mind and now I feel bleak 
You are detrimental and that’s why I’m weak...

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Drama burns rage
On edgy face;
An empty stage
In an odd trace.


Sad broken fit
In denial clear;
A paltry wit
In clutch of fear.


An oozing toss
In touchy takes;
Dare confront loss
In lapsing makes.


Feel how you feel
Dear drama queen;
Time does not heal
Dementia seen.




Leon Enriquez
28 November 2017
Singapore...

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awaken in the vine
casting lot for a pick
for a gracious luck
scattered on spiky pines
of roses, of tulip, and of more 

pick a lock of hearts
of deuces stack
shuffling decks of paltry picks
when only aces counts 

piece by piece
settling in for the race
a stag in a horse race
hampered and broken
an adventure of cascading dreams.....

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