Short Panache Poems

Boom best
Feel fest
Zoom zest


Prime poise
Clear choice
Nice noise


Free flow
Glimpse glow
Kind know




Leon Enriquez
17 August 2017
Singapore...

Read More

While mind,
Wandering far,
Waking sleeping panache,
Springing wisdom buds danced in glee,
Muse born..
Melting mute melancholy souls,
Bringing life emotions,
Healing lone hearts,
Lived long.....

Read More

Ice cream cones
Brain freeze hones


Taste the cold
Feel takes hold


Lime panache
In a dash


Taste fond treat
On these streets


Frolic tells
Sale and spell


Ice cream charm
In cold palms




Leon Enriquez
20 March 2017
Singapore...

Read More

It Doesn't take much to be nice,
Or say have a Great Day and Smile.
We can all write some crap.
Any time day or night.
Thus, better with panache,
shining star bright.
Step through the looking glass
to shed each new light.
It Doesn't take much
Just To Be Nice....

Read More

     "ROBERT GOULET"



Robert Gerard Goulet'
Singing love songs 'twas his forte'
As Lancelot wore ornamental panache'
Kissed several Guinevere's with sexy mustache.

*panache' - helmet



*For Nathan's Yesterday's  Clerihew Contest.
*Sept. 24, 2012. ...

Read More

Mimesis Master
 
Reality’s mirror
Erich Auerbach
Manifest vision 
Literature’s reality true.

Stylistic panache
Presignification
Mingling of literary styles 
All good in reality’s view.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
April 8, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...

Read More

A gentle breeze can't help but please
When do-si-do-ing through the trees.
It moves the air (to who knows where)
With grace, panache, elan and flair.

When I can sit a little bit
And bask within the realm of it
I feel delight and that just might
Inspire me to start to write....

Read More

I know some may
prefer the way
  of folks direct, up front

Some love panache
forthright and brash,
  outspoken as you want

Some may prefer 
the crash and blur   
  of histrionics bolder 

But as for me 
I'd rather be   
  tapped gently on the shoulder


Written 13 June 2022...

Read More

What srubs a soap rub with panache
And stops cleansing acts that won't wash?
For Lady Macbeth
Having planned Duncan's death
Great guilt hands her plans the kibosh

(Another classic example of undoing is the cheating husband who comes home with flowers 
for his wife after the fact.  It doesn't wash off)...

Read More

Oops, oh my gosh
It was an accident, I swear
Never had much panache
That's why your green glass plate
Is on the floor; it's everywhere
But the crash was first-rate
Shards shattering
A sharp glassy sea
Light bounced off, scattering
But don't blame me
It was breathtaking
The fault of gravity
I'm sorry...

Read More

She’s a poet with no name
A pseudonym her claim to fame.
Without sight she moves countless hearts
When with passion and panache
dusts off her mind, 
Swamps the world with allegory
And tells it as it is and when
She touches the joy on cherished lips
Feels the warmth of our smile.

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

Read More

The cover read "Just Dusty."
That depends on your view
Her jazzy dusky voice
Was bluesy lusty hues.
A lady with such a style
Her panache led the mood.
In the wide open space yonder
On cruising altitude.
And now I've grown fonder
Have loved her so true.
She's  much more than "just Dusty."
From the lens, I see Through....

Read More

Farquhar, a posh name
That's what it sounds like to me
Lords and other Nobles
Would grace this family tree

You can't help saying it
With much pride and panache
It certainly bodes better
Than Brown or Smith or Nash

I could go on forever
Quoting superlatives galore
I first saw this impressive name
Over a Scotsman's shop door!...

Read More

Laugh lots
Taste thought


Glimpse grand
Spice stand


Time trip
Good grip


Prize play
Sweet stay


List fate
Dream date


Stern say
Rich rays 


Word way
Spice say


Love lifts
Grand gift


Verse voice
Craft choice


Note now
Hurl how


Taut times
Rich rhymes




Leon Enriquez
18 March 2019
Singapore...

Read More

I love a man who’s rash
and who carries lots of cash.
If he has a little flash
that only adds to his panache. 

I dug into my stash
to provide a birthday bash
for my caballero with his sash
who really made a splash.


My dreams have turned to ash
when my lover made a dash
and took off with my antique Nash.
My heart can’t survive the gash....

Read More

Mina Verbena is selling her herbs
in a cart that she sets in the road by the curb.
If you’ve got some spare change, then she’s got some thyme,
or a nice bit of parsley, for only a dime.

Mina Verbena grew up in the ‘burbs,
a seasoned young seller with plenty of verve.
Her herbs are enticing, with spice and panache;
to sample her flavors, she favors hard cash....

Read More

Enclosure of the Moon 
capturing cosmic glass;
The stars swirl around it;
An abysmal swallow;
Dreams drawn like a magnet;

Enclosure of the Moon, 
transmissible panache;
Tumbleweeds on the wind
so the dark sky shimmers;
Taking everything in; 

Enclosure of the Moon 
reveries wrap around
with a fiery whimper;
Hoping a wish will catch 
celestial tinder....

Read More

Watch how love styles
Grace wears a smile


Poise knows clear choice
In fitting voice


Watch cheer now glow
Trust knows deep flow


Faith knows just how
Hope beams right now


Watch word play craft
Verse in prompt draft


Panache works best
The way of zest


Watch what you say
As time fits play




Leon Enriquez
08 April 2017
Singapore...

Read More

Strode the red with a somewhat elegant stance.
Posture strut, apparel of a musketeer from France.
Outstanding panache surely caught the glance
Of the staring virgins, of the glaring aunts.
Flipped the cattle into a ga ga trance....
Did I make a wrong landing, by the faintest chance?
For the ga ga now seemed  more like a look of askance.
Clearly, I was an optical nuance....

Read More

I still love you
Buried six foot under
Life no more
Risking my heart
Everything, I have ever known!
Letting you go
Eighteen years of panache and tears
‘Loyalty’ because 

‘I Still Love You’

At a cross roads
Changes of initiation
Giving in, risking all
Trading this pain in
Making my heart whole
Know by saying goodbye
And, letting you go
Know, for an eternity

‘I Still Love You’...

Read More

Feel fest show
A certain flow


Watch touch fling
A happy thing


Sense deep style
In charming smile


Word each rhyme
In touching times


Dare to be
How your soul sees


Seize true good
Live steady mood


Walk your way
Dwell well each day


Live to tell
Just how love dwells


Joy funds ease
In this life lease




Leon Enriquez
29 November 2018
Singapore...

Read More

Listen to poem:

in a world of information overload
it's refreshing to be succinct
in a few words to pass a message so punchy
that it gives one cause for a pause

in a world where time is at a premium
it's appreciated to be respected
to share what one has to say with panache
and every word striking its mark

being sold on the notion that less is more



AP: 1st place 2022

Posted on December 14, 2022...

Read More

Oh boy, have you got style
You stand out by a mile
From the others who can only try
To ape the way you tie your tie
When they want to impress
The individuality in their dress
Your easy manner
And charming smile
Impeccable taste
All add to beguile
You always manage
To cut a dash
All sprinkled with humour
With heaps of panache
You have so much presence
It would make a pile
Oh Boy, Mister
You've got style...

Read More

Dampened earth announces its worth
with rotting leaves, moss on trees.
Dew’s panache from morning’s wash
mystic glow with sighing sough.

Senses heightened and enlightened.
Hare bides hole, fidgeting mole; 
musky muskrats, batting bats;
sweet sugar canes, berry stains.

Nature feeds our feral needs.
Nature clears our eyes and ears.
Nature hones sensitive nose.
Nature touches - grand duchess....

Read More

Look into my hands,
What do they tell you?
Can you decipher? Can you understand
Why they are tinted Black & Blue?

These Hands have fought
Against Life's malicious onslaught
Sailed through the very worst
On Life's savage tempest

Yet for fear of 'breaking character'
Sorrow must be masked with laughter
And pain covered with panache instead
While these Hands silently bleed several shades of red...

Welcome to my heart...

#BlueRain
2017...

Read More