Short Participants Poems

When mankind fights

It's not only the participants that bruise...

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Love is a game
     played for keeps

   However it ends
     participants weep...

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participating
eighteen haiku writers failed
to read all the rules...

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The only victims of any act of civil disobedience,
are its participants and any of its crossfire innocents....

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In Alaska they make crazy weddings
Participants endure some rough sledding
   Bride and groom pledge to be true
   In a large, freezing igloo
Consummation requires extra bedding...

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An indescriptible emotion surrounded me 
when I read all 50 poems.
My congratulations and respect to all poets who
submitted their excellent poems.










Nayda Ivette
9-29-2015...

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Love
Embrace
All that is
Everything
More as it grows deep
Into the soul of both
Involved till eternity
Evolving into passionate
Flashes of ecstasy transferring
Both participants beyond mortal bliss...

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No mystery is Love
for those who love

once found dearly cherished

no jewel worth its loss

no perilous travel can deter
Love's cross

a mile away
can seem a universe
of distance

Love needing only, deeply caring,
sharing~ faithful participants --...

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A shrivelled presence. 
A mere shadow. 
Curled tightly in 
foetal submission 
unconscious tae owr 
subconscious fears. 
Eyes dart back 
an fourth amongst 
the participants in 
this ritual of ruination. 
Never lingering though 
fir fear of also 
being snared in 
the abyss's gaze....

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In seminar, speaker wondered why the participants 
changing seats from first row to backseat; are they mischievous?
Thinking what reason is; none told, why shifting?
Cause while talking saliva he's spitting;
This action called 'sialoquent', at times it's ridiculous.
...

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Seems a randy young man joined a zoom
with his camera turned off, he presumed;
his bottle of lotion
caused such a commotion,
the participants all left the room.

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Yup, yesterday's twitter - I'll leave the link off that one. Could have been a Florida man, but that's unconfirmed :-)...

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The object I hold is a dream 
Some people hate it and scream 

Their being a hypocrite in humanity 
The participants in the insanity 

I refuse to believe its the real red and blue
It depicts hatred from the likes of you 

My ambition is to square up 
It took an amount of sobriety 
To finish up...

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I am intolerant of people who make a meeting last two extra hours.
Asking inane questions that pertain to only them.
And of the leaders of the meeting who allow them to take over.
Commandeering the rest of us.
Some think I am rude when I leave at the scheduled time.
Half of the other participants follow me out....

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H
O
L
I
D
Awesome memories formed of Great Aunt Elvira’s funny stories, and us hooting with laughter again.
Y 

P
All participants forming new memories, hoping to hear Great Aunt Elvira’s laugh again next year.
R
T
Y



Written 12-06-2020
Contest: Acrostic Play 2 Holiday Version
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues...

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Stage is set

Participants in place

A wolf moon smiles

Bright stars palpitate


Roses in a garden

Lovers sitting on a bench

Hand sending messages

Lips kissing to undress


Bodies on fire

Temperature’s hot

A voice sweetly caressing

Baby don’t stop


Owl hoots Whoo Whoo

Squirrel’s a little bit shy

Scenes of Spring magic

On the screens of our lives...

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Look,
listen,
learn.
What’s going
on?
Writhing
existence.
Organic world
mixing 
coalescing
on all
levels.
Civilization,
humanity,
genetic confusion.
The experiment 
turned on.
Seer watching 
no interference 
but wondering.
We but
unwitting 
participants.
Endgame 
Unknown.
Writhing, 
coalescing 
genetic blob
growing,
expanding,
to where?
Undetermined!
Seer observing.
Nothing more....

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In truth we have but played a game 
To which is given no real name 
We drunken participants grow more sane 

Last night our passions were as dire 
As hell's unholy fork-tongued fire 
This morning we are lame 

For truth lies beyond the meat 
Beyond our flesh, our blood and bone 
To something that's more permanent 
And more ageless than stone 

To this I beg of no regret 
That I may love another yet...

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#Icicle Castles and the Residents inside:
Meet the PADLOCKS, RESIDENTS and the POTENTIALS...

They are locked inside, as time goes by, and all they had to do, was make a BREAKTHROUGH...However, NO ONE WANTED TO BE THE "ICEBREAKER"

Except the Sun MELTED the Castle!
A current Hassle for the Padlocks, (Participants) and Potentials???

Let's Hope They Find New Land...

With The Exclusion Of SAND.

©Renee D. Gross   3/28/2018#...

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Love is the greatest motivator,
It can make a dying person feel well
again, or sad hearts feel as if they are on
the mend,

Love brings out the best in even the
most cynical of souls, it wages an endless
quest to make its captors happy,

It has no shame,
It will make its participants
mushy and sappy,

The fuel of love instigates wrath,
jealousy and lust, but the greatest
emotions that true love bring are
security and trust....

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Love is the greatest motivator,
It can make a dying person feel well
again, or sad hearts feel as if they are on
the mend,

Love brings out the best in even the
most cynical of souls, it wages an endless
quest to make its captors happy,

It has no shame,
It will make its participants
mushy and sappy,

The fuel of love instigates wrath,
jealousy and lust, but the greatest
emotions that true love bring are
security and trust....

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EUPHORIA

her words initiate a sensational scent - participants
        revel and relate. the classroom’s succulent infusion
            follows the neophyte teacher to her car. the stimulant
            on the gas, the steering like a Caribbean high. her spirit
         like a tango partner - swirling, dipping, and like a coaster -
rolling, twisting. the idyllic, breathtaking rush of endorphins.

2/12/2019
Capture That Emotion Poetry contest
Nina Parmenter...

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(As I saw people participating in the March Contest, I decided to make my non-participation as if it were a joke. I just don't have the patience to count syllables and I commend the painstaking and strenuous work of the participants in this contest, of course.)


If I only knew what to do with this March guy,
things wouldn't be in this uncomfortable stand by.
I would surely address the entire nation
establishing a monthly holiday and free drink on the declaration....

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THE NEW YEAR – LIFE RACE


A  NEW RACE BEGAN  

AT THE STROKE OF TWELEVE

ALL HEARTS WERE AT   HOPE

THINKING THE FORTUNES AND WOES

THREE SIXTY FIVE METER  CONTEST

PARTICIPANTS UNFATHOMABLE


SOME ARE SWIFT SOME ARE SOFT 

SOME ARE PRUDENT SOME ARE WOOLY

SOME ARE EASE SOME ARE RUFFLED

THE FIRST EVENT OF THE YEAR


FEW STARTED GRADUALLY

OTHERS ENTHUSED RAPIDLY

EVERYONE WAS EXPLORING

THE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN WORLD

IT’S A LONG GROUNDING

FOR A SHORT EXPEDITION.

S.BAGYALAKSHMI...

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The consistency of mystery
Drenched in it's simplicity 
Wrought with what would seem to be
To our participants complacency 
For a golden opportunity 
A trick our minds eye think they see
If not thought through quite logically
A flim-flam conjured carefully
Too easy to take willingly
For those grasping at something free
Fruit hanging low on fabled tree
So true it is too good to be
To test human morality
When seeking answers desperately 
In a place that's not quite fair....

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                      ...Ding
          "you have three minutes"
             uttered the promoter

           Ourn eyne were fixed to
                   Each's others
                 whilst it seemed 
                  in slow motion 
her soft mitts dropped each hern queries
         and reached for mine dukes

                         Ding

        "that means switch table two"

  "I don't think they are here" chuckled 
            one uv the participants... 
...

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