Short Postcards Poems

writing postcards
volcanoes spewing



posted on March 4, 2021...

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The days of the year,
But one too dear,
I send you postcards,
Cherish,retain like cud,
Because inside's my heart....

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a
collage
of postcards-
posted white on
white

Trbiute to Ben Nicholson

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=10677...

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postcards
tattered relics
soft paragraphs wailing
faint memoirs languishingly dampened...
boneless


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The Primeminister's gone on tour again.
He's going where I have dreamed.
To wait for him through postcards
much more than I esteemed.

The cost I'm too through budget
much high above my wage.
To take the time to travel
has left me home in rage....

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Postcards~
tattered, old, creased;
Chiaroscuro landscapes;
Reminiscence of a story~
First love.






10 July 2020

Hon. Mention
STRAND COMPLETELY NEW (7) any theme any form
Contest Judged:  7/10/2020 2:32:00 AM
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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hanging on the tree                                                                                                         like red ripe apples snow scrim                                                                                         postcards view winter...

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Forget those wintry postcards,
where the streets are covered with snow;
'cause there ain't no snow in Texas,
the odds are better in Amarillo!

Christmas in good ol' Texas,
mild weather is such a pain;
there won't be snow for Christmas,
so i guess i'll pray for rain!...

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Postcard Whow

Millions of '   
      postcards 
for sale
    Dealers 
from around the world 
Some from Israel 
   Some from Russia 
Some rich 
   others poor
Capitalism in action
     But E.V. Debs cards 
sell for a lot of money!
    The point of this poem escapes me...

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Another day here at BMCC
   Jazz magazine at the ready
Yes and students 
  walking around
    Some say Buenos Tardes
Some say drop dead
   You can't please everyone 
    But as the song says
"You've got to please yourself"
       so here is the poem
on the Poetry Soup 
     website...

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In my room
There's postcards on my wall
of Foxes and Max Ernst's artwork
and works of female poets
of Mary Oliver and Margaret Neville
and some of my own

10s of mechanical SLRS
adorn my book shelves
Im shattered 
I await till Spring to chill
Winter takes you so far on the road
of meaningless...

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I hope to view it all today,
Each planet’s just a whoosh away;
Revving engines, whams and bams,
Spaceships stuck in traffic jams;
Writing postcards seems so strange,
Waiting for the lights to change;
I hope to view it all today,
Each planet’s just a whoosh away…

Jack Horne for Nette’s Stardust in an Octelle contest, 5th July...

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Postcards and paper plane's.

Postcards and paper plane's I'd never thought to throw away, some day I may reminisce how flying and crying mingled with nostalgia,  as my travels have been short. Maybe the plans will resemble my freedom on the wings of desire,  and the postcards remind me of home, in all the places you have been. 

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...I bring your name up
 in one-sided conversations 
 that take place in empty
 rooms. Four walls, no windows
 1 canvas.

 I am sending you postcards
 from watercolors
 that wash away 
 with ease---I am chasing your memory.

 You loved with an expiration date.

 I am loving now in permanent
 ink.













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Global Warming
1:
planet’s yellow light
shards of ice slow river’s flow -
wet dreams in winter

2:
pieces float seaward
season’s broken spirit weeps –
humpty dumpty earth

3:
glaciers slide downhill
seasonal creep advancing -
uncertain future

4:
man’s season fading
haikus yellow stains on snow -
postcards mailed to self

Brian Johnston
December 11, 2015...

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THE WORLD: A RING

Oh, thou world is a ring
And you oh fate, a boxer
I only a contender
With my milky teeth 

Thou smirked at my ignorance
But now with bread grown
Thou two have given me thou hard’st blows
My fans now fed up

They draw postcards of my waterloo
However, I have fallen
From a blow like Tyson’s
Melting like gold refined

I shall not fail to rise
At least rise to fail...

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There is a summer
come along on windtide
weaving through the reeds
return like an old friend

Bags and beachtowels in the trunk
there is a summer
port town postcards always
too little room to tell

Winding round a mountain road
down through Bobcat Pass again
there is a summer
waving for the camera

Once then in the cool night
you took my hand
as we watched the birds fly home
there is a summer gone...

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You were gone, though you had never left
on a long vacation, from yourself
they'd arrive in batches, every day
no return address, no greeting

Questions, feelings, hope was fleeting
then missing died, one lonely day
as did the heart that still lay beating
in the empty room next door

No warm goodbyes, or teary eyes
no last dance to an old, sad song 
just picture postcards, curled and fading
fading, like our memories...

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Hundreds of thousands 
    of postcards 
for sale 
evoke nostalgic 
     memories 
 and offer glimpses 
   of faraway lands 
Conversations about deltiololgy 
   fill the room 
Dealers have come form 
    many states and lands 
to sell their wares 
   Along with an old friend 
who is a photographer
   I prepare a piece 
about 
the 
event 
   The commerce in old 
paper 
   continues throughout the day 
  Ashes of the past still smoulder...

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How cool to get a postcard!
For someone took the time
To buy one, write it, stamp it
And then send it. Sometimes I’m

Away and make the effort,
But often I do not.
It’s easy to tell everyone
That somehow you forgot.

With FaceTime, Skype and Twitter,
The postcard seems so quaint.
The person who would bother, though,
Will not get one complaint.

The fact that someone thought of you
While off on a vacation
And put it into writing is
Beyond all expectation....

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Thousands upon thousands 
          of postcards
Images from the past
  with the wrting of long forgotten strangers on them
          The three day show 
Collectors gather from all over the world
    Gather in the hotel
to but and exchange 
    cherished images 
        fromthe past
Collecting movie star photos, sports heroes ,nudes and 
almost everything else
The proceedings seem dull to some 
But a source of fascination to others 
Postcard show -New York City 2012...

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Effortless
lilting
lyrical
their chemistry builds
as the house lights dim
cool
laid back
relaxed
getting you in the mood
for anything

Alto sax sends out postcards
up and down the G blues scale
amber spots in the ceiling
light up lounge lizards
sipping signature cocktails
absorbing the atmosphere
on a stone gone classic night out

Drummer shuffles
feathering the kick drum
while comping on the snare
keeping his eyes on the waitress
he knows this beat
by heart...

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