Short Quin Poems

Sleek stream, 
surge cascades 
in heart of vale. 
Ecstatic flow rolls me… 
pebble.

November 20, 2020
Contest : Quin-To Your Five Line
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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Brush Up

Autumn
cosmetic
facial features
cleansed anew niveous
Winter

2,3,4,6,2

2020 November 19
*Honorable Mention*
QUIN-TO your five line
~~Brian Strand...

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Darkness
Comes early now
First frost will be here soon
Winter solstice around the corner
Short day


11-19-20
Contest: Quin-To Your Five Line
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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confined,
shackled in chains,
there isn’t an exit sign;
how can a person escape their,
own mind.













Contest:QUIN-TO
Sponsor:Brian Strand
11/19/2020...

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Raindrops
Crying on glass
Lamenting fading light
Ushering in winter of long
Dark nights.


Honorable Mention: Brian Strand-Quin To Your Five-11/20/20
Seventh Place: Rick Parise- 7 Line Max-6/2/17...

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Instant eye contact
And all the world fades away
Mists of memory
I had always dreamed this day
The orange sun is smiling


Written on 11/19/2020
For: QUIN-TO your five line Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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F-ine
R-hyme
A-bout
N-atural
C-oolness
I-n
S-ublime

Q-uote
U-ses
I-ndividual
N-ame

A-s
P-oem
O-ffers
Y-ou
A-nother
N-ote

Topic: Birthday of Francis Quin Apoyan (November 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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There was a lion who never felt full
So one day he went and ate an entire bull
He felt so good he just kept on roaring
A hunter heard him and bullets were pouring
Full of bull now, he did not know what befell him.

20.11.2020.
Quin-to Poem.
Limerick....

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 child revels throwing
a pebble in the calm lake
stillness gets disrupted
rings of sparkling ripples gleam-
in perfect circles expand


Date: 11/20/2020
Submitted for: QUIN-TO Your Five Line Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Love is happiest
Wrapped in quick hugs and kisses.
When you’re not around,
I remember your embrace,
Peeks of joy upon your face.


HONORABLE WINNER
Tanka Contest - All Poetry
July, 2021

HONORABLE MENTION
Submitted to the "QUIN-to Contest"
Sponsored by Brian Strand...

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The lawsuit by StarKist is valid.
Their long time promoter’s new ballad
warns fish to stay clear
of fisherman’s pier,
or end up in somebody’s salad!


Oldie For Carolyn Devonshire's Sea Tales Limericks 

Entered Nov 20, 2020 for  the 'QUIN-TO your five line' Poetry Contest...

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As a driver, I’ve never been keen.
I’m distracted, confused, not serene!
On my nerves, things keep grating.
Now I’m sitting here waiting
for that stupid stop SIGN to turn green!

November 19, 2020
entered in the QUIN-TO your five-line poem Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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lack of impression
          may belie lone depression 
               use ones discretion 
            with gentle intercession 
        love hope and kind expression


QUIN-TO your five line Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand 21/11/2020
               Hororable mention...

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your mouth wide open
inviting all and sundry 
gently they mosey
spiders ~ flies ~ are so nosey
at night keep your mouth shut tight
 

Written 21st November 2020

Syllables Per Line:	5 7 5 7 7

Contest Name	QUIN-TO your five line 
Sponsor Brian Strand
N/A...

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A quin for a queen,
This one will soothe her sterile gloom,
Another one for her king,
Maybe he’ll hear to be an heir,
One quin for the king’s chief
Who dares to have a dear,
One other one will be for me,
He could make up a mate,
The last must stay with the mother,
At least he could leave a relief....

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She lives

against all odds

'needle in a haystack'

stranger gave her a new kidney

new life


February 7, 2016

Contest: Quin-To Your Five Line Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand

Via her plea on Facebook, my friend's young daughter received a kidney
from a perfect stranger in August 2015.
...

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Oh, mercy! How you devour me cap-a-pie

with such hungry pair of eyes! That divine spell...   

you've cast on me! Something's bound to begin!

You might as well make it known clearly with just... 

 one kiss! Your face is flushed crimson...with love.



QUIN-TO your five line Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 11/21/2020...

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A flautist and harpist were matched
And plans for the wedding were hatched,
But, getting cold feet,
He beat a retreat,
Preferring her ‘no strings attached’.

20.11.20

Put Your Best (One) Limerick Forward (Be Like Rico Leffanta) Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Andrea Dietrich

'Quin-To Your Five Line Poetry Contest'
Sponsor : Brian Strand

Bite Size Poem #32 Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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I lay beneath this stone
a poet's destiny fulfilled
and I bring
a million poems
to rest in peace with me

_______________________
November 20, 2020


Poetry/Epitaph/For a Poet
Copyright Protected, ID 11-1306-314-20
All Rights Reserved, 2020, Constance La France



Written for the Standard contest, QUIN-TO your five line
sponsor, Brian Strand, Judged 11/22/20

First Place...

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Oh, if ever the devil donned flesh on this earth

          'Twas that beast, Hitler, by length and by girth

               And ne'er a god's temple, nor any man's ashes

     Will make sense of closing so many dear lashes

Or not granting wake to those millions of dreams.







Written on November 19, 2020
For the "Quin-To Your Five Line" Poetry Contest
Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor....

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