Short Refrains Poems

evening’s chill refrains to wipe the pain ---where tears have flown. 


PD Linda's Monoku Contest
8th April 16 ( New Poem)...

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crescent moon refrains
 fade into night's melody,
 lyrics tinged with gold
 twinkle with each starry note,
 a song clings to Luna's glow...

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all butterflies can dance, endless frolic
gliding high into jasmine. kites lofty
meander neath oval ponds
quiet refrains softly traverse
under velvet wings 'xploring,
yearning...

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Mayhem
Reigns above hills,
Behind city wall lies
Fortified dreams in chaotic
Order.

Languish
In confusion
Of emperor’s torment
Levy madness, out of control
Refrains....

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River flows zigzag way, 
Ruminates of what my,  
Reflections mean to me, 
Relentless or shaky, 
Represents me in you, 
Refrains of water stream, 
Raises inspiring thoughts....

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Hokey-pokey 
rhymes with Skokie
  largest village in the land

New York's a city
'tis a pity
  still inhabited by man

___________________________
Skokie, IL -- population ~ 75,000...

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Words run along
On paper grain
In brief sing-song
Of sad refrains
When madness swirls
Mood and mind craft 
That seem to twirl
In awkward draft.


Leon Enriquez
18 June 2014
Singapore...

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the skylark chirps

  of amorous refrains

    mellow as night…

 a winged hymn echoing 

tales of my deepened woes



Andrea Dietrich's Tanka 3:Return to TOP TEN 
3/26/2015...

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A fecundity of plight precipitates
And as each second lapses
The vibes ascend
With theatrical depth
Though steadily she refrains
To refine her adamant tones
Whilst I dissolve
within estuaries of helotry...

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The past and the future
fold into the present
Conceptually vacant
twice empty refrains
No before and no after
perpetually frozen
The ice of indenture
—this moment contains

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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In the moonless night a poet’s ink stains

Words cloaked in somber refrains

In the ink’s abyss shadowy tales unfold

Each dimly lit verse a soul’s secret told

In a poet’s cryptic lore the rest remains
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Listen to poem:

The Truth about Truth
David J Walker

Rain falls the same
On each blade of grass

Though rooted in the soil
fertile or crass

In the toil of the sun

Results in how the rain refrains

On each and every one...

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Here lies pretty Martha Anne McBanes
She never sang verses, only refrains
While attempting to whistle,
Pricked her chin on a thistle
And died of an infection in her brain.

written March 3, 2022...

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Rivers flow
in volumes and refrains
the shadows of black phoebes
chasing waves
as they ripple
in quiet tones
a majestic scenery
tainted by involuntary lullabies
of atonement

By Glenn McCrary

© 2012 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)...

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The perfect Quintilla sustains
AABBA schema with no refrains,
Five lines, each with eight syllables
No excess words or weak fillables,
Briefly, its meaning it contains.

written March 14, 2022
(Eight syllables per line
checked with HMS)...

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Triolet has refrains
 The first two lines ring out
 They bring it back again,
 There are rhyme schemes that flow,
 This is a French verse form
 That threads the lines with grace
 Then ends as it began

 1-17-2022
 Example For My Contest...

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She’d recite the fairest refrains
As upon marble texture I languish
Moxie was her focus to sway me
I, never once yearning to retreat,
Became enveloped by an aura of passion
Spry was the breeze that descended
From the design ‘twas her lovely palms...

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Found it
Say it.

Glory
Story.

Contains
Refrains.

Locate
Relate.

Objects,
Prospects.

Dry bones
For loans.

Findings
Writings.

Wordings
No swings.

Repeat
The feat.

Often
Soften.

Accept
Detect.

The facts
No acts....

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Stymied sand regales no tale
  All wind-whipped time erases
Partial pain of life relieved
  To find familiar places

Sand concedes no mark remains
  Rain, snow and ice extinguish
Not a trace of young refrains
  Slim hourglass of anguish...

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Lune - Note

one note missing 
 harmony refrains to be resolved 
  staggers in echoes

reverberating regret resounds
 in cacophony’s heavy metal discord 
  life’s melody limping

Contest: Flow with the Collum Lune
Nette Onclaud
Visual #1
5-11-20...

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Subliminal refrains court my bones

Fences descend into the Earth

Chanting in sleek and subtle tones

Subliminal refrains court my bones

In this room I plead and moan

I am enveloped by mirth

Subliminal refrains court my bones

Fences descend into the Earth...

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Let me see in deepest night
Let me see all my past pains 
All my deepest regrets 
All my refrains let me 
find my future gains 
Moon up so high big and bright 
Hanging light like Gods eye 
deep into the indigo night 
Grant me the sight
far far into the night…...

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keyboard
chasing ripples
through notes’ interludes,
pounding, drowning crushed love…
ebony

fingers
like tendrils
stiffen from refrains,
despair on moonless halls…
blistered




Dr. Ram Mehta's Cinquain Contest
by nette onclaud...

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differentiating breath sensations
left channel cool, right warm
converging between the eyebrows 
conjuring within, a bliss storm

meanwhile, random thoughts arise
as a white dove comes into view
oceanic waves replay their refrains 
the witness has no puzzles to sew...

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Paranoia 
Crippling me
Slowly 
Consuming my thoughts 
Erasing my existence
Dividing my light
Transforming so into 
The dark 
Splitting them
Lowering the voice
In my ear 
Serving me more
Downhill 
Terror grows inside the brain 
A way out of it for me 
A soul refrains...

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