Short Relay Poems

Life's a relay race whose baton keeps you living long after you're gone....

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My mind,
An ignition of the soul,
A price I pay,
Trying to relay,
A vibe in the midst of the fold. 
Beginning with sound,
Life abounds,
And now the story is told....

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Sensor on a relay, really?
These Brand-New cars,
aren't very easy.
It's like playin Parcheesi,
with old fartin sneezy.
Yeah, these brand-new cars,
sure, aren't very easy....

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Unwelcome, Youth embraces
Pasting emotions on faces
Naive to what life advancing will be
Nonchalant, spontaneous and carefree
Youth you will not age relay
Till your idle presence, is snatched away...

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I could write a sonnet 
or maybe a play
I could have gone epic
in hopes to relay
What snippets say better
in stations of rhyme
And carry within them
—a power sublime

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)...

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THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR 




 
Rhythmic relay of rejuvenating reminiscence, refreshing reveries as I rock to and fro!





7th November 2016
For Contest:THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR 
Sponsored by: Rick Parise...

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Swallow
Hollow
Mellow


Wordplay
Relay
Delay


Sensuous
Anxious
Devious


Feeling 
Thinking
Being


Last light
Dark night
Deep fright


Coming
Going
Leaving




Leon Enriquez
21 November 2017
Singapore...

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MY CHRISTMAS BIRTHDAY
I am writing the poem for my Christmas birthday
Thanks to your caring I can find my way
Everything you do is everything I can relay
Thanks to my Mom, I can be a lucky man of this stay
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando December 24, 2016...

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rivers,flow from barren heights
good,is drawn from evil might;
springs,leaps forth from hidden parts
talents,pour from human hearts;
fire,burns 'neath the earth below
passion,from single-minds,flow;
light,each morn greets the day
we,poets,our gifts relay...

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This year and last
you make me feel wanted
You make sure
I'm not left behind
It's a new feeling
that I'll hold on to 
And I do care
that's why I was there
I just wish that you'd talk to me now
about anything
I don't want you to leave
and have summer go by
and you disappear...

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Some braid of thought, my reason's caught,
prohibiting my grace, its ought.
Iniquity - the storm of naught
does catch my mind, then exits ...bought!

The price I pay for disarray
is grievous more than faith's relay.
A silent spring, like truth's redeem
is equity of hope's new scene!...

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Her smile and eyes
Relay an open invite
Dressed to ensnare
Her looks leave them
Openly ogling
None of this is accidental
She claims she does this
For herself not for them
A spider’s web made
As a lovely reclining bed
For its lovely owner
The seductive spider



(ACKMI LUIS 2016)...

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Love sums
Outcome


Cheer sees
Beauty


Light fills
Goodwill


Thought learns
Discern


Feel knows
Aglow


Thrill plays
Relay


Words guess
Address


Truth lines
Entwine


Move on
Beyond


Live here
Sincere


Zest grounds
Surrounds




Leon Enriquez
19 November 2015
Singapore...

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Minuscule sapphire blooms,
timid starlight eyes
verdant foliage swaddles,
exquisite, elegant sight

tranquil, serene, meadows
flamboyant petals play
vibrant, petite, bouquets
baring messages to relay,

soothing mother's anguish,
in sorrow, you're not alone
dainty flowers cradle,
words they cannot say....

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As relay of snowflakes grip the bald trees,
The chill of innocence tints
White leaves silent as ice.

Bead-like is the foliage of calm nights
When thanksgiving wanders deep; 
Through winter’s sacred pall.


Andrea Dietrich's Contest
1 in 4: Choose your Season, Choose Your Form 
foliage--3 syllables
6/17/2014...

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they say time waits for
no one i particular
ancient songs relay sadness
yet time passes quick
causing those to think of life
many praise their dead loved ones

with age time passes
next life passes by too quick
we do not live life fully
we miss out a lot
that we could of relished on
the ancient song keeps playing...

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they say time waits for
no one in particular
ancient songs relay sadness
yet time passes quick
causing those to think of life
many praise their dead loved ones


suddenly time slips 
next life passes by to quick
we do not live life fully
we miss out alot
that we could of relished on
the ancient song keeps playing...

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Delay decay
Deem death defiant
Dance dreamy daze


Relay replay
Risk rude reply
Rule ripples rough


Delay display
Dance designs dream
Dust dazzles drift


Portray prelude
Prime petty poise
Please puny pride


Display delay
Doom dapples draft
Dream dusty dirt



Leon Enriquez
04 November 2018
Singapore...

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(7-5 foot)
Rain washes the filth on streets 
away . It gets rid 
of the stink of decay I
 do say .The smell aft-
er a rainy day smells for-
rest fresh ,I relay

Rain feeds the plants everyday.
Thru the root system,
plants grow tall  ;not wilt away.
If you don’t wear a  
rain jacket then you’ll get soaked.
This is not a joke ....

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Listen to show you care they say,
Listen to whats not there from the cliche,
Embark in the meaning hidden by words,
Stress the importance of not being heard,
Show what’s always in your heart,
One must never listen to the protests in the dark,
Listen to show you care they say,
But due to whose dismay is what I am always forbidden to relay....

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Where's Heaven
I know Hell
Can't you tell
If not, oh well

You tell all is for sale
Did you hear the bell
Like a coffin to the nail
Go ahead and wail

There's a direct way
Find the relay
Foolish human, no way
I say "nay"

It's not gray
So don't play

Foul!
Won't allow
Listen now!
Not just a wow
Nor a bow
Listen how
     Silence!...

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A RACE TO DE-BONE FISH:
Filet
Relay

A CONVENT FOR SHELL FISH:
Oyster
Cloister

A MEMBER OF THE UNDER SEA MAFIA:
Mobster
Lobster

A PROMISCUOUS SHRIMP:
Trampy
Scampi

A MUSICAL RED SNAPPER:
Snapper
Rapper

A COMPASSIONATE FISH:
Caring
Herring

A LAW ENFORCEMENT FISH:
Grouper
Trouper

2/2/13
Entered in Brian Strand's All Yours Contest...

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Time was once a letter sent
A thinly packaged salutation
Revealing reads and rushes
A content discourse situation

Story lines entwined grapevines
Most privately complicit
A baton passed a relay cast
Too confidential to elicit

Artistic flair in swirling script
Stylish prose self styled emphatic
A photographic written pose
Of diatonic scale chromatic...

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J-ust ask not for trouble, 
A-void saying vicious lies; 
M-ake no intended wrong, 
E-ven blunder neath the
S-kies.

A-sk not for trouble, 
N-ever let your tongue twist the truth; 
G-iven mouth must relay reality, 
U-sing the words that soothe, 
L-ive by the Creator's commands, reach your notable goal; 
O-n the thirty-first of January, just ask not for trouble....

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Although I don't write in the deepest of fashion,
I try to relay my thoughts and my passion.

I try to help others to see through my eyes,
Perhaps if they would, they would be quite surprised!

There they will find a heart that is true,
Nothing phony, superfluous, or crude.

There they might find they have a true friend,
someone who is trustworthy until the very end!...

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