Short Requirement Poems

An available 
oxygen is essential 
for animal life....

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Failure is not an option ~
                   it's a requirement.


     3/14/19

     (broken monoku)...

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Glass looking 
Mirror shots
Happy times 
Post mark
Expensing just character
Improvements pattern cast
Dividing superficial power
Melting pot requirement...

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Light, it's captured in our minds
Requirement? we use daily
By whom? humans and creatures
Just where would we living be without it?






Written in the new 'Parise Pariku' form....

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It's a requirement for us guys to stand up to pee
There's always a chance we'll pee on our knees
Sitting down like a lady
Well at home maybe
Mighty awkward sitting on a urinal to me...

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Have you noticed yet
the absurd disconnect of measurement?
Have you noticed yet
puréed pumpkin, any filling I’d bet,
is packaged just shy of the requirement?
So another is needed to augment?
Have you noticed yet?...

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A requirement of this poem
Is to write about love, death, and spring
So I will do all three

Love is super complicated so it doesn't have a definition
Death is when you're no longer alive on Earth
Spring is a season...

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It's a requirement for us guys to stand up to pee
There's always a chance we'll pee on our knee
Sitting down like lady
Well at home maybe
Mighty awkward sitting on a urinal to me


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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vultures in the sky
they are waiting to finish an end
this is a mission
the requirement will made

last sings
the world is dying
human beings on the earth is a threat
this is bull
they are putting a bullet in their own foot...

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Perk, perk, perk, perk,
perk, perk, perk, coffee
Cup of brown brew woke me up
Me need one more cup!


Originally submitted as a senryu, but had to add four more words to satisfy the twenty word requirement for this contest....

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Hydration the basic requirement of body
has become a requisite to needy.
The ice flakes formed by crystallization look like knife
but those little drops of water invigorate our life.
My love towards percipitation
often ends with an impermeable clothing fashion....

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The beast of winter

crept off after Spring's first week.

Sun now strokes my cheek.

I can almost hear a bleat.

March will go out like a lamb.


An oldie revised for 
Rick Parise' One Tanka- Old Or New - See Title Requirement Poetry Contest...

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There was an old driver called Thorn,
Who said, 'I’m the best ever born,' 
As he spoke of himself,
And his talents and wealth,
Despite all the faces forlorn,
He kept right on tooting his horn.

For FJ's trash-talking I Spit Fire contest

A 6-line limerick to meet the contest's minimum line requirement...

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Over garden fence
bare vines hang limp concealing
   promises of spring
quiver in vibrant robes with
Nature's splendid makeover

Contest  five line form with any theme
Tanka with 5,7,5,7,7 syllables
Date April 6 2017

Submitting now for Any Tanka old/ New Title requirement
Date April  9 2017...

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the
jury
returned a
guilty verdict

missing the mark wide
a ripple of excitement
a murderous indictment
lady justice died

innuendo
without a
shred of
proof


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An Arkquain, 1/2/3/4 5/7/7/5 4/3/2/1, with the only other requirement being end rhymes on the 7-syllable lines...

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Pictures interred

deep into gray matter 

shatters delusion

except from time

no moorings holding them in place

to past or future

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6/12/15  For the "Through Your Eyes" Contest

(Requirement using 21 words)
Resubmitted for Brian Strand's Contest #221...

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Last winter’s freeze,
summer’s awful drought:
trees subjected to
harsh conditions.
Lord, still my doubt,
let faith, like these,
grow to fruition.

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A Shanzi: 4/5/5/4/4/4/5, no rhyming requirement. L1 & L2: a subject, L3 & L4, what is affected by the subject, L5-L7, a new thought that complements the original....

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Losing, not always the opposite of winning;

        many times it may even be a requirement

                for sweet triumph to be genuinely fulfilling.


                The awesome odds may range and rage from coast to coast;

        the darkest skies will soon be clear, just persevere;

for now you lose the few, but soon you'll win the most....

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Breathing in and breathing out
Mechanical
Physical
Rhythmic
Impossible to get wrong
Mirrors
Waves
Motion
No requirement to think
Subconscious
Automatic
Controlled
Show me how to breath
Hand
Held 
Heart
Calm my fears
Sync
Each 
Breath
Soothe my soul
Inhale
Exhale
Faith

B--Forms And Words Poetry Contest
2nd March 2023
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet...

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Moonlight through a quilt of clouds
we rush before the storm
lightning, like a camera flashed
as we made it to the dorm

We shiver as we rush the stairs
to the thunderous afterboom
I survey the nights assignments 
when I’m safe inside my room

We’d planned for this foul weather, 
and our tempest borne confinement
by stopping for some chinese food
- it was practically a requirement...

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soul seeks
solitude to 
solely Love
silence


soul soaks
in stillness
finds Whole's 
solace


9-Oct-2020
Writing Challenge - Septolet Form - Poetry Contest
The septolet has fourteen WORDS. It is broken between two stanzas to make up the fourteen words. Each stanza can have seven words each but that is not a requirement. Both stanzas deal with the same thought and create a picture....

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Changing my mind once again.
I know this is the best I've seen
or can remember way back when.

Questioning what's locked.
I've lost the key but found another conclusion in which I couldn't agree.


Putting faith in something unknown.
Whispers so hollow
that they chilled to the bone.
As a requirement of belief is needed sooner than now.
I'm ducking my head. 
taking the finales last bow....

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I breathe the air of patriots and salute
The heroes of our nation
I pray words of hope and inspiration to
The once mighty patriots
I blow away the enemies of our nation
For I am a patriot
I find a lack of words when they are
Senile and rant when they are sane
What is the requirement of a patriot?
Too many to do any good aristocratic
Patriots I despise, no more admiration 
To the patriots....

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In 12 lines I will be dead
and the blame will be fully yours
been thinking about this for centuries
just needed the tilt you provided
from the great ocean of requirement
fantasized at law giver central
by cross eyed fanatics wailing truth
while eating their children in sacrifice
to propitiate the next shooting star extinction
how we got here from there is not pretty
and an application of aesthetics
would be more than bad taste
it would be false...

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A friendly Screw is what's in store
I like sex does that make me a whore? 
The double standards I simply ignore 
My body is open yours to explore 
We can get busy in a friendly way
Friends w benefits & u don't have to pay
perfect when finished be on your way
We both know we're here for a lay
No strings attached no awkward words to say
No gifts, flowers, or chocolates thought that was understood 
Only 1 requirement my friend you better give it to me  G-O-O-D!...

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