Short Scant Poems

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agnostic belief
is confined to scepticism -
digging for answers...

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She found scant solace in the solstice
    Holy Stockings! ~ Frozen feet now toeless...

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festive flowered front
   finds itself with one scant tie-
         down the hall we go...

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The sky is gray and gloomy
The sun is veiled from the sight
The clouds are thick and heavy
Exposing scant light 
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falls flat
your platitudes,
slinking platyhelminthes,
flat worms in scant two dimensions,
crumpled
...

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July's
melting nights
stars dripping silver
puddles of clandestine heat
seeping into the scant cracks of summer shade




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Candles
By: Miracle Man
3/14/2019

Regarding Candles,
Once they've become a flicker,
They provide scant light.
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bricks spent in Spring
a scant leftover
azure blue surplus 

6/5/2017
non-traditional haiku
4/5/5 syllables...

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A happy childhood hour spent
Peering into 
A few scant inches of rainwater 
On hot days
Should come as no surprise.
For life, 
Simply add water....

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There’s value bean counters can’t grant
Supplant not old models they chant!
They rant that life forms’	
Cells must fit spreadsheet norms
As accountants’ brains are quite scant...

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Realized Trump Went On Rant

Realized when Trump went on a rant,
Because again was told that he can't,
Start a storm,
Even if warm;
Measured mind and only saw a scant.

Jim Horn...

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    Lately, it seems to be
      there’s a dearth of poetry
    on the site... else it's me  

    generalizing from scant experience
      as I often do when feeling imperious
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I love my diaphanous nightie
It’s sexy and sheer- its quite flighty
But it’s a shocking disgrace
Scant material and lace
Cost hubby ninety-nine pounds ninety!

15th February 2015...

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ICE KISS

Blizzard dawn crisp
Send shivers with the postman
Shovel toss snow 
Dance whiteness over shoulders wrapped in wool
Sweet overburdened shoulders where comfort found me scant moments past
10-23-12...

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A man once said to his Mrs.,
Lately, you've been scant with your kisses.
Have I done something bad,
Or made you a bit mad?
She said "Hun, your breath smells like dead fishes.

1/17/22...

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As the poor souls of Burundi toil.
For a scant thirty-five cents each hour.
Their lives are in churning turmoil.
With an outlook bleak and dour.
Yet, the wealthy reap golden spoils.
To gild more Ivory Towers....

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Blood and bone—?
Am I merely a man??
Possessor of what you might deem
A soul?
Little to my name,?
Tagged as valueless—?
Yet in this scant existence,?
I find a singular truth:
I am yours.
And in that, I am complete.
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tornado's wake


our naked trees, with missing limbs, stand tall
	awaiting scant leaves this year; 
birds lost old nesting sites.


March 22, 2019

Contest: Writing Challenge 4, March 2019 - Kimo
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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Hidden Shapes
David J Walker

Hidden shapes assured of shadows 
Haunting 
lingering  
From a shared past 

A scant vision 
of tomorrow

A bitter tankard of 
borrowed sorrow 

Where do I begin   
to repair to my 

Entitlement...

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Limerick : Once a scandal-ridden Monarchy

Once a scandal-ridden Monarchy
Took to breeding with Tom Dick & Harry
The last Prince with scant blue
Donned the saffron robe true
Thus Millésime House lost lineage Tree.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Something Profound We Plant

Sometimes things do seem so scant,
And if something profound we plant;
Poem prepare;
With you share;
With eloquence will always enchant.

Jim Horn

like looking at lake,
while water want to be in,
when we splash around....

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Clouds,
spitting 
rain tease the
drought-stricken land
with hope of more to
come, but stingy clouds cling
jealously to their precious
droplets only releasing scant
sprinkles from time to time.  O God please
open up the heavens and let it pour!

3/22/21...

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searching for scant food
wolves foxes hares and bears roam ---
snow owls taunt hungry harp seals 

northern cardinals 
dig icebergs and peep within 
ice fish swiftly hides in holes


10 January 2023
Winter Sedoka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Charles Messina...

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As early frost kissed window glass

And autumn shed her scant remains,

Her glory done, her time now past

Bare trees lined the country lanes,

The woods were quiet, nothing stirred

Filled it seemed with expectation,

The shrill echo of a bird
       
Lamented autumn's resignation....

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E very movement she makes
X rated
O nly a teen
T hrust from her home
I n retribution she
C lads herself in scant attire

D ances seductively to please
A ny man who will boost her self esteem, but
N ever
C hooses to 
E xit with those who gaze longingly
R emains a temptress beyond reach...

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