Short Scant Poems
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falls flat
your platitudes,
slinking platyhelminthes,
flat worms in scant two dimensions,
crumpled
Categories:
scant, pride, psychological, relationship,
Form:
Cinquain
July's
melting nights
stars dripping silver
puddles of clandestine heat
seeping into the scant cracks of summer shade
Categories:
scant, nature, summer,
Form:
Suzette Prime
Candles
By: Miracle Man
3/14/2019
Regarding Candles,
Once they've become a flicker,
They provide scant light.
Categories:
scant, light,
Form:
Haiku
bricks spent in Spring
a scant leftover
azure blue surplus
6/5/2017
non-traditional haiku
4/5/5 syllables
Categories:
scant, metaphor,
Form:
Haiku
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.
Categories:
scant, childhood, life,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
scant, business, philosophy
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
scant, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
scant, how i feel, loss, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
scant, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
scant, hope, introspection, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
scant, fish, kiss,
Form:
Limerick
I always try living each day in the moment,
spending scant time on what might lie ahead.
The future is uncertain, and only God knows,
so I review tidbits sleeping in my past instead.
Categories:
scant, future, god, how i feel, life,
Form:
Lyric
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.
Categories:
scant, integrity, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
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.
Categories:
scant, inspirational love, love, poems, romance, romantic, sweet
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
scant, sad,
Form:
Kimo
Categories:
scant, allegory, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Comes a time in each life
when passed time rouses our thoughts.
Then,, we give scant thought to the future.
Age has left us with no aspirations.
And we’ve accepted the fact that our future,
is the present day.
Categories:
scant, age, blessing, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
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
Categories:
scant, blue,
Form:
Limerick
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.
Categories:
scant, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
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
Categories:
scant, prayer, rain, weather,
Form:
Etheree
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
Categories:
scant, winter,
Form:
Sedoka
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.
Categories:
scant, change, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
scant,
Form:
Acrostic
Blackstrap molasses I drink every day.
I've learned it holds anemia at bay.
One tablespoon quick stirred up
with almond milk (a scant cup)
makes my red blood cells cheer. Hip hip hooray!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nancy Jones
October 30, 2011
for Francine Roberts' Pick a Beverage, any Beverage contest
Categories:
scant, food, health,
Form:
Limerick
Cultures of the world fill our senses
recognized by different contributions
Brave spirits preserving what is left
from bulging cities to scant villages
Living in every corner of this sphere
separated by individual circumstances
There is no way to rely on each other
if not dividing everything more equal
Categories:
scant, life, places,
Form:
Free verse