Short Sep Poems
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COMPASS POINTS
I wander
into the blue
the height
of late summer
Fall's journey around
the corner
I sit & wonder
coolly conspiratorial confronting commemorative cryosurgery
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 21–27, 2026)
inadvertently ineffectually interlock initial in introspect invite
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • September 28–October 4, 2026)
Faith,hope and charity
each positives, to me
and essential,as can be
The first,a gift from God
with agape,for free
the other as certain as can be
.....try them,each one,is for thee
A short address to the moon ,our ever present nightly companion expressing the ' wistful wonderin' that has occupied many a poet (here its the famous Percy B) ,song writer & ordinary mortal like you & I
Alice Walker,famed novelist of Cloured Purple with this nineteen lined 'The Old Men Used to Sing' evokes a childhood memory 'conversational styled poem' using two or three words short staccato sentences
Leigh Hunt's double quatrain -linked centres around 'Time you thief' ,a bio romantic memory of youth from the nostalgia of old age...a typical recurring happening I can confirm as someone very aged myself
Autumn Highlights
the
blooms
silvering
shimmering
in
patches
of sunlight
daubs
of colour
midst
the frigid
frost
of
fall:
cursory
change
shapes
all
our
lives
Minimalistic Ezra Pound
also wrote poetry most profound
but in his 'Station Metro' verse
he pared&pared to make it terse
Idaho's Ezra Pound
with Canto did astound
He began as an imagist theorist
with the genre did not persist
To Elizbeth Barrett Browning
invalidity from riding did bring
Putting aside this tragic hurt
she elope to marry her Robert
Her Petrachan sonnet we see
an abba abba then cdecde
A sestet follows the octave
a love poesy we all crave
twin souls was her song
heart to heart,all the day long
Emerson ,a 'literary lion ' of his era 1803 -1882, (& of Unitarian sect) in this abab quatrain 'Sacrifice' alludes to Christ's redeeming free gift to confessing sinners ,(those true believers )who then accept
Ralph Waldo Emerson
a minister unitarian
When filled with consuming doubt
prosody poured forth..without
Shiki (1867-1902) a modern master& historian/ critic of the three line Japanese cultural 'haiku' helped re-habiltate the form to modern audiences of his day 'toward ' being just one of his examples.The simplicity of the form is embedded in Zen ,as this example clearly shows and is therefore dependent on who translates it
CHRISTINA R
Close to the Pre-Raphael sect
All proposals to wed,she did reject;
Her fame excels in retrospect-
A spinster,quiet,pious and chaste
Such talents were,not left to waste.
The talented Christina Rossetti
wrote carols and much poetry.
Married love elluded her,I'm afraid,
the poor lass dying as a spinster maid
Creative poet Aram Saroyan
whose creativity did need not scan
Usually just a single letter/word so minimal
'lighght'* controversial an example was typical
In a Word a Happening
sans beginning,middle,or end
in an instant
all at once
we see
* Aram Saroyan
one word 'lighght' created 1967 controversial
then and ever since
AN ALLITERATIVE QUATRAIN
could centralised cardiographic cascade competitively colorize complaisant casement
from flavourful facultative fiendish fission find fortuitousness favor
ruling : restively rhythmic reading reflectorise restorative respite
shrewdly sidearm saddleback spat submerse scatter sycophantic saporous sioux spirits sextant
A QUATRAIN of ALLITERATIVE ATTRIBUTES
bumpkinly buttercup bannerlike bovid boloney breath brainwashed at the bibliothecal
reschedule recapitulate reactive reignite reflective radar repercussion
spiteful snorting sociopath signal schematically scare submarine
understand unmodifiable uninquiring uniformize unfalteringly unawares unsay unpleasing unreadably
OMAR rubaiyat
tessellation"—or mosaic— of quatrains translation; rearranged, paraphrased,
into disconnected Persian
quatrains (rubai) 'a flowing, thematic narrative.
Edward Fitzgerald a gentle manner
translated Omar Khayyam
These quatrains known as rubaiyat
so novel hedonistic &stansaic
Omar Khayyam
a Persian poet man
Loved to pen quatrains
so he wrote them again.& again
CINQUAIN ALLITERATIVE
come,could cheerless cloister commercialize classic crescendo
I investigate..& . imagine ..impeccable impracticable imitation
magniloquently monolingually monotonous merchantman manure me ...my megalocephaly moldy moonshine meteorite
to, trepan typicality through trogonidae tunelessly twirlingly their tantrum
simultaneously situatesmoothedspoke, stairwa
WALLACE S Valley Candle (triple clerihew)
with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well
Wallace Stevens so enigmatic
whimsical fanciful& symbolic
His Valley Candle*blew&blew
the interpretation is up to you
Businessman poet Wallace Stevens
very creative with a poetic pen
A contemporary metaphysical wit
as 'Valley Candle' enigmatically does sit
WCW
'this is just to say' & 'dear Bill' reply ( see above links)
The now famous three quatrain 'matter of fact' classic free verse of an everyday event.
& reply a three stanza five-liner thought to be an early example of 'found poetry' from a 'real time ' domestic note
William Carlos Wiliams in his day
noted for his 'This is just to Say'
An example of short pointed prose
guess its how 'Red Wheebarrow' arose
Jack Kerouac, the 50's Beat poet with this English language style 'haiku' form does just to the western world classic features of the tercet form ..no title ..free syllabics..but the last line keeps to the 'happening' moment that identifies it as 'hiku"
Canadian born Jack Kerouac
a poet of the 50's 'Beat gen' pack
Known for his western 'hiku'
keeping to its features then so new
stream of consciousness spontaneous prose
how his famous 'on the road' novel flows