Short Shorten Poems

This planet is under a curse
To help out I'll shorten this verse
To be green I agree
To switch off my PC
And......

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When
Summer
collapses
into Autumn,
warm days shorten and
bold winds announce
cooler days
to come
soon....

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I check hotel beds
imagine them lurking there
shudder at the word
shorten it to just BBs
the very thought makes me sweat

* Bedbugs...

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To Shorten Suite

Paranoia
is
NOT!

An 
Obligation,
Seagulls.

Fear Pundits'
Convictions.

-Gray Squirrel

05-07-2024...

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They say it takes more muscles
to frown than it does to smile.
I don’t know if this is true,
but smiles surely do shorten the miles....

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My friend called Jerry Shorten
Saw a great deal and bought in,
The company went broke
Alas poor bloke
Now listens every day to the warden....

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coming whispers of the spring,
down here we have hot Autumn,
a day before you the sun does bring,
dateline, days here shorten...

thank you Anne Lise...

Don...

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Really can't believe my good fortune
This tale I'll do my best to shorten
The real bottom line
Was her yummy behind
It definitely relieved my damn boredom...

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I'm old but I'm told not to be old
Kinda difficult when the old body shows
Why it is important
My life won't shorten
It's still gonna happen, lo and behold...

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         I am not verbose, I am laconic,
         at most, I shorten the poem,
            I diminish the lie,
           I stabilize the truth,
          I am a minimalist poet!...

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Really can't believe my good fortune
This tale I'll do my best to shorten
The real bottom line
Was her yummy behind
It definitely relieved my damn boredom

© Jack Ellison 2013...

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A couple got married, Judy Pegg and Tony Legg
Decided to shorten their kid's last name to Pegleg
Caused quite a stir
Either, they preferred
So then it was okay and both could manage...

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“The hour has now come for the Son of Man
to be glorified, to fulfil God's plan.
     Whoever serves me
     must come follow me,
ready to lose all, even shorten life's span.”

John 12.20-26...

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Long are the days,
When they shorten,
 Hurry, hurry must we,
No longer does time seem to slow
like maple syrup in winter,
No longer do we have time,
the colors burst around us
as we hurry to be done...

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The
days
shorten,
nature starts
to sit out winter
and
bird's
migrate-
winging off
to a warmer clime,
the
cold
weather
tempers the
photosynthesis
as
life
outdoors
shutters down-
closed for  business....

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I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "omelettes" I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* Here's the link: 

https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/omelettes_10739

I hope you like it!...

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I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "trends." I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* 

Here's the link: 

https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/trends_10745 

I hope you like it!...

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My latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "discoveries" 

I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* 

Here's the link: 
www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/discoveries_10810 

I hope you like it!...

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there is no way
that my word play
will do anything but shorten the
delay to that precious moment still
when you will cross my way,
when a single ray of sun will be the only thing that will separate our bodies
from being a single block of clay...

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I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "the gardens." 

I could shorten it - but why? *shrug*
 
Here's the link: 
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/the_gardens_10665

I hope you like it!...

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I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "rose, bud and thorn" I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* 

Here's the link: 
www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/rose_bud_and_thorn_12018


I hope you like it!...

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Jarring chill from winter’s day
A flush of cheeks, an icy nose
Nature covers a white blanket 
Upon a shivering country road. 
As days shorten, night descends
Releasing a host of brilliant stars
Yet another year anew begins. 


Written on 1/3/2019...

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Fall 
    leaves 
foliage  
on the lawn 

the days shorten
                   
out of depression's
   shadow

an Indian Summer          
arrives               
&calls

my heart
    revives

to survive

& face
      Winter's 
long haul
...

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I latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories." 

It's called "world cartoon" 

I could shorten it - but why? *shrug* Here's the link:
 
www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/world_cartoon_10787

I hope you like it!...

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Earth turns around the sun
Another season done
The days shorten  bit by bit
Thoughts turn toward the fall
And the wild geese that call
To autumn we now submit
Earth soon will sleeping
Memories for keeping
To winter now hearts commit


For Dr Ram's contest...

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