Short Shrewd Poems

Love
This shrewd
Investment
Debts are due
Rent is paid...

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poem subject was shrewd
an interesting interlude
reviewed than renewed...

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Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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Harmless
as a rock dove,
yet shrewd and worldly wise-
but forswearing pretext,pretence 
and lies....

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Shrewd leader enthrones 
Foolish elects him blindly 
to live or to die! 


-July 19, 2018 Chattogram...

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Shrewd Awakening


Captive
Grinning coyly 
She feigns timidity
Cunningly knowing fools become
Ensnared...

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Behold
 I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves 
so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. [MT 10:16]...

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In a foul mood?
Don’t be rude, bro,
be shrewd, chill out.

November 30, 2020

Charles Messina’s Than Bauk contest...

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frogs croak in crane creek
clouds conduct rain symphony
shrewd owl joins night show

March 11, 2018...

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"GHOSTS"
elusive shadows
apparitional figures
peering hollow eyes
calculating shrewd moods,
anguish mortal clarity......

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John loved to eat food
it always brightened his mood
but then one time
he ate a lime
and it left him feeling quite shrewd!...

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Jealousy disease.
It's common and contagious
Leaves some in denial

Shrewd eyes tell a tale
Some call it Jealousitus
Try not to catch it...

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Shrewd&sensitive poet Mathew Arnold
advocated thinking verse we are told
He also wroteof sweetness&light
many think of him with delight...

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Marc Antony's funeral oration
Masterpiece of shrewd persuasion
  Igniting sundry Romans' fierce desire
  To douse 'noble Brutus' life with fire...

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A person who is
intelligent
but very
shrewd, cares
more for
personal
gain, doesn't has
any principles.
~X~X~X~
...

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Bless me horseradish
                                     Make me gassy and pungent
                                          I hate shrewd people...

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My shrewd ways were,
  so darn rude; but, 
 Joy changed my mood.









Contest:Bauk Than - Than Bauk 
Sponsor:Charles Messina
12/05/2020...

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Epigram #102:
FEISTY


The smart man says much in little
The shrewd man exploits the sparkle

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
08 June 2015
Singapore...

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LOVE and HATE it can often be said
in relationships, share the same bed
if you're really quite shrewd
you can work out her mood-
either lipstick or bruise on my head!...

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My mature face speaks
Eyes daring you to debate 
Such intelligence
You may be advanced in years
Yet today I am more shrewd.

Kristen Bruni's Tanka entry for "Baby Babbles"...

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deeply set shrewd eyes
prey seen tricked by noiseless flight…
backward nighttime sight

October 16, 2021
Syllable count : 5/7/5 (HMS)
Contest : Owl Haiku
Sponsor : Robert James Liguori...

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Impact On Brain No Longer Intact

After our brains had been racked and racked,
Again we would try to determine total impact;
Were shrewd;
Really rude;
We heard news and no longer remained intact.

Jim Horn...

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Even Though We Should Seclude

Even though what we should do is to seclude,
And never knew where it was and then elude;
In search of,
Below and above;
Still seemed so shrewd when properly viewed.

Jim Horn...

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Once there was a man called Jack, the crow
this crow wanted to be called as “clever crow”
believed “I am fox, the shrewd” 
exploited "values misunderstood"
bloody jack is no “first citizen” but “esteemed citizen” now!...

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In an egg like world
One thought he is what he is
Long before his birth

Doing more shrewd steps
Grounding too much to struggle
Thriving as crystals

Water like mirror
Reminds human true nature
Splendid moments leap....

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