Short Spanned Poems

The distance between greatness and beauty
is in sir mount a bubble...

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verses in lines, wing that shines
converses and do streamlines
contemplating on pages
transcending spanned phalanges...

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an enormous wing spanned eagle or hawk
swoops down and carries off struggling bunny
I watch in awe
sad for the terrified bunny
but glad for eagle’s eaglets or hawklets...

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A fiery sensation looms
Seasonally ever so fickle
Majestic temptation blooms
A fiery sensation looms
As nature escapes its cocoon
Spanned was a universal ripple
A fiery sensation looms
Seasonally ever so fickle...

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Can you see upon wings
Spanned and golden
Above a world
Shattered and broken

In dusk descending
All must alight
To sleep in silence
Through the night

At dawn to arise
Spanned and golden
Soaring skyward
No words are spoken

Stoic...

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Teach Me How To Impeach

My thought said someone should teach,
Me a way that Trump we can impeach;
Time had spanned,
With his small hand;
Sent this to God for Him back to beseech.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Master of Limericks, MLm...

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Upon nature's land
With a lifetime of focus
The lens captures time
My gift, love forever spanned,
With a camera…name brand

© February 6, 2011


Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest:  TANKA YOUR VALENTINE GIFT Sponsored by: 
Andrea Dietrich...

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sunburst sky we’ve spanned
     you fly away what remains?
memory feathers in nest

in dream of passion
     i sip your sigh what echoes?
silent music of fusion

July 14, 2021
Syllable count : 5/7/7/5/7/7(HMS)
Contest : Ni(2) Katuata
Sponsor : William Kekaula...

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 I am more than mere 
man I am covenant plan
energies spanned
~
abundantly graced
filled, and forgiven in space
God particles based
~
more am I mere am
spaced redeemed revive blessed
I am more than mere 


1/19/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Fly like an Eagle
Soaring so high
On thermal winds
On the open sky
 
Pride in their glide
Awesome in pose
Downward wings
Upward flows
 
The elegant Eagle
Feathered in brown
Spanned for flight
A bird so right
 
To stand below
And look above
This bird of birds
I've grown to love....

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Bridging Sand


Why have we
spanned the verdant valley,
arched the rivers solitude and peace,

altered the currents upon which winged talons feast.
Funneled life along a wandering concrete beast
denying footsteps upon the land,

strung wood and iron band.
Bridging sand?


John G. Lawless
Trois-Par-Huit a Bridge contest
5/19/2014...

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T wo little infants, born miles apart,
W ander through life with twin broken hearts.
I njured by those they thought they could trust,
N ow life had slipped by, like a handful of dust.
S omeone above must have made their paths cross,
O n seeing each other, they were no longer lost.
U ndying, their love spanned thousands of years,
L aying to rest all the pain and the tears....

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On yonder strand
In bridled land
A motley band
With vigor fanned
Across hill, lowland
With self righteous brand
Seeking brigand contraband
From each licentious hand
To forthrightly remand
Every highway spanned
Tolls, tribute to demand
Each pilfering cleric did reprimand
Then every bloated collection was 
panned
Every royal vestige scanned
Gratuitous coffers to expand...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Sonnets by Alexas Fotos via Pixabay.

Sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnets contain;
Syllables; ten per line,
Stanzas four lines; Quatrain,
Scheme; every other, rhyme,
Spanned Quatrains being thrice,
Spins in the last Quatrain,
Seals a couplet, rhyme twice.

2022 January 18
*1st Place*
Write About a Form
~~Joseph May: Judged 2022 February 19

*HMS
Rhyming Scheme: ababcac...

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Soul shines in abyss, my deep space,
like thousand suns it gleams,
in inner galaxy I trace
the absolute one, Him.

In timeless odyssey 
I grasp infinity
in spanned eternity. 

Divine pearl of bliss,
soul shines in abyss.

________________________

October 23, 2021
Syllable count checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Quietus-October 2021
Sponsor : Unseeking Seeker...

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SKETCHING

charcoals soft lines
in varied shades of grey
birds in flight their feathers spanned light
captured in detail through blue heavenly heights
an artist’s creation emerges
blank pages come to life
with every stroke

SKETCHING



(Inspired by watching my artistically talented daughter-in-law 
sketch a “Verreaux Eagle” in the Champagne Valley Drakensberg)



© Kim van Breda—3 August 2015...

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To Death… A toast in tainted wine
Let glasses ring its somber chime
As shadows cast its name in black
To Death we walk… with no path back

To Death… whose fame has spanned the ages
Only love has penned more pages
Only time outlives its quill
To Death … To Death ‘till all is still

To Death… and to its secret kept
While all that live have stood and wept
To Death… and to its final kiss
I give a life… that I shall miss...

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Busy square around me sucking me inside
Keeping me from seeing what's on the outside
Building shell surrounds me squared off like a hide
Standing on a corner; a square; a block; that's wide

Quilted district patterns are mapped across the land
while larger squares protruding shows zoning had a hand
Suburbs of the city squaring boundaries they have spanned
When all that's left are gullies squared by nature that are fanned....

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On frayed wings fragile
Winter flies away
Mist melts cleaning sky
Spanned by seamless blue
The songbirds soar high.

Blooming buds glow
Between jade leaves
Breeze ripples scent
Butterflies trace.

Nature paints
Enthralling
Landscape live

Portrays
Sparkling

Spring.

March 5, 2021
Syllable count checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Spring Diminished Hexaverse Contest
Sponsor : Caren Krutsinger...

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Lilac drips emboss the outstretched plains
Whilst the aquatic festoonery resurfaces
Permanently
The Expanse is Extraordinary
But it is all so ordinary, in its distance spanned
Repeated
But it is so glorious, the defeat that refused a compromise
And found itself in the inglorious moratorium,
clawing, drawing closer
To the Expanse, in Extraordinary enduring hostile pity
To find the clawing was for not
If the water flows regardless...

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The child played on the shore all day, 
Preferring fortress peace to boat, 
The noon-bright gulls knifed waves of air, 
Blurs in the brief expanse of moat.

One tower rose, a stubby knot, 
The grand gate, scratches on a wall, 
And no bridge spanned the moat at all, 
For sea had cleaned the beach of clay.

In half-light limped a fragment moon, 
As youthful eyes watched waves draw near, 
His stark foot left a seaward ruin, 
That sweeping crests rushed without thought....

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Forgiven Sin’s
Written: by Miracle Man
7/27/2024

God’s justice required a payment,
for all of my wrong doing. 
I was unable to satisfy my debt,
for the sin that I was accruing.

But my faith spanned the gap,
between Holy God and me.
He heard my sinners prayer,
 and at that moment set me free.

For my sin debt was prepaid,
through Jesus at the cross.
He paid the ultimate price,
taking upon Himself, my dross.

Thank You Jesus!







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 Across the room their eyes did meet
 She heard the song, she felt the beat
 They danced all night to rhythms sweet
 It was a treat, it was a treat

 She saw the passion in his eyes
 Her desire she could not disguise
 They shared kisses and ecstasy's prize
 as heartbeats rise, as heartbeats rise

 Was it love that this dance had spanned
 Was it destiny's winning hand
 Or was it something less than grand
 A one night stand, a one night stand

 1-22-2024
 Form: Monotetra...

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With joyous spirit we 
   prepare for Christmas time;
fill up our shopping carts
   for friends and family,
with perfect gifts that seemed
   to be the ones they'd like,
to give on Christmas Day, 
   with festive love and glee.

Next day- on long lines, spanned
   in stores and shopping malls,
so many of them wait
   with bags of gifts in hand.
And presents that we deemed 
   to be the perfect ones
will now fill carts at the 
   'returns/exchanges' stand.


December 22, 2016...

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