Short Sparing Poems

I wore my spare shirt bowling, took me two tries to get all the pins down...

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The rule for good verse
Be sparing and terse
   Precision of thought
   Not overwrought
Never ever verb-hearse...

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As a  dietician - for every client
I recommend sparing-balanced diet.
After you ate a kilo of steak,
Eat for a balance one kilo of cake !...

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Touched and changed by kindness as repentants are:
healed, being forgiven and living fully;
Christ did redeem me before death occurred...
sparing intense pain....

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I live a simple journey on own way
        sparing love values once a day
        hoping having my slice of heaven
       never expecting  to come a doomsday......

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It's the latest in mini-spending sprees
More popular than sparing green trees
   Coeds enter with hair
   But they exit quite bare
their lower limbs party hearty tatoo-free...

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A warrior's heart is a fire
                          it burns sparing nothing on its way
                              And when fed with volatile fuel
                             it burns even on the watery sea...

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From God’s Palette
Miracle Man
1/6/2022

Evening sun escapes from an overcast sky,
that provides a ceiling over huge round bales.
Summer's searing heat has rendered ground bone-dry,
a multicolored sky sparing no details.
...

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Z Z Top and Cousin It took the right approach
     Dark sun glasses and beards detract from scraggly hair
Next time my motley hairdo meets with reproach
     Combing forward I’ll consider, sparing the Nair



*For Rick's "Bad Hair Day" contest...

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Nine o’clock dark
Stage for shark swim
Deep arc stakeout

Sailors phishing
Not squaring news
Sparing no one

Once debutante 
Vessel vaunt sinks
For daunt of men

Dawns a new day
Silent gray-blue
Sea fray absconds...

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For humans who, from the beginning
Were first originated,
Degenerate into sand,

It is known not,
Of their creator’s whereabouts,
And knowing is further refrained,

Though it is not entirely known,
That he exists,
Though few find him,

Worth sparing,
A secondary glance....

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Sparing


Spare the rod, spoil the  child
Sayings are short-hand stories 
Sensible people support and encourage sensitivity
Selflessly give seconds, minutes, hours, days
Sow the seeds of empathy
Save their souls because it's not worth,  
spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar.





24 June 2022...

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The thorns have come for me
Her deadly flower walks
There's more for taking me
to deadly hallow docks

What once was gracing me
now trecherous goary blocks
When now I come to see
her hoary marry mocks

That now  I know to see
more caring fair-thee flocks
So all I love to see
is sparing tarry gawks...

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They gave birth
to a beautiful baby
and left him alone 
only a dog to play with
the dog was  happy
to have a  humble friend
and it taught him how to bite
yes, he excelled in the skill 
biting without sparing
biting without mercy
parents wept and exiled child
but were indicted by society
for false accusation...

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No one can bar the door to their house to prevent a visit

Dreaded and feared universally
Equalizer, not sparing saints, beggars or kings
Awful and awesome, having no nemesis
Thief taking loved ones, deaf to pleas, blind to tears
Hurting and destroying those it leaves behind 

Jack Horne, 4th September, for Constance’s Deep and Dramatic contest...

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Slender beams of 
accusation enter
this darkened place 
as I kneel,
always lost, 
always forlorn,
frozen here,
waiting.

Angelic forms wrought 
in panes of glass loom as
dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
sparing not my 
naked outstretched arms.

Realization dawning on my face.

I raise my head, 
now kneeling before
this airy salvation....

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We waltz among moonlit clouds,
chiffon robes, a dreamy shroud.

Clasping hands we spin and twirl,
this sleepers haven, a perfect world.

Darkness lends to a soul's relief,
sparing hearts from the grief.

Trending fears of dawns new light,
shining pain upon the plight.

An evenings gift, at days long end,
a return to sleep, when we'll dance again!...

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Never Forgotten


Kip
So Young 
So Full Of Life
So Many Hugs
So Many Smiles
If You Were Down
If You Were Sad
He Always Made You Laugh
Your Sadness Would Melt Away
Swimming In The Pound
Sparing With His Friend
Always Laughing
Always Smiling
Always Playing
No More Pain
No More Suffering
We Will Always Remember you
You Have Touched  All Our Hearts And Our Lives...

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Lead point scratching 
Pink eraser scrubbing, 
Ticking time catching 
My eyes, I'm rubbing 

Inspiration sparing
Rhyme and word fighting, 
White lines staring
Thumb and finger writing 

Yellow #2 shrinking 
Lines ever darkening, 
My eyelids blinking 
My mind harkening 

Hours ever zooming 
Crumpled paper piling, 
Good enough is looming
I find myself smiling. 
...

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The beauty from outside the beast from within
How careless was nature to commit such a sin
Not to equally on your parts grant its grace
Sparing the heart and saving it all for the face
The face of a princess the heart of a tigress
You’re cloyed with beauty but lack loveliness

You still can adjust this error, if you start
Working less upon the face and more upon the heart...

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Like very few dads on earth 
Sparing precious a life to grant a new birth 
Driven by unlimited love and a tremendous mirth 
Glory of heart and soul is your aspiration 
Never cease to be an icon and a fount of inspiration 
Every single desire and whim are met with compassion 
Never regarded a sacrifice but a sweet devotion 
You are worth all the love, respect and recognition....

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He loves me
Unconditionally conditional
Always fighting for what’s real
Holding firmly onto one another
Unconditionally conditional
Emotional emotions 
Holding firmly onto one another
Sparing no time without a kiss
Emotional emotions
Always fighting for what’s real
Sparing no time without a kiss
He loves me

3/13/15
Repeat After Me - Poetry Contest
 Sponsor:Rachel Firmin...

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With a rescue package that won’t pick up
Being steadily hit by a hiccup  
And prices jacking up
Should we still treat him like a hero 
Who has scored a shameful zero?

Still him obediently follow
And this taking to tomorrow?
Ourselves consoling with laughs hollow 
And him sparing a ripe bellow?
Or isn’t the disappointing Hero 
Some sort of Caesar Nero 

A name penned with common biro?...

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As one pushes harder and bettor, an abating sense might resolve. 
Birds shout in manners other than uproarious yells while rising 
When time is short, aplomb is a conundrum to evolve. 
Should profoundly breathe out, for negative cogency sparing.

Written: August 15, 2021

1st Place winner

A Brian Strand 3 To 14 Line Poetry Contest

Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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We are the storm

we - writers of the verse
eloquent or terse
for better
or for worse
in prayer
or in curse
We hone the tip
sparing no thrust
lest weaponed words
slow gather dust
not battles need
but battles must
this vortex raging
funneled thought
releasing demons
never caught
scattering
on trembling page
cold dreams and fears
coming of age

We are the storm


John G. Lawless
©5/4/2019...

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