Short Sparring Poems

"I’m looking for my sparring partner.
So please direct me, if you will."
“You seek a knight, a wicked wizard?”
“A mill."...

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the art of argument
piloting nimble persuasion
across complicit anarchy
stoic facts and sly lies
sparring in dueling sentences

5/17/19...

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Sun's beams with ardent fervor gleam
Showers caress winter's fallow domain 
Sprouting flowers their silty dander stream
Squawking squirrels, sparring birds occupy fertile terrain
Spring's revitalized chorus echoes a new refrain...

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THE STEADFAST LOVER'S QUERY

                                       True, I remain--
                                    Fear sparring Passion--
                              Which mountain is too steep?












Victoria Anderson-Throop (c)
December 8, 2012...

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Address antenna
Voices demanding
Optic invasions
Speech enabled knot
Talkin noisy Autobots
Intervision
Lip syncing mouth
Verbal conversion
Boiling in a pot
As the metal rots
Verbal sparring thoughts


8/22/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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A cold winter's night,
birds warmly nestled in nests-
frigid hibernation fight

Morning chirping songs,
scavenging frozen berries-
sparring for Spring survival

1/11/23
Contest: Winter Sedoka contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina
(checked with howmanysyllables)...

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Your slanting smile 
like a pendant-moon 
ready to collapse 
on pomegranates.

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Monstrous, bug-eyed, 
my pug will jump; 
whenever, I touch 
his snub-nose.

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Death was sparring 
after a brief encounter. 
What was the need 
for living more ?


Satish Verma...

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did those outstanding daffodils withstand;
their feet were frozen last night;
or had they one last stand…

sparring midnight, did my love’s hand snip them,
gently warm them in a vase;
their faces greeting mine…

i did not send my spouse onto the hill;
too steep and cold for bare feet;
reprise of Spring will hail.
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Tired of being compared 
By those who have for me cared. 
Tired of feeling scared 
Of words they declared.  

Tired of comparing 
Myself to those I'm sparring. 
Tired of fighting 
The truth of something.  

Tired of my comparisons, 
Knows not of my nature's origins. 
Tired of my frustration, 
My mind needs filtration....

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Many believe love a fantasy to be;The greater fantasy believing themselves to love.
Eros irritates me. For agape I hope.
Perhaps a monastic I should be and wear the cowl, sparring my soul from sorrow, though deep within I hold a heart full of love which I hide for fear of heartlessness from this foul realm , filled with insincerity and hypocrisy...

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Sparring with demons, and dragons and deadheads
It bobs and weaves like a drunken sailor.
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
I'm quite attached to it - joined at the psyche.

Image of an incubus twirling as I do.
Patron Saint of agony, I curse it
And relegate it to a 2nd-class personage.
Out, damn spot, out - and take the blood with you....

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Hatchling
gold daffodils
the call of the cuckoo
conies sparring before sunrise 
Soon realize the delights of rainfall
tumbling from branches to wildlife 
learning their craft quickly 
toad spawn spring bloom
hatchling

Written: January 15, 2023

Pen A Rictameter, Hopes Of Springs Return Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser...

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Adept in riling.
You cannot chew the thoughts.
There was no mandible.

This double-edged 
cutlass. The curvy contour 
brings you to a hole. You 
spray a defoliant to 
denude the trees.

Naivete.
Who was competent enough 
to disconnect the sparring 
bulls. Disingenuous, you
were not interested to –

design a stillness as a
requiem for the trailing dazzlers.


Satish Verma...

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Sparring With Pain
Written: by Tom Wright
10-21-2016

Entering each day’s fight I’ve total disdain,
The fighter I face uses the moniker, pain,
I hook and jab endeavoring to stay on top.
His presence I may slow but rarely can stop.

I’ve tried to drug him but that didn’t work,
So I’ve reached a conclusion that’s quite sage.
It hasn’t been ring savvy, grit, or footwork,
Pain unmasked revealed my true foe was Age. 
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Tangled clues
with sensuous sparring;
the incense was rising from the blue moon.

It was body’s integrity,
a lender was demanding
when lust had become prodigal.

Behind the thin veil, red eyes
stared unblinkingly 
at the portrait of a nude zero.

When the light was nodding from a crown
the darkness spat on the feet
which walked on the roses.

A single thorn will not be envious
of the licking fingers.
A drop of blood will tell the truth.


Satish Verma...

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Tangled clues
with sensuous sparring;
the incense was rising from the blue moon.

It was body’s integrity,
a lender was demanding
when lust had become prodigal.

Behind the thin veil, red eyes
stared unblinkingly 
at the portrait of a nude zero.

When the light was nodding from a crown
the darkness spat on the feet
which walked on the roses.

A single thorn will not be envious
of the licking fingers.
A drop of blood will tell the truth.


Satish Verma...

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Black spright as dark as night
Dark wizard eclipsing the light
Menacing vandal from perch alight
With guile give wing to flight
All of the airy spirits to spite
Your jealous suitors with envy requite
Spread ebony cape; your brigand kite
From eerie heights with steely eyes blight
With devilish caw a quaking fear incite
With razor-sharp talons ignite the sparring fight
With sharpened beak your helpless foe smite
Then with callous indignity glide over rendered plight...

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spartian spirit spurring
sumptuous soles straying
salient strength scrunching
saucy strife stalking
spooky south squashing
sane stats straining

desirous dare dancing
damped desires dangling
drastic dances drooling

smothered sight smoothening
stunning spurs straightening
salty soaring sparring

oodles oomph oozing
dare awed spirit.
      19:12:08:09:22

~Note~ A dare saw a spirit floating in the air, ascending... It goes there at intervals... Wishing its parents could do it....

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