Short Sparse Poems

enigmatic words- little songs
sparse & bittersweet...

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Out of my window
Lines of ghost girls passing by
The sparse mist...

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open holes of golf
the ladies aloft and sparse
downstairs a buffet...

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open plains,sparse grass
the winter chills,making splash
the news carrie's through...

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Banned from the heavens,
Sparse fog descends to the land;
Shackled to the ground ....

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sparse clouds linger
hanging above the red barn
autumns full moon  
...

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sparse winter
trees wear birds
like ornaments
they scatter
at any sound
and fly away...

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all human knowledge
          in  sea of eternal life,
         is less than  sparse drop...

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Sparse coin In God’s purse
No absolutes, save one…things
Can always get worse
...

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the moon’s a sliver
stars are sparse and clouds are great
opening for Fall

9/1/2019...

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crepe myrtle's bare limbs
peeled bark reveals red-brown tone...
sparse seed pods remain  ...

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creek sounds / strong stones lie
stream song / low croak sigh
sparse rain / hot stones crack
deaf ears / dry worlds die...

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hunger gnaws haplessly
harvestless, stark, earthen womb
sparse amniotic fluid
vacant calcified corpses
emphysemic ether blooms...

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moon low in the east

orange fireball crawls skyward 

sparse clouds glow ablaze 


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I am so sparse, I am so scarce
I am so rare but I am no farce
I am the one and only hence so lonely
I exist on earth in Forty three only...

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Bird in Sparse Tree



Lost in the woods
I should not have left my perch
The trees are sparse now



10/13/17
James Edward Lee Sr....

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Much In their hands,
Sufficient in their barns,
Blinded to others' sparse lands,
Inconsiderate to their scattered darns.



June 28, 2022....

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To go out today would be a farce
Bitterly cold and sunshine sparse
I wanted to play
But there was no way
I would certainly land on my arse


7/7/2013...

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True words I shall tenderly parse
Who’s seen that tremendous fat arse?
So not to offend
And the wrong message send
Let’s classify it as not sparse...

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The tropical flower,
     drought wild flower
     fruit of the miracle 
     of the encounter,
     between the hot dust
     and the sparse rain... !...

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The susurrus breeze 
of spring’s ingénue trees 
now rasps and wheezes,
rustling sparse leaves as
the trees, now crones,
rest brittle bones,
primed for winter’s coming....

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‘Mid two trees

    Squirrels, maybe four, 
Maybe five, 
   Maybe more. 

I glance the floor
Sparse blades, short in fall,
    Scattered
 Peanut shells, fragments
 No meat left....

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the subservience of sunflowers
posed and heavy with dried yellow
spreads over fields of faded growth,

the sun stages the horizon
of sparse trees and hedgerows;
beyond the hope of lost gold....

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Listen to poem:

Rian on Rain
By David J Walker

Only in the distance
Its scent a mixture 
of the mud

Made by droplets of
Lifeblood 
Sparse in parts of
Mother earth

As foretold 
A day of rain 
is coming...

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Words sparse
Touch terse

Verse bright
Muse writes

One bite 
Delight.

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March 2, 2022
Syllable count checked at HMS
Contest : One Bite Poem No. 38
Sponsored by : Line Gauthier...

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