Short Sprightly Poems

Time
Swift unceasing
Moves strides sprightly
I wish time gratified me 
Rhythm...

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Mower in sprightly sun is driven by
sprouting dandelions
and buzz of busy bees.

2021...

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The sun is shining brightly
It is a glorious day today
I am feeling 'almost' sprightly
My heart is singing Hooray!
Woohoo!...

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Little robin 
Outside my window 
Sprightly hopping 
Along the hedgerow 
Red breast in the snow.

          W.A. CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2017....

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the door has been closed

you stand outside in the rain

soaked in your despair

open your bright umbrella

storms pass; walk sprightly onward...

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The wee people, clever and sprightly,
play tricks on the mortal folk, nightly.
As there's mischief in me,
could it possibly be
I've got leprechaun charm in me, slightly?...

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There’s a ripe, young sun
Swinging the gardens today.

There is a sprightly, young sun
Touring the faces of revelry.

There’s a sheepish, young moon
Carrying the smirk of a virgin
Awaiting her Paul Revere....

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I had been running after a sky, 
and by a very fast fly, 
I stood above it sprightly, 
shockingly 
when it was falling into the earth. 
Now I am in the high sphere 
but my sky is 
degradingly down to the world....

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Church bells rang in stark fanfare

Ghosts gleamed sprightly rescue flare

Bones crumbled the dance on immortal grave

Scavengers of death forgot to behave

Until souls gave them a scare


03rd January 2020...

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Skating so serene like a splendid, sliding swan
upon an ice pond, softly as a spry sunrise at dawn,
Shawn saw some splendid surprise, seemed soft as sleek chiffon,
a sight so shrouded, light as snow white, a striking, sprightly fawn.


2/6/2020...

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Hope Poked

Snowdrops of hope have poked through the frost
A sign which tells us all is not lost
White, green and sprightly 
Spreading cheer brightly
With bells of glory Earth is embossed.

5th March 2021...

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Little candle burning brightly
Tiny sparrow, O, so sprightly,
A cheery hello from a friend
A helping hand so quick to lend,
Little pleasures can make my day
Turning gloomy thoughts to gay,
And lift my spirits to the cloud
Making me feel, O, so proud.

written July 19, 2021...

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“The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.”
—  quote by Carly Simon
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I see pair of red-whiskered bulbuls
with wrong-end rouge, spikes, eloquent note
gurgling - spinning love, singing the loop,
billing, bowing, chattering. I swoon
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On a marvelous day like today
While the sun is shining brightly,
Everything seems to go my way
On a marvelous day like today.
The perfect time to while away
An afternoon walk, so sprightly,
On a marvelous day like today
While the sun is shining brightly.

Written April 4, 2022...

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Really I am glad to see one of the bright stars shines again
Out of the sorrow, obsession, suspect, and that leaden pain
What inside is in fact inside that lovely heart and clear mind
Should not look at the dark cloudy sight and get going to find
More internal sense of life and its sprightly meaning and stillness....

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The clench of the hand
when greed holds a man:
tightly.
Once not in command,
aligned with God’s plan:
lightly.

The battle of will
to hold tighter still:
nightly.
The feel of the thrill
just learning to chill:
sprightly.

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from Poet's Collective, a Lai, with triplets of 5a:5a:2b, 2 per stanza....

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 Wisdom à la Sophie
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Behind calm mind can come a fear,

So conquer it, and sprightly.

A fear must not despoil your year.

Quick, quell it.  Live your life quite lightly.



1/2/2019

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." 
- Sophie Tunnell...

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Lips, soft as a shadow.

Devouring my very soul.

I didn't care. I couldn't care.

I'd gave him my heart.


Eyes, blue as a spirit.

Observing my imperfections.

I could change. I did change. 

I'd gave him my heart.


Fingers, sprightly as a fairy.

Surrounding my body.

I wouldn't move. I couldn't move.

I'd gave him my heart....

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Morning solitude is best
The once dark margin of the sea
is all at once, a sparkling pleasure
 
To hear the  sprightly magpies
as they wander over dewy grass 
warbling a wealth of sound 
the like of heaven 
 
Air so fresh it equals joy
and the jewel in the crown;
on the vacant lot beneath the sign -
a lily has bloomed....

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Far
yonder
Never near
From a distance
taunting and beckoning like a temptress
teasing like a whimsical, sprightly wind
Just out of reach
like a dream
now here
now
gone.
Is it
Illusion
or wistful whim?
Why does she leave me in a barren state?


~07/08/16
~Triple Tetractys contest by Eva Roper...

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In the lull of twilight
                   
sunburnt skies 
tell of the Sun’s demise 
below the unified realm of distant shaded shapes -

and the sprightly sea breeze dies
as night slays the day


Susan Ashley
June 20, 2019


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Your Choice (11) Imagist Style, Any Form, Theme
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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I watched them across the water prance,

Back and forth in sprightly dance.

Liveried in emerald green, others had a sapphire sheen.

It was natural choreography, by tiny acrobats

As they hovered through the reed beds, hunting bugs and gnats.

A mastery of flight, a ballet in the sky,

How mesmerising to sit and watch, dancing dragonflies....

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Waiting
For the green show
When flowers blossom bright
And young fauna are born to play
Life glows afresh with zingy zest, sun shines
Azure sky is clear, crisp breeze blows
Blooms sway in a spring dance
Sprightly spirit
Waiting



18th January 2023

For M L Kiser's "Pen a Rictameter, Hopes of Spring's Return" contest...

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                     A bubbling fountain
                     Sprightly Tortie kitten drinks
                     Relishing this Spring

      
                           

                          May 9, 2020
                           6pm PST


                          English Haiku
   
                           5,7,5

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You’re ninety two, well blow me down
I never would have guessed
You look so young and sprightly
And seem so full of zest
You’ve got your hair, its all your own
Your teeth are yours, not false
The way you talk, it’s obvious
Your mind’s intact, of course
What’s that you say, I’m sorry
Sometimes I can’t quite hear
It’s fifty two, not ninety
My word you do look queer 

© John W Fenn  22-05-2009...

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