Short Strains Poems

Lust
Fulfilled
Strains the soul
Drenches the minds
Thirst...

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He who strains his ears
is a find for seers.

Volodymyr Knyr 2014...

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between dawn and night
spaces of time strains hours
except when owl hoots...

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Weeping   shores I sense,
Melancholy strains of waves,
Look! A Ray of light………...

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Weeping   shores I sense,
Melancholy strains of waves,
Look! A Ray of light……………....

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summer garden talks

listen to the floral strains

weeds smother her wrath...

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 when true love rains, 
rose moon reigns~heart 
thrums strains in stars...

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Sour Diesel
Train wreck
OG Kush
New strains pop
Everyday in my brain
Rolling and smoking like a train...

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ancient hills
                            resound with strains 
                               of music tones...

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Blue, spiny, varicose veins
years of hard work to appraise
clotted arteries heart's door strains
life's temporal lease instantly frays...

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The God of Pandemics is silly
Displaying less sense than a lily
The rest of us know
The virus can't grow
Where no one has a 6' willie!...

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sweetest strains of violins
  played by gents with double chins

ecstasy, as they hit the highest 'C'
  if they'd only comb their hair on key...

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Number 21

ANEW


That old sun shines
Now once again
New feels divine
In trendy strains




Leon Enriquez
08 January 2015
Singapore...

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Number 34

POEM


I shape each verse
Strain metaphor
But still observe
Strains in decor




Leon Enriquez
23 January 2015
Singapore...

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Upon the first strains
The entire audience stands...
Sing Hallelujah!!


(Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus"...King George II started this tradition)...

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I pick a history from the peck of grains;
Only my retention will take me far.
And through modest abasement will I unwrap it strains?

6/4/2014...

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small rapture snail strains,
uncurls, searching in time's tick
nature's subtle crawl



















Haiku composed December 29, 2020...

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Serenely the breeze blows past
Gently she inhales to consume it all
Stirred by sounds so isolate
She strains to hear the wind call
Gathering her wares she she walks on...

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Now blemishes appear on the
painted gold metal surface, miniscule
scratches accumulated through the
strains of daily life.
Even watches cannot escape the yoke of time....

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The wheat,  when rich with grains
Bends its stalks in Gratitude
The weed,  though it proudly strains
To raise itself,   yields no food.

















Cynthia Buhain Baello...

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Number 32

WIT


Wit works better than hits
Act with sure intention
Bits find some awkward fit
Tact strains odd convention




Leon Enriquez
21 January 2015
Singapore...

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Let me play the strains
Of those cadenced memories
And lost orchestrated dreams.

Strains that ebb and flow
From my blue rustic aged
Viola of loneliness.

Copyright: 1992016...

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like bad poetry
strains to push out another ~
constipation reigns


for the A Hi-Poo Senryu Poetry Contest
sponsored by John Lawless
written on 10/2/23...

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What more than a whisper of wind
   can we demand on a starry night
With strains of violins in the background
   and a velvet-gloved waiter 
                          ~ to take our order...

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The hammock’s mesh strains the sky
Underneath arms stretch to touch
The velvet splendor of love
Azure beauty of the skies








Written Sept 8 2012
For Nette's Contest: Hammock of Sky Tanaga...

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