Short Strophe Poems

stanza and strophe..
                             in verse set free

a broken monoku form...

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a lady
    of letters 
gifted with 
words,
stanza and strophe,
learned
in love 
a midwife
of
the 
     poetic 
rich in
         melody
so sweet 
so gentle...

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A Short Strophe?

I wish to make my 
strophes short
as I deliver 
my main thought
I aim to jest
I aim to pleaz
hope I don't cause
too many zzzz's!


McCuen Copyright October 2008...

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Silver fog rose
Camera won't focus 'pon the gray
Raindroplets pose  

Form: Tristich ...
Parallel in thought 

A strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines...

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In the midst of the night,
I was here but you’re out.
Then the blade had its flight
From the heart. No more fight.

I am free! From my sight
	Is the pain… Is the pain
That’s now light. Yes, yes, bright
	Is the light in the night
That my heart, in its flame,
Had been tamed… in the night....

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she disturbs meaning
in rhythmic pulsation
exciting to fluorescence a deeply subtext'd verse;
'but don't mistake a stinging strophe for arrogance.'

'that's just fierce presence,'
moved by waves of astonishment 
cascading through a nervous and vascular system
spontaneously overflowed  

                                          sea through


with a reaching iridescent tentacle
she simply, elegantly, fluoresces a gleam in your eyes...

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music's turning little dance								                     sing the sonettos 										          cabriole a turning stance										          ballerina's toe	                                                                                                                              ~												               tops cheval bureau a glance								           songs of little strophe    											 on look the spiraling chance									          day dreams étoile's soul...

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