Short Ten Thousand Poems

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Premium Member Spring Rain

spring rain
ten-thousand frog croaks collapse
a rain-soaked silence


Previously published in Poetry Soup, 2018
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Lorraine Cemetery

Near Saint Avold, France,
More than ten thousand heroes
Whisper from the soil.
Form: Haiku

A Drink

The man
draws water.
from a well on an island

later

from a spring on a mountain

Ten thousand
weary footsteps
For a drink
Form:

Premium Member Lone Gull

A bit of paper
           blown high
Lone gull    in an empty sky

Listen closely
           hear it cry
Ten thousand others    close by
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bad

lad
the world is all good
except 
for the bad

just a fad
for the past 
ten thousand years
and a tad

how sad
how bad
human nature
not a fad?


Premium Member Space Yeti

It was a red space Yeti.
Claimed crazy teddy.
They like shandy lime
on planet number nine.
Ten thousand years in time
Before his claim may be denied.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Antique Fair

This morning I drove to get my lot
The antique fair and love what I got
Great day for a fair
One thing I must share
Ten thousand people and one porta pot
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Silhouette

HAIKU #13,001..........................................................Silhouette


Prelude to winter
Pearly white feathers for sale
ten thousand trees bare.

*
Form: Haiku

Icarus

If a skylark flies ten thousand 
feet 
above the uncaring world
Has not that lark ten thousand 
feet,
faster with every whirl,
To fall 
and smash in pieces on the 
ground.
© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.

Bald Facts

Hair today, gone tomorrow,
My follicles falling to my sorrow,
Ten thousand dollars to my surgeon,
Some people think I might be splurgin', 
But I can't wait for my new hair to grow.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Noble Sir Albert

noble sir albert
  perched on his nose
a primitive sundial
  a bird without toes

growth's been phenomenal
  sir albert cooed
as Big Ben came into view
  ten thousand cats mewed

Mail Call

Ten thousand years at sea in a star-ship’s dome
I sail the galaxy, I scribble letters home.

And fifty thousand years pass before I learn
Earth-folks’ loyal tears weep for my return.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Prairie Shepherd

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                     keeper of the field
                             guarding ten thousand bushel
                                                   defending harvest





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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Human Poem Masquerading as AI

How can these dupes called humans
shine a light of ten thousand lumens,
writing something wise or smart
with feeling and with heart? 
These morons walking on two feet,
if you ask me, are obsolete.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ten Thousand Apologies

  	      Ten thousand apologies do no good
                 should the offense injure me

               Delicate, the affairs of my heart
                  ~ think before you cleave them apart
Form: Rhyme

Bloody Children

All those times

Mouths of different

History of war,

Mistrust,

Insecurity.

Ten thousand years

Excuses for killing,

Mocking,

Insecurity.


The Stupid's brethren,

Bloody children.

Stampede

Ten thousand hooves and horns on the Devil's run
                          Lighting crashing, thunder rolling, all Hell has broke loose
                                          A nightmare, full speed ahead
© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member Full Count

THE WINDUP
THE PITCH
BALL THREE

YOU FEEL THE WEIGHT 
OF
TEN THOUSAND EYES 
ON YOU
STRIKE TWO

FULL COUNT

BACK
UP AGAINST THE WALL
HIT THE FREAKING BALL

HIT IT FAR 
WITH ALL YOUR CLOUT
SHOW THEM ALL

THE WAY OUT.
Form: Bio

Premium Member Counting Sheep

Got up at 3:00 AM, sure had enough sleep Coffee at 10:00, made me ready to dance and leap Thought I might as well rise Stead of giving it a try Got up to ten thousand, counting all those damn sheep!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Whale of a Lament

Ten-thousand deep-sea divers standing on me
  
  ~ Twenty-thousand legs under the sea





______________________________________ 
Revision of a 'Speed Joke' heard within the last
month on WGN Radio, 720-AM, Chicago, IL
Form: Couplet

If I Was a Farmer

If I was a farmer, 
I’d cherish what we’d achieved 
Throughout ten thousand years
Towns, cities built on our sweat
Civilisation itself conceived
Yet fertile ground for ill thought fears.



Bite Size Poem no.39 Poetry Contest
Form: Rhyme

Cotton-Pickin' Paradise

Down south of a dirty delta town
after double-winged dusters sweep low
White hats, bent backs and bloody hands
sway to the rhythm of summer snow fields
Backed by a choir of ten thousand crickets
reaching up to touch heaven with a song
Form: Verse

Premium Member You Won't Get This with Ken Burns

A Mount Vernon daddy long-legs
was pregnant with ten thousand eggs.
You might call what she did a shameful deed
with a Monticello centipede, 
and yet...not long after Valley Forge,
that monstrous army defeated a proud King George.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Jewel

A Jewel

A jewel among 
Ten thousand tears
One raindrop clear
One drop among a host
Which sends
A spearing shaft
Of purest crystal light
The low shine 
Of a winter’s sun
Suspended in a liquid lens
On the leafless thorn.

Premium Member It's Nothing New

The self-proclaimed prophets speak
to warn end-time signs eclipse will wreak.

Ten-thousand eclipes have come and gone,
while human carnage carries on.

Be more cautious of a terrorist attack
than the sun and moon's cosmic act.
Form: Couplet

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