Short Tet Poems

Dive bomber carpenter with red-stained teeth
suicidal
buzzing sound
creeps me
  out

4/24/2019
Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Charles Messina...

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Many rose petals floating downstream on a gleaming river
They move so slowly, almost getting lost in the sun's white glare
The monks on the riverbank seem lost in idle reverie...

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Jules
Buoyant
Inspired
Sylph in his eyes
Lost in the fog where restive hearts reside
Will she surrender her passionate flame?
It's all he wants
To be named
Whispered
Craved....

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VietNam War – TET

war
60’s
Viet Nam
youth quickly lost
Greyscale TV’s final shock and awe

Written April 28, 2019
Contest: Tetractys This Poetry Contest
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Knarled tree hanging on by the sea
Fighting or surviving a tet-a-te
No! Just being, resting, in the wind
Stronger than the lighthouse built by man




(God be with you til we meet again.)...

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You,
It's you,
Always has been,
Maybe always will be,
Every other thought is you,
I can't even escape with dreams,
Will it ever be over,
This torture you bring,
Leaving only pain,
All because,
You.

Tet...

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Swift
 Little
 Beauties dart
 About seeking
 Nectar from nature's colorful flowers

 Catch 
 A glimpse
 Of them when
 They perch, then off
 They go, hovering in iridescent glow

 4-28-19
 Tetractys This Contest
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Love
Will come
Love will go
And hearts will break
But hearts will mend and love will come again

Years will pass and hair will turn to silver
And hearts will smile
Having loved -
Loving
Still

4-26-19
Contest:Tetractys
Sponsor:Charles Messina...

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Waves
and spume
tickles toes
as I paddle
on the shore ... reliving my childhood days

Sweet memories come flooding back to me
a tiny tot
having fun
in the 
sea

Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Charles Messina


4/28/19...

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Jays
wheel by
in tandem ,
a sky parade
roller coasting above verdant grassland. 

As harbingers of enchanted autumn
birdnotes usher
crisp morning--
red plumes
flung!



Tetractys This Poetry Contest
For charles messina   4/28/2019...

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I 
dance with
the ocean
jumping blue waves -
soaking in its stretch of sun-drenched beauty

When the sun sinks low, I dine with the sky
as I devour
dusk's hues and
imbibe
peace.

April 26, 2019 for the Tetractys This Poetry Contest of charles messina...

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Sleep
A Taste
In This Life
Of What Awaits
Streams of Consciousness Slowly Leaving Earth

Returning Whence We Came -- To Our Maker
Our Primal Source
Of Life and
Of Love
Death


April 24, 2019
Entry in 'Tectractys This Poetry' contest
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Smile
On your 
Crystal face
Moonbeam ripples
Set dulcet rhythm of dance in my heart beat.

I travelled a long way drenched in moon dust
With lost gem’s glint
I now walk
The last 
Mile.

April 26, 2019
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Gourmand - TET

Sight
Smells Good
Tastes good too
Let me touch it
My four senses all like the beef jerky

My fifth sense hears the complaints of my choice
What do I care
it's sole food
old shoes
choose

Tetractys This Poetry Contest
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April 25, 2019...

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shine
on, my
brightest star-
my gold stardust...
for you’re the wonder that holds the sky up

your kindness outweighs all the world’s riches
crave my tame touch
quench my thirst-
you're my...
home.



Tetractys This Poetry Contest
April 25, 2018
Charles Messina...

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wild 
monsoon
drizzled love
long years ago 
perfume of petrichor spilled all over....

an old photograph falls out of the book
one tear drop sheds 
your thoughts flood
boundless
dreams. 



Dated  25th April 2019
PS syllable counter 1,2,3,4,10--10,4,3,2.1
Contest "Tetactys This"
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Condemned

nice
house had
christmas trees
and children sounds
asking, “Ma, is it time to come in now?”
oh how we stretched forth here and became grown
voices are still
haunting now
glory
gone
once
favored
domicile
all move in new
what fools destroyed your beauty day by day?

7/10/16
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Snow
Falling 
Creating
A white carpet
That dazzles us with its sheer brilliance                         
Spring arrives and the carpet is no more
Buds now appear
Birds singing
Flowers
Bloom.



Written 25th April 2019

For Tetractys This Poetry Contest.

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Lost unto a Gin spin
The blood grows thin
To the beckoning 
Of a morning hangover of regret
And reading the tet a tet
Of slurring rambling 
The pre-amble 
Shall read
Here lies the afterbirth 
Of the Man Child Boy
Who writes until the morning 
Comes to fetch what is left
Of the night before 
Bore the brunt of self loathing 
In Emperor's cloaking...

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SMILE OF SUNFLOWER TET

     Shy
     soft sweet
     silent smile
     of sunflower
     seeing so dazzling shiny Sun glistening.
                        
    Flowers loved and bathed by sunbeam showers
     in opulence
    turns smart head
    to face
    Sun.

   04/27/19
                        Second Place
 ' Tectractys This'  Contest by charles messina...

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Joy
                     Has turned
                      To sorrow
               When you left me
 Love no longer lives in my heart, it died

Grief, loneliness and sadness comforts me
              Why did you leave?
                     I miss you
                        Darling
                          Bye




4-26-19

Contest: Tetractys This 
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Golden leaves upon the pear trees
No fruit to ripen though
Spring's frost killed it all in the bud
Always hope for next year's to grow

The air is damp and cool again
Charcoal gray clouds move in
There's a tet-a-tee between fall
And winter to begin

We never know about the seasons
It's unsure just like life
Which can zap us with unreason
Or blessings flow without strife  ...

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Dark
                         Dismal
                       Bitter cold
                    Winter season
      A time to hibernate, relax and rest

       A time for rejuvenation, rebirth
                  Springtime season
                    Warmth returns
                         Joyful
                         Bright

4/26/19

Contest: Tetractys This Poetry Contest

Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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Trump Thoroughly Upset

Starting this one from scratch.

Trump is upset and has made us upset;
Seems to fool around and always fret;
Injured in shade,
By a grenade,
Was in offensive he thinks they call Tet.

He even lied about this. What spurs him on
amazes me and I have many bones to pick
with him. Have heard he has Vietnam Vet
on his license plate as of late. Oh, and he
is offensive in many ways these days.

Jim Horn...

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Wind
and rain
bring bird chirps.
Give way to blue
skies, with  flowers blooming in the garden,
oh, April showers bring us May flowers.
Squirrels run, leap,
bees buzz, buzz,
butters'
glide. 

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April 24, 2019 (Double Tetractys)


Poetry/Double Tetractys/In Spring
Copyright Protected, ID 19-113171-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Tetractys This
sponsor, Charles Messina

Second Place...

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