Short Thirty One Poems

Kissable lips and
Blue eyes keep me busy with
The leg in a cast...

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after thirty-one years of involvement, she undressed and I yell, "FOOD"...

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Don’t be so busy looking for who walked away 
to see who needs you in their life now....

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Standing in red shoes
The yellow dwarf was my muse
Lifts and pastes cause blues

By Robb A. Kopp...

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poor ole paddy has the big head
because of twelve thirty one he said
had too many drinks
passed out he thinks
glad he woke up not dead...

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There are flavors from strawberry cheesecake to sarsaparilla.
Thirty-one different kinds of ice cream, and you want vanilla?
...

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Paula Modersohn-Becker,a daring lady
self portrayed in the altogether,for all to see
An early expressionist,largely unsung
dying with a child-bearing embolism,at just thirty-one...

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It was a thirty-one day March to get to May
Then when April approached I opted to stay
But us living together
Was all stormy weather
Until June smiled brightly and took me away...

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There's a billion seconds in thirty-one years
My libido's worn out right up to my ears
So I guess I must believe
Mind blowing to perceive
Cruising at 82 like someone kicked me in the rear...

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There is but one Halloween moon
bright in the sky on October thirty-one,
below, the laughter and mayhem
strange creatures casting long moon shadows for fun.


10/19/2015

For "Halloween Moon" sponsored by Eve Roper....

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Tanka contains five lines
This form of poetry 
takes us to a moment
that brings ecstasy in 
the mind of the reader 
through fixed syllables count
totalling thirty one

03rd February 2022
For pleiades poetry contest, Joseph May
Syllables checked at PS...

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Ann
Was
Teacher
And mother
Emergency nurse
A cheerful joy to all she knew
Giving God's wisdom, encouragement, laughter and hugs.
Thirty-one thousand five hundred days and she was gone.
Tears freely flowed; black was adorned.
Her life shaped many.
Family
Forgot
Ann
Though....

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One came dressed as a bumble bee,
Another as an orange cat.
One character I didn't know
For I am not as hep as that.

Though I could see loved child beneath,
I acted scared the evening through.
The sweets are gone, normalcy reigns
Until ten thirty-one eleven is due.

By: Joyce

For Paula's challenge...

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When I was one I ate a bun going over the sea.
When I was two I tied my shoe going over the sea.
Then, I think I was thirty one then my butt grew,
I wasn't allowed over the sea, so I backed it up,
got caught up, then I was going over the sea.
My momma told me not to because I was going to
 get eat by that damn shark at sea....

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Thirty-one flavors has Ms. Baskins
    Sparrows, bluebirds, and Ms. Robbins

  All the other beak-heads have twenty-eight
    except for pigeons ~ Ewwwwwwww*




  *Picked up this awesome word from Deb M,
    who was responding to my epic write,
    'Time Spent on Rhyme,' aka 'Fertilizer
    Miser,' posted on Sept. 05, 2023...

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D-ivine love of the Lord
E-ndorses hope and faith; 
S-alvation of the soul
I-s necessary and great, 
R-ighteous and divine love
E-manates from the heaven; 
E-arnestly let your mnd, heart, soul, and spirit open.

D-ay thirty-one of January
I-s willed by the Father above; 
E-arly Wednesday morning, 
Z-ealously ask for divine love....

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TANKA

     Tuned in Japanese form
      Thirty one syllables
       Top line: Five syllables
       Then comes only seven
        Third line shows again five.
         Take fourth just on seven.
          To conclude count seven.

     01/27/22
                       Third Place

  Write about a Form


   Contest by. Joseph May...

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I sit here and waste my life
Because I have not found anyone to waste it with
I heard you were out there somewhere
But is what I hear just a myth?

You were almost in sight
But you then disappeared
Upon this night I am alone
This is what I have feared

Fear may show at night
But builds during the day
Each night I lay awake
And think about May...

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*Tainted Tongue*

turbulent torrent puking
rustic waves, feigning
passion gulping gaunt
horizon; hoisted bow
receding thuds pounding
punctured mists mumbling

thirty one years
creature in tier;
human, ape, bear

bounty beards blushing
farcical feets' felony
trudged earth moaning

sans tamed language
yet Island's sage.
     19:11:26:15:00...

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N-otable and noble deed
E-xpresses its good objective; 
T-o give glory to God, 
H-aving chance to forever live.

B-egin to do noble deed, 
A-iming to gain greatest glory; 
N-ice goal is to please the Lord, 
D-ay thirty-one of January.
A-lmighty God shall grant you
N-othing but what you need; 
G-iving His endless blessings because of your noble deed....

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Novem by IMDb.

Novem: Affects IX in 1973

Nine college students record music
at some sheltered hideaway place.
They're killed in a van mishap,
on the way back to school.
Yond thirty-one years,
their songs recalled.
Sometimes fame
comes too
late.

2022 November 10
*3rd Place*
A November Nonet
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 November 21

*HMS...

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Delicate tools on	
		Sterile linen
	Perfect machinery with
		Cross-checked drugs
	Anxious hearts and
		Wide-open eyes...
	"Two thirty one;
		to be exact.."
	Announced the lady
		Draped in green
	"Here's your precious,
		and that's a boy.."
	Uttered a kind but,
		commanding voice...
	Echoed on the walls
		a cry so loud
	Painting smiles on
		those who behold......

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For thirty one years she’s stood 
at the back of my brain
like a wallflower at a dance
as she did that day in May 
at the school’s front door
after the last bell rang
to begin the weekend
I waved as I passed 
believing I had nothing to say
that I hadn’t said before

(My best friend died thirty one years ago today a day after the car she was in was hit by a drunk driver)...

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Poor little girl,
Decided to give her life a whirl.
Thirty-one,
Still undone,
Can't see why no one thinks she's fun.
Lost in coloring books,
Her only choice in life,
Is the color of her strife.
To ad interest,
Brain surgery and epileptic fits,
"Feel my scar".
Before she has a fit!
This is not much to bring to a conversation,
So, Rose of Sharon,
Gets lost in translation....

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Most ghouls and goblins will not be seen
After October thirty-one, on Halloween.
But the worst of them I fear will stay
Until November two, Election Day.

If I am to believe all that I hear
Of the candidates, I sadly fear
The choice is either rogue or sinner.
It matters not whom is the winner.

Ten thirty-one  should not worry you
The date to fear is eleven two.

By: Joyce...

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