Short Threadbare Poems

do to achieve
threadbare discussion  perceive...

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Waning threadbare hope,
He faces uncertainty,    
He craves a ration.



February 21, 2022....

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seams frayed and threadbare
rocking time till life to come
old clock once more chimes


4/1/2018...

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Moon
arrived
dressed only
in threadbare clouds
Sun spun her a gown
of seawater
embroidered
with glass
stars...

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threadbare night
wearing thin where morning chafes...
          hints of rose stitch

              22 Sep 2016...

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Spring and Fall join hands
squeezing sadness from our hearts
     green and threadbare leaves

                    11/11/2021...

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She says she hates those
Wretched spiders and their webs
But she hath much in common
Threadbare words homespun
Envy of Ariadne...

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the woman with threadbare clothes
takes out the wedding dress
that was never worn--
she still waits for a soldier
after all these years...

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I was smoking 
non-menthol cigarettes 
and tying my 
threadbare new 
balance 
shoelaces 
at the corner deli 
waiting in line 
to buy more non-menthol cigarettes....

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coloured leaves swirling
falling from tall swaying trees
joining rose petals
and snapped windswept flower heads
carpeting the threadbare lawn

Jack Horne, 7th September, for Francine’s View contest...

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A fine tailored suit
Hand and glove 
A perfect fit
We were in love.

A favorite dress 
Now threadbare
It fell apart
We didn’t care.

We clung to a thread
Now undone
We wasted it
And now it’s gone....

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Nightfall scares us,
Danger lurks around,
Our shadows terrify us,
Evil is cloaked in the night,
Our courage is threadbare,
We are sinking ships.




June 16, 2022,
Bite Size Poem No. 47 Poetry Contest,...

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To one who is so beauteous, so fair
Praise would be vile and threadbare 
Then why should we say words of praise
To one who has so eloquent face?
No words of praise are enough 
To describe your beauty nor my love...

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Edifice, 
ones temple for his breath;
Pervasive force to guide until death!
Threadbare be thy mind;
Inclement in bind.
O so such-subjugation on one’s flesh,
Is like being cut up with still mesh.

 By Desi E. Sherman...

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Fair dawn calls

touching pale flesh, that

reminds me

to wake sparks

doused by threadbare night’s  lament--

till rays sun-dance eyes




Any Poem Under 10 Lines
Sponsor: SKAT
by nette onclaud
Poetic Form: shadorma...

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Your faded blue jeans
Threadbare at the knee
The morning sunlight
Highlighting your hair
My heartbroken tears
Fall on your grave

Bite Size Poem no.47 Poetry Contest
by Line Gauthier
6/18/2022...

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autumn star glimmers

lighting boughs on threadbare trees

          I count seasons back---

while eyes gaze at  young moon’s love

and shiver alone in chills




Suzette Crous’ Tanka- the Pivot Contest
By nette onclaud...

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Picnic
delicacies 
sliced thick.

French wine
baguettes and cheese
sound fine.

Threadbare
blankets on grass
affair.


(Musette)


04/05/2020
Finding Your Musette Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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can a threadbare rope
hold the balance of justice
from crushing our hope?

what's the cost in gold
to decide any man's fate
when it's bought and sold?

heaven is the place
where a man is judged simply
by his sacred face!...

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melt their shadowed knees
summer supplies its dimples
a light applause
bathed in bathetic leaves
saunters their laughter

Mothers cry for their children
they cherished dreams
yet knew the impossibility
but longing was their threadbare wish...

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hands threadbare from ages of work rooted in love- breathing golden tales



I chose picture #2
howmanysyllables.com

Date: March 29th, 2019
Sponsor: James Edward Lee. Sr.
Contest: MONOKU PICK A PICTURE WHAT CHA SEE #2 Poetry Contest...

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Lashes of pang whip me
Bleeding like torn firefly-
Harsh the spoils from untold regrets
And wound's dressing can't soothe,
The mesh of threadbare gauze
Fragile as my wing --in bondage.


8 Nov 2017
Knit A Fabric Contest hosted by Nette Onclaud...

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Quite all forlorn sat Wilmot Crabs,
His tash all thorny threadbare,
‘The older that I grow each day,
The less I seem to care.’


Said Wilmot Crabs upon a while,
‘I have no time for chatter.’
Then wandered to a gaping womb 
And thought upon the matter....

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I lean beside a furrowed willow tree,
with threadbare limbs downcast
as I recall a meadow of youth's game--
now my belly, bones are empty, 
falling weary from old age and distant
cold orange pulsating  starlight.


A Brian Strand Contest : 239
10 Nov 16...

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From a threadbare reverie
Of nights disheveled
An aching solitude grates
Betrayal wrestled--
Howl endures love’s  stain
As rage bears cold quietude
Words cannot explain.


Seguidilla Contest of nette onclaud
Sept 13, 2017
7- 5-  7- 5- 5-  7- 5 ...

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