Short Threadbare Poems

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In Six Months Time

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

                    11/11/2021
Categories: threadbare, death,
Form: Senryu


Recluse

She says she hates those
Wretched spiders and their webs
But she hath much in common
Threadbare words homespun
Envy of Ariadne
Categories: threadbare, mythology,
Form: I do not know?

Near Widow

the woman with threadbare clothes
takes out the wedding dress
that was never worn--
she still waits for a soldier
after all these years
Categories: threadbare, lost love, passion,
Form: Tanka
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Horizons

frayed
thought's portal
torn in places
coated in threadbare 
eonic age
bursting days
yet to dawn
but over there
our chases
and we, chasers
Categories: threadbare, destiny, inspirational, life, meaningful, motivation, uplifting, wisdom,
Form: Carpe Diem

That's So Alt

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.
Categories: threadbare, addiction, allah, america, angst,
Form: Free verse


Gauze

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.
Categories: threadbare, pain,
Form: Other

My View

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
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threadbare, nature,
Form: Tanka

Seguidillia--1

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.


 Contest of nonclaud
Categories: threadbare, love hurts, silence,
Form: Rictameter

A Thread of Love

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.
Categories: threadbare, lost love
Form: Rhyme

Plundered Homes

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,
Categories: threadbare, africa,
Form: Free verse

Praise

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
Categories: threadbare, beautiful, beauty, eulogy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

The Holiest of Holiest

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
Categories: threadbare, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful, change, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Old and Cold

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.

5/25
Categories: threadbare, age, introspection,
Form: Verse
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Waking the Light

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
Categories: threadbare, inspirational, time,
Form: Shadorma

Stolen Time

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
Categories: threadbare, bereavement, death, farewell, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
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Counting Back

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
Categories: threadbare, introspection, seasons,
Form: Tanka
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Alfresco Dining

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
Categories: threadbare, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, family,
Form: Rhyme

Can a Threadbare Rope

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!
© Meru Groen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: threadbare, judgement,
Form: Haiku

It Saunters

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
Categories: threadbare, angst,
Form: Free verse

Golden Tales of Love Prevail

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
Categories: threadbare, age, life,
Form: Monoku

Wilmot Crabs

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.
Categories: threadbare, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
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Unreal a Structured Couplet

Allusions transposed,torn worn abraded
threadbare of decorative function

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Categories: threadbare, art,
Form: Couplet

Threadbare Heart

a slight feeling of ambivalence,
the merest hint of cold indifference
crushes all the confidence
that's in a threadbare heart
take care, take time, show tenderness,
each simple smile's a rich indulgence
that costs but a moment of patience
and restores a threadbare heart
Categories: threadbare, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Dream Maintenance

We awake in the morning, brush teeth,
comb hair -
remake the dream.

Overnight the edges of reality fray,
pieces of the dream flake off,
vision becomes threadbare.

The dream must be repaired each day
or we might question
the reality of combing hair
and brushing teeth.
Categories: threadbare, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Bad Habit

"Holey all over, seen better days, worn out and threadbare, can't mend its ways, with drink spills and food stains, rips, rents and tears, not worth keeping, a sad state of affairs, its time has come, over and done, that's one bad habit,” so said the nun.
Categories: threadbare, fun, humor, humorous, nonsense, word play,
Form: Rhyme
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