Short Troth Poems

Thou dost yonder, how dost thou? 
Troth, lubberwort,I missed thee.
His sugar blackened my tooth.
Thank thee, he titted my sprout....

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We plight our troth for little but froth 
To be whelmed in plight, ashes and sackcloth
The phrase is plain but blind we remain 
It is hard to enjoy a stone broth!...

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A mind can love
  an atheist

But a soul must wed
  to God

Each troth professed
  by self possessed

One vow
  —to rise above

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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A canopy of flowers
     'neath a shady bower

   Exquisite weather
     for a life together

   We pledge our oath
     in solemn troth

   Happiness preserved
     ~ of memories deserved...

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Oh weary grows my heart, my heart of fickle dames
who troth eternal love, yet o'er night die the flames.
A year not even shined upon our ever vows
uncouth became to you, strange and foreign am now....

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tall stands the buck
guarding troth of loins
no spore of man
long flies the bullet
death silently comes
~//~

4-5-4-5-5 (23)
© Sept 25 2010  Charles Henderson
5 th in Chris's Tanka contest...

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Being, becoming,
though different the same

All motion reflexive,
where time rules the game

Being, becoming,
whose vow is enforced

When married to both
—refusing divorce

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: February, 2021)...

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Two hearts unite in holy matrimony
  Pledge their troth in sanctimony

Yet in a year or two, up springs acrimony
  The likely cause, ungentle parsimony

All that money spent on pomp and ceremony
   ~ Was better saved for alimony...

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Quiet is the night, laid blight amid this infernal necropolis
Loosely mantled soil, smother marrow of perished veneration
Yet windows still aflame, a dormant witness to troth thirst
Cold and stiff, until a shift, unearthed...

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yellow ribbon tightly tied
on a stem of an oak tree
'tis a token of troth pledged
by two soon to wed.



Writing Challenge - Dodoitsu - Poetry Contest (Winner: 1st Place)
Sponsored by Constance La France
Date written: 10/02/2020...

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the path is rock strewn
    your rewards are worth the trek…
         love personified

not the things you say
    rather what you do or not….
         memories making

when you become old
    look upon your life with pride….
         A troth glorified 


For Linda Marie's "senryu" contest...

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Rancid rancor
From a pungent poet
Sipping fermented anger
From a shoe of Moet
Caustic climax
Of a pernicious plot
Spilling into the holes
Of his soul’s rot
Lathered Laces
In a fuming froth
Tying her infidelity
In a knotted troth
Twisted tongue
Beneath a bedeviled bog
Silenced by frayed fingers
Beneath a drunken fog...

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J-ust keep your oath, 
E-arly twenty-eighth of July; 
R-emain true to your troth, 
R-efrain from devil's lie. 
A-im to keep your oath, 
R-aising your right hand; 
D-on't break your solemn promise, obey the Creator's command. 

M-ake no broken pledge, 
A-ct in your vigor's growth; 
N-ever forget your vow, 
Z-ealously keep your 
O-ath....

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On life's inclusive scroll of merits seen,
stands few above a true commitment made.
Affairs have shown enduring goals do lean
upon firm resolutions deeply laid.
With solemn oath man's troth can't be charade,
supporting leaders, mind must be resolved.
Cause taken means devotion dare not fade,
and given promise may not be dissolved.
Until death severs union, we can't be absolved....

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Aurora romances summer night
and brings to lovers great delight,
as united, their troth they plight.
It's quite a sight! It's quite a sight!

The reds and greens and purple hues
dazzle their eyes, mix with the blues,
as groping tendrils they diffuse.
You cannot snooze, you cannot snooze.

This elegant stately light show
covers the skies from high to low.
Upon their love it does bestow
A magic glow, a magic glow....

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Why oh why did our sweet love die:
                   My dearest heart
Hasv another fancy come nigh:
                   To take my part?
Did good looks,fine words turn your head:
                   On rebounds hook
Then to another,he so quickly sped:
                   And thee forsook
Will words of love and this gold ring:
                   Now make you mine
With promises,to make bells ring:
                   This troth is thine....

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Love reigns in the feeling-house
Warmth in the hearth, 

Wooing weaves you a blanket 
With which to warm you in lonely nights . 

Loves has smithed us a ring each
to Troth, and bind us 
Though smitten by the powerful weapon 
of love
The dead envy, and the living too, 

For the life-yearning bees
Which seek their sweetness
In flowers,
Have reserved for us their honey.

And thus my love burns
as daily as the sun
For you, my only, truly 
Loved girl....

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Autumn's moon truly radiant and playful, 
    In a stippled and midnight blue hues.

  Fragile is the troth with nature. 
    Falling, trembling, withered leaves, 
      Drift throughout gravel beneath; 
        Dapple shadow cast across the ground in stillness. 

  Silence surge as nascent darkness draws. 
    Snappish breeze, spring up slicing through darkness, 
      Lays a gentle kiss, and it slowly fades.

  Stillness, a breath, the wakeful light of dawn awakes.

3/25/2022...

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