Short Yokes Poems

Loathing Yokes

Hatred thrives.
Love dies
The heart cries.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 3, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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Bite a funny
Fill your tummy

Find word fun
Try a pun

Shed your yokes
Grab some jokes

Free bee honey
Tastes so yummy

You do foo-foo
Tell a loo loo...

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The egg said 
To the pancake
I’m healthier than
You are, my colors are
Bright and beautiful
Sometimes I even have 
Double yokes inside and 
My best friend is crispy bacon
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Quenched beyond compare,
Bathed in endless springs of peace,
Reason has no business here,
Stripped of certainties,
Soaked in wisdom, cleansed in truth
While immersed in love, yokes flee.

By: Sabina Nicole
contest: sedoka...

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Stroke silly pokes
Such heavy yokes


Noise by vain choice
Hurls hurting choice


Meet odd mismatch
In vulgar sketch


In broken fest
Drama works best


Not much to say
Where moments slay



Leon Enriquez
01 September 2019
Singapore...

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For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness; 
praising its necessity....

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our trees have blossomed,
and some have knots in their yokes,
like one in my throat.....

fragile limbs look down and weep
to acknowledge my despair




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"Tanka Tears" Contest: Sponsored By Rick Parise
2/10/15...

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Whiskey whispers
Liquor laden squeeze
Alcohol breath sneeze
Rancid whispers


Strong liquor strokes
Massive surge endears
High hurling high here
Stupor now yokes


Rush upon rush
Strokes of strange gladness
Runaway madness
Blush after blush




Leon Enriquez
11 December 2017
Singapore...

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Nurture nice niche
Observe the way
Thrill touching teach
Instruct fond say
Choice charms charade
Eye each ember
Meet movements made
Yield yokes yonder
Move mystic mime
One odd obsess
Toss trouble times
Imprint impress
Vibrant verse vests
Etch each excess




Leon Enriquez
19 August 2015
Singapore...

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Old map
Odd sap


Laughs poke
Touch yokes


Sweet ease
Loud peace


Joy jokes
Swirl strokes


All this
Fits bliss


Just know
Fine glow


Touch seeds
Fond feed


Brisk rhyme
Floods time


Word well
Crisp tell


Soft touch
Thrills much




Leon Enriquez
18 September 2019
Singapore...

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The artist in me myself instinctively tracing 
work a share miseries to inspiration making

Shrouded within my cocoon of slashing brush strokes
lost lovely my Dorothy gently softly releases her yokes

Watching graduations of deaths cold colours on her lovely face
ship me lost anchor my heart lost love no longer in her embrace...

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Dawn comes around
Drowsy eyes ground


Blurry new strain
Espresso gain


Stride now sleepy
Gaze now blurry


Misty cold rain
Monsoon spreads plain


Slow movement yokes
Dreamy form strokes


Abrupt this light
Dash drowsy sight


Now brew gotcha
Coffee cuppa




Leon Enriquez
28 November 2016
Singapore...

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The artist in me myself instinctively tracing 
work a share miseries to inspiration making

Shrouded within my cocoon of slashing brush strokes
lost lovely my Dorothy gently softly releases her yokes

A watch seeing graduations of deaths cold colours on her lovely face
ship me lost my anchor my heart lost love no longer in her embrace...

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What are our millennium fables?
Women keep giving each other labels,
No harmony for our ecology,
An alliance should be our synergy,
No accountability for the economy,
No wise leaders to steer us to unity,
Century's getting older, folks!
Any teamwork to cast off these yokes?
Symbiosis should aim at harmony,
Let's pray for millennium synergy!...

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Seek proof?
Know truth


Glimpse wit?
Love fits


Know how?
Live now


Why draft?
Claim craft


Odd vice?
Old spice


Who feels?
Love wills


Noise pokes?
Joy yokes


Glimpse sight?
Hope lights


Dream dance?
Prize chance


Word sweet?
Charm meets


Play when?
Just then




Leon Enriquez
07 November 2018
Singapore...

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Birth day is that moment of dawn when 
Individual jets into the earth from unknown horizons
Resisting and crying all the way
To begin a long struggle with decay
However difficult the mission may be

Donkeys flap their long ears to welcome another laborer
And lions of men train armies to ensure safety
Yokes they make- to put into bondage possibly another rebel...

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Feeling
Meaning


Word wit
Bright bits


Nice notes
Rouse rote


Pulse pokes
Yet yokes


Mind mood
Glimpse good


Zest zooms
Bright blooms


Feel face
Prize pace


Grand gift
Love lifts


Joy jumps
Soul sums


Heed heart
Sure start


Moves make
Tough take


Meaning 
Hurting




Leon Enriquez
06 December 2017
Singapore...

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eye-GASMS are artful things of flesh left out by the woods /
she went were-wolves once ate meringue pie before acquiring
a human fedora and impressed all the women at the outdoor
market where butchers smoke meat and flay cigars with white
whiskered smiles.  Where were the yokes when sadness crept
over the clouds and a comedian choked on a badly baked joke?

:: 08042019 ::...

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No refuge here
Just bitter cheer


Search now in vain
Kind words said plain


Cliques and cliches
Odd word croquet 


Islands of stress
A savvy mess


Not much for laughs
Broken mad stuff


Loss that now pokes
Sad burden yokes


Once a big tribe
Scattered once ripe


Not much to say
A wind-blown way




Leon Enriquez
07 June 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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Look to cheer
To blind fear
With joy here


Dress to be
What you see
Wild yet free


Cheer speaks well
As laughs tell
How hope dwells


Poise funds style
As warm smiles
Flood each while


Look to zest
To move quest
In fine fest


Seize this day
To fund play
On your way


Happy pokes
As joy yokes
Such brisk strokes




Leon Enriquez
18 January 2019
Singapore...

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Duty bound,intensified labor
overburdened yokes endured
as must,to not fall out of favor
our light becometh rest,assured

Strength of spirit,brightly glows
troubled times our feet will show
but,in the end,you have to know
new beginning for your flow

The mighty tested,evil bested
honor bestowed amongst the trusted
staying true to self,self wealth
loving gold is true natures health........

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Curious craze
Murky maze


Sanguine strange
Crafty change


Misty moods
Fetching food


Dreamy dance
Cheeky chance


Wonder writes
Bubbly bites


Yonder yokes
Pressing pokes


Wordy will
Fashions feel


Charming choice
Pretty poise


Touching tell
Delight dwells


Story sad
Mulling mad


Grapple gist
Moving mist




Leon Enriquez
08 November 2018
Singapore...

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Vines it were stole Adam’s joys;
thorns and thistles figured large.
Now, machines and even toys
fail to start, won’t hold a charge.

Oft harangued by so much ache,
pleasure’s fleeting, progress stalls. 
Scarce we fix, another breaks;
endless toil stems from the fall.

Come thou, Father, make all right;
help us in this life we plea.
Burdens easy, yokes are light
when we find our rest in Thee....

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Geese are
Not gifted
Spellers.

They write
Poems
In their eggs.

The letters
Cannot
Be separated
From their yokes.

In the court
Of the Blue King
Atrocious spelling
Is called “Goose-spelling.”

Turn of phrases
That cannot
Be separated
From its image.

Conversely Wicked spelling
Is known as Dragon-spelling.
Where quatrains
May spontaneously combust
Burning the finger
Of luckless scribes....

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Saturate me in your love,
Like a flood,
Invade my barriers,
Induce, and then prevail,
With a flag of all nations,
Firm in your hands,
Bring back humility,
Reverence with admiration,
It’s just a matter of time,
Time, 
Time, 
Precious time,
Destroy the yokes,
Subdue the tyranny,
Bring the healing rain which washes galaxies,
Soften lifes foul smell with the aroma of your pure love,
Reveal to the now, your sweet sovereignty.

By: Sabina Nicole...

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