Sparseness Poems | Examples


Premium MemberThreadbare

thin moon hangs in the blurring light
when the red tape of work ends 
day's end
before darkness darts onto idling pillows

a too slight shine to navigate the strain of living
wounds unstitched
like a heart unhealing from over-crowded transgressions
a feel that's too familiar 
nestled in the treads of tired
where we can't always control the skidding

crescent moon
dangling, unsettled in the sky
                                  shrunk in a sparseness of graying
pinched edges from a light threadbare
unable to lift toil from labor's bones
haggling for some salvation
Categories: sparseness, change, dark, firework, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Polarity Tree--

The polarity tree..

Another label and story

But what is there without 

Labels and stories..

It is a pine tree with

Nothing atop and a

Wide flaring skirt below..

Nothing and everything..

Sameness up and down:

Nothing appears as

The branches and needles..

Enter the characters the

Individual needles

Multiplicities increasing

As Nothing seems to recede..

Yet Nothing does not recede

Only the needles seem to move

And live and die.. 

Sparseness and denseness

Higher and lower

That's a continuing story...
Categories: sparseness, analogy, confidence, relationship, visionary,
Form: Blank verse


Frugality -- Minimalism



Frugality 

Spending on things that's
really necessary
in restrained manner.
~X~X~X~


Minimalism

A technique that's marked
by extreme sparseness, simple
wilful lack of style.
~X~X~X~
Categories: sparseness, life,
Form: Verse

Silence of the Classics

Cacophony of the front

Hopes and dreams define

Humanity, scenes of yesterday

Never to be forgotten, from haunting

Effects of childhood laughter

Uncertainties that become

Certainties, seldom been

Well explored to be

Moving remarkable

Response

Grace

Eloquence

Sparseness of writing

Beautifully complements

Power of emotions to be described

With sights and sounds

To unfold with slow

Deliberate eloquence

Artistic

Triumph

Like a heartbeat

Was the deafening sound
 
Of the Classics of yesterday...
This is dedicated to our wonderful classics.. 
Charlotte Brontë - 
A writer all her life, Brontë published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell. Though controversial in its criticism of society's ...

"His wit is bright, his humorous attractive, but both hear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheer-lightning playing under the edge of the summer cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him--if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger--I have dedicated this second edition of 

"JANE EYRE"

DECEMBER 21ST 1847
Brooke

CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Categories: sparseness, culture, romantic,
Form: Romanticism

Solitude

Solitude

A restless night, never ending
Its darkness clouding my mind
Creating visions of ghosts of the past
All dancing to the tune of the ticking clock
Morning finally comes in the small and dingy room
Faint rays of sunlight seep through tattered blinds
The sparseness of my existence dimly illuminated
My eyes open slowly but refuse to focus
I realize that the world is still there, as before
And I am still trapped, alone, in my solitude

Copyright Charlie Gragg, January 17, 2011
Categories: sparseness, sad
Form: I do not know?


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