Happy Birthday, Shakespeare
...“Brevity is the soul of wit.” Shakespeare (from Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2)
Succinctness must be kin to wit.
In his own way, Shakespeare said it,
so why use words to flutter and flit.
I’ll finish r...
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Categories:
succinctness, writing,
Form: Monorhyme
Poet's a To Z Aloud No 15
...Lyrical in beauty
dug from the depths
of the past.
A storyteller, articulate
elegaic writing words
to last.
Of farm life and childhood,
deep in Irish terra firma
frozen in memory
and n...
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Categories:
succinctness, poets,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Poetic Discourse
...Short forms have beauty & clarity having succinctness and thus are more easily memorised having the capacity to both show & tell,especially when sequenced into longer variations.And some forms like...
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Categories:
succinctness, education, poetry,
Form: Prose
Fun Net Ticks and Sill Lab Buff Hick Aye Shun
...curt hissy Matthew Scott Harris
who wishes ewe well
to make $cents of the following
mumbo jumbo lettered gumbo.
Hip puck crease see
(ad hoc) key hide dee claim
haint how my noggin
comports ...
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Categories:
succinctness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
In Sponsoring a Contest
...In sponsoring a contest, one should know
the basics of the poetry that he
is judging! If the form has got a flow
such as iambic, that’s what we should see!
Of course, there’s more to poetry than ...
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Categories:
succinctness, judgement,
Form: Sonnet
Whispered Words
...echos
lyrical in beauty
dug
from the depths
of the past
articulate
elegaic
stanza
written words
of farm life childhood,
deep
in Irish
terra firm...
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Categories:
succinctness, poetry, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
Is Not This the Brevity of Human Life- -
...Is not this the brevity of human life?
In my conciseness and exacting mentions
The proper use of words in my writing or speeches, huh
In awe, at naught-what
Is not this the brevity of human life?...
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Categories:
succinctness, addiction, analogy, confusion, environment,
Form: Free verse
A Heaney Ekphrasis -Recited
...A HEANEY EKPHRASIS
Lyrical in beauty,dug from
the depths of the past.
A storyteller, articulate in
elegaic stanza writing words
to last.Of farm life and childhood,
deep in Irish terra firma i...
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Categories:
succinctness, poets,
Form: Ekphrasis
Peace
...How ***** the color of viscera
squarely foreign in my breast
To be the butcher and grim and goddess
All in one
Leaves identity succinct
Or identifies succinctness
If it has been
Then so it was always...
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Categories:
succinctness, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Free verse
Speak Ye Parts of Speech
...sometimes they appear effusively ebullient
need curtailing, pruning
succinctness of clarity demands simple concepts
a fresh way to express tired vernacular
see contrasts that light and dark embod...
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Categories:
succinctness, on writing and wordslight,
Form: Light Verse