Succinctness Poems | Examples


Premium MemberHappy 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 right here and click submit.
Categories: succinctness, writing,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberPoet'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 now 
released for our delight 
in  a succinctness of thought
of the commonplace
Categories: succinctness, poets,
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium MemberA 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 acrostic,kyrielle, terzanelle, villanelle&pantoum are useful 'learning
the trade' exercise devices just as scales are used to teach piano.They tend however to be  too contrived,repetitive and so mechanical.
The danger with longer verse  ( labelled as  'free' ) is the lack of ' poetry ' therein  ie no cadence and thereby visually difficult to both read and recite . In this digital device age ,this bain thereof  'the 'wrap around' long lines , which all too often,are in  reality ,prose 'masquerading' as verse.
 The golden rule of poetry ,whether reading or reciting any verse  is one 'breath limitation' factor,naturally inherent in the human being.
Categories: succinctness, education, poetry,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberIn 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 that.
Free verse we know is different from rhyme!
One ought to judge the forms that he’s good AT,
and with each entry that he gets, take time
to analyze those elements which should
be mentioned as what he is looking for
so entrants know what he considers “good:”
the message? Imagery? Succinctness? More?
If judging, I’d be clear with rules, and I’d
be nice to poets I could tell had tried!

May 18, 2021
for the Judge Not Lest Ye Be Poetry Contest of John Lawless
Categories: succinctness, judgement,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberWhispered 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 firma

an imagist
       quality
'as is moments'
     frozen in memory
& now
released


 a succinctness
           of thought
in the
   commonplace
Categories: succinctness, poetry, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium MemberA 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 in 
which he and his poetry stood.
A delightful imagist quality 
of 'as is moments' once 
frozen in memory,and now 
released for our delight .His
triplet,quatrain and quintain form 
brings a succinctness of thought
combined with the commonplace
A Tribute to Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
 
Listen to this ekphrasis of mine recited on youtube under the pen name ichthyschiro
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 before

Therein is 'Peace'
Reposed and eyes rolling
Great, vacant saucers on vertiginous axis
She is quite the swollen beast
And on all fronts, she is terrible
If only you'll watch you may notice her growth
A malignant sort
An unwelcome appendage
I'd dash it out but I've already gone
Too pale and dogged in life to succumb
I curse her tenacity

She has a sister, I think
Or maybe a child
A child who lives down deep in my chest
A child who shrieks and tears down the walls
Perhaps she dislikes their pattern
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 embody
simile is like a bridge, connecting this to that
ideas behind envisioned conditions
what is seen, what is known
cupid's arrow finding its mark
carefully selected properly place alliterations age
as fine wine, appreciating moments of the tongue
if cramped, forced to salute like a new recruit
become ill fitting as a six fingured glove
noticeable as a red light on easy street
onomatopoea telegraphs transparent thought
Ohhh, moment of culmination cry the lovers
adjust concepts, fit themes, clarify voice
say meaningful words of intuitive insight
gamble fearlessly, search for elusive quarries
loadstones of vocaulary
prized like adamantine crystals in kinberlite
you can have it all, heart's desire
etched tablets that tell of word's meaning
chisled till they're Rosetta stones
Categories: succinctness, on writing and wordslight,
Form: Light Verse
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