Terse Poems


Terse Verse

weather - cold
I - old
trees - to bed
nose - red
head - aches
pumpkin - bakes
weather - worse
autumn verse

NB: this is my loose translation of the following German poem circulating online.

Wetter: kalt
Ich: alt
Laub: bunt
Nase: wund
Kopf: Schmerzen
Abends: kerzen
Winter: in sicht
Herbstgedicht
Categories: terse, autumn, seasons, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Terse Verse

“terse verse”


i mince
my words
Categories: terse, color,
Form: Free verse


Disperse Into Times That Are Terse

Disperse Into Times That Are Terse

Though there are times that are terse
What had happened should rehearse;
When we did,
God forbid;
It could end up being another curse.

Jim Horn
Categories: terse, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberA Terse Affair

I didn't know 
          that I'm the first
I didn't know
          you were coerced
I didn't know
          your every verse
I didn't know
          they were rehearsed
I didn't know
          the truth at first
I didn't know
          you'd be the worse
I didn't know
           you'd be my curse.


2019 September 21
Categories: terse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

A Verse

A verse, a verse,
remarkably terse.
Categories: terse, humor, silly,
Form: Light Verse


Sweetly Terse

at night, I think, it's really worse 
coldly still and quiet dark 
stubborn muses, rusted curse 
careless drops on vellum stark 

a captured fleeting moment 
life gets balanced on a pen 
turgid rhymes and syntax foment 
only stoke an unslaked yen 

in some inkwelled vision quest 
asking stars for hints and answers 
delving deep in prosaic zest 
like poetic necromancers 

but simple words for simple years 
will weave back a thread of verse 
wisely, as an ending nears 
keep these notions sweetly terse.
Categories: terse, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Verse Too Terse

Verse in lines of words :-
One.
Removes all the :-
Fun.
What makes it much worse is,
It’s verse hitched to hearses
Categories: terse, humorous,
Form: Alliteration

Two Line Terse Verse

Two Line Terse Verse

Here it is and be sure not to miss.

Do you know what I like about a small cottage
When in never will require very much wattage.

Jonathan Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Categories: terse, philosophy,
Form: Couplet

Terse Verse

If you insist
on doggerel verse,
show mercy then
and keep it terse.

Fifth Place, Laconic Verse I, Giorgio V.
Categories: terse, humorous,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberTerse Communication

Digest signals
By understanding thoughts
Brought forth
Through suggestive forms
Cooled through the sky
Communicating
Without a word

Russell Sivey

Contest: Laconic Verse I (old/new)
Sponsor: Giorgio Veneto

11/23/2013
Categories: terse, life,
Form: Free verse

Poetic Terse

One love is so dear and precious for anyone.
To live without love is definitely a devilish pun.
Categories: terse, introspection, life, philosophy, social,
Form: Couplet

Terse Verse

You give us just the same old beat –
no lilt or swirl or surge or sweep.
If you wish to dance a line,
why can’t you make it ring with rhyme?
Categories: terse, imagination, music, on writing
Form: Quatrain
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