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Topic: Very Short Poems - up to 8 Lines Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 02:47 |
The OP is self-explanatory - short poems of any kind will be welcomed here. I'll start with a short one from Khlebnikov:
Today I will go once again Into life, into haggling, into market, And lead the army of my songs To duel against the market tide.
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Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 05:04 |
Death is near,
nearly here
or is it merely angst and fear?
Courage old man,
you still stand
in this quiet and rugged land.
No notes yet... from Death's sad band,
not yet... clutched by his icy hand.
Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 23-Aug-2011 at 05:04
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"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
S. T. Friedman
Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true'
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Posted: 23-Aug-2011 at 21:15 |
Matsou Basho #120
Spring departing— the birds cry out and the eyes of the fish are full of tears.
Edited by Don Quixote - 23-Aug-2011 at 21:16
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Posted: 25-Aug-2011 at 01:07 |
Matsuo Basho #69
This pervasive silence Enhanced yet by cicadas simmering Into the Temple Rocks dissipating
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Posted: 26-Aug-2011 at 01:37 |
Matsuo Basho#125:
Dividing like clam and shell, I leave for Futami— Autumn is passing by.
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Posted: 27-Aug-2011 at 10:20 |
The hound the Beagle
is so regal
but leaves small tokens
when not housebroken.
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"Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces".
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Posted: 28-Aug-2011 at 01:16 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky:
I suddenly smeared the weekday map splashing paint from a glass; On a plate of aspic I revealed the ocean's slanted cheek. On the scales of a tin fish I read the summons of new lips. And you could you perform a nocturne on a drainpipe flute?
1913
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Posted: 30-Aug-2011 at 13:50 |
Anna Akhmatova "Alexander by Thebes" I think, the king was fierce, though young, When he proclaimed, “You’ll level Thebes with ground.” And the old chief perceived this city proud, He’d seen in times that are in sagas sung. Set all to fire! The king listed else The towers, the gates, the temples – rich and thriving… But sank in thoughts, and said with lighted face, “You just provide the Bard Home’s surviving.”
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Posted: 31-Aug-2011 at 19:34 |
Anna Akhmatova "Forgotten" Forgotten? I’m not even wondered! Forgotten was I hundred times, And times, I’m in grave, were too hundred, May be, my corps now there lies. And Muse was too deafened and blinded, Was rotting – a seed – in soils’ mesh, To rise then to blue of the Highland Like Phoenix from blackness of ash
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Posted: 03-Sep-2011 at 16:56 |
The Prayer of One Blasphemer
I'm writing on a stolen time On stolen time I breath On stolen time you didn't loan me On stolen time I kiss And for the every stolen moment Accept my gratitude For I did take so many more That what by right I should. DQ
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Posted: 05-Sep-2011 at 14:14 |
Anna Akhmatova "The Call" from "The Middle Night Songs" Which a sonata will you be Hidden by me in – with a care? How uneasily, for me Will call you, utterly unfair Because so close and so good You were for me, tho’ for a moment… Your dream – dissolving in a solvent, Where death – just levy to the mute.
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Posted: 08-Sep-2011 at 23:54 |
Emily Dickinson: I never hear the word "escape" Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.
I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars, -- Only to fail again!
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Posted: 09-Sep-2011 at 19:21 |
Like
Like being caught into a Storm Which have no roof, nor walls No warning and no signs All reluctance is aside Barriers are blown by far Like a untamed hurricane Like a timeless and primeval Like DQ
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Posted: 12-Sep-2011 at 03:09 |
Emily Dickinson: Departed to the judgment, A mighty afternoon; Great clouds like ushers leaning, Creation looking on.
The flesh surrendered, cancelled The bodiless begun; Two worlds, like audiences, disperse And leave the soul alone.
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Posted: 12-Sep-2011 at 03:11 |
Emily Dickinson: If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
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Posted: 27-Sep-2011 at 02:36 |
Rumi:
From the heart of the lovers, Blood flows like a vast
river. Our body is the windmill and love, the water. Without water the
mill cannot turn.
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Posted: 27-Sep-2011 at 20:40 |
Rumi: THROUGH LOVE
all that is bitter will sweet
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!
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Posted: 30-Sep-2011 at 15:44 |
This one is probably not understandable to anyone who isn't Scots (hee-hee)
A lively young damsel named Menzies
Inquired: "Do you know what this thenzies?"
Her aunt, with a gasp,
Replied: "It's a wasp,
And you're holding the end where the stenzies."
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For money you did what guns could not do.........
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Posted: 03-Oct-2011 at 00:56 |
Defiance
Defiance is the last shadow of defense - When all defenses fail When all is in shambles, all is lost Into complete derail.
Defiance is the last outcry That no one will hear - "Why don;t you shoot me in the eye And get it over...dear!". DQ
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Posted: 05-Oct-2011 at 00:52 |
The Crystal Gazer
I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.
Watching the future come and the present go -
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
- Sara Teasdale
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