Short Metrical Poems

We belong freedom fight goes on to get where we are today we came a LONG LONG. WAYS...

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St Louis-born Marianne Moore
began poetics a 'The Dial' editor
In metrical patterns her verse brought fame
 medal &prizes & much acclaim...

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Notably quotably
Poetry's potency
Metrical dictation
Meditation

Cozily, dozily
Wordably herbal tea
Personification
Medication


1/7/2021...

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I feel blessed by your informative write.
It was inspired and very well put.--
A pleasure to read your post to this site.
I loved every, single metrical foot....

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trying to
solve the
puzzling puzzle 
of swings 
in mood 
was not 
an easy task to 
undertake 
that is 
why in the 
end the 
puzzle was 
left half solved...

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Eagles fly

Minds soar

While Eagle flies
soaring off ahead
echoing upriver cries
to where s/he became
back before

Egged on
Eagles fly

Fertile minds soar......

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Rhyme imbues metrical
rhythm, with a distinctive 
ring tuned to human ears
relaying a beat that
reverberates through the
reading as your tongue starts
rolling over the words....

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if meter refers to a poem’s beat ~
    why are iambs, spondees, and trochees feet?






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Measuring with Metrics by Milt Hankins got me thinking......

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Cedar is my biggest  crush yet but he has moved on and now i fret that he will not remember  me. I still love him dearly his is so funny so kind and so endearing i miss him so but now i know...

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The Lesson of the Chicadee

The Chicadee has found the tube

Of little bird seed, then

She flew away to spread the news

To her flock to feed.

To share her joy with

Her friends in need....

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It seems there’s a certain melodious beat 
discovered reusing these metrical feet.
You can’t help but tap it
first slow, and then rapid:
an odd syncopation that brings ears a treat.


H/T to Ostrich Learning to Swim by Clive Culverhouse...

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A metrical escape valve,
  letters in the maelstrom

Lightning on the horizon,
  second child of the Gods

Sacrificial waterfall,
  its current overflowing

A literal dilation
 —of the verbal supreme

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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Dactyls are metrical
Feet that are named after
Fingers with three little
Parts like the knuckles that
Lie in a pattern of
Stress like these sentences:

'Jealously murmuring
Elephants quietly
Sob in their handkerchiefs.'

Feet that are fingers -
How odd!
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James Montrose 'METRICAL PRAYER'

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                          \  our   /
                           \father/...

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Writing poetry is my profound joy.
It begins when the sun rises in the sky.
You see,my heart has a metrical beat.
I sense it at the bottoms of my feet.
It’s the heart song that keeps me young!
Poetry,is indeed, my life’s eternal song.

4/18/2023


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Angelic
Bardic
Composers
Dole
Everlasting
Fabled
Garnishments.
Heathenistic
Improvisors
Jostle
Kitchen
Ladles.
Metrical Composers
Nourish
Otherworldly
Poetizers'
Quirky
Rumbling
Stomachs.
Tenacious
Umbelliferous
Versifiers
Whisking
Xysters
Yolk fully
and
Zestfully.


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A thousand poems I write,
And not one of them I like,

Could I let you see that,
All my poems are bad.

I lost my gift with words,
And left alone with hurt.

It is too late to take back,
Now ready for your attacks!!!

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Giorgio Veneto
Metrical verse~contest...

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 ( upon hearing the expression: "I can see right through him". )


No one simply takes up space,
light bends merely stabbing the dew,
and I've never heard of a transparent race,
unless God's creating them- even new.



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Notes:

Mama's metrical chicanery!...

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i always find myself
passing the time
thinking of life
in riddles and rhymes

moments to moments
my visions are verse
metrical in composition
as if watching a play being rehearsed

poetry runs through my heart
 thoughts woven in gold
lyrical are my days
maybe my life would best be told
with an ode...

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I am so ready for Spring to arrive,
for flowers to bloom in my small garden;
                  oh, bees and butterflies !

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February 19, 2021


Poetry/Non-metrical/Tristich/unrhymed/Sigh, Ready Spring
Copyright Protected, ID 02-1330-668-19
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France...

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Your lips softly brushing mine,
Soulful kiss, ignited passions
Pleasantly savored, indeed--
The sweet taste of love






The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin and is often about love or 
humor. It has 26 syllables made of four lines of 7, 7, 7, 5 syllables respectively. It 
is unrhymed and non-metrical....

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I am so ready for Spring to arrive,
for blooming flowers in my small garden to thrive;
                   oh, then I can survive !

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February 19, 2021


Poetry/Non-Metrical/Tristich/Rhymed/Oh, Spring Pandemic
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All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France...

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The earth and the sky will not rest,
or wind, and the birds in their nest;
O, make it all STOP,
let sleepy eyes drop;
so still-  I shall DREAM,  a must quest !

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July 28, 2019


Poetry/Limerick/Non- metrical/the CAT needs sleep
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All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym....

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Aap ki awaz 

Na Mai mazboor nope it's a dark sky 
which cry when you cry and the sadness 
of your dreams comes near you like a shadow of love 

For giggling and waiting for the smile
 of an angel who's doll and pet where 
looking amaze for just a gaze of your 
Starring by tirchi blink eyes 

Jis Mai hai appki awaz. 

With love all 
Jagdish Bajantri...

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from a challenge to use a random set
  of unconnected words in a poem)
   
The syncopated rhythms of my
     infatuation with you have left
     an indelible mark
         on my metrical heart.

I am M'Adam to your "Y'ves," 
     biting into the luscious apple of temptation, 
     while Lust, with his pitchfork,
          prods us from behind....

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