Short Stanzas Poems

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  Poets
  ofttimes
  extrude
  tangled
  stanzas...

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Lantern tail poets,
Writing poems in the sky:
Balmy night stanzas....

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A painter of words,
A masterpiece in stanzas;
My collected thoughts....

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Scribbled notebook skies,
With luminescent stanzas;
Midnight poetry....

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Stanza 1 is first
Stanza 2 comes after Stanza 1
Stanza 3 I can't stanza my stanzas anymore...

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Phrases,
pretty, awesome,
comfort human’s senses.
Stanzas simply convey sublime
statements....

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Poetry 
Creative, Cunning 
Writing, Explaining 
Excellence expressions, Best grammars 
Stanzas...

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Your teeth left stanzas
Written in perfect prose
In the goosebumps
On my nape
...

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on this beach
we write our poetry
clever lines and stanzas
composed with our hearts
rhyming in every kiss...

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a period
that points
to something

a parenthesis
that expands
into a void

an ellipsis
that includes
the infinite...

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opaque stanzas
reserve reversed
virtual voices
made apparent:
reticence released
to blossom
then
bloom..
        unnoticed...

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Rome Greece and China love a quatrain.
Four stanzas is how it has to be.
Stingy poets only give us three.
This one is Italian from my brain....

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sometimes
i want to linger
within a verse
momentarily
pause
between stanzas
and live within
the poet's words
it's always
so beautiful
there...

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atoms
are like
haiku

using
a letter
count

since
a word is
large


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An Atom has stanzas of 5-7-5 letters each...

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Seems Craig’s got a contest again;
I’m finding out with much chagrin 
my stanzas in sapphic
are jammed up in traffic.
I’ll get there, but I don’t know when!...

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Skull porn fosters
Mighty poetry
And broken stanzas
Of broken men

He said,
"Return to me"
"Return to me".

The skill borne
From such
A charming man!...

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So good night mama,
We're burying our dead
Another generation
In long neat rows
Of chipped, hard stone reflecting.
Their lives are gone.

The bankers live on....

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Bouquets
Rosebud verse
Tulip stanzas
Wrapped in ribbons of rhyme
For you...

4/22/20

For "Poetry, Poetry" contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina

Shared 1st Place...

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Four-lined Stanzas - my Quatrains by design.
Interwoven A-B-A-B- the rhymes.
Ten syllabically are read per line.
Written -- nature, sullen, and benign times....

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In Life
it unlocks
even
rusty doors.

Like a rainbow
Hope spreads
prismatic colors.

All rights reserved ~~Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~02.04.14

*Septolet -14 words, 2 stanzas, one topic...

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Happy birthday, dear Leslie Ann, 
The writers are truly aware; 
The stanzas that the poets scan 
Show the rhyming scheme and meter. 

Topic: Birthday of Leslie Ann Pacaonces (March 18)...

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Back in the blues funk; a lone acoustic, round top guitar sings.
The whining-twang-between-stanzas, slide-notes on lightly bent strings.
Fingers hammer out the timing on an, ebony fretboard....

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Diamonds originate
In the thoughts 
Of poets.

(What jewels form
In the patterns
Of stanzas?)

When your
Soul’s Breath
Crystalizes
Against 
The pressure
Of cold paper
And warm heart....

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birthday miles
summon us
with aging

wrinkles come
as do smiles
and trials

so many
memories
sweet recall

NB: Other form – Tricube: 3x3x3, 3 syllables per line, 3 stanzas...

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Calloused hands transfer into formed stanzas on paper-
That which cannot be expressed otherwise,
Never frustrated,
Always flowing,
The words from my mind,
I wish to one day-
See them in print....

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