Eight-Word Poems

[DanBierce]

sun through fog

youth's moon

is easy

[alakungfu]

define an image
in bygone pigment and semblance

[Wade-newb]

Desolation.
Ravages the souls.
Of those long lost.

[Dark Muse]

Your voice
howls
through
distant nights
tormenting me

[alakungfu]

Credo


Don't take chances

but,

give everyone a chance.

[Granny5]

I peek
again and again
you're not here

[Dark Muse]

Glass
lips
speak posion
lies

soft fallen
snow

[alakungfu]

What is irony, what
among the simplest regrets?

[alakungfu]

clasped lips
moan-
-weakly
of-
-groaning, grimacing time

[alakungfu]

In a perfect world
What replaces fear?
Anger.

[hack]

a single thought
polished smooth
by blowing sand

[mazHur]

Sand blasted
minds
rarely someone
finds.
I didn't.

[hack]

Under where?
Under there.
Oh, underwear!

[mazHur]

Oh, underwear!
Thy stench
makes me
feel her!

[Dark Muse]

I see bluebirds
in the sky
like clouds

[lillottezobel]

I'll try
to comment
on that.

[nightshifft]

cold and coiled
snake like awaited
my fate

[nightshifft]

shadows grow
dark in loves lonely
forsaken heart

[nightshifft]

shadows grow
dark in loves lonely
forsaken heart

[kafkaroach]

the sun descends
stagnant rays paint
bleeding clouds

[tailor STATELY]

My Lady

Green-eyed
beauty mine
my love
my life

[hack]

night fell
with the snow
softly
touching earth

[Dark Muse]

My lips burn
with the
taste of you

[Babyguile]

Old woman waters,
watching -
the young tulips grow.

[Dark Muse]

Darkness consumes me
erodes my soul
I smile

[hillwalker]

Black winter sky
whispers summer sun
to itself

[dizzydoll]

Its our Sun
we allow you
to borrow it.

[Dark Muse]

If I am flotsam
you are surely jetsam

[Babyguile]

Darkness consumes me
erodes my soul
I smile

I love this one.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[munkinhead]

red peonys
torn and broken
by spring sleet

[mazHur]

storm
hurricane
cyclone
tidal wave
versus Life alone!!

[Jerrybaldy]

There is something
I must say
right now.

[mazHur]

I
don't
know
what
is
on
your
mind?

[munkinhead]

far Apophis
at apihelion
turns on its heel

[Jerrybaldy]

I am just about
to tell
you
mazHur

[mazHur]

I am just about
to tell
you
mazHur

Please
hasten
as the night is
getting over!

http://images.iop.org/objects/phw/world/23/8/37/fin1.jpg

[Jerrybaldy]

now you
have distracted me
with your
picture

[dafydd manton]

Are you sure
That you're
Wired up properly?

[mazHur]

Is not a picture
worth a thousand
words??

[Jerrybaldy]

the positive
is clearly on the
negative wire

[Jerrybaldy]

mazHur
that picture looks
lots like
Alice Cooper

[mazHur]

short circuiting
will rapidly drain
down the battery!!

[Delta40]

I saw
Alice cooper
perform live
on stage

[dafydd manton]

Alice Cooper
Was really super
Bar
The mascara

[Delta40]

cool when we're young
age makes us ridiculous

[mazHur]

mazHur
that picture looks
lots like
Alice Cooper

To me
it looks
Josephine Baker
Banana Dancing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1tVgzMy5dY&feature=player_embedded

[mazHur]

cool when we're young
age makes us ridiculous

age's just a number
feel younger
keep cool!:)

[Delta40]

lol is one word
you are definitely right!

[dafydd manton]

Age.
Getting stiff in the joints.
No problem.

[Delta40]

age like L'Oreal woman
because you're worth it

[mazHur]

with age comes wisdom
wisdom that nobody understands.

[Jerrybaldy]

is that what
now accounts
for our
entertainment

[snowdrop17]

Searching paradise on earth...
Can we ever find?

[mazHur]

the way to paradise
passes through life's hell!

[aliengirl]

If life becomes hell,
is it worth living?

[mazHur]

If life becomes hell,
is it worth living?

Why not?
Hell's also a shelter
for humans!

[aliengirl]

But who are we?
A crowd of hollowmen.

[mazHur]

But who are we?
A crowd of hollowmen.

Unless we know ourselves
We cannot know God?

[aliengirl]

Can hours of meditation reveal
Our true identity?

[tailor STATELY]

Epitaph:
He brought
A pen to
A gunfight

© tailor STATELY
8/20/2010

[lacadalet_]

"Cup of red,"
she waits and
cows are milked
than drop

[aliengirl]

Epitaph:
He brought
A pen to
A gunfight

© tailor STATELY
8/20/2010

A complete story in just eight words. Superb!

[AdoreroDio]

a passionate embrace
a step, swing

dancing lessons

[lacadalet_]

a passionate embrace
a step, swing

dancing lessons

sounds and steps in one short second
awesome

[Delta40]

worlds apart
in the same home
they lived

[Bar22do]

Epitaph:
He brought
A pen to
A gunfight

© tailor STATELY
8/20/2010

This is so efficient, tS, succinct and poignantly telling it all (and more!). So fine.

[miyako73]

His hand
Tight on my chin,
I swim.

[tailor STATELY]

Thank you for your kind remarks aliengirl & Bar22do.

Sincerely,
tailor STATELY

[mazHur]

Love
is
a serious
business
take
it seriously.

[aliengirl]

Love
is
a serious
business
take
it seriously.

Thanks
for the advice.
Will surely
follow it.

[mazHur]

Thanks
for the advice.
Will surely
follow it.

please
make haste
as you live
only once:)

[aliengirl]

Silence is my answer,
To your unkind behavior.

[hillwalker]

dumbfounded
the moment her feet
left the ground

[Silas Thorne]

aggressive duck
crosses road alone slowly
stopping cars

[mazHur]

Silence is my answer,
To your unkind behavior.

Did my words
hurt you?
Burn my tongue:)

[aliengirl]

Did my words
hurt you?
Burn my tongue:)

Not at all my dear,

We're good friends. :)

[aliengirl]

When night spreads its dark wings,

You're missed.

[mazHur]

When night spreads its dark wings,

You're missed.



Hi!


If you miss me
there is something
esoteric:)

[mazHur]

Not at all my dear,

We're good friends. :)

merci beaucoup!
Indeed we are
good friends forever !:)

[Dark Muse]

I have half-dreams
in the crescent light

[MarkBastable]

I felt that we should have an eight-word poem that rhymes, and so I'd like to offer this freshly-minted work entitled Never Marry a Sax Player or a Hooker.

You blow
Although
You know
I'll go.

[iamnobody]

Coward
or an hypocrite
either way
still..Broken

[aliengirl]

I asked my mirror,
Who am I?
"Reflection."

[mazHur]

I asked my mirror,
Who am I?
"Reflection."

:)

I asked my mirror,
who am i
'Nothing'!

[solaris]

eight words
are still seven too many

[jajdude]

Fish see fishermen and think
Damn, them again.

[Dark Muse]

Your words
have the power
to melt me

[mazHur]

A little warmth
makes hearts melt
like chocolate.

[Silas Thorne]

Quickly hide that piece, Niece,
it's the police!

[IceM]

Like dew pearlings at dawn,
your smile shines.

[Silas Thorne]

She smiles, my trumpet rises,
the curtains close. ;)

[aliengirl]

Clouds part,
sun shines,
as a child smiles.

[mazHur]

Desire
is a serpent
befriending only
weak hearts.

[Delta40]

Pity
weeps tears
on its self-absorbed sleeve

[mazHur]

Where's the world going??
Don't know for sure.

[qimissung]

Supple leaf leached of love, brittle dying thing

[mazHur]

A caged bird
struggles to fly
when released.

[YesNo]

Furry, hairy,
Funny, scary,
Monster meanies
Making merry.

[mazHur]

Left Right
Left right
Watch steps
Double March

[YesNo]

Santa, crimson bright,
Drives his reindeer sleigh tonight.

[mazHur]

Hurry up
It's time to go
but where??

[DieterM]

In time,
minutes will pass by,
I guess

[mazHur]

Time
Is the healer
Time is the killer.....

[YesNo]

Why hesitate?
Tomorrow's now may be too late.

[qimissung]

let ease ease back into your life...ahhhh

[qimissung]

time's rule leads to a life lived timorously.

[mazHur]

Who can see
with eyes blind?
Bats only.

[Pensive]

Empty eyes speak sadly
Bowed heads listen not

[mazHur]

Raise up
your head
look into
my eyes.

[qimissung]

see the loving kindness
waiting there for you

[mazHur]

Traffic is slow
Have the gas prices
risen?

[Varenne Rodin]

In corporeal sufferance
all beings
will feel pain

[mazHur]

Alleviate pain
Put spirit
in your corporeal abode.

[sadhana]

wind blows
who knows where
city in sighs.

[mazHur]

Thundering clouds
torrential rains
Heart longing
for you.

[YesNo]

Weather wonder--
Pounding thunder--
Rainfalls start:
Angry heart.

[qimissung]

the rounded drop of rain holds all things

[mazHur]

mamma cooking
papa looking
hunger strikes
Dip van Dyke!!

YesNo
Weather wonder--
Pounding thunder--
Rainfalls start:
Angry heart.

[qimissung]

giving thanks
the roof leaks
my heart drips

[mazHur]

Sky is my roof
Earth is my bed

[cafolini]

hocus pocus
circling locus
human medicine
babbling focus

[mazHur]

Unter munter
gull gulunter
Hum dono
Khur khurunter!

[qimissung]

the smell of earth and worms,
freshly turned

[cacian]

solemn spoken truth
reveal yourself!! do tell all!

[Dark Muse]

Dangling
upon the edge
of your poisoned
lips.

[cacian]

outer space
stars shine
passage
of
time ahead!

[tailor STATELY]

Nice one cacain !

A found poem (I think) that I chanced upon: https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=%22white+is+the+achromatic+color+of+maximum+ligh tness%22&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest


White is the
achromatic colour
of
maximum lightness

Might just use this as an idea to expound upon...

And here is the page it's on http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1125603#post1125603

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[cacian]

traverse
reverse
tis walk of life
ahead again!

[Dark Muse]

Your eyes
are storm gray
they awaken me.

[tailor STATELY]

Rejoice!
There's joy in
the refining
greater than gold

9/5/2013

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Dark Muse]

Wisteria perfume
~lingers~
I think only your
~hair~

[Pompey Bum]

Pity the porcupines:
Pink snouts pierced
With spines.

[Pompey Bum]

Catharsis, catharsis!
It's the way of all arses.

[axolotl]

maybe my fly
of words
it is mayfly

[tailor STATELY]

Who's first to blink
What's next
Second base

[Danik 2016]

Luminous lights
sheltering
dark shadows-
corners of
conscience

[tailor STATELY]

listening for the

oboe
in the woodwind

forest