Eight-Word Poems

The bird leaps,
The branch waves,
Goodbye.

stalking me with claws sharpened
little monster cat

now i know
why the rumor
floats about.

Now these three
remain: faith, hope,
and love.
*

And know
the greatest of these
is love

When love fails,
can faith and hope
endure?

Aren't Faith
and Hope
for when Love fails?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Now these three
remain: faith, hope,
and love.
*

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Is that asterisk allowed? Is that a sneaky way of getting in nine words?? :flare: Watch it, buddy! :D


Faith and hope
Lead us back to love

Yet without faith,
love may never be enough

Gasping,
anguished,
in love undone,
you sink,
breathless.

Thanks for the warm welcome, CdnReader.


Farewell my language,
left abroad, unlearned---
Cymothoa exigua.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by creativity

Thanks for the warm welcome, CdnReader.


Farewell my language,
left abroad, unlearned---
Cymothoa exigua.

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Eek! a dread parasite
at the tongues' base!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Is that asterisk allowed? Is that a sneaky way of getting in nine words?? :flare: Watch it, buddy! :D

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Cast out the *
from thine own eye!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Cast out the *
from thine own eye!

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Alas! And, Alas!
I have not no *s.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ampoule

Alas! And, Alas!
I have not no *s.

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Have you heard
of double affirmatives?
Yeah, yeah!