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Give me a ten-word poem? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by Vupware@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Thought it would be fun to see what you all come up with on a whim. Try not to think about it too much; the spontaneity is what makes it fun!

Mine:

Darkness on sunny days, brightness in the dark. Every day.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fuck this shit

I want out

Let me go

Home

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Written like a man at work on a slow day!

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cool wind blows

Autumn's herald harkens

Balls sweat no more

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago

No poem has ever instilled such wistful hope in me before

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

And as the leaves fall, I am falling for them.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Roses are dead, Violets are dead, I suck at gardening.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With practice makes… ah, yes, of course, more dead flowers.

[–] oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

😭 nooo I can change

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need rain, I'm told.

It rains, complaints grow tenfold.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The rain disrupts the soil, the soul disrupted in turn.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You'll wish you'd chosen

not to leap

right...

about...

now

[–] spykee@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

....funk
soul
brother.

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[–] jay2@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Listen! Listen! The Cats Pissin... Where! Where! Under The Chair...

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[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What even is a poem?

I never understood art really...

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I see what you did there sir

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Don't tell me

What to do

You're not my dad

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Shit, ten words spot on

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fucking fuck. Fuck me dude. Fucking hell I swear. Fuck

[–] 0_0j@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Dude I cracked lol

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

That's fucking beautiful, dude.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everything you do matters, except all the bathroom splatters. shit.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They matter to me when I go in there to pee.

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Calm and contented

For nothing happened today.

I am satisfied

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children) 
A window to the world
without any Windows

My Computer.
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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every day is another test. I forgot my #2 pencil.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

And yet, with no pencil in hand, wisdom is espoused.

Seriously, this one was great. You should remember it always.

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Life is too short
Make of it
What you can

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do not dawdle,

but do not become married

to work.

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Make amends with your friends,

lest they meet unfortunate ends.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I lack the wit, so I can't rhyme for shit.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

The kids are fighting again.

I love being their dad!

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Poetry is hard to

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

women, girls, ladies

a lifetime is insufficient

to appreciate you

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[–] url@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There are two or three and sometimes four? Potentially... more.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Sometimes less is best.

If all is zero, nothing is.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The glowing sun projects its rays, consciousness reflects the age.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

My mind slows, but the world hastens with every day.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

In the night we can't see an absence of light

[–] bstix 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hobby horse, eat a cake Jump around, break your leg

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Horse, if you didn’t devour cake, you’d still have leg.

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[–] oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) 
The poems
I wrote,
I love 'em
but I'm broke.
[–] spykee@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hodor hodor hodor,
Hodor hodor.
Hodor hodor hodor,
Hodor hodor.

[–] kriz@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Crushing reality, Hurtling towards destruction. I need to do more.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Today is Dog. Yesterday was Water. Tomorrow will be Monkey.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, isn’t it funky when the day is a monkey?

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's a good day for games.

Ozomahtli

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sit and learn, find each nuance, miss the entire point

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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hands upon fretboard

Staring quietly

Playing frippery

Three truthless chords

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