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Simplicity

Noble_Incubus
Thought Provoker
Australia 3awards
Joined 28th Jan 2016
Forum Posts: 235

We only need two words (competition entry)

We only need two words:  
yes/no, one/zero, take your pick.
 
As long as they are opposites,
We can make the logic stick.
 
From this we can construct all knowledge,
Whether ideas or arithmetic.
 
We could construct all music or art,
Including those precious family pics.  
 
And we could delete what we don’t need,  
The falsehoods of politics.
Written by Noble_Incubus
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TimWombles
Thought Provoker
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Joined 21st Sep 2020
Forum Posts: 22

Simple Ernest

Hemingway used small words to say big things
For some educated poets that's a bite that stings
You didn't need a dictionary or a point of origin to understand
Still his writing could take you to far off lands
He wrote about simple people fighting against the odds
Whether it be about a boat, a fish, a bull, or even the Gods
It's not about who can have the most ten dollar words
It's about whose writing separates the writer from the herd
Written by TimWombles
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slipalong
Dangerous Mind
United Kingdom 41awards
Joined 1st Jan 2018
Forum Posts: 822

Comment ( on Jack Kerouac's mission for simplicity)

A legacy walks abroad, with ghostly steps
the inspirations marathon, that runs, not by rule of thumb
that leaves you feeling so inept,
when brevity, its beauty ever shunned

For lesser is the greatest gift,
the cutting edge
stinging repost, that sticks the lips
grasp for diamonds glitter, amongst the dregs

Complexity and prevarication, so you wed
that bitch, ever needed to be fed
written, the slim beauty, the need of whence
the mistress you should take to bed

W/C 79
Written by slipalong
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AltairEndian
Thought Provoker
Joined 4th Mar 2019
Forum Posts: 3

A moment of simplicity

I turn, I strike
In a flawed choreography
But I make it mine
Each movement an expression
Of who I am

Unique
No input
No machines
Just me
And the next turn

In this I breathe
In this I live

It is
My choreography
In this I find

A moment of simplicity
Written by AltairEndian
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buddhakitty
Tyrant of Words
10awards
Joined 5th Mar 2017
Forum Posts: 50

simply put

 
 
here is my  
             heart,  
 
  do what you  
              want to  
                         it...
Written by buddhakitty
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gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Thought Provoker
United States 6awards
Joined 26th Nov 2018
Forum Posts: 138

Simplicity of Complexity

One day I say, I will brave the storm and find the right words.
One day, those words will brave intricacy and just be simple.

One day if I may, make an incision on swollen complexity and let it bleed out.
One day, I will let go and let my words flow like a river.
Written by gothicsurrealism (Daniel Long)
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brokentitanium
k.
Tyrant of Words
Canada 10awards
Joined 18th Nov 2015
Forum Posts: 1122

The right words

brokentitanium (k.)
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The winner of this competition and any runners up were decided by public vote.

Thank you to the following members for voting:

AspergerPoet56, da_poetic-edifier, nutbuster, brokentitanium, rubyredheart, lepperochan, Phantom2426, Grace, Dragonnora, Marks, ReggiePoet, MadameLavender, gothicsurrealism, James_A_Knight, KristopherSanders, wallyroo92, Valeriyabeyond, ANATNOM_GNIREFFUS, Noble_Incubus, LunaGreyhawk, Bluevelvete, Tallen, RevolutionAL, robert43041, admin

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