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The Concise Verse

John Healey

Where brevity meets beauty - a new poem every week.

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"Green" by D. H. Lawrence

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2026/02/15

The dawn was apple-green, The sky was green wine held up in the sun, The moon was a golden petal between. She opened her eyes, and green They shone, clear like flowers undone, For the first time, now for the first time seen.

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"Dusk" by Angelina Weld Grimké

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2026/02/08

Twin stars through my purpling pane, The shriveling husk Of a yellowing moon on the wane - And the dusk.

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01:10

"A Poison Tree" by William Blake

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2026/02/01

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine. And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

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"At Midnight" by Frank Dempster Sherman

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2026/01/25

See, yonder, the belfry tower That gleams in the moon's pale light; Or is it a ghostly flower That dreams in the silent night? I listen and hear the chime Go quavering o'er the town, And out of this flower of Time Twelve petals are wafted down.

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"A Cowboy's Prayer" by Badger Clark

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2026/01/18

Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow. I love creation better as it stood That day You finished it so long ago And looked upon Your work and called it good. I know that others find You in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel You near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains.

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"Quatrain" by Gwendolyn Bennett

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2026/01/11

How strange that grass should sing— Grass is so still a thing . . . And strange the swift surprise of snow So soft it falls and slow.

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"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare

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2026/01/04

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts...

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"Song" by Christina Rossetti

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2025/12/28

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.

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"The Ship Starting" by Walt Whitman

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2025/12/21

Lo, the unbounded sea, On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails. The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately- below emulous waves press forward, They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.

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"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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2025/12/14

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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"Night" by Sara Teasdale

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2025/12/07

Stars over snow, And in the west a planet Swinging below a star— Look for a lovely thing and you will find it, It is not far— It will never be far.

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"The Secret" by Emily Dickinson

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2025/11/30

Some things that fly there be, — Birds, hours, the bumble-bee: Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be, — Grief, hills, eternity: Nor this behooveth me. There are, that resting, rise. Can I expound the skies? How still the riddle lies!

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01:17

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes

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2025/11/23

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers:

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"Nancibel" by Bliss Carmen

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2025/11/16

The ghost of a wind came over the hill, While day for a moment forgot to die, And stirred the sheaves Of the millet leaves, As Nancibel went by. Out of the lands of Long Ago, Into the land of By and By, Faded the gleam Of a journeying dream, As Nancibel went by.

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"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

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2025/11/09

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

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"Unfortunate Coincidence" by Dorothy Parker

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2025/11/02

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying— Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

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"First Fig" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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2025/10/26

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!

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"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

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2025/10/19

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

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"The Wind" by Robert Louis Stevenson

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2025/10/12

I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass— O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid.

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"Fog" by Carl Sandburg

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2025/10/05

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

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