High Impact- Selected Short Pieces

Each entry has 14 words or less

                 1) irony

 

   Meditating-

I practice

universal compassiontruth

Waking-

I still

despise him.

 

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        2) rage   (true story)

 

"I guess it's your problem"

he said,

handing me a

metal coat hanger.

 

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              3) Wanted

 

Wanted:

A good man

who can laugh

at Dostoevsky

with me.

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        4) 'Tis the season

 

          Yo, Dad, this all

you an dat b***h givin' me

for Christmas this year?

 

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5) Why I love you

 

When we met

I saw

my weakness turn to strength

in your gaze.

 

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6) someone I left in 1993

 

He was the type

moved, 

upon viewing fragile things,

to crush them.

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7) for Jess

 

I'm sorry that

when growing up

you only got hugged

when you were ill.

 

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8) Standardized Testing

 

Why can we not let

our children

just be geniuses?

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9) Connecticut Drivers

 

Use of turn signals

might

give away

state secrets.

 

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10) The frustration of cats

 

Because you have declared

 you need any spot

upon which

I was gonna sit.  

 

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11) Why she'll never be content

 

"I'll be happy

when someone rescues me

and hands to me

all I want."

 

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12) Self-importance

 

A critic

getting her Master's

in sophistry and rigidity-

creating not.

 

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13) The Most Hopeless Feeling in the World

 

When I can do nothing

to comfort

a tiny creature dying in my hands.

 

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14) Writing Aspirations

 

You have

a very bright future

writing

other people's

rejection letters.

 

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15) Why I'm Quitting

 

I'm tired of harpoon points

enfolded within your

"Good Morning"

 

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16) What PETA and The Tea Party Have in Common

 

Half-truths and oversimplification

exalted

as the reason

for distrust of knowledge

 

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17) To my stats prof

 

Please-

don't let today's lecture

be such boredom. I'm

just that tired. Amen.

 

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18) Chastising a NY ex

 

Terns migrate

22,000 miles each year.

You wouldn't drive

to Pennsylvania

to visit Mom.

 

 

 

 

                   

 

Author's Note

Instead of posting singly, I will update this list as they come to me.

I cannot seem to get the formatting to work correctly... am going to try to copy into Word, and then paste back as one piece. If itdoesn;t work, we may have to live with one line being off.

all were inspired by real life and real people

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Such an ingenuous way of putting each of your ten words .. from no. 5 down it's set perfectly.

To be able to plant a tiny seed then let it grow into a ten word plant is quite something, and each having quite a profound meaning or clear picture. Your snatches of humour are great, smiled at, ' You have a very bright future ~ writing other people's rejection letters. ' (ouch!) and 'Because you have declared you need any spot ~ upon which ~ I was gonna sit.' ... and then i felt sad to read, 'I'm sorry that ~ when growing up ~ you only got hugged ~ when you were ill.'

Not sure about the sub-heading of this but the ten words are superb English, 'Half-truths and oversimplification ~ exalted as the reason ~ for distrust of knowledge'

Looking forward to reading more ..

[Through the Gateway]

I love the "Amen" for # 17!

Both new ones are fantastic!

[Through the Gateway]

This is brilliantly done! Please let me know whenever you update these!

LOL on #9. I can personally relate to that one!

Love the updates. Very poignant. #16 is so very true...and scary.

[just rose.]

These are wonderful and contain a whole world in few words. Brilliant characterizations in the ones that are comprised of dialogue.

[Doctor JKC]

A unique form and not a whining rant either.
You mixed up the emotions so well: gaunt and funny.
So cool.
What is all you want?
Most desire a person with ample funds
so they can do as they please and
not work. Not you I believe.
Hugs, Jack

[Jess]

Is the Jess mentioned above me, or another Jess?

The one that, in my opinion, has the most impact is the metal coat hanger one. I literally laughed out loud when I read the turn signals one, because that hit on my #1 driving pet peeve! Numbers 5 and 6 seem to contrast each other in a very interesting way and are both beautiful in their own ways (not the person you describe in #6, just the succinct way you described him).

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

This was really cool, your mix of personal experience and growth and philosophical out looks in short verse was brilliant, and that you added in some fun was cool... 9 and 10 were hilarious.
A wonderful read.

[:)]

Interesting to capture experiences in such few words... You stir emotion with the shortest sentence...
Reminds me of those essays 500 words or less and I thought those were hard.

Number eleven might be an issue I have... There's something about growing up with disney, vampires and the like that raise expections of finding that perfect stalker...Ok creepy maybe lol!



Wonderful writing! I'd say my top four...:)

[Jibey]

Neat little packages