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The Concise Verse

The Concise Verse

Written by: John Healey
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 Where brevity meets beauty - a new poem every week.2025 Art
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  • "At Midnight" by Frank Dempster Sherman

    "At Midnight" by Frank Dempster Sherman
    Jan 25 2026

    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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    1 min
  • "A Cowboy's Prayer" by Badger Clark

    "A Cowboy's Prayer" by Badger Clark
    Jan 18 2026

    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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    1 min
  • "Quatrain" by Gwendolyn Bennett

    "Quatrain" by Gwendolyn Bennett
    Jan 11 2026

    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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    1 min
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