Short Sestina Poems

Persian Rug
$6,000 
dog bed...

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windows smile in Christmas City
humbug with no place to go...

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sons never came back…
dawn breaking naval attack
ships sinking to black...

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love 
for you
dreaming 
of you
for years
until you walked 
into my life...

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lotions fear dying spine jealous wheel
basket hold fear fire camp salt
razor freeze salute resolution house...

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Family Affairs 

Uxorious 
Devotion to wife 
Dotingly
Submissive 
Sounds like a serious offence 
In the dictionary...

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Sad Sextet. 


Rainy day 
Wet dog on pavement 
Looking in
Seeing me
Sit by the cosy fireside 
Ignoring its plight....

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Dream what may come
Recalling past lives lived
Every fantasy comes to life
All night long 
More nightmares to come
So many worlds to explore...

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My seed, I must admit I never even once wanted
Sitting unreallisticaly, at a doctors office
Waiting for my name to be called and to terminate this...

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you walked out of my dreams
into my life that day
the day that changed my life
when you became my wife
and filled my life with love
that date I met true love...

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I hate my deeds & 
everbody hates me
It's a fact and I know it
I am a burden so heavy 
I am a curse so dark
I am a person , i'hv bones
Not just a reason to 
throw stones...

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Happy birthday, Sister Gina, 
Poets write in many a form; 
The poetry type Sestina 
Lets writers brilliantly perform. 

Topic: Birthday of Sister Gina V. Castillo (March 17)...

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Sestina’s are skillful
Select a subject scene
Six lines per six stanza’s
Simple three lined envoi
Stressed and unstressed meter
Structure your sentences
Sequence strategic schemes...

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Will I ever know how to write
Will you ever know what I wrote
When I was idolized and free to write?
Will it ever come to be eternally
That in the grave fore I lie
In the world I never die?...

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September 7, 1982
a date I shall always remember
 for on that date, I met my fate
 for eight years 
 I dreamt of meeting her
then she walked into my life.

six lines 
bite size poetry contest...

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Though the attackers are many in number
The escaper is courageous and clever
So the attackers have failed to harm that
The escaper has befooled them in fact
Though the danger is dense and severe
The Strategic Manager is called the Savior....

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If patriotism really is in brain and mind
All superstitions, crimes instantly go out
Let's grow there the great patriotic zeal
And we do never ourselves lively kill
Real patriotism makes us really great
Fake one makes narrow and hypocrite....

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The winter stood amaze,
As the summer set the atmosphere a-blaze.
The swaying maiden is found in nought,
For the scorching sun had with it fought.

All dawn does the sun arrives early,
And the lady could no longer tarry.
      18:01:12:22:37...

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Sitting under a tree, old and grey
No flowers to bloom, leaves falling down
Birds desert the nests, no one to play around
The clouds are around, they hold no charm
Gave shade to many, no one to shade us
Waiting to fall one day, are we made for each other?...

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A
sestina
is
order
and
scramble.

Scramble
a
and
sestina
order
is.

Is
scramble
order
a
sestina
and?

And
is
sestina
scramble
a
order?

Order
and
a
is
scramble
sestina.

Sestina
order
scramble
and
is
a.

And order.
Is scramble
a sestina?...

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Choosing a faithful woman to fulfill this fate
to bring forth a baby with a loud scream;
sweet cry so innocent piercing air and soul,
touch him tenderly: he is the fruit of our seed!
May his faith shed light on doubt and darkness...
let's hope that his deeds and words will be fine....

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Appearance w/o an Opposite..

Oppositions

We observe today with expectation

In that stretch of the future..

But in a new time..as time is exposed

Oppositions are also exposed..and the

Seamless sounds..quivering and revealing:

Appearances..beauty expressing

Nothing at all.....

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What is wealth without happiness?
Mansions that allow them to sleep in different rooms,
Expensive cars that allow them not to travel together,
Chef meals that allow them not to cook for each other,
For it's very much possible for wealth to hide deep sorrows,
As naked happiness lies in the poor!...

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Despair...
limp hair
falling:
screaming!
A cure...
for sure?

Quick-fix...
Rogaine!
Who laughs?
Who cares!
I'm young,
not old!
  
Ladies
notice...
dark suit,
white shirt:
free-way 
to joy!

All stare...
fanfare:
not hot
to perk?
Petty...
not me!


Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci...

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Butterfly

{Sestet}
Sep 11, 2017• By daniel miltz •

A splendid butterfly, floated out there 
I stood there frozen, watching, winging flight
Gazing its beauty, then onto the air
Its rippled wings, shivered ever so bright
I couldn't allow it, be out of my stare
While looking at such beautiful invite...

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