Best Briers Poems

Heated only by stars—
Another night without you.  
It bites out my very veins,
This shudder from some animal
That made its house-home in my soul
Now since you’re gone.

I won’t play too hard with my dark side,
Though they say now I must.
I’m remembering you instead—our dreams in...

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She called me darling
And I felt my feet grow roots
While the ground swelled to meet me

She called me darling
As the wind combed the briers in my hair
And strange squirrels anointed me with nests

She called me darling
And the sun painted my cheeks rouge
While the sea spilled...

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“Haiku”

sunbeam dances light
among briers and bramble….
maker's tapestry   

sharp lines intertwine
daintily paint silhouettes….
against twilight sky

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          “Quatrain”

Dark forest captures life
disbursing death’s...

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twas a cold and cloudy day
nippy in nature with trees in sway
that time in winter when days were short
the kind of day when a grave digger 
would take a snort
to warm the bones, so to speak
a few more snorts to make it neat
but dig the...

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"The Deconstructed Lilith"




Decomposing from a past
left forgotten and buried 
under the weakness of the first man banished

from 
Her Forest,

She rests, bound in the arms of angst 
eternally suspended, 
invisible and unheard

gagged, Her spirit waits 
and watches

Her time is near
to rise from the ashes 
the other...

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H unger drives small wings to follow-
O n search of nectar to swallow.
N atures own sweet drink to borrow-
E ven if morning dew falls tomorrow.
Y ummy blossoms drench zealous air-
S ifting through briers with flair.
U nderneath the weeping willow-
C olored spouts in sun kissed yellow-
K...

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a rusty mailbox 
covered with briers and brambles –
broken house

12/29/2016...

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In the garden of my soul
there fell a seed
wondrous smooth
and dark as evening’s shadow
from which emerged a tree
tentative
its stem twisting uncertain from the soil
as a lover estranged
contriving an oblique path to bliss
unassuming seeming
yet in every subtle arc and incline
betraying desire by apprehension
its bark was gray...

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I’ll take the back road; it is lovely and less traveled;     
the briers run high against naked tree bark.
Around the bend the road is graveled-
with a canopy of foliage making pathway dark.    

The briers run high against naked...

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With youthful vigor, self-serving pursuits did enthrone
Fealty's dues trumping pride did disown
Encased by unbridled passion, mitigating perpetuity did groan
I lingered in your shadow 'till life's cover had blown
Then instinctively garnished pages from patrimonial loan
I traveled the cobbled path now overgrown;
With briers and weeds, spent years...

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Have you ever had a black berry bush
Drooping with wild fruit that you were hungry for,
Only to be driven away by
A swarm of wasps encircling its briers?

Have you ever picked up a plum off the ground
Because it was red and plump beneath its tree,
Only to...

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Nestled deep in the tawny, drab woodland
Sedate cottage neither haughty nor grand
Sparse hovel of unassuming, itinerant brigand
Martial decor of detached highwayman starkly bland
The etched path sculpted by intemperate hand
No manicured garden on the scrubby strand
Briers and brambles errant straggler must withstand
Thatched clapboards stable his stallion...

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"What time is it" she thought, as she lie on the ground
Her bare naked body had been beaten and bound
fine hairs on her arms stood erect, nipples were taut
Wandering eyes were mobile, the rest of her body was not
"How did I get here" she could...

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Blooms 
Christmas lantern
on their jack fruit tree
like the brightest star 
they admire in their rainbow 
dreams.

To cut
Bamboo sticks, 
under briers they crawled.

Night and day, they saw 
how their Christmas lantern grow.

With its bare skeleton,
it looked first so hungry,
and they saw how it grow.

With 
its yellow...

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What species was the tree
He grew to be
The roughhewed, splintered 
Old rugged cross 

What pain He went through
For me
Because His love was true
For you and the whole world too

He grew the plant
That they did implant
Upon His lovely brow
For my sins of rejection and desires 
So...

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