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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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a rusty mailbox 
covered with briers and brambles –
broken house

12/29/2016...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Bouquets bring my heart great joy.
And brightens every natural day.
No matter what my mood may be
Uplifting comes from flowers.
Blooms unfolding anticipate.
Life, beautiful life, fragrantly flowing
Felt...

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