Best Cleaves Poems
Still I Run
...I race for summer's setting sun
as crimson bleed the alder leaves
and still I run. And still I run.
My rival, time, is yet undone.
Past pyramids of flaxen sheaves
I race for summer's setting ......
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Categories:
cleaves, autumn, death, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
Ragnarok: the Storm
...With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle
In the forest crows the rooster
In the sky the sun does darken
In t......
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Categories:
cleaves, weather,
Form:
Epyllion
The Curtain of Pain Fell Upon Us
...While snowflakes continue to fall,
upon a night pale as ghostly winter
I falter from my own distraught pause--
the hazy moon watches my young girl
a serene angel laying in starshine, on a b......
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Categories:
cleaves, mother daughter, pain,
Form:
Free verse
A Memorial To Martin Luther King Jr
...Words would fail me if I might assay
To articulate the courage of this man.
The numerous facets of his dossier
Are subject for song in a distant land.
Awakened in youth from serene dreams
By the......
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Categories:
cleaves, death, dedication, faith, history,
Form:
Rhyme
The View From Where I Stand
...I’ve an anger which cannot be hidden!
A burning passion that comes unbidden!
My Soul desolated with grievous rage,
reacts with furious justified outrage!
Occasioned by the offences of ignorance......
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Categories:
cleaves, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Clouds
...A Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly lands
Upon Purple Wild Petunia's blossom
Sipped a drink of nectar, flew; life unplanned
Soon the sunny morn turns into eve; clouds come
Thunder and lightning off i......
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Categories:
cleaves, life,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Angel Star.
...In the northern heavens her essence so vivid
My constant seraphic star
Basking within her gloriousness warming
Cleaves to me from distances far
Guiding my pathway on night lit Earth
Keeping my c......
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Categories:
cleaves, faith, family, hope, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Writer's Block
...A solitary pencil line,
stretched taught
on distant snow.
Cleaves blank sky
from frozen ground.
Gives hope of where to go.
Accidental thought
creates a tree I toil towards
its tremblin......
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Categories:
cleaves, work,
Form:
Free verse
Sword of Roses
...What, then, is Love but a sword of roses
Which cleaves poor waiting hearts
And thusly drunk with the blood of saints
Exults in its own dissipation?
And mine, a soul it so jagged gashed,
A scar......
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Categories:
cleaves, depression, devotion, friendship, lost
Form:
Blank verse
As Time Stood Still
...My pen finds pause
my body is broken,
a weighted horror
cleaves my breast
The strings of hope sliced
as I put dreams to the sword,
but hands now whisper to stars
across a fabric brushed heav......
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Categories:
cleaves, death, deep, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Calling Gull Of Aquinnah
...The calling gull leaves her nest
her wild magic cleaves the nimbus.
An avian aerialist suspended aloft
she sails on tapered ribbons of cirrus silk,
ruffled sea breeze ironed ‘neath her lustrous ......
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Categories:
cleaves, appreciation, growth, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
Bite Size -- Beyond Dimensions
...
Grows the night when breaths lay
quietly
On obscure spaces fluid as the wind,
Where clouds of rest become a
hammock ,
Lulling frayed nerves with incense
As blend of matter and bein......
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Categories:
cleaves, introspection, silence,
Form:
Light Verse
Crimson River
...Crimson River
O Crimson river of Autumnal leaves!
The snow dove leans into her lover’s eyes.
He glides his fingers o’er her soul - she sighs.
The paddles splash between seaweed th......
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Categories:
cleaves, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lady Down the Lane
...droll
slap you with a word
then, cross arms and wait
that's how she'd get you ... Grace Cleaves
out-of-the-blue idiosyncrasies that she'd notice in you
laid quite flatly in your lap
for you to ......
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Categories:
cleaves, appreciation, friendship, loss, memory,
Form:
Free verse
LUNE LANDING - series of lune haiku
...LATE BLOOMER
sun highlights
the bod of oak bark -
Autumn knight
CLINGERS
won’t let go -
cling to puppy love,
its branches
CLEAVERS
cleaves to old
relationship vow -......
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Categories:
cleaves, autumn, emotions, imagery, lust,
Form:
Haiku