Best Ichthys Poems

LANTERNE PHRASIS 3
Tedium ends with the setting sun,an
angled view that reaches into life.
Loud sighs,piercing eyes that erupt
from unconscious minds.A lyrical dream
abstract fantasy of multiple emotions
that...

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SCENES OF A CARELESS BOYHOOD

The sound of water,escaping dams
willows,old rotten planks,slimy
posts,brickwork,old timber props
wet ditches,sedges and silvery nets
towpaths without gates,horses that
tow barges collared with crimson fringe.

Wheat...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 2
Lady’s mantle with butcher’s broom
dwarf cornel cotton grass so thin,
yellow travellers joy,with buttercup
on sunspurged ,petty whin.
Creeping jenny over silverweed
groundsel& cudweed,balm,rockrose 
and...

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Look there,do you see the wall of red brick
     ...

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This link will show this haiku in a haiga form on one of my paintings

http://haiga-ichthys.blogspot.com/


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A pollock 'broke the ice'
Making abstract look so nice,
New York became 'Centre du monde'
As avant-garde crossed the 'pond'-
A style of which I'm very fond !

Tribute...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 3
Blossom of baby's breath,soft white
gorse,crusted yellow, weeping willow
rush patterned lace pastures a pastel green.
Buttercup,daisy&comely cowslip mingle
&mix in fellowship swaying pelts of...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 6
Honest innocence becalmed in sleep
on pathways that house the mind.
Simple,transluscent,form space
&mass made into one,an ancestor
of the surreal.Confetti spirals,
patterns of peaks&troughs in
contemplative mode.Intervals
that float...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 4
Art without a title,an ego
in relief of studied arrogance
in a broken mosaic ,awash
in blue&orange partitions,
dripping wet into wet,A
vision coveying joy,the sacred
blending with the...

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY PHRASIS 1
The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack grizzled the engrain
citrine...

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TRUE GRIT
He like a drink
did granpa  Shreeve
Sergeant stripes stayed on
his sleeve- Victorian born with
buckled belt ,boots,trousers braced;
strong silent,with twirled of moustache;
rigid of back,upright no...

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an extra from from my kettle collage

see more at my htttp://kettles-ichthys.blogspot.com...

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SEQUENCE PHRASIS part 3
Euphony at its core,a glance to
mesmorise,memories surface outliving
passing fame&excels in retrospect,even
upon the losing side.In passion’s grip,
there’s nowhere to hide,living free,
an awesome task,a...

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Little children  become loving
people in the odyssey of life.
Innocence exchanged for 
ecstasy in love,marriage,
relationships ups&downs 
..and strife.Pebbles in the
shoes,an eyelash in the eye
minor irritations...

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S   O   F   T   
S   I   G   H  
F ...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 1
A childhood flashback,a yesterday dream
symbols from the clutter of life,in
slow motion,descending & suspended
in space.Caught in the daydream,this
rainbow of the mind,distracted blurs
of destiny’s tears...

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CHRISTIAN PHRASIS 1-pastoral
To see the kingdom grow with
peopled pews, so often a frustrated
desire sans practical love in action.
A love for people and growth of
the rule...

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COMMONPLACE PHRASIS IX
Everything in its season,concentrated
and alive stray objects ripple across
the view and solitary imagination
is its scale.Recollections of things
past,so apposite for self-expression
sieved to retain the...

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A PUPIL’S PROGRESS-a phrasis
Good work,a praiseworthy effort, 
sadly exam nervousness held him
back .He can think quickly,albeit 
sometimes not clearly, when he
thinks before he inks! 
He...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 1	
Brooding,a pensive contemplation
vulnerable in thought,unsure in deed,
fear interplays with unsaid concerns.
Crestfallen,tearfully blue,opportunity
slips into the shallows,a temperament
still-born,a memorial of stone,dated
&surreal.Unable to relate,this failure
impacts...

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O pray that we like Jesus B
That others wonder Y
His Peace,His Joy,His love, they C
Flow out from U and I

After Keat's quatrain 'O Grant '



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SEQUENCE PHRASIS 1
Remember ,momento mori,always 
ever present in life,where,the rain
falls on both the good&bad.Words
so often dissimulate & dissemble,
alter the envisioned state of the
moment,& become convention.
Nostalgia...

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LANTERNE PHRASIS 7
Breathe in &dream,step up close,
let inner sensations inhabit this
collage perfected by chance.It
may go against the grain to create
the appearance of things with dramas
in...

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BLOTTED OUT
He loved,but could not say
such words,he could not find;
He loved,but could not touch
such warmth,was just too much;
He was proud,but could not praise
such sounds he...

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PHRASIS STREAMS part 5
Inwardly afraid,perfunctory &peripheral
the how&what of our choosing,these
whispered sounds of tender lasting
moments,ever seeking a rationale.
Waiting&wondering to pursue that
inner voice or proven better way.
Such...

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