Best Shadorma Poems

EXCHANGING DREAMS




two old men
with retirement’s eyes
exchange dreams
on a bench,
growing tendrils of old age…
as night becomes dim

they recline
like curled sleeves wrinkling,
memories
recycled
on phonograph's needling tunes
crossing young regions


poetic form:shadorma 
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* The  Shadorma is a short Spanish form, of six unrhymed lines.
As a syllabic poem, it has a...

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Here are cards
Fifty-two in all.
Want to win?
You beat me?
You need more points than I have.
Twenty-one is tops.
...

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She awoke
to a blazing sun,
brightest orb,
day’s lover.
The moon, jealous of her love,
cried for the night’s loss.

She, sleeping,
missed the soft caress,
silken touch,
palest rays
that beckoned her to waken
and taste their sweetness....

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Avalanche…

It only
Takes one candle’s flame
To drive out
The darkness -
In an avalanche of light
To crush the shadows

It only
Takes one snowflake’s song
To start an
Avalanche 
Of mercy flowing chanting
In sweet melody

It only
Takes one brave flower
To stand up
Against storms
An avalanche of courage
The power of one

It only
Takes one prayer's plea
From...

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A green pear
 
Not hidden by leaves

At the top

So lonely

A prolific limb's product

Hangs by an aged thread     ...

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New Year’s Eve,
resolution made.
New diet,
I’ll try it!
Must turn over a new leaf
when the spring arrives.


Fictional write for contest - I never make resolutions and have never been on a diet!

 
Shadorma 3/5/3/3/7/5 Syllables checked using How Many Syllables
Contest New beginnings
Sponsor Kim Merryman
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Finding Yourself


Take your time

turning deep within

while you search

in your heart

for what truly reflects now

the person you are


Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
August 9, 2018 (Shadorma)...

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Love’s Power


It’s wondrous

enchants you entire—

passions hot

your heart beats

wildly with a true desire

for the one you love


Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
September 19, 2018 (Shadorma)...

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Through graveyard
meandering, just
me and Dad
stories sad
abbreviated down to
mostly names and dates

So we tell
their stories by turns
like poor Duane
Dinwiddie
died at age thirty-three of
bee sting allergy

So tragic
how she caught a chill
Angeline
age nineteen
who died before her wedding
day, her groom grieves still

Or the war
heroes, Frank and Finn
taken in
the prime...

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Unlikely
this romance between
Miss Cricket
and stodgy
Buddy Biddle, so stagnant
set in his ways, stuck

While Cricket
eighty-nine years young
dances rings
around him
full of impish energy
mischievous antics

He proposed
but Miss Cricket won't
marry him
knows better
she's outlived countless lovers
and won't be tied down

She's having
way too much fun- so
fancy-free
no one to
boss her, tell her what...

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"I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)I am never without it"

                              ...

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Withering
shriveling all up
inside, I
cannot tell
how long I'll remain in this
hell of a dry spell

No rainfall
here, except for tears
and sometimes
they go dry
too numb to cry, too tired
to feel inspired

The words crack
crumble in my mouth
before I
get them out
primal screams and shouts silenced
by fear and self-doubt

Soul searching
something worth...

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Rising sun
on a purple sea.
Fading stars.
Newborn hope
is lovely in the shadows,
'neath violet skies....

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Piqued my soul
Carnival playing
Visiting
Honor hold
Wishing for happiness free
Piercing heart

Playing card
Proving other death
Falling down
Seeing more
Taken it all for granted
Hurting heart

Russell Sivey
Entrant into Nette Onclauds contest ~Share a Shadorma~...

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A Shadorma

My soul has
earth roots tunneling
down into
earth’s belly,
swirling, curling round about,
among creatures there.

My heart rides
their elevator
going down;
deep into
mother’s sheltering, calm womb
and drinks eagerly.

I have swum
womb waters fathoms
deep and dark;
dank caverns
where most humans never go;
embrace her heartbeat.

Oh Gaia,
sacred Mother Earth,
nourish me
until I
can hold no more and...

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