Best Shiver Poems

~ From hand to heart in rhythmic movements
                       ... happiness is trembling in the wind ~ 
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Autumn’s Shiver


There is an almost imperceptible shiver,
a subtle shift of wind’s breath,
felt only by those who know the season.

It is followed by a quickened pace,
not yet an urgency, but an awareness,
a reminder, of plans to be made.

The trees inhale the first drops of sap,
leaves feel...

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SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And hoist up with a good Jolly Roger...

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My darkest deeds have come to light
As you lie here shivering
They cast long shadows in the night
My darkest deeds have come to light
Your haunting smile, my gentle wight
Your low voice softly quivering
My darkest deeds have come to light
As you lie here shivering...

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~ The night's alive and a-shiver ~


  The moon's a sliver
  a hammock without strings
  a pale banana with wings
  The night's alive and a-shiver 

  Just you and me on a musical spree
  hitting the clubs, dancing up...

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I ...
sit by the
window ...
cold, damp air
wrapping
tendrils 'round my
nape,
reminding me of
February ...
of her ... of farewell
chill thoughts
gather like
a knot
in the back of
my skull ...
thrumming like Thor's
mallet -
commending the
haughty
hell that dripped
from her
baby-soft
bows
like honeyed poison ...
to ruin
me....

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You taste like sunshine, 
 making me shiver with the brightest chills;
 Electrifying me with your fireworks;
My lips curve into a smile 
glowing for hours to follow;

Veins charged with your current,
uncontrollably I shiver but still so hot; 
Sizzling from the pulse of your kiss 
stimulating...

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I
shudder
to think
what
the world
would be
without
the moon
the stars
the sun
without you



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on October 27, 2019...

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We laughed at each other’s jokes
not more than a full moon passed. 
On a slick surface, half-smiles crack
a wintry face. My soul abandons
breath in a lifeless bird’s nest
unsteady on a teetering limb.
Under bare trees, my roots
tangle in decay. Nearby, 
February dips a toe into warm
streams...

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silver sky exhales 

           showers forests with ice dust....

                   naked trees shiver



(4th in Contest Strict Haiku 2...

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I'll tell ye of me life as a pirate
I knows ye sees me as some old codger
But when I was a young'n matey
I sailed 'neath the Jolly Roger!

Oh, it's truth I be tellin' ye now
'N ye may think that I be a loon
But I talk...

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Yo-Ho-Ho And Shiver Me Timbers

Shiver me timbers and loosen me limbers
I sail me sloop until it lin’ers
And drop anchor in t’  nearest lagoon
Bury me treasure chest full o’ doubloons 
Then set off durin  t’ next full moon

~

“Aarrr!” I’m happy go-lucky sea piratin ...

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Shiver with me, trace your lips on mine 
Let your hands play on me, as lust creeps my whole spine, 
My resistance is withdrawn as my body aches for more
Panting as you keep your powerful skill
Making me without any of my will! 

Shiver with me,...

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Thomas Hutchinson noted the saying
Most Indians used barter for paying
The message is spoken
Exchange for a token
Indians dislike this write...

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and
the Pirates
that used an ‘X’ to 
mark the spot were really stupid, 
if they’d used a ‘G’ 
no-one would   
have found
it...

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