Best Threads Poems

Written, September 13, 2024
For the I Form - Imagism Poetry Contest
Sponsor, Constance La France

Quote: Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons." By Poet

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The wind billows the trees with god-forsaken draft,
And rinses the limbs with splashes of rain.
Zephyr's raging bluster brings forth storm's chaotic craft,
Blowing silver threads to new starts again.

Sailing without order, the threads land where they may----
On fences, on plants, on patio chairs.
The small spiders, thus...

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whether bound and dragged 
behind a pick-up 
‘til limbs slowly dismember
or shackled hand and foot 
then tossed unsecured 
into the back of a rolling 
makeshift coffin

whether judge, jury or executioner 
all don the same hat 
and fancy themselves a God
and your only crime was to...

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Golden threads finger through the fog
To whisper at frosted boughs
For dawn is yawning at quilted trees
Where sunlight doth tap the pane of silent glass
Reflecting the blaze burning bright
Through misty Elms denuded
Of shame through natures stark humility 



Poet Destroyer’s contest: Autumn Day
11 September 2014...

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Did you ever wonder how things work in your head
How every thought you ever think is connected by a thread
Sometimes it’s just a little thing then somehow you are led
To something unrelated to something they just said

Let me illustrate - - -

My wife asked about...

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Simmering threads of Grace reflect through your life
Lingering thoughts protrude beyond the norm
The pain makes you overthink at times
This makes you believe you cannot gain in solitude
The lies reflect the cries of your misplaced purpose
So gather the dark threads of the pain in your life
And...

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fortune teller knits a future ... time pulls at loose threads unraveling...

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Embers in the Wind and Threads 
for Tomorrow.
In the rising fog of the New Year let burdens 
take flight.
As failures lift like morning dew under the sun's 
gentle touch.
Let them drift away carried by dreams dissolving 
into the horizon.

Unbind societal shackles like chains rusted by...

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Listen to the forest in the depth
of one’s mind and craft
arresting soundscapes
from within.
Gaze into a spectral morning
dazzling  anew and watch
those scales that slither
from one’s eyes,
Utter silken threads that pulse each vein 
with choral church bells  ascending
 thru a literati conduit.
Wallow in the cascade...

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I step outside on a mild spring day
 To bask in nature's rebirth,
 Flowers in bloom sway in the wind
  Colors and scents pervade my senses

 A spider's web glisten in the sun
 I gaze at it, mesmerized by its intricacy
 its silver threads...

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I cry out
To the life I share.
Can we be without
A common prayer?
Within our nature
Flaws pervade.
They make us similar;
A bond is made.
Anger, jealousy, pride;
Denizens of Hell
Sins we have to hide
By you and I are felt.
Into myself, I swim
Unknowingly in company.
Instinct covered by whim
Sinking into eternity.
A statistic,...

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I’ve been blinded by a blistering light
An atomic angel in the nuclear night
Have they come to take us away at last?
Have they come to punish us for the past?
 
Let me just hold on
Hold on to these few threads
“Papa, can we bring them
Till we get...

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The trickling teardrops fall like rain
dousing love's spark, and as you cry,
passion's flame begins to die.

All of your pleadings were in vain;
his every lie summons a tear,
drowning your hurting heart in fear.

Treating you with scorn and disdain;
there's little hope that love will bloom,
despite the babe...

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Perhaps if we were to take apart grief as we unravel life  
one single moment unstitched pulled out of time 
we'd begin to see that death is only a silent passage 
and we need not bear the loss alone,    
The memories...

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For Timothy Lee, the Best of Me
We skip and dance our love thru every chance.
My true love freed you, your true love freed me
and as a true we, we grow bright our free.
The greatest gift of our soulmate romance
is living sincere through time’s circumstance.
Immortal love...

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