Gestures Poems | Examples

SMALL GESTURES

SMALL GESTURES 
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small gestures bloom bright,
a gentle hand, a kind word,
the world feels softer

What does it cost?

What does it cost to let a soul bloom and grow,
But love and sincerity, my dear fellow?
Like a gentle smile on a passing face,
Wrapping me like a warm embrace.

A soothing hand on my shaking one,
Its warmth still lingers though all is gone.
A shared laugh in the storm we face,
As the gloom fades without a trace.

"You are the best," beamed a child I once saw,
And O'—when did older souls let kindness go?
So tell me now, my dear fellow:
Did it ever cost to let a soul grow?

GESTURES

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 abstractions
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 my perspective
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&  unknowable
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     instinctive
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  is this
 enigmatic
inspiration

Tiny Gestures

A gesture is like adding 
A tiny bit of colour
On a dark and dreary day
It can take away a problem
And melts it all away! 
Its those little things
We say and do
A smile, a touch, 
Thank you so much
Little thoughts, little deeds
Helping someone you see in need
Raising up a spirit, or someone
Hungry that you feed
That small gesture of 
Offering up your seat! 
Some small gift you get
Just to let you know
That your truly appreciated
Without telling you so! 
A kind word, like magic
Takes away the pain
From all those hurtful words
And leaves you with a feeling
That you matter and your heard! 

14.10.22

Spirited Gestures

*Image of Morning Rise by Giphy.

Spirited Gestures

Cast restlessness about the wind,
That toss and empty leaves from trees,
The autumn season sees them thinned,
A tingling sense of breathing squeeze,
Be auburn reds hint golden scene,
Like royal robes and crowning queen.

Genteel polish a crystal shine,
Oblige passage involving wake,
Luster beckons whispering shrine,
A pristine call edges a lake,
Mindful ears recognize courses,
Coming wafts like thirsty horses.

Slight Boreas push chills a bit,
Zephyrus cut short, warms again,
A tit for tat that never quit,
The disturbed rest till strength regain,
Nature takes heed and nothing more,
Benumbed deep down within its core.

Relaxed lay calm felt now surrounds,
Idling base fresh breezes fill,
Perianths rise and fall on grounds,
Prompts unfailing the currents spill,
Unseen traces the length of thee,
Forces abound heaven's decree.

2022 September 28
*8th Place*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 September 28

*RZ; ababcc, dedeff, ghghii, jkjkll. HMS; 8 syllables per 24 lines.

Kind Gestures

Show a gesture of warmth to all you meet 
Offer each one the least- a pleasing smile! 
A kind gesture can give others a new start
Geniality generates joy, creating a comfy feel

Offer each one the least- a pleasing smile
Many wallow in gnawing despair
Geniality generates joy, creating a comfy feel 
Mend their hearts which need urgent repair

Many wallow in gnawing despair
Lend your ears to what they have to say
Mend their hearts which need urgent repair
When you listen, their frustration you allay

Lend your ears to what they have to say
Having no one to listen is the greatest bane
When you listen, their frustration you allay
By patiently listening, their anxieties, you slain

Having no one to listen is the greatest bane
A kind gesture can give others a new start
By patiently listening, their anxieties, you slain
Show a gesture of warmth to all you meet

May.23. 2022

A Rhyming Pantoum of Five stanzas
Poetry Contest
Sponsor- L Milton Hankins

Re submitted for Pantoum Old or New Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Joseph May

Gestures

It was the work of her hands
that gave flesh to her speech;
her persona made vocal.
Gestures were needle-point,
stitching words into sound.
She talked with the eloquence
of quick speaking fingers,
with hands that emphasized,
underlined, swept away, challenged,
motioned, mentioned,
mollified, mimed, beckoned,
warned and added warmth to her words.
Her hands sewing and patching together
articulations for
the far-sighted and for muted ears.

Cuddles, Gestures, Caresses

Cuddles are warble of affection
   that without or with words apply,
   magicians of light burst alone
    that no exhortations we need...

   Gestures that allow us to levitate
   hands in energetic passes
   ways that allow us to hover,
   sane, saved believers not skeptical...

   In sweet caresses become light,
   in sweet caresses, pains are brief...!

Autumn Gestures

vogue falling colours


eyes  a vessel  brushing rain 



filling the pitcher

Anatomy In Gestures

with the touch 
             of God
this fountain 
          of mercy
a thing of great beauty 

 portraits in stone
in relief & in 
     round reality
marvels in marbled 
             layered planes
 of dextrous 
        turbulence
expressive ecstasy
    of emotional empathy 
made tactile 

    insights in allegory 
embodied & engineered 
imagination
     into
       monumental 
magnificence

I Met Ratan

the other day,
 he was the usual self 
 bubbling and cheerful
 talking with a gusto
confirming with gestures

Half of his talk
I do not understand 
as he converses in a triple tone
without modulations leaving 
the  listener in a quandary.

He speaks of his  power 
and stature, harps on his wealth,
 builds slowly a caricature
 of himself,  he  an investing 
guru like Peter Drucker.

 My eyes  gets stuck 
 my mind travels elsewhere
wherein I see him as a nonentity 
who lacks sense, who confirms 
his  literality.

Gestures

It was the work of her hands
that gave flesh to her speech;
her soul made vocal.
Gestures mended words
with a patching thread, a needle-point
she sewed with eloquent fingers.
Often as she dreamed,
those hands still emphasized
her silent words
as they stitched together
articulations
for the mute night.

Kind Gestures

Nurses battle death, determined and brave;
        seems strange they're overworked and underpaid.
Some front-line workers died, and things got grave
        each risked their life despite being afraid.
Honk your horns! Applaud! And cheerfully wave!
        Kind gestures taste much sweeter when homemade.

Good Bye Gestures

delicate gestures
     in paralyzing arrows
     you draw your silence

Welcoming Gestures Bloom Throughout All

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In the absence of complication,
trials and tribulations become distant memories.
Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
inspiring forthcoming musings of the mind.

While a tiny thread weaves daydreams
among tulips and chinaberry,
creating comfort along a beckoning horizon
as footsteps are soft and freedom a gift.

Birthing a simpler life singing, whistling and
smiling as a weight has been lifted
like an acorn to a nest where hunger
is merely a fading illusion.

Borderless curves of a winding way
meander without consequence
when nature forms a calming view and
confusion is a season somewhere in the past.

Where wide eyes see the future as a ray of light,
a beacon illuminating every hope,
signaling that this is your time and place
and you rejoice in the feeling.

And as peace becomes common
along avenues of cobblestone stories,
welcoming gestures bloom throughout all…
in the absence of complication.


11/20/19
For the: In the absence of complication Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Silent One

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