Summer Imagism Poems

In autumn's brisk crimson
she weeps for summer.
September courts her
with scarlet and fire,
but xanthic plains
and sun's saffron blush
on cobalt lakes
stain her cheeks.
She'll sleep
in winter's bereft cloister,
the...

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I fled the kiln
of the house
where ceramic floors
bake like focaccia bread.
My haven is a bench
in the shade of an oak,
praying for a breeze.
A bevy of...

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The cloying sangria
of freesias
invades the screen.
Amber bees whine
in wastrel air
like breezeless fans.
My shirt 
is porcelain skin.
I dangle one metronome leg
off the arm
of a wicker chair
on...

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Walking amidst latent Christmas —
path of pines
with diverse needles,
in the Summer-soaked sun.
A chipmunk nestled in its soft branch
— the chosen one.

5/15/2018
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presto
spinning
       twirling
down
      this
          staircase
 ...

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while luxuriating in the boughs aching
to imbibe solar raiment golden this summer like
february twenty first two thousand and eighteen
when old man took a mandatory brake

from...

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branches and leaves catch ultra violet rays
you can almost taste the cool summer shade
little hands and feet are there most of the day
marbles jacks and...

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You're My Nature

On all the things that caught my eyes
You're the perfect paragon of Paradise
When I think of a place that grows the seeds of...

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SPRING FLOWERS
SUMMER SHOWERS
AUTUMN BREEZE
FALLING LEAVES
WINTER HERE
WINTER THERE
ALWAYS WINTER
ON EARTH SOMEWHERE
HURRICANES ROCK
TORNADO'S BLOW
VOLCANO'S ERUPT
LAVA FLOWS
EARTHQUAKES RUMBLE
LIKE THUNDER STORMS
FOR MOTHER NATURE
IT'S THE NORM
ROGUE WAVE
SUDDEN TSUNAMI
BEFORE I SEE...

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Sprinklers arc
white rainbows
over emerald grass
The jets 
burst
in nimbus shadows
geysering 
a shimmer 
of translucent flurries
under opal rays
Pools
of periwinkle ripple
and fountains
of lavender
sway
in a porcelain mist


10th Place
Summer Solstice...

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      electrified fan

           ...

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Dozing
on a cream-colored comforter
I care not
for a cacophony
of color
cloistered
near my ear
but vague vestiges
of vanilla whispers
melting
in an ivory bowl


1st Place
Mid Summer Standard Contest
Sponsor:  Brian Strand
7/19/17...

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Strawberry faces freckle
in morning sun
Noses tickle
with the cold wet kisses
of orange mist
The aubergine
of plums drips
from chins
under a feather sky
Garnet grapes cobblestone
old roads
where tractors snore
as celery...

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Dusk seeps lapis
The horizon looms
in blood and coral
Crows emerge
from peacock plumes
shrieking
caws of darkness
wings flap
their incessant
onyx
Talon wounds
of starlight 
multiply 
and meld
into the coming day
the cover 
of...

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Once on Cecil Place
fledgling flagstones freckled
like summer faces
in Septembers of taut cypress.
Now neglected planters are urns
for my young ashes,
crypts gaping silent screams.
Blistered doors do not...

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It's rained 
for two weeks
Sky and streets 
are shades of steel
Aluminum tulips erupt 
on asphalt lawns
echoing pewter leaves
Graphite blades 
burst through sidewalks
having grown impatient
in seeds
sought...

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As brief as summer
you swept
across my heart's desert
like a Santa Ana wind's hot kiss.
Now the eastern passes
are still and gray 
as virgin rocks
unto a land
whispering...

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Drought.
Another cold, dry Autumn.
Like farm workers
exhausted rain clouds 
lay down their burden.
The dead voices of summer 
sing spirituals,
the water streaming
from the eaves 
like harp strings.
Were...

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through a mud stained field
and thickets galore
mountaintops blue in the haze
walked through hayfield stubble
with a damp, faithful dog

I am anticipating Halloween
but thoughts dissolve quickly
in fields...

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The dying inside:

Myopic windows;

daylight fading

on a glass table top;

dead flies milling,

unaware....

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