Short Airing Poems

''A mind of the visible spectrum, glowing self knowledge --an airing out brainstorm.''...

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(Put Out To Dry)



           laundering minds
                airing dirt
           hot winds divide




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Extracting a Scottish smile with fluent Cornish
taming the devil with a play so fetish
stealing a bugler’s earring
intentions not on airing
crude coal gets refined to appear whitish....

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Every time you think your being good
You think you've done well 
Every time you think forgivness is at hand 
You go and do something 
That intentially unintentially
Demotes every effort to make things right 

Keep airing your Dirty laundry...

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Imagine that!
A laconic and diffident High School kid 
Who suddenly has a voice whenever he's used
As target practice. He chucks back grenades 
Lobbed at him by bullies. And waits no time 
Airing his grievances as payback

Bravo, kid, bravo! Rock on, with your bad self!

Date written and posted: 06/18/2019...

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Boys and girls
These are hangers
Especially for you
Please don't simply throw your jackets
On the bed or chair
Please hang them up for airing
For the laundry worker
For your eyes too
Out of sight out of mind
Hangers will remind you 
To wear them regularly
And also remind you 
The love of mother 
Buying them for you...

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What speech was free
was lost for Cherry
When Don went bye
for words of tarry

That all his hopes
were wearing poppies
When much too forced
was airing copies

That all his press
was shaming Cherry
For all the years
they claimed him scarey

And all his faith
was down to years
When stars burn out
for Heaven's Jeers...

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Is Missing You - Forever

I ask as I pull my hand from the telephone
a beautiful morning, I rush to tell you.
the pink iris has bloomed 
I must remember to tell you,
all of life minutiae we savoured as friends
are stored on the top shelf 
in the airing cupboard.
each time, I tell you, 
I lovingly store it in the pink box,
for later....

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Stars ~ swept across the sky to where you are,
swept across the plain, like some full field in flowering,
swept across my mind, like newness towering ~

My love, some gracious airing, spacious and of powering,
as nothing hindering for its devouring,
and then it is at last, the truth so scouring ~

That love itself, consumes the lovers ~ glowering!...

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flower 

Dreams Wander! © Tanka

Crowning ‘glories’ bloom
Scent the breezes upwards overhead
Whiffs bloated full of dreams
Cascade to a downwards place
A wonderful airing out!
 
flower
FLOWERED PETALS © Tanka

All shaded angles point down  
Shadows within the flowers 
Silken petals flush
Deepening coloured shadows 
On, in-between, down around....

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Clearing up
Ideas and concepts
Airing out
Attics and musty closets
Freeing up
Vitality and emotions
Channeling
Energy and growth
Feeling
Whole and in control
Redefining
Living and being me



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNLIT RIPPLES~ 2019

Submitted on September 12, 2017 for contest A SEPTEMBER STANDARD sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 3RD...

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With fangs baring
Evil smile he was sharing
His wings flaring
Victims blood he was wearing
"Kill him"! The crowed blaring
None moved, None daring
His power overbearing
One was leering
Showed not that he was fearing
Death he was not hearing
Step by step he was nearing
For his life he was not caring
Face to face they were pairing
Nobody blinked, All staring
Flesh you could hear tearing
All the story I am airing!...

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Note playground meeting
Two mothers sharing


Talk about offsprings
Problems and schooling


This and that grading
Vivid this airing


So much of worry
Hustle greets hurry


A common complain
Weary works refrains


Compete with desires
Conflict grips attire


See you the next time
When reason meets grime


Rush like crazy clowns
Before sun goes down




Leon Enriquez
09 April 2015
Singapore...

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Dreams dieing distantly
Long lingering light
Falling further faraway
Fabricated fouled fight

Traces teasing telling
Selfish senseless sores
Open oafish obedience
Crackling coastal core

Sacrificial senses stating
An awkward abandonment
Naked notions needing
Sweet succulent selfless scents

Aromas airing anonymously
Teaching to tell the tale  
Dislocated dreams deadening
Fictionalizing failure; a final farewell 

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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Lost Space
 The room is bare only a chair
still warm from the woman who sat there
she won`t be coming back.
The room is stuffy needs airing there is
a sofa in the corner with a sleeping bag.
A faint aroma lingers.
Curtainless windows, grey dust on sills
the ceiling is yellow by cigarette smoke,
white squares where family pictures hung
I leave close the door, it creaks
the last fear-ridden dissent the room can
keep its sadness of broken dreams....

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mint
a green thumb
the green-eyed monster
as sure as God’s green apples
they gave my plan a green light
green around the gills
a green back
jade

teal
village green
golf course - putting green
the hanging of Christmas greens
a sergeant wears his dress greens
why does brass turn green?
turnip greens
lime

moss
green bananas
greenhorns are naive
greenware has not yet been fired
what is the greenhouse effect?
he lost his green card
greengrocers
pine...

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War News
(Hospital Bombing)
Miracle Man
October 25, 2023

Much broadcast news tends to border a lie,
when the truth fits much better I oft wonder why.

Much news has a slant meant to benefit a view,
some dig through the archives airing it as new.

Too many choose to play around with the truth,
but changing one fact makes it all an untruth.

In order to air first many grab a story and run,
Others repeat and find later the story was spun.
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No if in fact truth be told

On the contrary

Not only am i not only drowning

I am floating aboard a bubble

Whilst simultaneously both airing
and cleaning out my laundry

And don't forget as i am still
a serving politician

Say and throw whatever you
wish but mudd don't stick

As mudd is thicker than water

When it comes to independent
inquests resided over by 

The keeper of the secret skeletal
key's locked inside pandoras closet
box or cupboards...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Vulnerability by The Conversation.

Coma

Endeavoring eyes opened
to the nothingness ere it.

Harkening labyrinths aches
to the silence yond.

Alone spoke I and
loneliness echoed
in faint whispers.

There remains
a trace of me
airing silently

the breath of
belonging.


Inspired: 2022 March 28
*7th Place*
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 4
~~Mark Toney: Judged 2022 June 25
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND 1098
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 March 30...

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Charm courts calm cheer
Romp ruffles rear
Ask and appear
Zoom zesty zeal
Youth yelling yield


Mind mourning mate
Airing apt ape
Discern debate


Dice dewy drop
Offer opts ops
Glimpse gracious gob


Best blooming blot
Aim and allot
Ripe rich report
Kind keeper knows
Sanguine song shows


Note not never
Options over
Worst woes wiser


Hoist hip heavy
Engrave empty
Rich rowdy roar
Encroach explore


Leon Enriquez
13 Apr 2014
Singapore


(Note: This is an Acrostic poem with Alliteration.)...

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W-orld news and current affairs 
E-volve virtually in EBC; 
N-et 25 neutral station 
G-ives information to see. 

D-ay twentieth of March 
E-arly breaks after the night; 
L-et the Monday morning 
A-im to bring warmth and light. 

F-rom local to international events, 
U-nder the wide blue sky; 
E-agle Broadcasting Corporation 
N-ever will tell a lie. 
T-ruth is all that matters, even if without big sponsors; 
E-xceptional airing of programs makes her one of the best anchors....

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