Short Ambling Poems

The early morning sun
Glints on the ambling stream
Where the Kingfisher hunts
And lovers go to dream...

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An old jalopy

ambling down the country road,

driver close behind.


Date: 08/29/2019
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ambling along with zest and zeal
feeling in fullness, life’s appeal
this here now moment all there is
enlivening it with bliss fizz
tranquil presence on even keel

05-September-2021...

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The first man off the ship in Subic Bay
Happy ambling off with a sailor’s pay
Found a hooker in a bar;
Lots of liquor took him far
Was broke and happy at the end of day.

written July 2, 2021...

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Ambling and ankling on red brick and cobblestone
gone are your cottons and calicoes.
Factory skeletons repurposed, 
phantom workers operate 
Ghost looms in condo kitchens.

The sun sets like a watermelon dashed
off the Moody Street Bridge....

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Ambling on hallowed ground
Among the clustered trees
As faintly dusk enveils
An alcove where I pause
Aware of rural peace.
Alluring herbal scents
Arouse my dormant soul.

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Contest: Pleiades – A
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Placed 3rd
© 10th August 2016...

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Starting a blaze 
in rape crime.

Schizophrenic scroll, 
outwatching you.

Forgo the sun, 
your friend, death-

was ambling again-
nearby. A troubled-

bee cannot find 
her hive. They were

hanged in a row.
All the nudes.

I will declare war 
on the vulgar exhibits.


Satish Verma...

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Once touched by God, what then remains,
for then there’s nothing left to seek.
Unlike ego, love never feigns,
as head and heart dance, cheek to cheek.

Vaporised presence is at peace,
ambling along slowly through life
in monk mode, embrace and release,
free from strife, at all times bliss rife....

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H esitant, tenuous, an inconspicuous mind,
Y ielding incoherence, as reality collides,
S ubtle, grim, emotions strive,
T ormented, distressed feelings glide,
E ncrusting the soul, as fear ignites    a
R ambling fire of strife…
I ntimidating, terrifying, an adversary of might,
A n aspiration to fight…...

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Red rambling roses.
Pink parading  pansies
Yellow yawning ylang ylang
Scarlet shining strawberries

Gorgeous growing gardenias
Beautiful bending bracken
Lovely lilting lilies
Attractive ambling agapanthus 

Carefully crafted
Meticulously maintained
Fastidiously fashioned
Delightful daydream
em...

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DREAM 

Ambling on beach in dark
when the lake  laps the feet.

Sometimes I wish to walk away
on the water like a dragonfly.


MORNING 

Trying to figure out
what happened ?
Lake Huron went
into flames!


MOONLIGHT 

Up, above
a white ship was sailing.
On water,
thousands of boats.



SATISH VERMA...

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I fall on my moonbeam dreams
a fickle feeling told me so
ambling on this misty morning
sheep hallow the gilded ground
imaging its june
when its september

Sombreness handling this turnaround
a quest for a compromise
tasselling this handle

Black dreams surround me
wasting time imaging
iof the chosen time


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Foot after foot each stride unto peace
waywardly silent chasing the sunbeams.
Delving deep rooted to hedgerow low
farther from tumult the further I go.
Diving for cover and driven in sorrow,
ambling vacant through depths of dead leaves.
Submerging from strife and a fierce mire of wrath.
A surging relief as I tread this lost path....

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as swans slide across lakes - sunset rays sway to autumnal reveries

ambling across swirling helix - of deadened cinnamon foliage 

mocking greenery framing skeletal bones - of lifeless roots crackling 

the warmth of your deep saffron gold aura - harvests the depth of our love

eclipsing rippling mistrals - simmering amidst auburn horizons...

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Wizened chin
Hunched shoulders
His walk is slow
Ambling really

Zombie movements
Erratic 
Not graceful
Boots must hurt

Older now
Ten years 
Has made a significant
Difference

I did not realize
While I was gone
How much this would
Affect him

Nothing had ever
Changed him this
Much before.
Guilt set in.

What else had I missed?...

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My pet cat called Billy,
lazy, he’d lie on sofa, not ambling around,
so silly.

Lone time over,
got attracted by his spellbound
lover.

Met fate,
ran away, found 
mate.

My pet cat called Billy,
got attracted by his spellbound
mate.

April 18, 2021
Sylable count checked on howmanysyllables.com
Contest : A Pet Minichu
Sponsor : Mohan Chutani...

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L unar influences on my mind
O ften make my senses all go blind
S anity takes a vacation break
T ranquility inside is now at stake

M y balanced nature is thrown askew
A nd I no longer know the truths I knew
R ambling is my spoken tongue
B elievable reality all comes undone
L ook inside my head and see
E mptiness where marbles used to be
S ans of all my sanity...

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Playing joyfully, ambling blissfully
In, not within, pulse of life in motion
Soothing softly, healing mist suffusing
Compassion pouring, countenance comely
Emotion effusing bliss elation
Sowing seeds of love, serenely sprouting

30-March-2021

(syllabic rhyming Acrostic)

Star Sign Acrostics'
Sponsored by: Charlotte Puddifoot...

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Drowning in foolish beliefs;
Pixilated portraits falling off
Corroded walls;
Blank canvases pervaded by
Grainy brush strokes,
Billowing amidst scattered flickers of
Crumbling structures,
Ambling in blighted stillness.
Venturing to find equilibrium in
This cryptic world,
Stranded and abandoned,
Layered upon a
Pillar of empiric darkness,
Glazed in meaningless semantics....

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Ambling through the green monoliths today,
With no notion of date or time,
Knowing not where I am going
Only that I am on my way,
In this land I call Solitopia,
Not yet renown in song or rhyme.

Abounding green, endless woods, cover this place
And in it you may see the light of God's face.
Come and wonder in the glades, and stay a space, 
In the last free land of these days....

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Desert 
hot, barren
venturing, trudging, exhausting
mirage, oasis, woodland, wilderness
ambling, exploring, relaxing
peaceful, cool
forest.

(Out of two types of Diamante poems, as per PS types of poems, this one is
Antonym Diamante)

June 6, 2020
Contest : Try A New Style-Something You have Never 
              Or Hardly Ever Tried
Sponsor : Caren Krutsinger...

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The waft of petrichor filling nostrils
      The drizzle sending a cold chill
Toddlers with paper boats rushing towards puddles
       Declaration of holiday makes children chuckle
Office-goers ambling with umbrellas
        Octagenarians reminiscing with novellas
Farmers look unto rain as God's gift
        Ombrophobians flee in a jiff

Ample RAIN causes GAIN!
Surplus RAIN causes PAIN!...

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D earest heart I incense your kindness,
E ternally shimmering beyond skies,
A live within the beauty that lies
R ambling beneath cobalt oceans,
E merging, as words surmise your eyes…
S weet zephyr sway along
T he shores of my thankfulness,   and
J ustify my simple gratitude to an
O pulent heart of kindness,
E ternally shimmering beyond skies…

                                Dedicated to Joe Doria...

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An aardvark ambling about ate ants
beside bubbling bountiful
cascades churning
down.
Eventually, eating exhausted,
finding ferns
gently grasping
his head, he
just jumped ...
kerplop! killing
little languishing
microbes mating
nearby.
Once, out on
picturesque plains
queerily quiet,
raking roots,
(sometimes standing 
tall to take the
ultimate
view) various
wormy woods were
xamined
yielding ...
zilch....

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With no mindless questions to ask
Swathed in blissful moonlight, we bask
The vast void is where we belong
Facade of form, a cloak, a mask

Vibrant presence sings a love song
Childlike heart taking all along
Ambling along gently with ease
Cognisant of our heart’s love gong

As erst patterns of old unfreeze
From this dream life, soul gets release
No longer by thought forms decoyed
Love wafts joyously like the breeze...

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