Short Artfully Poems

abundant dynamic energy artfully displayed—yet we sleep...

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Words artfully penned
Find a target—be still
There is your Haiku...

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Preserve my dignity
My lambent personality

Delicate, my surgery
Carve me artfully...

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Durer christened Albrecht
so versatile & artfully correct
Best now remembered for a handsome face
in selfies made with good Grace...

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Smile: Soul's euphoric disposition artfully designed on anticipation's lips!  








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       18 April 2018...

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As aces appeared in John's hand
"Aces, hurray!" Broke out coughing,
Then caught his breath as he fanned 
Himself while artfully bluffing....

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A forest behind a glass
earth and green shades
blended to be artfully pleasing

Moss, lichens, and a twig
composed with a splash of color...

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You said you would go the distance
I never anticipated it to end so abruptly
I could sense your absence
executed, so artfully 
I have to move on and I am doing it prudently...

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artfully chiseled 
abstract feathers etched on glass...
a jack frost sculpture

(haiku)


11/06/2022


A NEW HIKU FOOTLE TANKA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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life’s tactile musings
        swirled in silk calligraphy
             artfully adorned
  a keyboard’s chattered drone hails
    extinction – the soul dipped pen

              ~01 Jan 2015~...

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you're a divine creation
blessed with charming elegance
such delicate serene beauty
ever so artfully contrived
for both eyes and heart



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on June 6, 2021...

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Bonsai tree of ancient roots poses a Sun,
Errant light spools upon rings of the aged,
The artfully skilled master the chronicles,
Wholeness of the day is honored to observe.


Date: 09/05/2019...

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It is the artfully connected hand that pens the words
But it is the divine, intrinsic heart that drives and inspires the melody



December 2, 2019
Hit Me With An Epi-Pen Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Maureen McGreavy...

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Sweet tinge of scent, not half gone,
Delicately spun in flowing song.

Every simple texture words create,
Artfully woven to illustrate

The story, the poem, the fabric of dreams
The written words and sewn seams.



4 June 15...

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The Deep fake era is upon us 
?Every thing is fake these days?Everything is a fraud ?Prepare for the deep fake world 
Fakery, fraud, and falsehoods abound
All artfully done 
Killing the last shred of human decency left
Everything is a deep fake 
these days...

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         thoughts conveyed

     artfully

  words and space

       and lines

             playing together

                  unchained

          from meter

     or rhyme

          or rules

              flowing like a river

          on a page

 


2019...

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siren singing 
her enchanting 
song so sweetly 
enticing the mind's 
of her victims making 
them seek out her 
loving embrace 
temptress so seductive 
with every note song 
don't be fooled by her 
fake facade of innocence 
she is an experienced beast 
who artfully seeks out her pray...

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Empathy plays my poet’s heart
Most of my doubts concealed artfully
Worries play such a minor part,
As my poems are created heart-fully.


1/6/2019 	

Contest:  Explaining Sophie              Sponsor: Julia Ward	
"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell...

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Lavender tinted
Two serpents of the sea
Chafing scales
Twisting through 
Kuroshio Currents

Prancing Minions 
Sirens of the deep
Bathing in rosen lilac 
l'écume de mer
Frothing on the Horizon

Silken Goddesses
Submerged in Epsom salinity
Artfully teasing
Envisioning 
A Better Tomorrow...

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Peculators

Artfully bilk, cheat, defraud…  embezzle!
Forgetting gainful, helpful, industrious jobs.
Keeping loot maliciously nervously obtained.
Pilfering, quickly. Robbing, swindling tearlessly.
Until final judgment sends them…  Away. 

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 17, 2010

Poetic form: ABC...

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Beauty like the flower she is 
the passion is in her laugh, her art 
look deep to see so different so smart 
gorgeous , soft and sweet ....
so nice ,
rides you in like  a late night 
singing as sweet as tea 
do you hear artfully
her beauty so graceful
radiant full of life is she.
so look to the sky 
Beauty .. that's she is...

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One must ascend approximately
Ninety-eight hewn stone stairs
To reach the hell that is
Forgetting what it means
To live at the bottom of the hill
Or one may forgo this education
And travel swiftly up and down
By automobile
Naming this purgatory life
And eternal bliss a television
Viewed from a leather couch
Artfully turned away from the window...

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there is staining red 
weeping from feathers
and grey flowing 
from steely chains 

yellow is the bile
of spewing memories 
floating on greens 
of jealousy and hate 


Black are the words 
in history books 
written by pale
translucent tears

colors of our crimes 
hiding unseen behind 
the brilliant white 
we use to artfully paint


our innocence......

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Struggling with emotion
There is no cause to be found
A sadness creeps in
I'm suddenly way down 
Cold air breathes through my lungs
But rather than wake me it makes me sleep
Ready to hibernate or alone walk the dark streets
Eyes open wide budding with tears 
Filled with dread akin to fear 
Its a struggle internal and no one can see
Because I artfully hide the truth of me...

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If you dance with the Devil 
you have to pay what is due.
His promises vain, untrue,
deceiving, his lies revel.

He artfully tries tempting
giving out suggestive vibe,
all on queue as you imbibe,
no intrusions preempting

Weaving a deception well,
the seed is planted of need.
Don’t deny HIS voice to heed,
“would you sell and go to hell”?

For Barbara's "Dancing" contest...

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