Short Banners Poems

pavillions of gray
camp across the sky waving
banners of rain...

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Rainbow hues spreading,
All over banners, clothes, hearts,
Be proud of yourself....

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Improving?
Start with manners.
Not for flatter holding banners;
just for others loving preaners....

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red banners swirl

dragon's flame huffs upward

merging yin yang




 Contest :Chinese New Year...

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Flags, 
Wealth, 
Banners, 
Limousines. 
There's power for sale—
Auctioned to the highest bidder.

© 2017...

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shaven crest eagles flight captivating

banners strewn flags unfurled proudly



Tribute To Freedom

Also entry for 
Brian Strand's Motto -Monoku Form Contest...

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being of
the reality known as spotless?, 
mind yr manners
writing banners

under the cornerstone bridge
that is lined 

by a hedge...


and follows blue river
over rock
sand, and stone

allthewhile
never letting us 


feel alone......

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Green!
Alive
on tall grass,
blithe, lithe, limber,
swaying long and lean
in their beachy masses.
The deadpan sand eavesdrops as
breezes wave blades like silk banners.
Whispers whir with emerald voices;
long-winded grass gossiping with zephyrs....

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Nature’s victorious armies of spring and summer
Marching are now, in a stunning glorious retreat, 
Proudly displaying the harvest’s banners of plenty
As their destiny’s undertaking is for now complete! 



© Demetrios Trifiatis
   16 SEPTEMBER 2014...

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They scream a soundless soliloquy,
skeletal sentinels contorted,
once proud standards displaying jubilant banners.
The tidal push rushes in, out, in, out
about ashen bones,
marking where moorings anchored
before life swept away to sea.

Copyright, November 25, 2017
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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WEED  GARDEN




A swell of marigolds lustily pushing aside the earth
New baby oak trees shooting up from their acorns
Tall crowd of Jerusalem artichokes waving wildly behind the gate
Rose bay willow herb sweeping  pink and blue banners to heaven
Lush and uncontrolled.
These are happy weeds....

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On a narrow street of Singalong
  spreads and banners hang along
Wreaths of subjects and icon
  flourish within the alleys of lexicon.

As acid waters plunge, 
  dirt and dust lounge.
Tin roofs clang, rants and rats run.

Not all streets boom with a bang
  Only in the street of auld lang syne....

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In a lawless and defying society
where ugly symbols of hate
are becoming banners of disunity
crucifying freedom to the stake...
their purpose is to annihilate:
what stood for patriotic sentiments, immortalized in words
but oblitering them from memory, is a tremoundous loss!


Written on 9/23/2017...

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In a defying and lawless society,
where ugly symbols of hate
are becoming banners of disunity
that crucify freedom to the stake:
their purpose is to annihilate
what stood for patriotic sentiments
immortalized in words,
but oblitering them from memory 
is a tremendous loss!


Written on 9/23/2017...

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Cancel culture

They are coming our way barefoot, and red dust
we sink into apathy.
Churches made into dance halls and brothels.
Christianity is dead, our culture based on our faith
has been debased it, is called egalitarianism.
Banners and sword.
Heads roll down a hill into a blazing valley. 
God has forsaken us....

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The candle extinguished

No more light will be shed

No eulogy spoken

No requiem for the dead

No more graves will be dug

No more caskets carried

No salted tears on the ground

All now are safely buried

No more banners will fly

No more wars will be fought

No more heroes to honor

And no more history taught...

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don't thumb to page twenty six; 
the book is broken. 
profiteering is proving to be 
more useful than 
words softly spoken. 
  
wave ya hands 'round 
and take down the banners 
that hung since 
we heard the new sound. 
they ain't allowed 
no more. 
  
shoes crafted 
from pure pleather. 
updated ethics 
and a concern 
for the weather....

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Palatial...
Zephyrs spring tide 
Winds gently blowing in
Greeting the dawn; elegant 
Twilights sweet farewell  
As colourful banners sway
Amid its summer breeze kiss
A chorus lines reflection
Gazing about this, golden
Pristine pond lovely ballerina's
Pirouetting atop these perfect 
Waters preparing to grace 
Poetics mirrored stage...
Her sunsets encore....

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In the 60’s we protested
Out on the quads
With our armbands and banners and signs
‘Til the rage manifested
By police riot squads
Put a damper on all our designs.

We erected no tents
And we went home to sleep
But were sure we could orchestrate change.
Yet these current events
Which on campuses sweep
Seem, to me, very different and strange.
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Where I am is not for you,
Your banner does not wave here,
do not knock on this door,
don't tread on my space.

Your hands are not welcome here, 
You do not help,only harm.
You cannot trap me with lies,
I you cannot charm.

Slick tongues can become tangled,
But wise ones can cut through you,
Your banner does not wave here,
And it never will....

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All males undone
  by the Lady Son

The trumpets blared
  her fire

An Earl first came
  her wrath unchained

To Charles
  her heart aspired

All kingdom come
  to face Lady Son

But to hell
  their souls were laid

As her legend grew
  and from banners flew

The name Joan
  —all hearts to pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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All males undone
  by the Lady Son

The trumpets blared
  her fire

An Earl first came
  her wrath unchained

To Charles
  her heart aspired

All kingdom come
  to face Lady Son

But to hell
  their souls were laid

As her legend grew
  and from banners flew

The name Joan
  —all hearts to pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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Besieged
by Michael R. Burch

Life—the disintegration of the flesh
before the fitful elevation of the soul
upon improbable wings?

Life—it is all we know,
the travail one bright season brings ...

Now the fruit hangs,
impendent, pregnant with death,
as the hurricane builds and flings
its white columns and banners of snow

and the rout begins....

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Hills pull their blankets out
and leave bare their naked spines
permitting Junes and me
to Summer there

Streams must appear to Him
as traveling caravans
The painted leaves like prisms do
with hues of rumpled Persian rugs

All seems Persia has pulled it's banners out
and march off to the sea
Turbaned poplars and lakes like tents
Is it jocosity?...

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Raise your banners, peals of the orients 
Maidens of fairness and might 
Make proud your dear land and your parents 
Cast your amber, shine so bright 

Light up your flames to touch the sky 
Soar to the heavens, fly so high 
Let the world see your gleaming glow 
From lands of sand to lands of snow 

1st place 
FIFA Women's World Cup Poetry Contest...

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