Short Brambles Poems

clearing brambles
from the eroded gravestone
even the name is gone...

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a rusty mailbox 
covered with briers and brambles –
broken house

12/29/2016...

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DEW gathered on grass-
              a fawn woke from the brambles
to quench her thirst...

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Long ago the roses bloomed 
In briars brown and Smokey gray
Now the buds have slowly swooned
Downtrodden brambles in their wake...

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my arms are empty
my heart is full
my lips not kissed
my love not missed
my mind rambles
through cactus brambles
under the light of a crescent moon...

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Fine horses they ride through the glen
A beautiful maid sleeps within
Brambles hold them at bay
Letting love find the way
Even knights give up in the end...

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Haiku competition for Raul Moreno  (as per his photograph submitted)





Brambles cloaked with green
Spring sunlight gleams through the trees
Wood thrush in full song....

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The frigid crystalline facets glimmer.
A carpet jeweled with ice,
laced with brittle brambles.
Wreathed, heavenly laden, pine boughs
groan under the weight of
winter white....

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winding brambles spread
  spiders inside spinning webs
    ~ dare a creeper tread ~


ONE HAIKU Poetry Contest
Syllable counter PS 5/7/5
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier 
19/04/2021...

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I could honestly careless
Where the wind blows your heart 
Wind blow it where it may
Through
Brambles and thorns
Dry grasses and weeds
Where worldly displeasures
Meet its pounding
To an end...

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A Long Haiku

Brambles, birds and beasts
They all tumble into one
As they fall about
On our Mother's springtime coat
When she wants to dance
And sway and spin in circles
Singing as she goes....

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the cold wind of January
there were no birds
only old brambles
and an ending of a song
months of drizzle
impartial to the sun
the arcane wind raffles
pelted with pebbles
flowers bitter confetti...

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Ironic…
what we forgive in our heroes

Their faults,
tragic badges of fame

Our glasses,
colored rose without brambles

Their legend 
—sealed in myth beyond blame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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You'll find her up a steep game trail
strewn with slippery stones
marbled with metal
lightning all around
yellow eyes off the brambles.

At the end-you'll find a mind of flint
and a heart that strikes the match.

...

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Reset Button

A vital connection
remains at ready..
We have cleared the brush
before
once or more
but brambles return
clouding our vision 
erecting prison bars..
So press the button
for clarity's return
for exile relieved
for grace revealed.....

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Yelling “ha ha ha!” Christmas mouse jumped out of the holly.
Lit by a streetlight that is hidden in a wreath with an elf so jolly.
The elf shook her head around and whispered “my name is Molly.”
The mouse pulled her out of the brambles and renamed her Dolly....

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The night is sunless,
And the road is rough. 
A mission, set out
To wander alone…
With just drops of dew
To quench my thirst. 
The forest is thick
With brambles and thorns,
But the midnight’s bride, the Moon,
With her veil of light…
PENETRATES THROUGH....

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*Image of Blue Jay by Pixabay.
blue ribbon affair

picturesque blue skies
flights bands of blue jays alight 
blueberries brambles

2020 August 22
*7th Place*
Haiku - Color with Alliteration
~~Tania Kitchin: Judged 2020 August 27...

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Can't life's garden be happy
    without thistles or thorns
  Does the rosebush need brambles
    to greet blue skies of morn

  These questions I asked my father
    and my mother ~
  They each clucked their tongues
    told me to play with my brother......

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one mile before the junction
where the fast trains start to slow
a stretch of track lies sleeping
where the grass and brambles grow.

it may have seen life's wheels of steam
and tasted diesel too
but time moves on and overgrowth
now hides it from our view....

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Brambles surround Scotty's bagpipes
  Briars sharp, of severest types
    He thought that he could
    Play tunes in a wood
  Instead of music ~ out came gripes



      A tip of the hat to Jeff Kyser,
      whose poem 'Penny Whistle'
      inspired this Limerick. :) gw...

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Pale daughters dont give their heart
Conceived in the garden of Eden
The brambles alternate now

To give your heart
is a irritant Sin
Low things elude fences
The Moon is a big enough bust

Tired of giving
Following familial line
Keep buttressed
Our spirits struts outside wedlock...

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Love is a rosebush
  from its brambles and thorns
to its bright flowers' petals
  Though hearts may be torn
as its prickles cut and sting
   Once the rose scent's inhaled
      ~ True love is reborn



           October 31, 2019
   Metaphor of Love Poetry Contest
          Sponsor: Bobby May...

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I stumble through the brambles and jaded shadows,


          Straining to catch a glimpse of Your gleam thru the mists ...


     For I know, sunlight - as hope - can peep through a wee hole.







~ 2nd Place ~  in the "Threesome" Poetry Contest, Silent One, Judge & Sponsor....

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The taste of wild blackberries on her lips,
And the grains of vanilla on her cheek,
The tingle of brambles brushed my eyes
When I kissed the velvet physique.

A tang on the tongue of aniseed
When shuddering gasped a torrid peak,
The taste of wild blackberries then once more
And vanilla on her cheek....

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