Short Brandished Poems

Marriage is a two-edged sword
   One end brandished by your overlord

     ~ At the other, your oxen gored...

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Reverence is the
Omnipotent of All Evil
   Yet, is transient
          Un..less
It's foundation is
  Brandished by
       The Lord

           GF...

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Reverence is the
Omni potent of all evil
Yet, it is transient
Unless,
It be deeply steeped
In the truth,
Its' foundation is brandished
By the Lord

GF...

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I mount my steed 
on decorative saddle 
then trot into town 
with a .45 brandished
to aerate my foot 
since too dense 
to be sorry for 
this stoic limp or 
whatever it was your 
mouth just shot off about....

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Fame

What is Fame ?

Is it merely acting Lame

To an audience who will only ever

Know you in Name

But will never know the Strain

Or experience your Pain

Of being Famous

Brandished across the Gossip pages...

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I splintered into a thousand brittle glass
You brandished a bamboo rag
And with one sweep
Wiped out my remains
To impertinent winds

I awoke feeling completely broken
But you've kept some tiny cuts
And will never return it....

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Long wanders across hills
Expiring - Three of my steps were one of my Dad's 
Halting will

Refuelling near
Banks brandished fennell freely had 
Revered

Herb young
Stung by green glad 
Tongue

Washed down with water swills
Sweaty bunch became invalid
Flung



29th July 2020
Minichu an Innocent Childhood Memory 
Mohan Chutani...

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We pulled it off
Dusted cleats, victory flag
Brandished on history's ceiling

Raising the tide of moral triumph
Gathered from warming hours of dawn
Hope for health and success

New homes and affluent spirit
Finding our way
Among thorns and battalions

Lions prevail with timeless ascent
New comers to corridors and luminous halls
Ready to grab rightful piece of the action...

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love tides
 
my love rides the ocean surf and tide
i have nothing to hide
 
just here on the water's coat tails for a nice ride
exploring all that hides inside this beating heart of mine
 
with each kiss of your lips, my heart skips a beat of time
I like you with a little salt and lime
 
you love's brandished this heart of mine
everytime I'm by your side
it beats out of time
 
so happy you are mine
love...

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Listen to poem:

All Hammer, No Nail


There he goes, the bare-knuckled fist monster,

Brandished around, like his personal weapon,

He rounds the bend, and his gang follows after,

There he goes, the bare-knuckled fist monster,

Turned, took a stand, he stopped, a bit flustered,

Seems you're not afraid, so nothing will happen,

There he goes, the bare-knuckled fist monster,

Brandished around, like his personal weapon.


2019 May 13...

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Moving house

Breaking news, time- brandished
My auntie moving house
Joining the last of the dots of blandishments

Left dangling by kin far and wide
While she coasted in the east

Gonna cease to be where 
Her great grandpa felled
Trees to make doors for a dwelling, 
Which helplessly  helped the exodus

By Tamravarni
Which is also river like her
And in movement like her intent.


8 jul 13, Freeverse

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

For Skat's Freeverse contest...

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TENDER YEARS--
                         FIRST MEMORIES

Curtains danced delighted
 from wayward autumn breeze
Running zigzag from the wall
Car riding  thrilled to see swift trees
Chasing me—unsuccessful--black and tall

My father’s bass-sweet voice 
calmed foreboding magic fears
My mother’s hands,
Quicksilver
Brandished toddler tears

The world loved me, its Center-- 
so sung every new sprung leaf
to Never let  imagine
a sunset made of grief.



Victoria Anderson-Throop  12/6/12...

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CRUSADE

The crusader brandished his stiff sword
sharpened
didn´t want
but beheaded idols
to liberate his inner temple
swift and passionate was his riding
saturated
didn´t want
but unpaved the temples
to remember the first stone
and had peace

on the way he clashed spades
bled
sparked spades
was blinded by light
floated in the void
and saw colors
earthly shades
and then kinetic spatial explosion
of unknown prisms
crossing cross crusaders
irreligious and revering...

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Burst of brandished flaming arrow,
Thump of bunnies against my chest,
Cupid’s straight pointer did narrow,
Continue my family crest.

Squawking souls of birds in my nest,
Potent from moonstruck bolero,
Crescendo of lust’s citrus zest —
Cock-a-hoop’s sunstruck sombrero.

1/18/2020
Charles Messina’s Oh-No A Twisted Char-Lay Poetry Contest
ABAB BABA 8 syllables

*Cock-a-hoop normally an adjective, using as a noun here
triumphantly pleased or boastful : happily exulting...

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