Short Briar Poems

green briar leaves shine
'pon Chinaberry's bare limbs..
untouched by winter  ...

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Hawthorn dense and tough
Amidst sweet scented woodruff;
In rambled briar sprawl
Prickly and wandering tall....

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yellow rose on bier
full-bodied treatment
grand life disappears
ripe thorn’s, bereavement

dried flower repose
buried in suitcase
emerge briar rose
soul in boundless space

3/22/2022...

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Midday,
no shadows to muddle the glare.

Fawn stuck in a briar bush.
Bear coming.

If only a cloud
could hide the face of death?

The hungry cries
of her cubs unsettle the air.

If only you were not so near
to overhear....

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An ode by Jove 
 to that old toad 
 who ate my fish 
 as I made a wish 
 and kissed him on the lips 
 to find my  prince.

But alas 
 he had no crown
 so I tossed him down 
 hard and angry in to the briar 
 at last I saw him for what he was 
 just a toad and a liar....

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Fallen Flower

Opal gardenia pricked by a thorn
fell from pure breast in amber morn
to land in a briar far from the norm
and have its milky garment torn
leaving a heart all forlorn
itself to blame in angry scorn
for losing the palace it adorned.

7/8/17...

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with thorn of a rose
she pricked a finger tip
held it there softly
to my open lips
as she pierced mine
mixed the flow
tip to tip
and each took
a little sip
such a heady mix
sweet as wine
my love’s blood
mingled with mine
from a finger
cut and torn
with briar rose’s 
sharp sharp thorn...

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Everyone cheered as the fire was lit
And innocent laughter surrounded the Guy’s pyre;
As crackling flames engulfed the stuffed figure sitting on top of it,
A hedgehog hibernating below, in the heaped dead leaves and briar,
Did not survive the children’s bonfire.

Guy – an effigy of Guy Fawkes burnt on 5th November...

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Pain was half the fun
on a dirt-pile pyramid
topped with a slab of lumber
Bleeding, splintered hands
Black and blue behinds, scraped knees
Wounds gladly traded for joy

A discarded box
beckons three dare-devil brats
to crawl in and roll downhill 
through the briar patch
Tucked safe in their cardboard womb
giggling at outraged thorns...

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Briar that climbs the Willow Tree
Higher it grows every summer
It captures my imagination see
Briar that climbs the Willow Tree
Somehow ruins my flight to fantasy
Disrupts thoughts and is a sandspur
Briar that climbs the Willow Tree
Higher it grows every summer  

Sponsor: Michael J. Falotico
Contest: Boomerange contest...send a poem for a ride...

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Buttercup,daisy and cowslip
Together mix in fellowship;
Swaying pelts of grasses fine
Bask in Spring sunshine.

Purple vetch,ribwort plaintain
Jostle lush clover in English rain;
Scalious,burnets protude,
Butterflies gorge their pollen food.

Hawthorn dense and tough
Amidst sweet scented woodruff;
In rambled briar sprawl
Prickly and wandering tall....

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Something in the air this night
Heavy with cherry pipe briar,
As we leave what matters most
To silence – the exquisite liar.

We know this will be an end
Though it is left unsaid;
A filigree of morning frost
Upon the rose, still red.

There will be no final call
Or late night coffee under trees;
I caress the car to life,
Watch the wavering, falling leaves....

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buttercup daisy 
   &
 cowslip

swaying pelts 
   of grasses 
bask in Spring 

purple vetch
      ribwort plaintain
lush clover
       in English rain
scalious burnets 
                 protude

hawthorn 
      dense and tough
 sweet scented woodruff
hearts tongue
       divided    frond
circle &stop
   spined point

rambled briar 
sprawl
   prickly &
      wandering tall....

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I am your dreams
Curled up in a ball.
Napping vicious dreams,
Crouched against the wall.
Oh the stoic stares at dovetailing dreams.
Throw your fryer in the briar.
May the mist tear your eyes.
You haven't cried in months.
Bleep out all dull colors,
Let the celluloid solitude remain a-drip.
You are your heart's keeper.
Tend to your first original light.
The all-possible pulsar of our lives....

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Torrents fixed by natures’ breath
glisten in the Winter suns mirage.
Aquamarine copper infusions, opaque as opal,
descend with abandon granite cliffs.
scared by man’s iron tools.

Stop action terrors frighten
passing denizens of day.
Tangling brush and briar.
Frost glazing quartz outcroppings.

The ground below
shows silver shards 
snapped ice tentacles.

Unfed forms
heart breaking

Ice....

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Blackberry briar bounds the river: a curb
o’er the levee’s curve; a thorny imbroglio
under which twitters sing in broody milieu
Naught but the resilient do venture within
daunting vine bent in asperity, weathered
Little flyers fluff the brusque in a love filial
In wee caresses, stringent opens soft eyes
Silken white, touched in palest pink, winks
Sweet, sweet, they tweet, for a juicy bliss…

(8/7/2022)...

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Lost
In a tangle of thoughts
Briar thick thorny thoughts
Daring me to venture further
A sweet scent of roses
Bidding me rest, relax
Let the thoughts come to you
For they seek
The playground of your mind
Long for the challenge
Of confusion’s conundrum
Sneer at the strict interpretation
Of simplicity’s duplicity
Wait for the flowers of thought
To bloom
Knowing that their beauty
Will soon be
Lost
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Winter has come
Allegro non molto plays out
And instantly, I am back to that day
Nebulous clouds of soft misty rain
Gently saturating my resolve
It has been a fortnight of misery
So I take pause as,
Adiago-Presto plays on
And the vanguard of my thoughts
Runs the amorphous path I have manufactured
Through the briar of thistle,
I struggle 
As Presto dissolves 
And another sun, sets...

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Stone heart petals 
fall softly 
in the lavender of her gentleness...
the melody of her smile 
offers angels to tired eyes-
I walk a little straighter
(concrete morphing to diamond cascade) 
down the path of her light 
reaquainting with the footfall of youth...
as she sips my raggedy dreams
and briar patch truths
she rides life, 
like a starry stream fire~
Toting stone heart petals
back into the lavender of her spirit-...

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Diamonds on her fingers. Diamonds in her nose.
She’s dancing in the street, our little Briar Rose.
Her hair is a twirling, as if it is glittery and on fire.
Her energy is amazing; she will never tire.

The neighbors are smiling, and stamping their feet.
They love our Briar Rose, her clogging can’t be beat.
Some run out to join her.  They are having so much fun!
It’s amazing to watch our daughter turning everyone!...

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A Rose is a smile

A Rose is a smile spreading through life
From garden to heart
A velvety scent upon your life
Drifting around us
A sweet floral delight  in your life

The sweet Briar rose
A foliage so fragrant smiling at life
Rustic charms of rosy hues
A gentle bloom a summers gift to life

Its Thorney grip climbing the heights
A gardeners dream singing at life
A rose is a smile spreading through life
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The red petals that whisper her desire
She is my rose amid the wild briar
Her velvet white reveals her loving heart
In breaths that linger on a summer’s night
To tempt the senses where love’s passions start
Imploring dreams to taste the buds delight.
My rose, that is pure white yet tipped with red,
She offers me her tender, sweetest kiss,
In silent words that lips have left unsaid,
She grants me peace within her loving bliss....

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Read these words,
no Not ‘these’ words,
read the words
that are laid to rest
under a thorny bush.

See how they emerge
to eat the spikes and burrs
become this life of yours?

Tell the teacher
the one with the gray heart,
tell that teacher
you have known all his words before
and they are now buried
under a briar patch
hidden from the light.

From barb and thistle
your own words shall flower;
they will utter a wisdom
only the wounded may know....

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