Short Briars Poems

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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I’ve got a penny whistle
I made it out of tin
I wander through the thistle
And traipse across the glen
A tune for bonnie lassie
On this wee flute I built
Soon as I get untangled
From the briars in my kilt...

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sun-kissed briars droop
summer blisters scar grey twigs
cypress leaves ooze sweat

nightjars scoop dry ice
v ripples on rain starved ponds
homing pigeon’s drought

Date Created : 26/6/2020 Twenty sixth June 2020

Tania Kitchin’s Summer Haiku Poetry Contest...

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Many briars said the Dutch man on his pathway
Through the lines drawn in the sand when to understand
In moments under the sun we shall run;
The race ahead get shot your dead

Many lines drawn in the sand when to understand
Shades in desperate habitation hence the fall?...

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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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The preacher preached a fiery sermon. 
Words penetrating the soul like hot coals on fire.
Branding its burning mark of guilt across the hearts 
Who seek after sinful desires. 
That scratches the soul like prickly thorns and briars. 
While Pleasure and temptation tormentingly conspire. 
To lead you into the pit of fire....

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Trapped midst bushes and brambles
  No escaping their thorny briars
The harder he pushed and he tugged
  The fying pan's oil emerging as fire

The Devil Himelf seemed to grin at him madly
   O, how he yearned to flee, so badly
But he'd signed his name to fate's bottom line
   One's word is his bond, ~ a mere matter of time...

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Hiberty jiberty liberty lox.
Quivery livery shivery shin.
Naughty Pandora opened the box
And couldn't get all of the troubles back in.
                                                  
Oh, briars of evil and nettles of sin.
Gaggles of sorrow, and worries in flocks.
Quivery livery shivery shin,
Hiberty jiberty liberty lox....

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The fall comes early to frost covered souls
bound in damp, worn wool blankets
barefoot wanderings
over cold birch branches, sticks,
crack covered ground

thorns, thistles, briars
scratch, pierce the skin
tug at the coverings
lay bare
the naked heart

to face the hollow cold
without purpose
only a ceaseless longing
alone....

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The Tooth Fairy visits children at midnight while they sleep. That's when she loosens their teeth. On the following night, if she finds the tooth underneath the pillow, she will leave a penny. But if denied the tooth, she pulls out all the child's teeth under cloak of darkness. Then she fills up the mouth with spider eggs and thorns off blackberry briars....

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Briars
scrape my flailing 
palm as crane flies drone when 
prickly hedges ooze their black fruit
mists in 
clay bake air I gulp a signal 
“slake those red throat blisters”
with green leaf dew 
and balm


Date Of  Poetry Soup Poem Entry 8/5/2020
Eight Of May 2020


Name Of Contest : Let the Pens Flow - Butterfly Cinquain Contest 

Name Of Sponsor : Jenish Somadas...

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THE DESERTED GRAVEYARD :
EPITAPH

Sunday afternoon mid-winter:
Here’s end of mortal charm and grace,
this hillside where briars claim the footage— 
weather wears away a few remaining names.
broom-straw roots between the sunken mounds,
and long-legged brown spiders climb over field-stones.
“We are nothing more nor less than what we were.
Let the earth have what it wants.
We are dust returning to the ground.”...

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Regret is a venomous thing,
Oh what vile bile it brings.
Starting somewhere deep in the heart,
Ripping, stripping you right apart.
Watching clocks as all the thoughts tick,
This time you hope it does the trick.
Scampering circles gallantly, 
Through the mind's thick briars and trees.
In the distance, I fear I see,
Someone I love staring at me.
Much too far for me to impede, 
I can't build the courage I need....

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on the stone wall
lining the duration of it's heavy mast
stood ivy briars in a bunch
columns permeate it's sullen brevity
used to frolic through its ambiance
green ivy flowing in its decorum
an artist paints nearby a portrait
to become in the moment
locked away in his seclusion alone
flowing with ever increasing vibrance
perhaps this is the place where Nero tred ?
falling emblems in a soft embellished moment of love...

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She rode a tiger's back
through a canopy of briars
beyond the speed of light
their silent claws slashing night
but tiger tired of the game
and shook her off to the side
panting over her bloodied life
it snickered like all tigers do
just before severing all ties..
though starving it didn't feed 
it already took what it needed.. 
the indigo from the deepest sea
where all dreams dare not fly
and dead birds never sing....

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It is summer,a summer in autumn
This must be true,this must be true;
Those flowers are never late to blossom,
Because of the day I found you.

But does my love befit your grace
When your heart is far away and unfree?
And can our fear see the better days
When we are comfortable with misery?

It is summer,summer in autumn,
I've found this to be true,
If God is giving you a sea to fathom,
 Would you? Could you?

03-17-12
some velvet briars...

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All in a minute,in just a minute
When all that seemed infinite
Through Time ordained strife
Turned into pieces of life.
There must be a day after tomorrow
For both of us to go,
And both of us now can go
To the next day of tears
Which will start the coming years
That no one can ever know.
Go now,go,please go
I'll be going too
To face the first tomorrow
Where you will have no part
Save for the beating of my heart!


July 20,2013
some velvet briars...

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His Love

Just let Him guide you through,
 don’t count big dreams as few.
Prepare schemes expecting falls.
Know your heart and hear His calls
don’t worry.

When tangled in briars
and twisted with liars,
have patience, listen and wait...
His spirit will open the gate
passed worry.

If grief is holding hands
but you wish calmer lands,
let His love bring comfortings...
Lessens the pain of heart strings
and worries.

Janet Vick
Joree’s 2-line finish form...

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We all celebrate on this day
The one who takes storm clouds away
A woman who’s grace, love, and light
A beloved mom, aunt, and wife

She’s the one who puts out the fires
She’s the one who pulls out briars
Strength in its purest form, true might
A beloved mom, aunt, and wife

Fitting that she was born in Spring
For blooming warmth is what she brings
She brings the day, banishes night
A beloved mom, aunt, and wife

We all celebrate on this day
A beloved mom, aunt, and wife...

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A frog hops into a pond
algae washing over her form. 
A small school of goldfish swim up, and the frog kicks it away.
She doesn't need them.
Her foot catches on a lilypad
and suddenly she's been flung underneath.

She's sinking, faster and faster
but she started this disaster.
The fish just swim past her.

Her lungs are on fire
She's a crying little liar
She needs nothing but herself
Yet she's the one caught in the briars.

Screaming for air
Nobody cares
She wasn't spared...

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