Short Bristling Poems

Thousands of tall evergreen trees
Bristling in the coldest winter wind....

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Appears - eyes alight
Freezes - bristling orange
Leaves - sleek and silent...

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bristling wee hedgehog
out on an evening of  mirth 
crunch,crunch everywhere

nose gently nuzzle
going slowly through spun gold
sun kiss autumn leaves...

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The Sky Is Bristling
                                                The dog must be whistling 
                                                      in the morning sky...

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How do I love thee, but maybe the censors are listening
Waiting to pounce, muzzle me, that's when I start bristling
My love is like a volcano
Waiting to erupt in a halo
Of kisses and slobbers and naughtiness wiggling...

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Night bristling
Eerie breezes whistling
Frothy fog swirls its bleary balloon

Enchanting moon over palling parade doth swoon
Each, twinkling star spews vice from bewitching spittoon

Animated shadows minds vexing
Stealthy sprights hearts hexing
Night texting...

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Sensual Duet Sung

kisses on her lips
open meadows rise in heat
butterflies set free to sing
tall grass' bristling soft
moon river tearing of joy
song of the wind deafen

connie pachecho

8/9/17

Inspired from reading the entries to
Form S - Poetry Contest...

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bottom of a bowel
of jagged rocks
slender bristling pines
ring  a ragged sky
through which slips
slivers of warmth
hugging me like a child
on this crisp morning

life on the line
wiggling wriggling
jumping
splashing, flashing
slippery, cold, and firm
in my grasp...

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Moonlight shivers
On my cold, rattling pane to wake
Me from my own sleep's winter.

The condolences in this season's life—
She's someone else in bristling glow;
To draw me out, she takes her time.

A frost crescendo
Dropping shadows
Hint of snow. 

Moonlight shivers—
She's someone else in bristling glow,
Hint of snow....

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Through the blackest hours;
     I glimpsed a movement,
Bristling within flames
     Found of opportunity...

With cupped fingers
     I drank of its droplets~
Wrung from the clouds 
     Of security...

It was then I exhaled~
     As the rays of hope encompassed me;
Knowing, I AM has made a way for me --
     Assuredly......

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I have an inkling 
My writing is winking
At me behind my back
Or maybe its just blinking, 
Mindlessly thinking
While wrinkling up
My tiny universe
By tinkering
And intermingling
The real and the false~
I hear a clinking,
A chilling kind of whistling;
What is that stinking prickling 
I can feel bristling 
Up and down my spine?
...

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Gilded streams tapestry weave
Frothy dew doth pageant aggrieve
Brimming bough wrapped in embroidered sleeve
Withering grass to the denuded soil doth cleave
Translucent sickles glimmer on each availing eve
Bristling ice pelets bleary-eyed cisterns do heave
Mercurial splendor doth summer's monotony relieve
Chilled masses do body's warm circulation deceive...

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perched on a high tree
a blue jay lookout screeches ~
swift bristling of crests


[when blue jays feed in peace, their crests are lowered, but
become raised when danger is sensed.]
 
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Bird Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
        Placed 3rd
 © 16th March 2022...

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Two Red Pines outside my
Window stand ready every day

Bristling with long needles
And runkled cones, still young

My first sound upon awakening
…..The sweet seeee---sawww
Of the Red Winged Blackbird,
Migrating home

Soon, the swamp I navigate daily 
On my walk will fill with
Feathered friends-

All of us excited by emerging
Cattails….

Comforted, together


03/04/12...

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My ex is like...
		a troll:

	a short one, ugly and hairy but muscular.

My ex is like...
		an overstuffed gnome, 
	like a Santa’s elf with a bristling beard, but
		never a smile.

My ex is like...
		Jabba the Hut:
	gross, ill-mannered, greedy, selfish,
	gobbling up whatever suits him.

My ex is gone. And my relief is like sunshine and
	an open window after a heavy rain....

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a storm is brewing
dark hordes bristling to descend
dissenting thunder

coalescent scouts
in tentative teams essay
sun-parched earth awaits

sizzle of drizzle
pheremonal petrichor
harbingers of hope

cool breeze in the air
their work done, drops sponged, expunged
the deluge follows


Written 15 April 2016
First line changed from "storm clouds in council"  to meet contest requirements....

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Seething skies like bloodshot eyes,
wailing gales assailing through canyon ~ 
weeping fits, ember storm cries
bristling tears with random abandon.

East to west, unwanted guests,
downsloping dire breeds with fire
fueling fest of fiery crests
aborning hells of unholy spire.

Santa Ana merciless winds breathing
capricious firebrands kindle tinder teething.


Susan Ashley
December 26, 2017


~ Tenth Place ~
10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme - Premiere Contest
Laura Loo - Sponsor...

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