Short Burnishes Poems

Doubts and worries
Congregate; Hope burnishes
perpetually...

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Doubts and worries
congregate; Hope burnishes 
Perpetually...

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as August burnishes yellow- 
                                         a brimstone generation blooms...

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Frozen ice shelf spans water
Snow burnishes the ice-way
Tears that once been sadly shed
Now freeze in their place

Russell Sivey...

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inspiration burns
turns a spark
from the tinder
     of imagination
into a flame..
          a flame
that gathers up
          experience
burnishes and
             refines
a nugget of emotion
into an image, then
crystallize as a phrase
to become
      a spoken word,
a voice
from
the seeing eye...

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Lonely Stormbird calls, 
‘I am here. Choose me. Love me’.
Distant thunder rolls.

Flying rain in air —
Touching my cheek, alighting
On my eyelashes.

I hear, rain music —
On leaves, on roof, in gutters, 
Muted cars hiss by.

The rain burnishes
Dull browns and greens — to copper,
To emerald fire.

After — sun’s rays raise 
Steam; from road, leaf and feather.
Lonely Stormbird calls,...

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Autumn burnishes furry heads,
even we, who however scant our hair
flourish in this wind-blown leafy.
No room for stray gray wisps;
our locks turn golden brown,
crown our minds with crinkly laurels.
Mr. Groundhog looks pretty spiffy
in his cabbage leaf toupee,
even the bent old lady
who walks pell-mell
in the Fall, the strewn and gusty,
has sewn together a wig so big
that it covers her face with beauty....

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On a cold winter, bright dawned the beautiful day 
When God bestowed a free spirit of soaring ray
To light up lives of your dear ones with all its glory 
A flustering fragrance that forever reminds your tuneful story 
In rare moments of warmth, you rent out a fraction of your heart
Sweet as a chortling brook, it echoes deep into my inner part
Soothing Ice that ignites passion, potent fire that burnishes bright 
As precious as life, as true as death, a fraction of your heart…....

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