Short Cavalcade Poems

Tiny snowflake ladies
whirling to earth
in a cavalcade
of virgin white party dresses...

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spanning thirty years
sweeping episodic film
~ big brave beautiful






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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Clumps of cotton cloud stay
Calm as they change shape carved
Climb high from horizon
Cruising cavalcade in
Cobalt sea of silk sky
Charmed by rippling breeze tune
Cadenced clouds dance drifting...

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Tonight Im going to stop the cavalcade
stumble out of care, mid air
and perform openly
prevaricate unabated,
off queue i may be !
but that's where i want it to be
every stoney smile will be mine






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Series and Miseries

Thrill was throwing in a series
Along with all the many miseries
Walks performed and errors made
Followed by big hits a cavalcade
Saw some eyes which were terries.

Some were happy while others sad.

Jim Horn...

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dark morning Springtime 
before wild best friends wallows 
rabbits and squirrels play
~
 day grand afternoon 
an active pigeon paddles 
whiles splashing in pond


5/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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A life short-lived, but a life lived regardless
A cavalcade of those once loved marching backwards
Black light glinting through the eyes of the ephemeral
A shining, black casket filled not with despair, but hope.
An ephemeral hope, but hope nonetheless....

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Craning necks at cranial skies, coiled in Canopic thoughts,
A cavalcade of silhouettes patrol through cosmic courts,
And pressing down these temples, pillars of an ancient pride,
They spill in crowded jungle-time upon what hopes I hide.
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Orthodoxy

Is an encased

Cavalcade of words

Which pretend to

Capture an original

Insight not identifiable

With words..

The insight brought

A resonant freedom

For no one..

Orthodoxy is a story

Relating the futile

Religious impulse......

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A frozen cavalcade
Silent gardens wait
Sure relief, a softer gait

Rushing forward into life
All forms replicate delight
For longer day and shorter night

While shadows draw a longer form
The plight of all – survival wanes 
As winter stops the band again...

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Before my eyes,
The cloudy skies,
Release a cavalcade of raindrops;
When will the rain stop,
And the sun shine through?
When will the rain beating the pavement,
By day end?

The smallest rustle of the wind,
Breezes through the tree limbs,
As I see when,
In my window view....

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Start Sailing Slower Surely Soon

Should start sailing slower surely soon;
Mind melded making magnificent moon;
Chanted charade;
Constant cavalcade;
Then think that tremendous turned the tune.

You can turn into all sorts of things
that will include a tremendous tune.

Jim Horn...

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o' butterfly light 
lite unto my eye color 
foray flicker don't 
~
do not fade spun so
ever more around me so
cavalcade  beauty
~
 beautiful flowing
so butterfly butterfly
nigh!  don't fly away


2/6/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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Revelry peculiars the incandescent cavalcade
making purple flowers loosen touch of its aide
as nothing hides in place of spotlight charade
for velvety leathers surrender every escapade
useful issues from its lifeline withering in trade
salient rise o'er frayed sins the earth weighed....

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A side show
That is life’s stages
Some happy
Sometimes sad
Victims of a vision quest
Parading around

Under view
Performing stories
Some tragic
Some glory
Without plans for the next act
With just choice of form


written by
Cecil Hickman

written for
Sponsor nette onclaud
Contest Name~SHARE A SHADORMA~...

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The sun awakes from a night of slumber
Rays cascade down I start to wonder
Birds take off traversing an upward flight
Gliding them into a new found light
The waves of the ocean start to applaud
The sun looks down,a wink and a nod
A sea of people embrace the warmth it makes 
A spectrum of colours bounce off the lake
The trees reach up to shake its hand
Voices from nature cavalcade across the land...

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Childhood cavalcade upends
Serial stage pestilence
The kind of poisonous air barricade
That shunts the stitches when they twitch open

Human mind, they said
Stock in storerooms with mascara
Legitimate front to foot the system
With a pedal to the heart attack machine

When fanciful rage chops green
Evenly cut to make the barrage simple
As stacks of fallacy float out the door
All the clown scenery comes tumbling down...

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Scarlet sage' path...
feet rambling about the hill
of a quite woodland
with Carolina willows
and southern magnolias.


Lanky short-leaf pines
shade the milk-pea verdant shrubs;
petrels watch the swift,
mottled squirrels climb black oaks
while a cavalcade stirs them.


Hyacinths in bloom
have a stronger, sweeter scent 
than the white jasmines...
is fragrance a flower's gift
to all lovers strolling by?...

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Marble-sided buildings sunk in the sand
Jumped 40 glassy stories on command.
Everyone thinks life is nothing and money’s grand.
Rolling chair hawkers spiel and cutely chide
Sunday suited daddies to pay for their brides.
So, a cavalcade of marmalade mommies ride, 
(Fatted infants firmly holstered at each side),
Tossing constant comment diapers drenched with pride
To the beach where broken dreamers slept and died....

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PETITION OF THE POWERLESS

Citadel of my inner strength
Crushed by your colossal ambuscade
My pain like carpet spread to length
To receive your cruel cavalcade

My Fountain of dreams fade like bubble
Pushed by your power’s barricade
In my platter serving toil and trouble 
You walk away with unfair accolade!


9th November 2016
For Brian Strand's Contest
Any form theme max 14 lines...

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Chromatic cascade
across the land
sporting a cavalcade
of roses, parrot tulips,
irises, narcissus
and I look out over the 
painted mountain 
to revel in the 
wildflowers waltzing
in a casual breeze.
Atop the verdigris
the flora brings
serenity to my spirit
and I grab my 
paint-box and canvas;
it’s time to capture
the season’s rebirth
once again.

 

5-7-2021
Nature Poetry Contest
Regina McIntosh...

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When the cavalcade
in all its bluster
surrenders a gasp
to mutilation,
demands for reason
remind the renegade
that independence in isolation
ensures despair

regardless of economy
or lifting diction
until cornered,
provoking the reactive dongle
to flair each lizard eye
of survival with fangs
or invisibility

while skittering
like scandal onward
to twist the
imagination of
every blistered soul

before finally
branding the fringe
of consciousness
in harmonic accord....

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