Short Cedes Poems

when scarred earth cedes ~ breaking ground is a good thing








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The winds settle
	For a subtle breeze
The tide cedes
	To a sandy beach
The light fades
	From a lovely bead
And the mother weeps
	For her unborn seed...

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first taste of cold air
turns leaves to gold expended
autumn casts its spell

mists white-out the dawn
fields are amber, skies are gray
autumn plays tough rules

cold blast goes too far
turns what's nice to stark white ice
fall cedes to winter...

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red plumes, sunset blooms
since denim sky blues faded
lookalikes, sweet fumes

ever moving wind
fragrant and changing like sky
cedes to misty trend

reds, pinks, plums and golds
the world I knew went away
mimics unpatrolled

scarlet summer sass
red cardinal sings sultry
diamonds in green grass
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westerly chasing daylight relentless darkness never cedes defeat
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The single line Haiku known as a Monoku usually contains seventeen syllables. A caesura (pause) is initiated by speech rhythm and usually with little or no punctuation.

Form: Monoku
Written: 06/01/2016
Contest: Give Me Your Best One Liner
Sponsor: Silent One
Results: 2nd Place...

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Will Renewal Come?

With the peel of dying cells,
heart breaking November cedes
its ruddy blush to serious ground.

Trees’ loosing to fertile fodder,
they say, will soon enough spill to
soft petals and green adornment.

Alive again come spring,
they’ll be pink in the cheeks
of May’s glorious bloom.

I wonder in November 
what if spring doesn’t come?

Kathryn M. Collins
November 8, 2013...

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