Short Clasps Poems

sunlight clasps the earth
and the moonbeams kiss the sea
what are kisses worth...

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I am lucky
to ponder death
when it suits me

as blind children
fire stones in
a yellow storm...

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The Praying Mantis
By Franklin Price
7/19/2015

The praying mantis
Clasps forward legs in prayer
Thankful to exist...

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ice clasps barren ground 
lancet winds slice solitude … 
frozen silence splits

January 9, 2021
Contest : Hi-Ku (6) Place Promise
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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Dark storm clouds rotate
tumbling like the angry seas
evoking dark rain

Thunder rolling clasps
lightning whips across gray skies
clouds release dark rain

~*~...

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on 
the palm 
turmoil fate 
of the next year
as like burning coal
no peace in working hand
backbone is suffering clasps
waiting for the new tragic time
sipping the slaver of dearth panic

©Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
10/08/2022...

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Seeing thru shadows
Clouds cascade this misty view
Hovering down low
Circular shape so divine
Serenity clasps our heart

Desires captured deep
 Here with my love forever
Moonlight of dreams
Secures our sweet nights passion,
Our silhouettes interweaved....

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Born of cosmic particles of light
she is beauty beyond imagining.
When she clasps her hands
in contemplation, suns are born,
the moon rides high on her shoulders.
Diviner of the universe, boundless 
power born of the goodness 
that encompasses all and endless....

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Here, our love was first cast in impacts of oneness ~ ~
now mocking meadow grass clasps me, chained to numbness.

Vast tears rip me with shaking-grips of steady spill ~ ~
heartbreak and tears weaken me, beat from their drummed trill.




... CayCay
March 24, 2019...

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Frayed,
worried
while waiting.
It was sunrise
and now darkness fell.
Two hearts now celebrates,
adore, cherish each other.
Jealous am I, their hands clasps, laughs.
You never came, I know, I must heed.
Accept that I'm one of those, Single Ladies.

:)
~cve~
Feb. 02, 2015...

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A crack in a wooden door.
Corruption forms its disorderly queue.
A rot easily blocked, filled
or scoured.

Yet, as time swings,
as air clasps open and closed,
as locks crust and fester

in any neglected niche;

therein will light crumble,
will bodies wriggle,
will mindless eyes
seek ways through

to you....

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The neighborhood 
is stirred as if 
by a fiery furor.

Everyone trembles, 
gasps with horrid 
horror

as, at last, he clasps
and cuts the culprit 
tumor

long ailing him with 
tingling, painful 
tremor.

Fatal to him now 
to commit the slightest 
error

when all he really needs
is just a sense 
of humor!

....

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After days of fog
Moths eat away the slip of winter
Pieces of the New Year
Drift as ash into spring

Eyes waiting abhorrently 
While midnight clasps the last remnants
Tomorrow becomes the butler 
Escorting the sun

Rays peel open the solstice
Tattered wings flutter towards
The lamppost of February
Sealed in pocket mirrors…...

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Silly Billy doesn’t think quit straight
Dropped on his head as a child by mistake
Sometimes he drools, stinks, and is late
Sometimes he sits quietly waiting for cake
But each quiet night upon his knees
Silly Billy clasps his hands and bows with ease
Father- oh Father- my heart’s full of thee
Thankful to you what you have given me...

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i remember bicycling many miles,the sun on my face and the gentle breeze about my sweaty
body,cooling,my heart pounding in my ears as i ascended those monster hills
the taste of salt from the sweat,the comraderie,the smells of fresh grass or cow dung.i
still hear the clicks of the pedals and clasps.oh how i miss it since my disabling stroke...

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Babbling endlessly, holding furniture, he walks
When furniture ends he looks at me
Leaves his hands, rushes towards me 
Falling on my thighs, clasps them tightly
Joyous exhilaration fills me
I lift him and hug him lovingly

08.09.2021

Note : This bite size poem captures the first time my son walked  on his own without holding anything.
 
For Bite size poem 20, Line Gauthier...

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they listen long and close
   to what they do not say

   and hum their unheard whisper,
      perking up their day;

      they thank the years that
         smooth away all hurt, all grief,

         years of hopeful love that seem
            forever though brief;

            and now he clasps her hands
               it's time for him to go,

               she nods a vow of hope,
                  unspoken, they both know !...

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Evil is a stubborn weed
People always plant its seed
Viscous are its deeds
On the innocent it feeds

A harmless germ in our mind
A thoughtless thought we can unwind
It can be a temptation to fault find 
But once it clasps it is hard to unbind

Find your herbicide
Fumigate your inside
Where evil always resides
Before it spreads wide

Unthink the thoughts it breeds
Starve the seed with good deeds
Allow your harvest to succeed
And love will be your meed...

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Chilled by the air that clasps my feet
with a needed rub…rubious tingles.
The door ajar with Autumnal treat.
Swept away, the humidity and its heat.

A little cold air and steaming drink,
The coffee, brave and daring.
It cools off quicker, on the brink.
From this seasonal invite, I will not shrink.

Just a small window in the hourglass,
Before the roar of arctic temperatures.
Exaggeration at best - it will kick the brass,
Inform me to quilt or sweater this lass....

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My father said there's much to tell
In how people might shake your hand
As someone grasps to wish you well
Or maybe, they seem not so grand

Some reveal surprise in their eyes
Secrets withheld - then bonds do break
Peering deeper, you sense a guise
Little lies put relations at stake

Look inside with this simple act
My father's opinion, not a fact
First impressions signal a cue
Help for those who need a clue

Heartfelt handshakes friends do make
Solitary clasps for goodness sake...

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