Short Commingling Poems

three aloes in spring
roots commingling with moist soil -
they exist as one


Susan Ashley
August 13, 2017...

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In the green valley 
Gentle zephyr blew my hair 
Breathing pure fresh air
Contemplating dawn birds flock 
Commingling with the cosmos











For One Nature Tanka - Inspired By My Short Poem Posted On Contest Page - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Rick Parise
Eight Place
7-31-2016...

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Christmas courts contentment, cheer
Contributes comfort, comity-
Commingling with the coming Christ.
Can celebrate with caroling,
Church choir chanting, candlelight.
Create commitments to cherish
Connection conceived with Christ.
Christmas cards and caring confirm
Charity, compassion, closeness-
Culled core of Christmas centerpiece.


December 16, 2020

Contest: Alliteration
Sponsor: Eve Roper
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Flanked by Dame’s rockets and Yarrow
familiar flowers that greet me
every spring with their breezy nods.
Their irresistible, subtle
scents never cease to captivate
my olfactory perception.
I swoon amidst their fragrant breaths
and for one imaginative
moment become their distant kin
with an alien hue and scent
commingling with them nonetheless
until their odoriferous
scents again sober my senses
leaving a feeling of gladness....

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Old Man At The Diner
 

He slaughters his hamburger steak
with a fork and a butter knife,
massacres ringlets of onions
again and again
 
thumps catsup all over
the bloody commingling,
then ever so slowly
peppers and salts
 
and reminds me of Hrebic,
whose wife, back
on the block of my youth,
sat all summer out on her stoop,
 
knees awry, one eye black,
the other turning gray,
sunning the great white hydrants
of her phlebitic legs.
 
 
Donal Mahoney...

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