Short Cone Shaped Poems

Purple cone flower
Cone shaped center attracts
All hungry insects...

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cone shaped it appears
     zigzagging across the sand
          the wind is its guide...

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Ice Cream


    Lover of the shade,

    Chilled fruit of the high summer.

     Soft petalled flower,

     Edible varieties

     Budding from a cone shaped stem.


      Barry Stebbings
       05/30/18

      Syllable count by
       Howmanysyllables.com...

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SUN DAY

                                               Ocean
                                                Tide’s fun
                                                  Bold sun
                                                   Red nun

Jet ski flies o’er ocean, tide’s fun splash
All day affair - bold sun, red nun thrash

4/9/2017
Tyburn Form

*nun – cone-shaped buoy...

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Escaping through a window,
he mounts a silver skeleton.
Flying downhill, dispensing power
through straining ligaments.
His heroic calves squeezing light
into cone-shaped yellow beams
Then uphill, the counter-attack
of implacable night.
The boy speeds through
sleeping streets,
cape flowing, eye-mask
unseen, essential though
for a peddle-powered hero
who patrols
by the glow of a dynamo....

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Blindly I wander, incapable of feeling anything but
numb.
Unable to see anything but the desolate space in my cone-shaped view.

It's been some time since I took a breath,
let a crude wisp of color seep in my lungs.

In one moment past, I inhaled long and full.
I viewed the prismatic color that existed just beyond physical touch.
I infused my breath with the shades and the shapes,
a syrupy stained-glass.

If only for a moment,
If only for a moment....

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