Short Coned Poems

sari of morn floats

draping temples with orchids,

as Angkor Wat blows its mist

to flame coned incense;

and in the still of homage

pilgrims wander with their gods.


Angkor Wat, Cambodia

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May 2018 Standard Contest of Brian Strand...

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Three crows pecked away the heart rubies
from an ice cream coned childhood dream
when they weren't gorging and preening 
they'd mock from the blackest of black
taunting and scheming their next attack.

We've grown old and bitter together
I and these three hag footed beasts
forever cawing from ruby stained beaks
I donning feathers from a fractured past
minted as trophies atop a foamy night cap....

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Four years it took
For us to talk

We lasted forever
You always cross my mind

Its been a while
Since I was true to myself 

I’ve been on the run
Like a convict on the move

I coned you
Just as I coned myself

I look at this book
And I remember those three words

You wrote them 
I erased them

I was in love with a memory 
You were in love with a fake

It took awhile 
It was the long con...

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Oh Sweet Seasons,
          Return to me

 Bring back the summers
          of love in the sand
 of champagne moons
          and dancing in the sun

 Send me your autumns
         on apple cider breeze
and nature’s confetti
         of auburn and gold

 Frost me in winters
         with marshmallow mountains
 warmed by hot chocolate
         and pine coned embers

 Then let life renew
         oh sweet seasons of spring
with lilac memories
         and honey bee serenade...

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