Short Cowers Poems

Who calls me coward?
The one who cowers himself?
Hypocrite are you...

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Blue orchid cowers
Free-for-all kid euphoria
Huge lactating breasts...

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fawns flops, flatters folds,
cringing cowers to comply
sycophant lackey...

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winter cowers
             in shrinking shadows…
                pale and sweating...

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In the shadow of my ID
My ego cowers in shame
So conflict and friction
Like yin and yang
All take part in this game....

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Lightning shatters the night,
all nature
cowers before its power to destroy,
captivated by its power to renew,
grateful, 
it does both in one strike....

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gregarious wolf
	monogamous mating pair ~
		voracious young yowl

winter feast scarce
	rapacious wolf snuffles snow ~
		nimble hare cowers

alpha female reigns
	wolf pack provides provisions ~
		playful pups gambol...

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Soften thoughts wisp around her
Smiles never wane
An open soul draws light within
Her fortress of uncertainty
Goodness wraps around her core
and blesses all she knows
Angels follow and evil cowers
But she unaware
Magnificance she shows...

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When a bully spots a coward
  He's pumped up, empowered

A fearful leader behind 'moral high ground' cowers
  His defense, roadkill for the bully ~ more land to devour




   ~ C'mon, Pres. JB! Fear strikes out 
          in the Fight for Freedom ~...

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The city sleeps,
its lights tucked away,
hidden,
once vibrant and illuminated-
now dark and incomplete.
Speckles of dew litter the streets,
the excess of human emotion,
recycled,
a predator hunting its new victim
as it cowers in the darkess, waiting....

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missing, the magic
  stars shrink
the moon cowers
  all that's sweet turns sour

heartfelt sighs
  comfort food
steam baths
  no good, no good...

O, before ye despair
  love will repair
nature's caprice, no one spares
  ~ angels in heaven yet care...

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i have eight legs
i am an arachnid
delicate;exoskeletal 

you have two legs
you are a mammal
sloppy;squishy

yet it is i
with the stronger backbone
with the precise dexterity

who scuttles
who cowers on the wall
silk trailing

you with a newspaper
print odorous with ink
smashing in my wake...

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(American Style Haiku Sequence)

raindrop bullets lash
cardinal cowers in nest
tiny eggs stay dry

fragile blossoms wilt
under sunshine’s scorching rays
baby cardinals fly

radiant gems flash
on faded garden pathways
cardinal red mums

cardinal watches
bare limbs bowing down to pray
in adulation...

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A sheer blanket of Rose
Flowers from the place where the earth drops off
Source yet unknown for beauties face still rests,
awaiting times unveiling 
Awaken Beaming Brilliance; bright and burning
Earth turns its side, revealing the wide eyed beauty
Darkness retreats, and cowers in cracks
Waiting for its re-emerging....

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He fled the gazes of his brood --
They cut his soul with faces
sharp from lack of food.
Although their mouths
Voiced no complaint,
Their steady, unaccusing stares
Were so much more than he could bear --
This hero of two foreign wars.
He cowers now in alleyways
(And drinks his courage from a jar)
Beneath a far, unjudging star....

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Inside the darkness 
So dark that the strewn bodies and bones of light cound not penetrate its depth
Life cowers behind the facade of intention
Not born 
I invented myself
Living in this prison world
All of us unrepentent and claiming our own innocence
I spit in the face of the person i pretend to be
and weep for the one unseen...

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As the Sun creeps over the mountains
Darkness cowers, making way for the light
Due weeps and turns to fountains, 
Drip drip dripping out of sight
Mother Nature is astounding
How different the Day over the Night
The Dawn over powers the dusk uncovering the night-shy flowers
It is truly sublime...
As the flowers stretch and yawn they face the Sun in pure delight...

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Come, let's do anything but this 
Sit and speak of those we miss
For I, the man filled with pride
For you, the mom who held you inside
We could share sorrows for hours
this unrequited love that cowers
Happiness waits around the bend 
Come, let's call the other friend


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, May 29, 2012
for 50 Words contest (Shaz Cheesman)...

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The tiny box of three
Quiet in inconsequence
Cowers to bored night
Theory picket fence

Two fly ice
Chosen expertise and calm
Distress the daily grind
Confused in sweated palm

The faithful forty-nine
Hope and safety fed
Now speak unwitting blank
In bitter contact red

The suffering alive
Peak through bewildered eye
Barred to understand
Such loss in seconds Five...

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Mercury speeds through galactic showers
  Others take days, her journey's three hours
Although it's said she has superpowers
  Behind Space grains and particles, Mercury cowers

Mars sells creamy, caramel chocolate bars
  Leads the life of a Milky Way star
Travels here, travels there, near and far
  Always seeks Peace, finds only War ~

Which leaves us the Moon, to rescue us soon...

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On dogs phony antlers are tied
So unhappy Blossom will hide
     When she sees them coming
     She’d rather go slumming
At landfills she spends the Yuletide

And she’s not alone in her fear
Surrounded by many a peer
     Midst trash each dog cowers
     On ice in snow showers      
Refusing to dress like reindeer



*Written December 8, 2018
For Tania's "Funny Reindeer" contest...

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My shadow
It lives
In my every step
Following discreetly
In silence its met

It grows in the dark
Confidence gained
But cowers in the light
Because it's afraid
It doesn't want to be seen

This shadow 
It scares me
As its creeping along
And it's always so hungry
For things
It cant have

But if im scared 
Of my shadow
Its scared of me
For what is my shadow
Other than a reflection
Of me?...

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Head buried beneath the wind,
hung, grasping an overhang,
hug the thin bones of wiry tussocks.

At the moor's edge
where the cliff-drop, gnaws at the sky,
a jutting ledge raises it hackles,
fingers scrabble, skinned toes curl
within creaking jawed boots

Turn an ankle here,
and you may fall
unleashed
to die somewhere.

Cling!

Laugh at yourself.

Do not enter your mind,
where your whipped dog cowers.


...

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Biding the path
Yet blind to the cost

Clinically insane
Yet forging ahead

At sea, the tempest
Cowers, at your name

On land, resolve
Can bring you shame

Betrothed in gold
You stake your claim

Adorned in skulls
Your fate to blame

Searched by seers
You wipe away

The tears you've sown

'Till daybreak casts

A light anew

When mind and soul
Can clearly see

The righteous path
Bestowed on thee

11/12/16...

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As the world community
Asks Israel to stand down.
Hamas murders with impunity
Then flees underground.

Isreal lives under scrutiny
And still held to account.
While terrorists have immunity
To pass their AKs around.

Free countries need unity
Not gloomy storm clouds.
When we stand together
Evil cowers in a shroud.

Thus, let us speak fluently
Yet justly so out loud.
There's no immunity for murder
And God tolls the count....

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