Short Crisped Poems

sterile dough kneaded
crisped dreams coated with sugar
manufactured hope...

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Frost crisped, the lawn remained
beneath the frozen dew.
Water dripped to ice as gutters drained.
The cardinal bids the day adieu;
the winter storm has left a gelid view....

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Mix melody into mayhem,
all that flavor what an aroma;
Good golly the spell’s simmering;      
Ingredients with the benefit of fungi,   
crisped up carved into cataclysmic....

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In a game of matching mates
Humble life decorate lonely tree
Wheel reach  deep  dark hole

Flurry of bliss  crisped  leaves
Orchids deplete its tears 
Fallen cloud  stood  frozen
Till sound of  opening knops...

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There by the fence; 
one lavender rose.
Carved amethyst;
petals delicately
crisped with,
glassy inclusions,
as only amethyst crystal
can present to the, 
pensive eye.
A lavender rose
from Gaia’s womb
is a heart
full of love;
bleeding
empathy.
...

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Dried Dreams


Light dawning, parched, sleeping fields awakening to dewy kiss
Thirsting roots await droplets of precious life from funnel leaves 
Crisped edges, singed by season’s drought, bathe in lover’s sweet relief


John G. Lawless
6/19/2014

for Debbie Guzzi
SIHO strings contest...

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It Was Apocalyptic for those mountain folk...
A quarter million pristine acres crisped.
Dozens of homes destroyed by Hade's blow.

Everyone gushed about a bible. 
That came through the inferno untouched.
Stranger still, some called it a miracle.
Despite a dozen people being burned alive...
Where was their miracle?...

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Dawn iced the birdbath and crisped the sunless air
to show time for winter to claim its shivered share.
Indeed the season is born again anew
just like the ones as a boy I knew.

So it is with every season since planet’s birth.
Each comes again asserting its worth
and blessing during its stay Mother Earth.

This winter now upon me will be endlessly back
in perennial wave after wave
ages after snow first covers my grave....

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Tree-finger enchantments
   Shimmer pedantic staccato;
Violinist plucked
   Long-tails, blue in snow,
      Bewitched no longer, frolic.
   Embrace Poseidon.
       Whisper labyrinths cool to the wake.
East, I see an oblong ship pirouette
    Charging from Olympus…on fire,
        Shadowy Everests migrate west;
    Crisped saltines crumbled by guilt
       Whose silent peaks rejoice:
How beautiful the clouds swim in sunrise sky. 


2/15/2017...

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