Short Culled Poems

newborn culled from herd
pride posse surrounds quarry
springing coil of death...

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Reincarnation: Autumn's landscape of color hasten return
Anticipation: Amber golds, crimsons, and tangerines we yearn
Elimination: Unworthy umber, culled to suffer and burn...

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You are formed of the wind
That bears your name

In the breathless hollows
Of the gale
I hear your song

Like a Siren culled
From an ancient storm
It calls to me

And I am loathe
To turn away
And from you flee...

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I get my nature out of books—
Literary valleys, crags, and books.

I borrow other poets’ themes—
Voyeuring their surrealistic, dangerous dreams.

Of love alone, I’ve evidence—
Data culled from close-controlled experiments....

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Tease, tempt, coax and cajole till purchased
And wrench the hearts of young and old
Blaze seated on rings and chains
As though culled from hot sun
In Shades bright or light
Red, blue, green, pink
Topaz stones
Glint like
Stars...

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-
-be-
-calm - head--
-not a breath - a trophy-------
--------dead - stag---------
--gunshot wounds -  culled for what---
-frogs floating - for pleasure--.
-tree-
-of life-
-still-
-growing-
--------------------------------...

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in history...
you-and-i-tied nations
as comrades for peace

under control of...
un-tied leaders who support
war through their pee's

on earth and stark-wrecks...
endless profit culled by
financial background klean-on's


stan sand 



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Listen to poem:

Serenity is to know what's right'
Eyes that peer in, beyond what's seen'
Nurturing our feelings with no regrets contrite.
Sensing the world, with consciously culled delight.
Exploring touch, smell, taste in ways foreseen....

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I, from the gray Wolf I'm diverged,
basal, ancestral we are
Millenniums we have witnessed,
historically we're culled 
Yet, we were here before humans,
are we next to disappear




.
James Andrew Fraser
'Night Creatures" Coyote, No 3
18th January, 2015...

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Depriving myself a chance to transcend,
Mistaken identity became my dead end.
Spirals and circles rule my dizzying affliction,
Perceptibility turned science fiction.
culled by cloying seduction and radiant deception,
Cognizant while electing to alter my rality and skew a convincing perception....

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There once was a lion so dread
His trainer must keep him well fed
For if this bad lion
Got hungry for Brian
Old Brian might just end up dead!

Ole Leo the lion acclaimed
Like to play the “I’m so sweet” game
Slow Brian was lulled
And his arm it was culled
Now, the zoo’s out a lion it seems!...

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Experiences re-lived
culled from images I've seen,
books recalled,places I've seen;
Re-fashioned,enhanced and changed
emphasised and re-arranged,
evoked,re-styled in shaded tones,
uniquely embossed my own;
Written out for you to see
this poem trapped,within me..
Now,you dear reader..set free....

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waterside vigil
buffalo nears water hole
lions crouch low nearby

three-pronged ambuscade
buffalo calf culled from herd
swift pincer attack

quarried prey springs forth
stressed calf serpentines about
lead lion cuts angle

driven toward snare
flanks assaulted from both sides
vise tightened prey clasped...

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Open a door but go slow, 
listen I’ve been through enough;
Inviting yourself when you screwed up; 
Victim of your inability to see 
everything you did from the beginning; 
Branches must be extended gently;
Revolving doors go nowhere fast  
always on the tail of words  
nothing substantial standing behind them;
Culled by a flimsy olive branch; 
Here we go again....

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Communication is association
Let the garden of thought flow
Great strides are made in venting
Simply voicing images, passion grows
Dreams situate themselves unknown
Independently arising, mirages blow

The floating energy grows titanic
Ambition unleashed in heat
Soon leading to decisive action
Even in our cardboard world
Mummies of memories spring to life
A verdant pulse is culled...

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Taxation, taxation
Where's the representation
Funds are culled, pooled, and drained
Promises abandoned
By the figures in office, on paper
Doing thing people elected
But never considered or voted 

Let's form our own colony
Regulate or own affairs
Simply as responsible humans
No need for watchdog lair

Our interests are not monied
But to perpetuate quality
Reorganize the state
Until it serves our fate...

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Christmas is over
one 
by 
one
the severed forest 
is dragged to the curb
a plastic Christ is covered 
in frost of the soon forgotten
another reason for winter birds not to chirp.

Over the weekend 
the city has culled the herd
middle east oil is starting to boil again
another season-another war...
one heart strums a golden harp 
the other pours heavy metal
on the Bedouins of the soul....

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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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Skies of unrepentant gray
   Unrelenting day to day
Gloom ensconced in your brain
   Hope waxes not; it only wanes

When at the door, who appears?
   A stranger in whose eyes flash fear
Abruptly, senses so long dulled
   Spring to life, your courage culled

Turns out you help him; he is pursued
   By whom or what, not clear to you
Yet this much know, and mark it well --
   It's mankind's plight wakes death's knell...

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No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that English lives were being culled by evil powers from the timeless worlds of hell. (No’ 10)

No one would have dreamed that they were being scrutinised by someone who treats us like we’re a disease that swarm and multiply in the inner cities.

Yet somewhere in the gulfs of hell, minds immeasurably more evil than ours regarded our lives with such disdain and slowly and surely drew their plans against us!...

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Experiences re-lived culled from images I've seen, books recalled,places I've seen re-fashioned, enhanced and changed emphasised and re-arranged, evoked, re-styled in shaded tones, uniquely embossed my own written out for you to see this poem trapped,within me..Now,you dear reader..set free this poem trapped within my mind,to leave it here,is it unkind? Like a caged bird it flaps around it sings its song,but makes no sound.So should it stay or be set free or ever stay a mystery ?...

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I liked to take my baby brother
And my little sister too
And ramble in the countryside
When the spring was fresh and new.
We would take our Easter baskets 
And would fill them  with delights
Culled from the drifts of wild flowers,
As part of our springtime rites.

We would take our gifts to Mother
And would hang them on her door.
She would say that she had never seen 
Such lovely flowers before.
She said she loved our floral designs 
Made from spring's first dandelions....

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Of ventures dates arise and forth
Musky as tortures I swinging
       Quasi I view myself hate or enrich
Who by pigeonholed proof been
Of actives kinship thy bachelors
       Around a try within of vibrantly range
Indeed, handle as matters upon
A dress code dealt
       Thus as doubts or widely inquire
And sinlessly lo ways
In state done so hornily, so straight
       And be jealous in signify a foe wan
Culled up essential by her, and obvious
Culled off mine attends of bachelor....

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