Short Delves Poems

Star poetry soup
delves deep in one’s inner self...
star cross escapism.

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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plump night brown furry

      Curved long beak delves soil wormward

             kiwi no fly bird...

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Seeing aisles of messy shelves
Before a shopper even delves
Is a horrible curse
Which Whole Foods can reverse
With stockers who were Santa's elves
...

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At the park where they can be themselves
Where little's imagine and frolic like elves
On swings and slides, their happiness delves
Later in life lasting memories of ourselves...

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House With Shelves

An interested person is one who delves,
Into buying a house with many shelves;
For us to live in;
Long time been;
We owned after being built by ourselves.

Jim Horn...

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The curlew’s trademark, long down curved bill

Delves deep in mud, belly to fill

Heath and moorland breeding ground

Mating calls eerie sound

And then chicks arrive

Oh how they thrive

Birds anew

Curlew

View...

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a poem is a puzzlebox open and shut
with a chimeraean key. and fay-like
are the enterings it delves, where
a moment is all had. now
and then clinking to the sides. turn
slowly. it will change as if time passed.













Collin Lam...

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Delirium delves deeply
Deeply dense
Derivatively dying
Dancing deliriously
Driving deeply densely

Happily hastily 
Honeyed homeliness

Lying loneliness
Levitating loveliness

Delirium doubly
Dealing deftly deathly
Deeply delving deliriously....

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twelve hours half a day--CQ

night surrenders
saffron sky delves
import tortoise
export fledglings

sand crabs popout
penguins waddle
porpoises play
zenith star slips

2019 August 31

*1st Place*

Charlie-Quadku
~~charles messina...

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found tasks to be few
capable of and can do
sink my teeth into

not very clever
relationship should sever
terror made error

husband would whimper
because she had a temper
could still exempt her

we saw many elves
while looking at the book shelves
who into past delves...

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In endless dark tunnel, 
winding incisive anguish
delves deep tireless through 
insensate sensual strata. 

Visual surface of being sheared 
to shards by excruciating trauma, 
sinks to benumbed depth 
of tolerant unfeeling... 
        
seamless stillness.

__________

January 16, 2023
For Brian Strand Contest No 1170...

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Golden sets of
surfs surface, 
delves surreal
golden sky, 

Sands surrender
shoeless sole
soles traipsed a
hazy trail,

Gold rays graced and
heralds-in,
as an ochre
shore comply,

Gild shines serene
flocks of doves,
day sprung free a
summer's veil.


Date:08/30/2019
howmanysyllables
4343, 4343, 4343, 4343 (7777)...

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Mind-drifts

A wedge of moon flowers in a fading sky
Floating above a stained swathe of drifting cloud
Mind-drifts in starts and stops
As dark deepens in delves and dips
Cat-steps in dry crunchy grass
Cicada-song shrill and sharp
Starlings tweet in social chat
Crow-croak bass resounds 
Light ripples across my mind
Shifting thoughts, drifting wide....

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She takes the sunlight
Brings it into the thunder
Massive eruption

She delves into
Pains culmination feel
She breaks her silence

Then the mighty fall
Wrongly placed hands were the tell
Revelations true

Consequences real
Time to rid of the sins
Many hated men

It’s finally time
To set the records straight
Let them face music 

Russell Sivey...

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Late at night, way up north, Santa delves
into making identity elves.
When pressed, none remember
their pronouns or gender,
but it’s specist to sit upon shelves.

—————

for the Fun Holiday Limerick Poetry Contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin
written on 11/16/22
rhyme checked with rhymezone.com
syllables (9/9/6/6/9) checked with howmanysyllables.com...

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a page is such a cold place
pen has a sage who delves for inner face truth's
the page entrances with silent mocking
word thought dances just outside the blocking
the sage thirsty now craves sweet success
but only digs graves in the sheets of paper white
mourn the poems never born
sorrowful worlds in the words
sage now sleepwalking
his empty words never talking...

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The river, the giver of life 
The river, the giver of time as we know it 
Volumes of history on my shelves
Offer dark pictures 
when one delves
into the records of the past 
So I'll watch, the river, the giver 
as it brings 
life to us all 
The river, the giver 
brining home peace
The river, the giver 
as it flows past our home 
the river , the giver 
make it your own...

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The fragrance of an open bottle, ~~numbs,
It aires a room resigned to fulfillment,
Impatience dealt some wayward errant doves,
Carries them to moor like patient children,
Obeisance for 'tis nature that they delves,
Buries their heads fore flights of fluttering,
A floor draped in white feathers, winds bundles,
Door burst, shoos, closed windows, seals a bottle.


Date: 05/31/2019...

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worn wit's fang
omen's punctured prank
hoisted odds hampered
relieving rusty orders
monstrous myth melt
dripping dark delves

eerie experiment etched
foiling felon flesh
mental horizon's mesh

fragile future's confetti
humming hacked hymns
quarantined fate flicked

callous contractions cruised
birthing blitzkrieg bruised.
     '20:05:14:18:56

Note: Of masticated mentality....

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A hollow, showering light throughout itself
Breaking apart the scene shows how it’s gone down
Broken the life of the clearing not yourself
Eerie the time of the night delves like a gown
A shroud appears from the depths of the darkness
There’s nothing that fire can hold or sure harness
Calmness it is not, blanket of noise exists
Screaming the spot caresses, I’m clenching fists

Russell Sivey...

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compelling
    dreamlike
 captivates
&unfolds
infuses
 with
the dynamic
hybrid

 interpretation

 expressiveness
  in
a mixed
    narrative
upon
a
canvas
of
 the
 atmospheric
recesses
of
 the subconscious

where
inspiration
 transcend
the ordinary
&
 delves
into
 the symbolic

prompts imaginative
&collective
 meaning

evoking
narrative
 emotions
 in a
lexicon
 of
eniched
intensity...

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is the teenth of june
found face painted on balloon
looked like a racoon

bitten by chigger
sores are bigger and bigger
once were on trigger

poems complicated
which were initiated
then replicated

did contain despair
records were beyond compare
them up trump did tare

there are those who delves
into books that are on shelves
wrote by tiny elves

not very pleasing
when I had started freezing
ended up sneezing...

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Working in jobs we loath,
buying valuables we do not need.
We have no substance to survive on this,
our souls we can not feed.

A million miles away,
across oceans and cracks.
Exist people that own everything,
everything we lack.

The Mark of Cain,
we have burnt upon ourselves.
Ever plummeting southwards,
our conscious delves.

He collects them in bottles,
our evil ways.
Waiting to release them,
at the end of days....

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My heart craves for moments
To indulge my soul in bliss
Away from toils and cares of this world
To eternity and immeasurable peace.

My mind delves into depths of time
Seeking treasures sublime
Hold moments captive in memory's realms
Recollections like fragments of shattered dreams.

My soul weary sailing turbulent streams of life
Swirling in life's discord and strife
Longing for that bright day dawning
To merge with infinity yearning....

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The river, the giver 
      of life
The river, the giver 
      of time as we know it 
Volumes of history 
   on my shelves
Offer dark pictures 
    One sees shadows 
when one delves 
    into the records of the past
So I'll watch the river, the giver 
    as it brings renewed life 
The river, the giver 
    bringing home peace 
The river, the giver 
     watch as it flows past our homes 
the river, the giver 
     make it your own!...

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