Short Earliest Poems

Winter's earliest fool,
last leaves that cling to the tree;
shall too someday fall....

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Only four weeks old
Staring at a bare light-bulb
Screaming for my Mum



Inspired by Danielle White’s competition
“My Earliest Memory”...

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gothic mystery
Hitchcock's first Hollywood film-
earliest film noir






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved. 
First published 2018 in Hollywood Haiku via wattpad.com...

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Summer is a season of figs
It is one of my favorite fruits
Beside mango, banana, prunus  
Love to see people have it at tables
One of the earliest fruit trees
Cultivated by ancient peoples
dry or fresh food and medicines...

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“we’ll have things there at your earliest inconvenience” —
                                                                    under blue moon

                                                                          12/8/2021...

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With hops, pecks and scattered flights
Eating unlucky bugs and earliest worms
Bright blue eggs holding future roosts
Nests made with symetrical intricacies
Guarded postures showing orange chests
Avian state symbols in Wisconsin trees...

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A lullaby vibrates against my cheek,
I feel so loved, and safe, and small, and weak. 
Until the cradle falls, from winds that blow,
That’s one song silenced, wished I didn’t know.

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Entered in Danielle’s Earliest Memory Contest...

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[A little spin off from my ‘Freezer Mice’ range]

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Man’s earliest ancestor was a teeny weeny shrew
It poked its nose in everything as it went fro and to
It picked a fight with everyone that came within its range
And all that I can say to that is, ‘some things never change’...

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The dawn earliest spring's 
bouquet of colour brings.

A white butterfly peers 
at yellow angel's tears; 
flutters and flies away. 
A blue bugle at bay, 
rains nature has inspired
summons scents so admired.

3/11/2020

Alexandrine - Modified Poetry Contest 
2.  nature inspired
Sponsored by: Dear Heart...

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Eerie beauty and mystery
Permeate gray stones
Forming a temple,
An observatory, a timepiece
For Britain's earliest arrivals
Who left ancestors buried
In pagan mounds awaiting
The Anglican God.
By moonlight the Druids,
Wandering the grounds
Once their domain,
Performed ceremonial rites 
Not revealed by the ages....

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New born
in swaddling clothes,
I,in this manger,lay
for you to see and digest,this 
new day-
...still
unsaid
aloud,unread
or incunabula-
hours old,perhaps by grandchildren..
re-told

Note The earliest printed books are called incunabula ( Latin for swaddling clothes).They 
resembled the manuscipt they superseded....

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First we dreamed
And then we prayed
God was there
When you were made

Just A piece of him
With a touch of me
The earliest green 
Of our family tree

You won't recall
How my tummy did stretch
But the truth my darling
Is often far fetched

Sometimes a miracle
Stands months apart
While a little one sleeps
To the beat of your heart...

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It seems to me that
Dawn is a talisman of sorts.
I construct honeyed, passionate poems
In the earliest hours of day.
My words are so mellifluous,
I read them aloud until 
The cracking of my voice
Pulls me back into reality.
The serenity of writing when all are asleep
Is simply ineffable and I cannot
Think of a better time to be an artist....

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Our battle commences
At half past one.
It was the earliest time,
We could both get it on.

The crowds have all gathered,
For our melee.
If we had been famous,
It could have been on telly.

How long it will last,
No one can say.
One thing for certain,
It's starting today.

So there it is,
In a nut shell.
I said, I do,
She said, YOU WILL!...

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Buzzing around the sun
Green glistening with skin
As I finger-poke for fun
And bleed open my sin

Brother runs out from the shouts
Pouring peroxide on the prick
While in the mirror I see the doubts
Band-aid wrapping round to stick.

Memory fades from there
As hallways slip into darkness
The mind a wandering hare
The heart the harrowing lightness....

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Azure skies
Alabaster sands
Emerald seas
Scent of comfort
From my earliest days

Surf sounds
To ease worldly pains
Ocean fragrance
Soothes and calms
Beach therapy for the soul

The sea
And my soul 
Intertwined from birth
Drawn to shores
Like moth to flame

Rhythmic waves
On sandy edge
Like the heartbeat 
Of a mother
Calms a child  


TLR 8-6-17...

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A Phone Call from 1919
David J Walker

It was her earliest photograph
A stolen image 
A split seconds motion in
Captured time

And here, in this odd box
For so long it lay 
Unseen

And yet a sworn testament
In a storm of its lonely reality undeniable 
Where has been stored the beauty
In this thing 

That stirs an unknow affection
In one thousand shades of grey...

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Tiny purple violets are waiting patiently
Beneath a fleecy white blanket of snow
Pushing against the crusty ice, basically,
Tiny purple violets are waiting patiently
With stems pressing upward blatantly,
Among earliest spring flowers to show
Tiny purple violets are waiting patiently
Beneath a fleecy white blanket of snow.

written January 17, 2022...

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Poison was always the silent killer. 
Kings and emperors fell prey to it easily.
The favorite poisoner of the Roman Emperor Nero, 
this woman ended many lives with her deadly poisons.
FUKIING BIITCH,this woman’s story is a true deadly drama. 
Widely considered as one of the earliest documented serial killers, 
She was certainly a deadly dame.
Note.chemical drink silent killer......

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Have you ever 
Loved someone 
But not have them 
Love you back? 
Have you ever 
Wanted something 
That you could not have? 
Have you ever 
Needed someone 
And they weren't there? 
Have you ever wondered 
If they even care? 
Have you ever wondered 
What life would be like 
Without you here? 
Have you ever wondered 
If people would even notice 
You weren't there? 

November 6th, 2003 (One of my earliest and favorite)...

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Ponder the extreme vastness of our known universe
from time’s earliest dawn to the present day.
Eons ago, beyond our wildest reckoning, 
when all matter was birthed…then by
incomprehensible force, scattered
over distances unfathomable.
Amidst that colossal chaos
a fleck, impossibly small, 
had all the ingredients
to become the Earth
which contained
so importantly
the matter
that is
you.
...

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Polluted mind

I read a little but many forget
I lost my memory earliest…..
The dustbin of my mind,
I’m not disposing 
Unwanted remembrance 
Why not going….
The thing that I want to forget
But some factor is there
Stopping everywhere…….
What is solution that
I’m trying to find…….
What is the fact?
Polluted my mind…..
         
                  Ashumit k.v.
                    21/3/2016 
                            (India)...

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Early spring flowers live hurried lives upon the forest floors.
As soon as the ground thaws, they peak forth their tiny blooms.
Alongside ponds and running streams purple violets are seen.
White trilliums and bluebells grace the still brown earth.
They only thrive until the canopy thickens with green.
Still some blue breaks through and sun dapples its rays.
It's Mother Nature's will that life keeps springing up,
And repeating itself endlessly....

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Balance the sky on a twig from the tree
If the twig snaps or falls
The sky will tumble onto us

Bumping our heads and waking us up
From our life long sleep
That we think is a life of memories
Yet unlived but recollected

From the earliest times and days
We follow the oblong path
Each corner is the same
Just like we are the same

Why is it this way?
You wrote the book of life
So tell me now




CC 191 2020 
JIMMY BOOM SEMTEX...

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So many times along the way
We see our God touching lives.
This is so throughout our days
And to this conclusion we arrive.


That God has loved from earliest days;
 His Son came to live among men.
He has not changed His loving ways
No, He is ever for being our friend.


And now, just as Jesus once lived here,
God sends us out to live among men.
His will toward mankind is ever so clear,
That they inherit His Life without end.

Douglas L. Ace...

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