Short Enclosing Poems

Apple Pie

Mom's tender crust, enclosing fantastic fragrant flavor....

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Spheres of luminous beauty
Enclosing air in a super thin cage
Surface of colorful swirls
Effortlessly floating
Enjoyed by people of all ages
Suddenly vanishing...

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Inside Out


Does enclosing a part of the outside
To make a dwelling
Really create an inside

Sitting in my house
I look out and realize
The house is part of and sitting outside
And, so am I
Inside out...

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I walk around
I go right in a straight line
Go seven paces then I turn left
Making another left on left
Taking big steps
cumference
the enclosing boundary of a curved geometric 
perimeter, border, boundary
I walk around...

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You said it a thousand times before
but never really believed it
Saw the snow coming down
the thick mist enclosing
felt the ice piling up
the cold sinking in
heard voices fade
care disappear
and yet, you never believed....

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Ancient beyond knowing,
spirals of information
float in on a frothy tide.

With shades of the rainbow
the whelk shell preens
enclosing its gastropod guest.

Where did they meet
to become this symbiotic star
of eons before mind?...

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Tender mercies mesmerize
Warm sea surf sensuols
rushing still life waves
on soft warm sentient sands,
enclosing us in total traction.
mirrored moments etched in time
never forgotten.
We meld as one in our
Heaven and Earth
Escape....

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Survey as artist drafts her masterpiece,
enclosing space invisibly across.
Then single-handedly, she will increase
the center parts to form unseen valise.

October 19, 2020

stanza taken from my piece, Spider's Purse, written November 17, 2010...

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She's

a

diamond

sun of snow,

envied by venus, 

lifting her peacock eyelashes 

to stargaze beyond pinkish petals of mild moonrise, 

enclosing rusts of rosy jealousy in ancient ruins like lotus Minerva.
...

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The Bermuda dried to brown
and the dust bred
with the dead
heat of summer
falling
all around
enclosing me in its slumber
encasing me in its fate
and glad that I had
found
my calling
to lie dormant in the ground
void of 
love
and void of hate...

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for too long, fragmented arcs
not fitting together, broken
until you, now it is as if
a compass has drawn the
perfect circumference
tangent touching
your radius, straight to my heart
reflection symmetry
the arcs now fitting together
enclosing the circle
completing me...

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Uniqueness..

We are pleased to find

Nature's suggestions of 

Hidden unities.. 

A unity thus found might 

Disclose our Self  

Enclosing and making

Of our Self that which

Seems different and Other..

Gifting us to behold  the

Infinite Beauty of

Uniqueness......

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OUR BACKYARD 

we have habitat
nor wire nor fence enclosing
open habitat

animals roam free
god ordained environment
clear blue sky to see

such the normal clime
since the snake spoke from the tree
since primeval time

man laboring hard
so slowly changed all that    but
not in our backyard...

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There is an urban legend
surfacing somewhere on the islands
that I am a possessor of a converted
fountain of youth deep inside
my bedroom closet
and every year on my birthday
I would take a bath
into its calming spring waters
enclosing the mystical essence
behind my perpetual childlike appearance...

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Really it has come into view again,
An unwelcome sight at the the end of another terrible year in which,
I failed to romanticise Britain,
Like I used to when I was young,
I've almost lost faith in the old ways,
My death ahead,
Deadly night enclosing with clinging fingers,
And the sewing left undone....

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Rainclouds spotted on the horizon
  soon streaming swiftly to center stage
billowing upward, swelling on high
  gray curtains enclosing blue patches of sky

Was it seconds ago the sun held sway 
  beaming joy and delight with each new ray
expressionless a moment, heavens overcast
  lightning signals thunder's imminent blast...

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A pale light came before me, 
sailing slowly, enclosing me.
It was a heron, fragile being--
Her white hair flowed over mine,
 a touch of the heaven`s stars
A divinity felt through my heart, 
as she looked into my eyes--
Splendor fell upon my soul,
 as I`ve seen her purity grow.


Brian Strand Premiere Contest
30 Dec 2017...

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A cunning ape
 upon a diamond throne
tastes his apple.
 Our Saturn lets loose
arrows of piercing spiritual venom.
 Dominion and power
in the blood of a human head.
 A complete circle
unmanifest enclosing
 the devil.
Crushing all passion and pride;
 A white cone
gently rolling
 toward the Centre.
The disk manifests
as the One....

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Christ’s constraining love* sublime
Frees my heart from guilt’s fetters
Enclosing me with His grace
To enjoy His peace.

Around my Lord’s divine care
My soul seeks great revival
Toward fiery service-bliss
Against sin’s venom.

*Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us.

July 5, 2019...

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"Help me find the little bouncy pearl", granny urged
"rolled right through my enclosing palm
jumping the rolls and hillocks of the blankets
into the darkness under this bed!"
I scoured each nook and shadow to recover
the little bouncy pearl—the cod-liver oil pill!

Written on 06/05/2016 for Nette's contest "The Best of 6"
Visual #3...

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Through thick and thin I want to be
With you from this day forward,
The way you make me laugh and smile
Is nothing short of a sweet award

Your arms enclosing me so tight
Your kisses so gentle and kind,
To ever of thought you would come 
A miracle I was lucky to find

So on this day I am ecstatic to say
I love you more than words can speak,
The way your eyes shine up at me
Is a joy I hope to always see...

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the people are insane
and their all in chains
bonded to their fear or life
and I am one of them
the nights are long
and filled with pain
enclosing me in their arms of shame
theres no way out
no matter how hard I try
I can't find the key that will set me free
someone please help me
my freedom rots away
into an unknown feeling of decay
the end is near
I see it there
salvation is near
finally I can rest at last...

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a dizain

Admire her casting, lines of silky floss;
survey as artist drafts her masterpiece.
Enclosing space invisibly across,
then single-handedly, she will increase
the center parts to form unseen valise.
A purse of unsuspected, vicious taint -
its straps in hand, she naps - a wily feint.
Artistic beauty flows, but will soon ebb,
when tender insects clutter her restraint.
Artiste awakes to wealth within her web.

Nov. 17, 2010...

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God’s transforming might shows His faithfulness
Shining gloriously with His righteousness…
…Ready to create in me a clean heart
That obeys Him with joy-filled willingness.

God’s empowering love reveals His grace
Enclosing my soul in His care’s embrace…
…Enabling me to serve midst my frailty
Honoring Him devoid of self-pride’s trace.

Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

April 27, 2019...

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   jinxed souls i combat 
     each night laboriously~
       snorting loud on bed

       cognizant i lay
browsing mounds of ceaseless tasks~ 
      drifting in my brain

      fire flies breed in cheer
enclosing frame serenely~
      rouses my spirit
 
          i soar in night air
enthralling glimpses of stars~
       steering halts at dawn

cycles thirsty dreamy thoughts~
as i sail on boat with snorts

10 June 2023...

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