Short Encroaches Poems

The light lingers not
Amber hues of autumn fade
Winter encroaches...

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Daily Hibernation
Day's Conclusion -  Moon,
Warm Blankets Beckons You In,
Morning Encroaches Too Soon....

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Cloudy Day
Unfulfilled Dreams
Shuttered soul

Twilight encroaches
Fading Hope
Eclipsed heart

Dark Night
Steady rain
Flooded spirit...

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 the Dark encroaches
frightening fears
smothering heart beats
ending now



Deaths beginning
near
Final


-For Dr. Ram Mehta's "Septolet" contest.
Tim Bryant...

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In the land of Armenia, Christians face death each day
The Land of Azerbajan, encroaches and causes affray
A line of troops however hold, the opposing sides at bay
It suprised  my mind to know (they are not from un or USA.'...

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Brightness fading
Time takes its toll

Green encroaches the outer shell
Putrid smells clouding heads

Weak and beaten 
Lifeless and broken
Structure deteriorating 

One last adventure 
A final memory 

Boxes waiting to be filled
A final resting place...

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Is there a world where time ceases
And your scent encroaches on the stillness 
between
its frames…
If time it be that counsels chills
to rail against the elegance of moonlight,
then time it is, 
that sounds a wail when daylight hides…
and you don’t stay...

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Where she walked no flowers bloomed
her only company the waning moon
The buds withdrew and shook with fright
even trees dropped their leaves when she came into sight

And as this woman, on nature's privacy encroaches 
the wildlife whispers “Lady Winter approaches”...

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Waltzing ‘mongst the redwoods she now meanders
Shyly smiling, candid in guileless virtue
Feeling carefree, gleeful, of threats unwary...
Progress encroaches.


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Sapphic Stanza Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula

© 21st January 2019...

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The sun is up, heat unbearable,
He stands there rejected and miserable,
Slowly hope he loses,
as every potential buyer refuses.
His goods remain unsold,
His misery untold.
Swiftly the night approaches,
And his hunger encroaches.
He packs up and leaves,
Despite everything, he calmly sleeps......

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Endings starting
Leaves are turning
Grass starts browning with
Furnaces burning.
Colder weather
As to focus,
Deeper feelings in
Shallow harvest.
Briskly, daunting
Haunting Spirits
Barren-halled reckonings as
Frost encroaches.
Verdure withered but
Perhaps a good Word;
forgotten pasts buried
In the stillness of the earth....

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Assaulted by man and machine,
Intertwining branches of pristine woods
Form a brave barrier.

A paved path,
Line of demarcation,
Divides Nature from civilization.

The truce is uneasy;
The detritus of man
Encroaches upon the boundary.

Thus man defiles the very sanctuary
He spiritually needs,
Diminishing himself in the eyes of the gods....

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Quiet vicissitudes on a lonely shore. 

Memories fading with age as the family home crumbles.

It sits alone, abandoned, on it's now private island as the ocean continually encroaches with time.

Nothing left but photographs to prove to the world it was here as a storm crashes overhead.

With one final gulp a once happy home relinquishes itself to the watery abyss....

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The sun kissed glow of summer
Slowly melts away like plastic
In blazing fire
And autumns rotting beauty 
encroaches
Holding dismal promise
Of nothing but desolate, cold 
silence
That will surely come with 
Winters stinging sweet kiss
Devoid of life and colour
The seasons wither away
As the Reaper's shadow
Sweeps across the land

By Morgan Mise
Written February 4,2013...

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Blue ocean vistas
Rainforest encroaches down
Tree roots over stone
Vines reach, wind, twine and climb
Clutching trees that cradle them

Burleigh Heads beach path
Pandanus groves, mangroves
Strange variety
Spiky bushes, towering trees
Tiny flowers underfoot

Raggy  paperbarks,
Log bridge, white sand, shallow creek
Invisible birds give song
Each day travel the same path
Only to find it diff’rent....

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Net like fog covers crevices
Encroaches upon daylight
Delayed light waits to break horizon
Ending fog's gripping might

In the fog there is this sense of
Solitude entertained
As crickets chatter to their neighbor
And roosters' crows remain

A sense of peace settles and feeds
The  spirit  is  nourished. 
Quietness deepens a sense of worth
In stillness a spirit can flourish 

Finis...

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In the absence of need

 the chasm of difference encroaches

but love fires heed

 

True love can't be bought

yes, you can rent a lover, however

this is not the way life's lessons are taught

 

In each other's emotional struggle

we get to harry one another

black and white, colours,  toggle

 

Remnants of native natures

grate our nerves yet grade the season

of true love, man and woman are from different cultures...

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I see the colours, black and red, 
They speak to me, this is what they said:

I am fire, burning so bright.
I am wisdom, like the night. 

I am birth, and I am death. 
But neither one of us does contest. 

For we are one, like sky and sun,
And we are separate, we’re undone. 

The Phoenix rising like the moon, 
Immortal being, it is immune. 

Darkness encroaches all around,
But light shall always be found....

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When i close my eyes to sleep
Will there be light in them tomorrow
When they close for evermore
Then no one will know my sorrow

As every day encroaches
My eyes grow more tired every day
When they close for evermore
Will i be around to see them say

When it happens will i realise
That daylight becomes eternal night
When they close for evermore
And when they do, will i regain my sight




http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/life-7.php...

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Fond of the Koalas and scared of the roaches
                             She was shot to the land of Koalaroaches 
                                        First thing she could do
                                           Bopeep peekaboo  
                          Koalas said "hey buddies someone encroaches"      











                                   Land of Koalaroaches: Limerick
                                            17 November 2014...

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It’s Siblings Day for those of us
Attached by blood to others,
Relationships important as
The ones to dads or mothers.

Our sibs may be supportive
And a key to our survival
Or possibly competitive,
The classic “sibling rival.”

We might be close while growing up
And drift as we get older
Or bond as age encroaches
And we seek a lean-on shoulder.

But whether we’re in contact
Or are lacking in affection,
Our circumstance of birth provides
A permanent connection....

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somehow caught between the lines
of fantasy and of fact
a mind that wanders aimlessly
or has seriously gone off track

these shards of recognition
from these dreams that I replay
the angles blurred and twisted
still I long for the end of day

in fantasy you wait for me
your strong arms opened wide
a love that I can cling to
a place for me to hide

but dreams have a way of ending
when the sun rises in the east
and fantasy fades to memory
as the day encroaches on me...

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Her embedded dialect,
Savored

I become a speechless stanza,
Craving her conjugated inhales

Hopped up grins,
Engorge momentary lapse of pre-judgments

Grandfathered seconds pass my retinas with
3rd eye epiphanies, 
As she encroaches my textured tomorrows

How do I fly upon this gifted morn
When her lily-coated grins placate my Gaia wings,
Without uncertainty’s scorn

How do I breathe new breaths,
When her articulated verbs
Conjugate my silence

…

©Drake J. Eszes...

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