Short Encroaching Poems

calamondin eyes
hypnotise encroaching prey
sucker pads advance...

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Weed Whacker

I whack the weeds
and free their seeds
then fertilize
as seedlings breed
encroaching on
the flower bed
forgive me Lord
I wish them dead!!

John G. Lawless
7/9/2014...

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encroaching
my conscience
neighbour's grapes


Published @ Wild Plum Haiku Journal      
Fall & Winter 2017 Issue...

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latched to hope
she patiently waits 
for his love and warmth…
chilly night 
approaches

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© Paul Callus ~ 4th February 2017...

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Encroaching woodland intoxicated

White Heliotrope pervades

Passions spent overall
















Name : Theresa Stephens
Contest Title: In Praise of Kimo
Dated: 2/19/15
Image: 3...

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Avoid becoming concrete.
Death encroaching
freezes great hearts.
Illuminate joy.
Kindle love.
Magnify!
Never orally
practice quaint
rhetoric. Speak truths.
usurp violent waters.
X-ray your zenith....

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A Cimmerian hue overlaps
The thoughts encroaching my psyche
They seem to harvest labyrinthine symmetries
Of which I covet
It matters not the appositeness
The unidentified may bear
For by passages of valor I transcend...

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Silence 
           corrupt, thunderstruck 
     deafening, advancing, startling 
   Ocean, Words, Awareness, Storms
    quieting, encroaching, shocking 
             heinous, electric 
                    Noise....

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Melancholy should belittle gloomed sentiment coursing amongst my veins
Depression’s spontaneity constricts thy soul
Wearily fighting encroaching tears
Lend me a hand, heart, or prayer
(It’s not an easy road America)...

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But for that crazy, ill-conceived bidet,     
I'd say using a loo is serious business.    
Darn it, think of a sudden April shower      
Encroaching upon your pretty posterior,      
Tickling it, the nearest thing to heaven!...

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Of the earth,
Mahogany hue,
Simple plan,
Swathed
In morning dew.
Unadorned husk,
Natural beauty dwells,
Radiant spells,
As encroaching dusk,
Dawn’s a new day,
Appendages beat their first,
Luster and splendor burst
And true colors
Ascend....

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DEEP LOVE
alongside
  reputation
shattered
in meticulous
 focus
  a hazard
embroidered
consciously

 inspiration
endless
encroaching
on the wanderlust
 catalysing
the passionate
 it merited.
abstracted
 realities
 easily
distracted...

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Escapism beside the water’s edge, as misty dawn awakes 
Great crested grebes, dressed to impress, elegantly pass me by ~ 
I took the bait – gullibly distracted from encroaching on their morning feast.


15.10.19
F F I series 29 sijo  - Brian Strand...

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I feel
the encroaching
necrosis settling in,
as the shadows finger their way
toward the growing twilight, etching my mind,
endless scratching with no escape!
It’s closing in on me,
this demon heart
I feel!


10/31/2017...

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Icebergs in the Antarctic and Arctic are menacingly melting,
Mud slides, freezing Winters, summers are sweltering,
Oceans are encroaching, drowning Earth, 
Rainfalls severe across its girth and dearth,
End of humanity, a dire situation globally threatening....

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I am confined in four walls in summer afternoons.
I am desperate to go out but 
the encroaching heat halts me.
Now, I can understand,
 the wiggling and plight of an innocent bird ,
who wants to conquer the sky, 
but forced to an enclosure.
Happy Environment Day!!
05/06/2019...

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I am both a robinia
and willow o the wisp
I've prolonged my growth
my roots washed down by the tropical rain
I've counted my loss
no stems on release
Who give me comfort
when the bitter winds runneth
Who will be my confident
for tomorrow's encroaching winds
avoiding tendrils bleak reflections...

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eggplant entity
encroaching or approaching?
earth moves slowly, unsure
whether to greet or run

eggplant entity
in all the solar systems
why did you choose this one?
have you always been here?

eggplant entity
you are gorgeous
know if we run, it is due to fear
not because we do not love you...

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Flawed,
death will not end the pain
of words :

let me, not
bury them, encroaching
upon the meaning –

for a rusted
consequence, a truth
was left on the road.

This was evening
of a rose
after the birth of an angel,

accepting nothing after
the first denial
like a new lie.



Satish Verma...

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Flawed,
death will not end the pain
of words :

let me, not
bury them, encroaching
upon the meaning –

for a rusted
consequence, a truth
was left on the road.

This was evening
of a rose
after the birth of an angel,

accepting nothing after
the first denial
like a new lie.



Satish Verma...

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the tree ensconce in ice will fare bravely today as always nature takes over for centuries
and the mere imagination of men nothing to compare to the force of the unknown
a sphinx guarding the pyramids just a mirage of the past
as a kite flying the sky for a minute is only a plastic bag encroaching its branches...

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words are wasted on the wise
drowned in light within our eyes
upward bound we find our lives
downward spiral does deprive
searching within for signs of hope
we find inside we cannot cope
lost inside our minds we find
darkness comes, we're going blind
hope never found inside our head
we find encroaching darkness there instead...

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Speak of it not,
think of it not,
lest regrets may 
cloud the failing light,
and weariness
a shroud becomes.
This little thing,
once proud in love and lust,
now hides its face
and soon it will be dust.
Gone is the lustre
and delight
of fond imaginings,
as shadows deepening 
enfold what once
seemed ever bright,
impervious to
encroaching night....

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Alas Christmas Day is fast approaching,
With fluffy white snow and chill encroaching,
And all we could do is dream of kissing,
With pandemic, all the bliss I'm missing.

Should we go and buy some green mistletoe?
It would be void, we'll miss all afterglow.
So with thick masks to protect our faces
We can only pray and hope for graces.


Just passing 
the time away....

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Wisteria winding along its trunk,
weaving a way to the sun —
squinting with anticipation.

The tree wrapped tight —
squeezed with a wisteria boa.
His only escape is to embrace the sun.

Onlookers comment at the beauty of
his arthritic knuckles and knotty trunk.

The ancient tree barely breathes,
as gathering kith and kin think him wise,

before he turns to dust.

9/24/2019...

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