Short Enrobed Poems

GOLD MINES

It is not far away nor is it near
Its treasures are lost because of fear

Where men of the time are fully made
Gladiators are they without blood or frail

Where can it be that I mayest see
O! My mind enrobed in majesty...

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Longing to possess
belongings of fellowman.
Perfidious unseen want
enrobed in sweetness.
Treachery rooted deep down.
Stealing begins in the heart.


One of The Seven Deadly Sins ' Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh 

October 16, 2018
(Matthew 15:19)...

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The golden chair of opulence
Seats a stately emperor,
Enrobed in royal purple hue
Of lichen moss that shrouds his bones from view.

And yet he holds you in his thrall,
Millennia since he has lived, 
You bow before his exhumed throne,
And kiss, in fealty, his toe of bone....

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Eden
 
Early bloom the yellows of spring,
ending the gray of winter’s bane;
entwined vines of columbines cling,
enthralled by silver drops of rain.

Enrobed in colors fresh and green,
ensconced in nature’s arms serene…
Eden hums as nightingales sing. 




06-06-2018

Contest:     Pleiades Poetry Contest
Sponsor:    Joseph May
Placement:  2nd...

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Altar of Repose

A life of partial compose
Born of barren prose
My time enrobed
In borrowed yoke
Mid the insurrection
I pray for divine intervention
And grip the splintered cross of resurrection
My sins of number and fashion
Seeking refuge in the arms of compassion
At the altar of repose
I genuflect 
Sans regret
And hold vigil
For redemption's virgin

Pamela Miller...

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Your face is map enough for me

Your gaze,your smile,your frown,your glee.

And if I want to know the rest

The shape your posture’s made is best

For showing what your life is now.

A look,a gesture,all this show.

Till all you are is then disclosed

And I am in your arms enrobed.

Love vanishes when analysed,

And thinking too’ by Love’s despised

Use the means to fit the end

And then I’ll be what you intend....

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The scent of Eagles
Shortly after hate-filled
Cantations
Drives you vertically insane

Nearly touching utopia
Engulfed in flames
Your editor suggested options

Including uncovering cemetery
Ashtrays enrobed in trace-water
Marble

Unforgiving
Even joyful        I concede

Your mouth dripping fresh-picked
Strawberries

While antediluvian rainbows
March towards certain death
Or nirvana
You
Said

As phases of the
Moon
Dictate


6/20/15
© james marshall goff...

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