Short Festoon Poems

Flowers of beauty with the heart
festoon the gestures we impart...

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Blackberry lilies festoon,  primroses flourish under bush, sea aster’s nectar for red admiral...

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The earth forbids it, only to festoon it  
                         with a beautiful ribbon of craving...

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Days of 
infant passage 
festoon album
past blissful mirth lingers 
yet future snapshots beckon
Don’t forget!...

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Pictures
of bliss festoon 
dream field journal
with green moss clad trails of
stunning dawn glow junkets through
mists of time!...

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one month after june 
       an eagle lands on the moon
         stars and stripes festoon 
        was sunday late afternoon 
   neil the buzz and mankind swoon 

By David Kavanagh...

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So far, I tried apple a la mode
Trained my tongue to catch sugar's festoon
Upon tines, losing sweets I was owed
A fork won't cork my dessert boon
Now I eat my pie with a spoon.

11/26/19...

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Sensations tingling up the spine
as heaving emotions re-align

Flowers of beauty within the heart
festoon the gestures they impart

On the trail of nows-broken vows
echo to a distant horizon...

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I danced with you beneath the blue moon 
swiveling around you like a garland festoon 
blue unicorns pranced, a flower bloomed 
wiggling round words that you crooned

July 25, 2021...

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A sprinkle of night magic 
by a purple moon 
wings of valiant beauty
getting ready to festoon 

Fairy dust and fantasy 
wanders of the fawning night 
tiny feet light as air 
tracing out the morning light....

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He made me the centre of gravity.

Pride dressed, lone like blood moon

Whose deserted home became vanity

Did I become evil or was I rune?

Greater insight and realized sanity,

I was the diamond his life festoon....

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Flowers of beauty with the heart
festoon the gestures we impart

NOTE:Crystalline is A two line image poem, (created by Denis Garison) often with a title, in which euphony is the key factor. Each line may have 8 or 9 syllables to make a total of seventeen....

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Oh, garden of exotic night

    my flesh inhales its luscious tunes;

      when summer drifts, raw blooms excite

  kisses wild as the lilting moon,

      enchanting July’s glazed festoon!



Sara Kendrick's Five Lines/ Metaphors And Simile
6/25/2015...

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On the coldest nights, when the air and land conspire
And the winds sing their siren's serenade of desire
An unbecoming part inside causes me to rise
And festoon my frame with my most festive attire
To step outside for a walk  

A silent stroll amidst the hidden horrors of the times...

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This day soars, refreshingly 
Floating in umber modesty
Mewling boisterously, in jollity 
While, harvest colors blink 
Tragically in shades of pink 
Afternoon progresses in happiness
From there on, the evening moon 
Shines in bright, yellow incandesce
As nightfall settles over sky festoon...

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Under shades of green, dappled trees
Hued monarchs invite birds to croon
A tweet of love songs for May’s trapeze;
Plumes spreading like a laced festoon
To wander off, then back to swoon! 


A Spring Day in English Quintain
Sponsor: Francine Roberts
by nette onclaud   ~ 5/3/2014...

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pennyroyal festoon in full bloom —
her English garden plush.

he’s dying to imbibe.
she foresees a crime.

mint feint
tea taint

“sip up darl’n
have a cup
or two”

his purple lips,
pursed,
ready for the kill.

she smiles and winks
as he lies still.

8/30/2019...

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Oh Halloween babe
born under October's moon
weave with forlornment
your bewitching adornment
of a harvest leaf festoon.

Faces in pumpkins
awake memories of when
the children were young;
and "Trick-or-Treat!" rung
the holiday season in.

Scorpio woman
wipe away your wistful tear
and tend to the craft
of your birthday draught
to toast your forty-first year....

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Shrieks of seagulls die on the breeze;
Childhood ebbs away on sunlit seas.

The stream where pooh sticks once were raced
now flows into memory's embrace

Flowers of beauty with the heart
festoon the gestures we impart

Flowers of beauty with the heart
festoon the gestures we impart

Sunset peeping under a cloud
cloaks the landscape in a scarlet shroud...

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You remember in photographs, usually
And my keys, wallet, phone are not in safe places 
My mismatched socks festoon the living room 
And snuggle in next to your dishes filled with yesterday’s bones
And sometimes drifts of dog snow tumble through our kitchen 
Catching around the legs of chairs 
You the early riser, sometimes me
Either way with protestations and coffees 
In the imperfect light...

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flaming rainbow aloft, 
starlight galaxy festoon 
once an iron sky, 

Tempest equinox, 
sparks shall on them descend, 
foreshadowed co lours reign force 

defy justify defy 

Coiled snake, rabid tongue, sermon revoked 

preach not your cruel co lours 
delivered unto me true co lours

Red and blue embers twisted hypocrite burns 
soul restored, recaptured spirit in purple

...this co lour my courage deserves......

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Flowers festoon the streets of pain
The media is saying here comes political gain
There are ‘situations’ and ‘incidents’ so they say
They wheel out a spokesman whoevers flavour of the day
Try to deliver bad news with a celebrity sparkle
Doesn’t help the ‘situation’ from becoming a debacle
Promises are made in the debris of life
Cuts very deep like a social knife
‘heard it before’ shouts a voice from the crowd
Another joins in social justice got loud...

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Flowers festoon the streets of pain
The media is saying here comes political gain
There are ‘situations’ and ‘incidents’ so they say
They wheel out a spokesman who ever is flavour of the day
Try to deliver bad news with a celebrity sparkle
Doesn’t help the ‘situation’ from becoming a debacle
Promises are made in the debris of life
Cuts very deep like a social knife
‘Heard it before’ shouts a voice from the crowd
Another joins in social justice got loud...

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