Short Fibrous Poems

Rigid wings settle
jackdaws fibrous feathers fold
Sky smoldering grey...

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emerald meadow
rich plush svelte fibrous carpet
cheap trite sheep fodder...

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Luscious fibrous crunch,

                                       juicy crispy nectar sweet.

                                        A gift picked from trees....

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I look like a Pope's cap, hence my name
Encased in a fit and firm, fibrous frame
My large hands clap
To the great pump's tap
I keep blood flowing, as that is my aim...

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lumpy
pear-shaped
bright green
quince

fibrous
sour
needs honey or sugar
jelly is great

contains antioxidants
helps manage pregnancy nausea
loving the sourness
thank you orchard
for putting quince into my path...

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Once ravaged, souls salvaged
haunt savaged:
nostalgic for magic
in tragic
dreams psychotic, script agnostic
by despotic
lies chivalrous (shed fibrous
force frivolous)
to begin, my chagrin.
Our coffin
tailspin
plans covertly
to pervert
or convert....

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goat-throat spittle…
clippety-clop baaaah
petting zoo aggression?

coiled haunch with head hung low
fibrous horns poised…
charge! crack! thud!

empty victories
beget
sad kings

weary actors on dusty stage
same lines
same script

strange skulls
hiding
glass-blank eyes

quiet ghosts
never
forget...

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Hybrid seed planted on rocky ledge
Shallow shoots baring tomorrow's dreams
Sunny vistas lure fragile roots to the edge
Clouded visions hover distilled with availing streams
Prevailing winds scour surface, growing strains hedge
Cool, night air shivers; a paring frost rends fibrous seams
Blighting fears preen stalk but fealty's sustenance cannot dredge
Morn's warming rays on your fortified residual gleams...

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Then crept night across the pond
Casting shadows on greying
Weatherboard; like sullen ghosts
Those leafless talons grasping
Stretching like dying fibrous fingers
Still the pond chilled and trapped
Caught those splinters of the moon
And thrust them like sparks
From a struggling ember
Until the warmth was smothered
And the shadows crept back
Toward the dawn.

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Cold
Tearing through pores and holes
Cold
Steering conditions
Uh!Fever
I run and I run
Seeking for warmth
More than the umpteenth time
Yet,it's cold
The first layer fibrous and rough
Sheaved under the guise of warmth
The second and third
Invokes hunger of want
But,it's strength increased
Ferociously it tore my navel
My strength,my weakness lashed together in a second
Gently I crawled into the bosom of warmth
Soft hands hisses like fire
Consumed my ravaged body...

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