Short Filaments Poems

filaments in ferment - the elements touch base...

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Wind
blown
spider
filaments
riding on the breeze-
ballooning on a world wide web....

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Blurred distortions,smeared stirrings
put aside to make an extract in
filaments of primal abstractions.
Restless movements dripping,drop
by drop into pure fields of bliss...

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  In the shadow
  Where all the pieces be
  Laid out
  For the world to see
  Connected parts of thought
  Filaments joined tenuously
  Bits created
  Flightiness
  
...

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bound and tethered
held strong with grievous filaments
i struggled not
feeling the futility
and the masterful illusion of my jaundiced mind
she holds me captive
on the turntable of despair...

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A family picnic outing on the lawn,
Granny’s hair like dandelions in sun – 
silver filaments, a childhood toy.
A puff of breath, the seedlets fly
the way the morning’s breeze has gone.
Memories wind-borne on the sky....

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patterns of matter -
galactic filaments play
follow the leader

gravity's dark wells -
black holes, leaking infrared,
can't keep a secret

"play it again Sam -"
starry exodus gains speed
cosmos self-defined

Brian Johnston
March 27, 2017...

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The wind from the south,
as rich as whispered voices,
nudges my heartstrings to roam
those timeworn keepsake places;
espying aged filaments of true hope,
numbered and nearly as delicate
as a man hungering
for the once familiar perfume
of old-fashioned hymns....

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When you and I were one, 
A lifetime of joy cached, 
Us dancing neath the sun
With passion unabashed, 
Fond filaments finespun, 
Golden memories stashed. 



1st February 2023

 For Line Gauthier's "Bite Size Contest No. 60"...

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We sit in the back
against the forest in April
at the border of Spring. She is
still sad as the dusk gathers
and will probably remain so.
I watch the filaments 
in the trees get finer,
uncountable threads of shadow,
nets of shadow, lace, and the
catching webs of vine,
thinner and finer until we
fall into darkness....

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The traffic, always busy,
Seemingly streams smoothly
Slithering through unsupervised
Synaptic stop signs,
Thoughts colliding with ideas
Arriving at synchronistic solutions
Within the cranial carnival side show
High fiving the flirtatious filaments
Of belief’s flickering flames
The carnage of conscience
Waiting for the light to change....

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life on the edge
of a thread
suspended from a network
of interlocking filaments
bound by triangulated interstices
woven by a master of deception
integrated into his lair
lying in wait
patient vigilant and aware
of what disturbs motion
intersects light
ever ready to ensnare the unaware
who venture into the transparent maze
suspended mid-air...

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Listen to poem:

(Another childhood poem.)



Filaments tightly woven,

a chrysalis cradles me,

deflects the dangers;

it is an armored womb,

bright and hard.

Loosely woven,

a web imprisons me;

struggles snare me firmly

in these threads.

What weaves this armor

and this trap?

It is I --

I am the spider,

and the potential

butterfly....

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Invested was what seemed like infinity
There I was peering at such iconic symbolism
Indefinite filaments of unprecedented passion ascend
I battle to suppress said ardor though perpetually it heightens
Each time her face shall surface in the sanctuary that comprises my reveries
Sacrificed I am to perish within her sexy, inviting aroma
That illustrates my voracious carnality...

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The wind from the south,
as rich as whispered voices,
nudges my heartstrings to roam
those timeworn keepsake places;
espying aged filaments of true hope,
numbered and nearly as delicate
as a man hungering
for the once familiar perfume
of old-fashioned hymns.


For: Absolutely Anything Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Shreya LN
Originally published as "Keepsake," October 2021...

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Oh I sit on my moonlit terrace
As the wind whisks with a tender graze,
As the stars burn, oh light-years away
To their silent harmony, I sway.
In the coolness of the night,
In the alluring raven sight,
In my balmy blushing cheek,
I find the peace, I oh so dearly seek!
My soul stretches near and afar;
Thoughts spilling forth from the jar,
Trailing filaments of long entwined
Philosophy of a probing mind....

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one foot then another 
emerges from the capsule

the bloated figure
floats onto the barren crater

each small step creates a new footprint 
on the dry beach

he beholds the earth
the fragile ornament 
hanging by a fishing line
from the tree of naught

the radio waves crash and crackle
behind the mask

the electric filaments leap
and flash back to Houston
where the men in black-framed glasses
shout for joy....

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Filtering filaments of shouting color
Dancing brilliant motes

Defining sunlight by crowding into invisible shafts
Reflecting hope and brilliance

Revealing resistance with every tiny fragment
Defying gravity to fly the final arc of existence
Catching the sun and revealing an unseen world

That every breath is defined by gauzy curtains of sustenance;
Should we be so dispassionate  that we inhale all this
Unknowing...

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A microscopic arachnid
tinier than a poppy seed
spins diminutive filaments
barely visible to the eye;
a spiral silk lacework deathtrap
for infinitesimal prey
strung high between white cornered walls
in a microcosmical world.
Is its existence more trifling
than mine that occupies more space?
Perhaps not, in the scheme of things:
my universe among the stars
is imperceptibly smaller
than this occupants’ in my room....

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Blinking Lights  
                      A light shines out loud
                                   Lightening bug fitters shines blinking
                      Caressing the rainbow behind  
                                           Element of filaments
                                   As evening dawns passes
                               Shadows of light over the grasses


                                   by James Edward Lee Sr....

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The phenomena’s of nature
are nurtured like a mother.
She never favors one over
another. Although her rose-child
may be her comeliest flower
she bestowed on sister sibling
blooms the sweetest scented perfumes.
Her spiders all weave their webs with
fine, sticky, silken filaments’
She gives potential prey a way
avoiding it with fitting wings
and legs. Then there are we who set
ourselves apart from her, only
to be reminded otherwise....

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At the wind's behest
 At the sun's command 
 Swarming worms infest 
 Legs and arms and hands

 Flesh from bone undressed 
 Withers in the sand
 Denser forms divest 
 Of filaments and strands

 As rigid limbs relax 
 Bound by sky and land 
 Mouth and throat contract 
 Chest and brain expand 

 Set free by their collapse 
 Fulfilled by new demands 
 Enshrined as they're enclasped 
 By rasping sea and sand 

 Written by © Raven Drake...

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Fragments of moment 
paddling swift and frenzy
through layers of present.
Filaments of passing time
wafting in evanescence
to get folded in the memory. 

Oh fragile life 
you are the remnants 
etched in the illusion
squeezing frail reality 
from misty ruckus
in mysetrous shade.

Beneath azure sky 
On the bank of transience
rest, numerous existence 
embedded with myraid dreams 
and shed desperate selves
as fireflies hugging flames.....

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Cactus Dancer 

Graceful spider dances on sharp cactus spikes
Spinnerets leave webs of dainty filigree 
Each web a masterpiece of sublime delights
Silk filaments wear dews as the moonlight flees
Eight tiny feet twirl over the spiny heights,
On prickly thorns leaves a magic feathery,
Mysterious craftsman spins the intricate
Cobweb sculptures spun in orbs magnificent

9-8-22
Contest: Ottava Rima
Sponsor: L Milton Hanks
Rhymes checked with www.rhyme zone...

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Poetry, extended lines
                 as musical notes
                   on the wires...
                    birds landed
                     in filaments
                       transmitting life...
                       lined poetry
                      guiding the work
                     of the poet...
                    impressive poem
                       composed by
                          blackbirds
                            and swallows... !...

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