Short Flaring Poems

lurks in dark moist caves...
nostrils just above low waves
nest of gold she craves...

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Oh to have that luminescence 
Fathered by the incandescence 
Flaring in to effervescence
When you're up on stage. 

...

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Flocking birds of cloudy patterns
Preceded by dragons breathing,
Flaring lights burst bright
While streamers luminescence....

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Immaculate mind
Eager to play, more to win
Flaring with desire
To reveal the best cards first
Confident yours will not lose...

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to bad timing
again
as I watch you
squirm
within my flaring
presence
like a patient
wincing
at the sight of
another
needle primed to
jab....

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Traitor

She smiles,
her smile so bright
blinding me in its glare
 flaring out to cover
her  hands that crawl up my throat 
and throttle me to silence....

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Comets cut bedazzling streaks in time
with crescendos and solos divine.
Each meager planet probes with a wince
praying they don't fall within the pinch....

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Flashing
Clashing
Hurting my eyes.
Glaring
Flaring
A chaotic surprise.
Pounding 
Bounding
Bursting with vigor
Dancing
Prancing
Getting bigger and bigger....

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Lively and fun we danced with love and caring
With flowers in our hair and ribbons flaring
With music blasting and barefooted feet
We promptly declared  May first is sweet!...

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C-lear
H-eaven
A-bove
R-eemerges
I-n
T-winkle
A-s

F-laring
L-ight
O-f
R-ays
E-mits
S-hine

Topic: Birthday of Charita Flores (January 01)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Sun
Burns, hot, Solar
Flaring, blazing, raging
Mystically, calming, lesser
Lightly shining White
Moon




3/6/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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M ystical flaring~~~
 ~~~of body and soul
A lluring oneness~~~
~~~not broken but whole
T ime lies unmeasured~~~
 ~~~in torrid embrace
E xquisite rapture~~~ 
~~~shines out from each face

Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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A Cold arrow
Puts "me" through
Then, turns to be warming up,
And flaring

It must be made so by my blood
And  my spirit

And what "Me" is supposed to mean then?
A melting pot? 
A zero point of a coordinate?
No!  It means that "Me" IS just a target....

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I can't stop smoking
My soul is on fire..
My nightmares too are flaring
But I know the devil is a liar
 
My empty pockets full of green
Oh how I wish I could drink like a tree
Instead of dissolving in this golden unclean
So I could grow to be a hundred or three...

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azalea blossoms
fuchsia, pink, white, red --
bees are buzzing

hummingbird flutters
near backyard feeder--
hello again

pollen in the air
allergies are flaring--
warmer days and nights

4/17/21
For M.L. Kiser's
Spring Haiku sequence contest...

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Sun
Starry
Way up there
Almost a dot
Far above my head
Bright and flaring hot
Bigger than the world twice
Farther than your grandma's house
Circling and spinning, orbiting,
A massive ball of white hot blue flame,
Who knows, it may be out, and we just don't know....

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For all murdered children


That’s this night.
A flame is flaring up hardly.
A box of matches. Does it still
Indeed exist?
And a candle.
I forget to count
(not the cries – the tries
of the waken up sense)
the stars that are falling…
Lambs 
one
… two
… three...

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Hair the shade of fire
Flaring like a spire
Over the sad space
Of her gypsy face:
Candle colored red
Burning down and dead.

Candle in a breeze
Of eternities,
Edna flickered faint,
Charring like some martyred saint
Scarlet at the stake,
Embered… for art’s sake....

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Hearts pounding, alarms sounding 
  Threats abounding 

Tempers flaring, horns blaring
  Demons swearing

Pulses thrumming, fingers drumming
  Epiphany coming
   
Pressure soaring, oceans roaring 
  Combatants warring

Ho-Hum -- Another Day
  In Electronic Paradise...

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Kicking up pillows of dust
   in desert dry
      depleted of hope
In his magnificence
he prances
    stomping
        bucking
unrestrained
17 hands raw
    black as death
nostrils flaring
fire eyes raving
    muscles taut in
anticipation
of the continuous climb
...... back...

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Mounds of papers, ragged, uneven as if elbows flaring at angles severe
   Pens akimbo, dog-eared reminders, fading memorabilia
You-Name-It was all piled there only yesterday, only yesterday
   
Somehow dumpier now that it's been stripped bare of
   What gave it character, its empty drawers ajar...

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Fairy lights of insects
        Fascinate the senses
                 Flaring in the nighttime 
                             Feel the magic moment 
                 Filagree wings in flight
         Flitting in a bright dance
Free flow sparks of wonder.










Written on 9/12/2023...

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fondness flared in a flicker of fashion
feathered flight flirtation
and discover the darker depths
to dance in the delight of a dream
abounding aroma of the array
amazing aura in the air
in silent spirituality, serenity
slices of strangulation suspended
 
Written: December 11, 2022...

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Leaves on a Japanese Maple
dance auburn in the wind
remind me of that mother

crossing Michigan Avenue
before the light changes
one hand on her buggy

the other on her little boy
wind in her auburn hair
a long pennant flaring

telling all of Chicago
it's Spring, by gosh!
it’s finally here


Donal Mahoney...

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She has fire breathing hair
I did not know what he meant
Until a bonfire began popping and flaring toward me
Her hair looked like an inferno
Tangerines, corals, oranges, 
Moving like snakes, enticing me
Mesmerizing me.
I will never forget her hair.
It was the wildest I had ever seen.
I truly wished I had hair like this....

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