Short Flattens Poems

The color gray
flattens itself
on the surface of a road.

The color gray
withholds a well-deserved
compliment.

The color gray, the usual
mundane excuse ...
a do-nothing color

doing nothing
in the face of an
impending color storm....

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Tui birdsong starts again, melodious warbling 
              bitter southerly wind still bites 
              sleet, horizontal and cold, flattens the daffodils
sudden rays of bright warm sunshine 
race over paddocks
              vivid green grass juxtaposes clear blue sky
Earth warms...

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The heart flattens out into words,
and it dies instantly on the page,
the tea is good but I resent the art
of bite sized Pavlova, apricot tarts.

Words
that should have lingered
a small while longer
are now bloated corpses.

The heart-
it's found no shore,
no safety
 and no place to save itself from 
drowning...

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Like a sheet blowing in the wind

Your hair flows gently

I feel your embrace with protection

Like the mother sparrow feeding her chick

The embrace nourishes

When the wind dies and goes where it goes

You gently tug my soul

It goes to where it's quiet and lingers

The sheet flattens

In that embrace I wait

Waiting is what matters in life...

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MISPLACED  APPRECIATION

Once more the irrepressible wind of spring nears,
Flattens the stalks of new copse shoots,
Drowns the  dryng roses with excessive  vernal  tears, 
Exposes the remains of snow drift roots.

We stand, heedless zombies, applauding
The  reckless destruction  and defeat
From Invisible muscles  of wayward spring -
Smiling automatically at its advancing  heat....

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air depression in ocean
thick cloud sucked by low pressure…
moisture billows up

hurricane is born
eye follows blindly the track …
land lacerated by fall

storm surge flattens things on way
flood drowns the ruins…
devastation batters lives

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December 12, 2022
Syllable count : 775, 577, 757 (HMS)
Contest : Triple New Charlieku
Sponsored by : Charles Messina...

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Cold and serene
a place of peace
Just a foggy flattens land
No more miseries.

The people ever thought
they are hopeful not to repeat
But the shadow is seen
It seems alien is hiding. 

Sooner or later they would appear
It is only hope that it would not
even the nature lost the guts
what is left just a plain hope of trust.


I love you peace. Let's sail together. Layag Sug! 
PPIA. 190415.3:02PM....

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Wandering down, the field flattens
Towards the darkened river.
The chestnut moves like a sail
Stands aloof in it setting.
Yellow canker caress the meadow,
Bees lunge into waiting flowers.
Smells of distant cows.

The dogs running around,
Guns on shoulders sounding
Across banks of soft fruit.
Dreams drifting like clouds,
Bounding countries that don’t exist
Lost in this mist, heading home
Peacefully until the stillness ceases

01.12.18...

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