Short Fringed Poems

Fringed by colored trees,
The passage up the mountain;
Calico Autumn....

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my first set of wheels
fringed out handle bars with horn
little red bicycle...

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Fragile pine sapling
Green rising from brittle leaves
Pure fringed refreshment...

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Dancers they call themselves.
Exotically they bend.
Money fringed hips swaying.
Dollars for dancing?...

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we wore fringed vests, the love beads
the long hair, the hair bands, the granny glasses
the flowing clothes, the bell bottoms
a fantastic time, the memories of my youth...

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1960 superheroes
arrived inside our grayscale tvs
sporting fringed jackets, leather chaps, and stars on their chests
we knew they were the good guys
the bad guys wore black hats...

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fringed rifts tear
aside a curtain
ragged with light 
stage is prepared
soft murmurs
grow into roars
voice raises to
a deafening scream
that erupts and whips
waters with
thundering applause...

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ruffled parrots bloom

wind brushes soft fringed feathers

july clips their pink wings




(June 2nd, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin USA)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,...

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Vibrant Blue bird,  on weary wings – regales us all when it sings
Steaming calves, on wobbly legs – for mother’s milk their nudge begs
Buds fringed in green, on barren stem – we anticipate spring with each of them...

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echo 
in the mind
images 
   converge
blur deline

glass 
 smoked  
blind
in
shapes 
  imagined 
in
esoteric haze

light bright
 tones
soften 
& shade 
colours 
 seared
 in shadows 
fringed
 lightly 
  tinged...

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Fringed by putrescent dusk
Fingernails dig beneath graveyard wounds
Fostered by lexical warfare
Within the harrowing fiascos of tomorrow
Nothing but bated memories
Braided by skin, coffee, and cigarettes
Branded by concrete whispers...

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Secret lanes spiral 
taunting mystic ramblers whose
fantasies spur restless feet
to wander dream plots
that shift like sands to driven 
Psyches on infinite quests 
for sheds or shelters 
in misty vales fringed by lush 
fields tantalisingly close...

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Inspirations echo in the mind
Images converge,blur,deline
In glass,smoked lightly blind;
Shapes imagined erase
In esoteric haze
Where light bright tones
Soften and shade in foreground was;
Colours sear in shadows fringed
In glass,smoked lightly tinged....

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Inspirations echo in the mind Images converge,blur,deline in glass,smoked lightly blind;Shapes imagined erase in esoteric haze where light bright tones soften and shade colours sear in shadows fringed in ,smoked ,lightly tinged.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

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calm
placid
clear blue lake
serene and still
in a wide palm-fringed
rich green verdant valley

mother duck leads and swims
in the tranquil lake
ducklings white, soft
follow her
one by
one


Date: 08/19/2021
For Merse Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury...

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My closest friends, who number three
I heed not thus for loyalty
and neither camaraderie 
but simply in proximity

They live not down my alleyway
nor porch, nor in my house per se
but underneath my fringed toupee
they're in my head, well stowed away

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fringed rifts tear
aside a curtain
ragged with light 
stage is prepared
soft murmurs
grow into roars
voice raises to
a deafening scream
that erupts and whips
waters with
thundering applause 

***

September 10, 2017
Copyright © Darren White

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Gave Shark catnip and he turned into a hippie
Took me straight back to the seventies
Put on his fur vest and fringed headband
Made the peace sign with his paws
Became morbidly mellow
Docile, chilled, rolled onto his back
Soaked up the sun with his tongue hanging out
A happy addict...

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JONQUIL

You may know me as Jonquil
My cousins are daffodil and narcissus
A fringed cup surrounded by petals 
Each combining white with yellow
The latter, a hue with my own name
And I’m perfumed, but they are not
Distinctive yet I shouldn’t be proud
As amaryllis, we are all still family 
...

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Fringed by lofty mountains
Pristine lakes serene
Silver sprays of fountains
Forests lush green

Pristine lakes serene
Bathed in moonlight glow
Forests lush green
where meandering rivers flow

Bathed in moonlight glow
Silver sprays of fountain
Where meandering rivers flow
Fringed by lofty mountains....

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*Image of Peacock Bird Colorful by Pixabay.

Peacocks Patterned Purpose

Oft they climb in greens and blues,
Ere fan their fringed spring timed hues,
Spread quills to reach their meant souls,
E'er sought plumes to win mates' views.

2020 March 09     
*1st Place*
Let the Pens Flow - Jueju
~~Jenish Somadas: Judged 2020 April 02...

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you wear skin but
it doesn't fit
not even when you grow a bit
it's tangled, battle-worn
frazzled and fringed
mangled and torn

you wonder, if you're caught by fire
will it burn you whole
will you survive

within you are a tree
hollow heart
scars so deep

but roots so strong
that wait for rain
and sprout in spring

Darren White, October 18 2018...

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Yesterday delightful. Sixty degrees.
Could have warmed us up.

I hid in the house, frightened by the love of it.

Today I am sitting in my yard, wearing zebra pajamas.
A zip up suit with a pink fringed hood and a tail.
The tail is not comfortable, but cute.

The wind is brisk, almost too much so.
I do not care.
I am content.

Soaking up nature’s offerings....

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Just before dawn
Basking in solitude
A Doe and her fawn
Delicately intrude

A crunch of leaves
Beneath legs of sticks
Mother Nature breathes
A chilly morning fix

Pumpkin spice 
Cappuccino 
This is the life
I'm glad to know

Sweater shawl
Fringed tips
All in all
A lovely glimpse

A portion of life
Too often missed
When dawn is ripe
My soul is kissed...

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The late December air rings
with the silence
crisp and chill.

Oceans of drifted, white, snow
crest barn doors and windows.

Frosted panes 
sheets of crystalline parchment 
roll, perforated like strips of ribbon candy
from tin roofs as
icicles hang from gutters 
fringed like shawls.

The sharp snap of branches 
masks the bark of distant dogs....

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