Short Gapes Poems

nothing in its hand
nothing in its heart
nothing in its head
northwards Africa gapes...

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Lay me low
on a night like this,
when the moon gapes
and eyes me
whitely
whidely
widely
I want to end
drowning in the shimmer
of January skies....

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the mirrors and glasses can't help but falling
the tough and the mindless can't help but brawling
when earth's soul gapes through the looking glass
only pure spirits can protect it....

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Crystalline beetles
down the picket creep
over peeling paint
toward drought seared soil.

Thirsty gapes the maw
of August seasoned Earth
where weary little bugs
are welcomed home.

07/09/15...

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The abyss yawns and gapes,
Inside the blurry shapes
Of demons writhe and roll
And dance, upon your soul.
Beyond the inky space
Of Hell, there looms a space
Of silver stars, and blue
For you to stagger to....

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nothing in its hand
nothing in its heart
nothing in its head
northwards it gapes

what if the arctic melts
and corona car is offered
to transport your things

My brother, where will hide
with your elastic hands?...

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 sun spitting fire

hankering to be moistened,

the Earth gapes its mouth

dried up hearts thirst for love’s balm

that evaporates like steam.

Traditional Tanka with the rhyme scheme
5-7-5-7-7

Placed First
A Brian Strand Tanka Contest...

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My divine strength, shield my dismay 
Exult holly swiftness
Yield not to dull gloomy betray 
Creed gapes at lavishness
 
Yield the boon, not the bad
Dark source upward forbade
Let not soul dwells in cad

Lift lush roots faith
My divine strength...

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Like a bee, 
you wanted to land?
on the snapdragon’s,
curved lip.

Light years away?
a mouth gapes open;
you will not,
walk in.

A wrenching search,
for a home, where
you will not find
the violence.

A wax palace, you 
are invited to live in.
The dummies, abound,
without backbones.


Satish Verma...

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         His very bones smell of ocean
            beard lashed with its salt
         On land, rubber legs awkward
             he gapes and he gawks

         But rig him up a mast 
             billowy sails to go with it
         Prow boldly juts forward ~
             Thirty knots an hour, his ticket
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The Eagle

The eagle, sits and wait
like a thief, he gapes 
Not knowing, when he is going to strike
His prey, roams 
With stretched out wings, he glides
Without warning, he bolts
 
His crockett toes,  he curls
Snatching his prey
With power, he flies  
Taking them, on high
As he sinks his beak and rips apart
He is still a beautiful bird
With, very keen eyes...

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I cry at Chain Bridge
in my third year as a tenderfoot.
It's the same thing,
when father takes his time
showing up and the earth
gapes all the way to chaos.
It's when the money runs out
and the business fails.
The scouts all laugh
as they stand near their
neat packs with all their
plans piled beside them.
I am 13 in the dangerous
age of sissies. 
I wonder what 
the crying does....

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tidy floral rows
     stark ragged dandelion
shears’ hungry maw gapes
   shing! 
              have a care; it will regrow
                     unlike your delicate bloom

surprised, you look down
     your prize tulip’s roots mingled
          with this intruder
               woven inextricably
                    gleaming shears look quite hungry

6/14/16
© Thomas W. Quigley...

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Tell me the clouds aren't hung on fishwire

That it's chance should trees reach such like a spire

That even with elements scrambled so dire

This Earth can recover and shan't ever tire 

At least not in our ages of apes

From a crown of thorns 

To a wound that gapes 

We keep finding depths

Far deeper down

In our minds and 

Our actions 

Refractions

We'll drown
...

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Pyroette like burning smoke
from molten faces spring
but lost on beatings thought
My gapes and gaits
are for your critical
I care to touch a base
and soul is disgraced
where dogs snooped
and the Doctor was not grey
where billie lost
causes all would here
Lost in a second you weren't
there there
take a second
Get your breathhtaerb
as awe beckons me back into the black
where rhytmh is out of sorts
and rhyme
don't...

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In the distance, a hazy skyline I see
So close, yet so far to reach, for me

On horizon, tall glassy structures and shapes
As I try to focus, my open mouth gapes

‘Tis not a city that’s coming to view
Its bottles of booze in white, brown and blue

And I’m on the floor just starting to wake
I fell off my stool, must be an earthquake

Or maybe that last one was packing a punch
I’m changing my diet, no more liquid lunch...

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Spin, twirl, they swirl
Mesmerized I sit
And watch colours mix,
match.... hopefully

Here is that sock,
it gapes and screams
silenced by the brief
strangled by failed
shirr

It purrs, white one-eyed cat alike
(I sneeze, washing-powder
allergy.) 

To fall asleep
so soothingly lulled
to oblivion,
nakedly in wait
for my beloved 
belongings.

***

May 23, 2017 
Copyright © Darren White...

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Azure streams silted with cotton bows
Green, svelte carpet spreads below
Silken florets on tawny branches glow
Yellow daffodils cloak the meadow row
Purple violets' royal fabric vaunted hills hallow
On servile plain, feathery dandelions spread umbrella
Along hedge rows, creamy honeysuckles with sweet dew flow
In dense, brown brush; fledgling chicks from saffron gapes bellow
On the forest floor; jittery, gray squirrels deplete nutty escrow...

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I cry at Chain Bridge.
It's the same thing,
when father takes his time
showing up and the earth
gapes all the way to chaos.
It's when the money runs out
and the business fails.
The scouts all laugh
as they stand near their
neat packs with all their
plans stacked beside them.
I wonder what the crying does.
When I cry
someone warm
strokes me,
kneeling in front
with curled face,
warm breath,
return to Eden,
at 13 in the dangerous
age of sissies....

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Thought I heard my possum,
my sweet dear little pet.
Hurried to the kitchen;
No food for poss-poss, yet.

Recalling mothers' babies,
big eyes and hungry gapes.
Happily discovering-
some over- turning grapes.

Rushed out to the feeding-tree,
Grapes-the possums' earn.
Left them on a branch,
for possums will return.

Went back inside; heard such a thump,
the window-sat the cat.
Peeping through the glass,
my poss-poss now a rat !...

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MEMORY LAPSE

they peer at me
in short panted
breaths
against cuts and 
breezes
childhood days
and drifts like
wood in dark
mahogany
past pastels
through every
heart torched that
touched my soul

now life gapes
huge holes
cracked mirrors
with
fissured tears
faces that visit
and giggle
clueless
dim-witted
brainless
obtuse

a memory lapse
unaware 
of what was
left behind 


© Kim van Breda—16 October 2015...

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Basil in your Soup?
Or Basil in a cheap 1960's Soviet Sci-Fi,
Gaping at the screen,
As missiles destroy space stations,
Oh, MY!

Oh, for 15 seconds of gaping,
He becomes the star,
Of that Space Station...
To bad movie buffs,
An elation

Plan Nine From Outer Space,
Saucers on a string,
Navy Vs the Night Monster...
Now that's the real thing!!

Movies made from pocket change
Forever imprinted on our minds,
When it comes to bad films,
There are all kinds!...

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My mother is a kind of person on the planet
Who cannot watch movies on tv or the internet
Because she thinks they're real.

I tell her of the video shoots
And say it's just a movie.
She leans back and at me she hoots
'My boy don't be a rookie'.

And so I linger with the rest
Of borrowed video tapes.
Mama home like a house arrest
My mocking brother gapes.

I still can't watch Spartacus,
Vampire Diaries nor Nikita.
Daily we watch In Focus
From Voice of America....

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It's the glove pitching with the dark;
It moves through the wings of a crying skylark.

It storms through all your soul's language—
It gapes from that bleak wreckage.

It's the vault around these faint fences;
It's a well more than barred senses.

It's made of velvet, this uncommon black;
It bleeds upon your passion on the rack.

It's shifting the other side of light;
Its place a mask for scars' pining blight.

Its flowers all sinking down—
It falls for me, because I'm found....

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