Short Garish Poems

pulse of flight
against a pure garish sky
warm damp wings

4-25-13...

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frantic penguins – awkward among garish spring blossoms

1/20/16...

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Meditating woods,
Embraced by the garish sun;
Exhaling fresh air....

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Anointed by light,
Abandoned branches exalt:
Praising garish rays....

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Clad in a garish green muu-muu, she danced
wildly to golden oldies.
Dumbfounded grandkids stared.


April 1, 2017...

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Ornery orange,
Range of shades,
Antagonistic character,
Naughty,
Greedy and garish,
Ever so bright, flashy and in some cases brassy....

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Asking what the government can do will garish
And telling what the goverment can do will cherish
But ignoring what the government can do will perish...

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I often speak to the moon 
In quatrain 
And verse 
Asking 
Deliberate 
Questions
Of her

She Responds 
As all beautiful 
Visions do
And weeps for 
My garish 
Words...

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And will wonders soon cease, fade as thieves in the night
hidden, dark is a cover from moon's garish light
So all roads lead to one single moment in time,
and a heart soon will weep, fill with sad sweet strange rhyme...

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On a robust breeze, the sunset flares
through the ripe peach filtered clouds.

As they extend garish golden glaze
past bleached sands, salted corpses.

Cold crying of sailors washed clean
slipping off the clambering crabs....

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He's that guy that slays you,
    always charming, ready &
       eager to lend a helping hand,
  a garish smile tucked in his hip pocket  --
    he's your friendly next door neighbor, 
         the quintessential serial killer...

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Gothic creatures of old
  gaze down from their ledges 
    glaring at unseen threats.
       Grotesque legends of stone
    garner my attention 
  garish symbols ward off
ghoulish evil demons.




Written on 11/30/2016
Pleiades...

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Knowingly overdone
                  kind of low brow drama.
         Kooky, loud and splashy
keen on melodrama.
         Kinky and weird, it can
                  knit one's emotions in
knots, with its garish ways.




Written on 3/8/2017
Pleiades...

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Please leave behind a candle born 
to blink away dark of night..
as stars give way to distant morn,  
please leave behind a candle born. 
Though night voices call out forlorn,     
and timid few choose garish light..   
please leave behind a candle born- 
to blink away dark of night....

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Grog

Gulping down a flagon 

Gives one a gibbous glow. 

Gather 'round ye hardies,

Grab one and have a go. 

Ghostly foam and farting 

Gnomes bilge one gushing flow.

Garish gaffe...drinking Grog!


deborah burch©12/4/2016

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Form: Pleiades...

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The Mall
has got its own belltower
like modern church
for capitalism.
Hundreds of shops
selling the obvious
garish colours.
Many restaurants 
serving a variety 
of burgers and fattening food.
There is no art here
not much to see
if you don´t care
about
high heeled shoes
and burgers...

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I drank bottles
of potent optimism,
trampling impatiens 
in the garden bed.

In love's labyrinth
I stumbled in the hedges,
emerging to disengorge
in a plaster fountain
under a starless sky.

I awoke a sloth
in morning's garish chasm,
the silent telephone blooming
like a black orchid....

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unseen in forests
creepy crawly things slither. . . 
inhabiting night

miles from the black woods
bolder creatures (upright) flit. . . 
whooping in the streets

woods seem eerier
towns' garish beasts seem wilder. . . 
and strangeness prevails 


For Linda Marie's Halloween Haiku Contest...

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Empty Trolley 

The supermarket
Has got its own 
Bell tower
Like a modern church
For capitalism
Hundreds of shops
Selling the obvious
Garish colours
An ice-rink
Many restaurants
Selling
Unhealthy food
There is no art here
Very little to see
If you do not care
About
High heeled shoes 
And burgers...

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Now I lay me down to sleep
I dread the thought of what might creep.
Garish goblins slither into my dreams
However hard I grip the seams of 
Tousled duvet above my head.
Monsters messing with my mind.
Arresting sleep of any kind.
Rarely do they let me rest.
Every night they try their best.
Soothing slumber seldom seen....

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arriving into the city,
fed through tubes
painted all the garish colors of grey
made to smile and sneer 
on the same breath
cab ride amid feral pigeons
the spoken word
is alien and spiked with spit
the office is bare
the office workers are not there
wrong day
go away
leaving the city
disgorged into green
eventually....

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No garish handle,
            Nor bell of ornate whimsy,
          Protrude this seamless portal.
       Dreams warmed in fate’s embrace,
           Infuse a passioned labyrinth
 
                The heart of my love,
              Opened only from within.
               A fathomless mystery;  
    Serenaded softly, from whispered soul
                    just now - ajar....

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Listen to poem:

From crashing waves he emerges with the clarity of a wide landscape
The king of darkness
Parades
In full view
His garish, monochrome ego
Emergent for all to despise

Original poem (extract):

"Into the ripples of the horizon's haze
The queen of the daylight
Slinks
Then is gone
Her wispy train of colour
Vanishing"

[From Poem: Sunset, Sam Scott 14.09.23]



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Garish showcase 
in your front display;
jitter impatiently
for next payday.

Martyrs pay debts,
not collect them;
you swipe crosses
with your plastic pets.

Pennies for pupils
advertise the cost:
far steeper
than you thought.

Go steal a wish
from some pauper fountain.
Faith immovable?
"Just buy the mountain!"

The deals you’re making are unjust.
All that glitters turns to dust....

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I had heard of cute clowns, but this was ridiculous.
Mom said, “prepare me to dazzle your eyes out.”
I had laughed, thinking she was exaggerating.
Then he walked in, and he was the epitome of cute.

Ringlets of soft caramel hair framed a darling face.
He was not garish or cheap like other clowns.
He was refined, handsome, respectably adorable.
I said. “You dazzled my eyes out” and she smiled....

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