Short Garlanded Poems

trees have shed their sheen
forlorn limbs stretch heavenward
garlanded with snow

Entry for Tania Kitchin's "A Late Fall Or Early Winter Haiku" Contest
(4 Nov 2019)

Rated No. 2 in the contest...

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Frosted white branches

   garlanded in silver and

       d r i p p i n g   i c i c l e s. . . . 

            Crystalline lights are turned on.

                  My new tree shimmers cool blue.


(only new one not used in a Dec. contest yet)...

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HER

Shiny nose ring glistened on her smooth face
Row of rings sparkled on her delicate fingers
Pearl necklace garlanded her silky neck

Silver anklets slept on her silent legs
Square bangles hugged her dead wrists
Flowered wreath lay next to her decorated corpse

Free soul soared in freedom to utopia!...

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On wings of scarlet, radiance takes flight
as leaves, like cardinals, soar overhead.
They twirl, then tumble, beautiful and bright,
beneath September’s sun, which spills deep red
onto the valley’s floor. In dying light,
the peaks of distant mountains garlanded
by clouds still gleam into this autumn night.

For Brian Strand's 'ALL YOURS (Jan 30)' Contest...

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Poet me. Writer me. I must think 
I extend my story, to know it
The instrument I utilize, scroll quill & ink
Are my accepted method writ

With these, I see, the sayings
That be, composed and planned
The power of my imagination phrasings
Write in tune within my command

Inked profound through rhythmical flow
Carving the rhythms of my each line
Garlanded day by day, my deep rooted scroll
I compose my story, by my own one of a kind mind...

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Garlands of soft fresh flowers,
what does a thick one conjure up for you,
a lot of fragrance and joy,
particularly when it is put around your neck,
by some one very conspicuously and clearly,
you are often celebrating a victory,arrival or glory,
and are aware of all that which is the main story,
only in one case you so helpless and bad,
that you do not even know who has garlanded you and when,
it is when you are lying in wreaths pretty dead....

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INGENUITY
laurels
garlanded
  so
  breath taking

swirls
of
  foliage
simulated
&
 envisioned
so
elegantly
vibrant in
sacred
  spaces
warm
&insitent
with
intangible
    clarity

deeply
poetic
  yet
    unsolicited

PROTOCOL
some
 decorum
where
precedent
  blossomed weaving
weaving
a
  narrative
deploying
an
unspoken
 loyalty
&
unwavering
  devotion
with
unparalleled
respect

eccentricity
silenced
 &made
   mute
thus
chaos
  avoided...

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