Short Gauze Poems

gauze covered sunshine
plays peekaboo with the sea
beach umbrellas up...

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the storm has moved on-
sky painted now with pink gauze
nestling on the hills

...

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American George Segal
made art fro live people-pals
Cast in plastic soaked gauze wrap
help to put hi. on the map...

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once a small munchkin from oz

searching for baskets of straws

found him a small toad

near yellow brick road

say buddy got any gauze.
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Desert dune damage, feet wrapped in gauze,
To sue, the lawyer thought he had cause,
Yet the relevant section,
Escaped his detection,
--There was no sandy clause....

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Little effort inviting a charley horse
an open wound decays near a sterile gauze
useful waters with plankton
harsh labour for a Briton
no attitude to toil and moil with no cause....

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''Ho ho ho' wheezed old Santa Claus
Wrapping around his head with gauze
He filled up with whisky 
Took behaviour risky 
And then fell foul of drinking laws  


16th December 2022 
Poetry soup syllable counter...

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mysteries 
of a broken window
haunt me
hand wrapped in newspaper and gauze
still drips blood
days later
turn away
he washes old wounds in the old laundry sink
lye soap
stinging 
tears
regrets
truth
flow below...

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I knew a fellow who played Santa Claus
He hated department stores just because
Kids were insightful, but
Sometimes a bit spiteful
And his snow white beard was made out of gauze.

written December 10, 2021...

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............~~~~~...........

~mosaic moon crest ~
lounging on sky's gauze mantle ~~
wind chimes blow soft songs


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(( for Michael Falotico's 
   " A Haiku From Your Window"
    by nette onclaud ))...

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July Fog

Fog
Slinks in,
Cloaks dawn’s smile
In July gloom
With platinum gauze ~
A foggy summer breath
Glistens on rows of sweet corn,
Kisses the vegetable garden,
As crickets chirp and bumblebees hum
In misty tunes of foghorn rhapsodies....

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Lashes of pang whip me
Bleeding like torn firefly-
Harsh the spoils from untold regrets
And wound's dressing can't soothe,
The mesh of threadbare gauze
Fragile as my wing --in bondage.


8 Nov 2017
Knit A Fabric Contest hosted by Nette Onclaud...

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Gauze arms prance
between the limbs,
a mourning pines
when cloudline dims.
A tangled wood
that dangles loose,
silence screams
this delicate noose.
Devilry unravels
and moon has bled
king of puppet 
cuts off life's thread.



Puppet Contest...

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the pain
  on body
goes by,

pain
of the soul
it takes time to cure...

gauze
involves the
wound

doesn't assist
healing
the soul...

magnetic passes
they can
heal

if with
love
applied

love
cures
pain

pain of
body
and soul...!...

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Spring,
his time
for leafy
prayers from Winter's
share of heaven's rinse
on Earth— his maiden ice
jolted by the sun, his prance 
comes in dew drops and seed drops, a 
gauze on forests and grass blades as sweet
blooms by his tender motions spread all 'round.
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You listened wrapped to the moon gauze falling from my lips
the day the wars began, assassins slipping from the shadows
to stab, along the SpinnerSails woven between the Lands of Holding
in the forgotten times where our hearts are amber-bound.
It is my fault. I wove the skein. You didn’t mean to be caught unaware....

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Hide,
Scorched like gauze
Moving slowely and surefooted

A path no longer blazed yet
Bridges behind still burn

An opening,
A thousand eyes turn to stare
Fruitless in its search,
Faces no longer there

Disgruntled and aged
Grown shorter in its decline

The Dinosaur walks out of the 
forest,
Onto the edge of time....

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Nothing showing save your eyes
youve wrapped yourself in linen lies
medicated strips because
you need to hide behind the gauze
    Fluids oozing through the cracks
fill the scene with livid tracks
now your body too has gone
melted out upon the stone
nothing left now to be true
just a shell
           wrapped up like you....

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beneath the stars, arms gaily twirl

in rainfall… a mellow dance, please

with fireflies dressed in silken  gauze

this evening pours a  rhapsody…

barefoot,  we drench in tempo of gust

as the sky becomes our canopy

kissing , melting through shapeless forms.




SHWEET Free Verse Contest of Andrea Dietrich
7/26/2015...

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If I died, would you die with me?
our ashes mingling into forever
or would you shed just one tear
as you remembered my sharp wit
at the next cocktail party
and how it would have
made you shine
until eventually even that 
would be a vague memory
like a face glimpsed quickly
through a veil of white gauze
and then forgotten 
in a fog of time...

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Sweet butterfly with wings of gauze
Give this tired heart a moment's  pause
Unburdened by the human cloak
Freedom's spirit your flights invoke
Dreaming times in cloudy spheres
Raining droplets made of  tears
With not a whisper you fly away
I would not bid you here to stay
Beside your path goes just a bit of me
For one moment my soul flies free...

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Westport Winter

Dull 
same as outside
costly lamps are lit
while we waited
they leave with bags
tepid lipstick'd 
cups, coffee stained 
saucer dereliction
They'll fetch cars 
before tickets run out
raining now
a gauze curtain
to make headlights dance 
like Salome
Performances
outside Maddens bar
and rain tick-tocks a rhythm 
on umbrella's...

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She inhales the aurora,
breath laced with frozen with light speed
Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze,
her bodice bending like solar flares.

Astronaut 
A quasar shudders behind her lips,
erupting across the event horizon.

Space folds—
she unspools like a nebula unraveling,
luminous in the underworld 
aphrodisiac of your vanilla fragrance...

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Hush
a murmur -
a burst of mirth - you laugh.
A giggly boy or two; the
drone of you
mixed with monkey's bonding squeals
slide up the stairs; on polished
paternal air.
Then a deep man's voice where
once a boy's ascended - mellow with
early manhood. Resonating;
capitulating - exclaims agreement.
And I see through gauze
made murky by time
us five - woven
warmly -...

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A monarch drifts in gauze costume
Wildly cruising, to ride on spring’s trapeze;
An effervescent flight which shines,which glows 
Enchanting buds through regale of mist
Unto wind-tossed sways in hues of orange... 
Then she pirouettes, for an encore's dance.


Contest: Itty bitty Contest #2: Doing it Again!
For Andrea Dietrich   New Poem...

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