Short Gauzy Poems

gauzy gray ghost mist
permeating the ether
spirit in the house...

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Beneath
mid-winter
blue sky,
gauzy clouds
reflect
the blush
of sunset....

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Dainty gauzy cobweb holds on valiantly retaining essence
Impressing Kansas fescue grasses and lovely Queen Anne ’s lace
Not intimidated by cool northern Arctic winds...

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                                       frost under countdown
                                   gauzy veil on winding stream -
                                            prominent status...

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Undulating veils, gray and gauzy
                                   Seducing hills and valleys,
                               Whispering secrets in the morning mist.



    Received POTW!...

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the gentle arms of morning rise ~ lifting the gauzy shade of night









Date: May 30, 2022
For: Morning Monoku Poetry Contest
Sponsored  by: Michelle Faulkner
Syllables verified on Howmanysyllables.com...

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gracing growing garden gracefully
gleaming gauzy gorgeousness
forever frothy fresh fragrance
friendly frilly fragileness
lovingly languishing
lithe, light, lovely,
gardenia, gracing garden gracefully
gleaming gauzy gorgeousness...

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Mirage of gauzy wings,
Makes a path near gold flames.

Mesmerized... it prances
Mystically around
Moonlit torch: the lure of
Magic casts quick danger...
Marking butterfly's end.



4/22/2017
Pleiades M Contest for Kim Merryman...

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skeletal rattling
naked branches 
tapping
wind blows
dark landscape
ghosts
past
present
linger
smoky
lonely
hollow eyes
dark circular burns
pale faces
the only thing they have left
gauzy smoky bodies 
torn 
shredded
gone in the wind  (C)MJR...

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delicate gauzy organza sheers
window dressing dancing in the bedroom
blown gently by forced air heat
piped in by silver register on floor
moving softly in a sensuous way
erotic dance of cosmic feelings
my wide awake eyes 
overwhelmed by imagination
conjures up a dancing ghost...

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The elderly nana had one last wish.
I would like a bit of faerie floss she said.
I thought she meant embroidery floss.
Someone else thought she meant gauzy material.
An old gentleman arrived carrying cotton candy on a stick.
We used to call this faerie floss, he told us.
She was more than happy with it....

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Morning tumbles into my arms,
I give a gentle hug,
Smooth down 
Her long gauzy dress,
Run my fingers through her rays
And braid sweet pea tendrils in blond pigtails.

Lifting up her quivering chin
I gaze into sapphire eyes,
Drawl encouraging morning words:
“Good” and “glory”,
“Dove”,
And she embraces the petunia day....

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The parched, cracked earth receives the rain
into a billion hungry mouths;
she suckles at the sky’s wet breast
swaddled in cloud-gray gauzy blouse.

Sweet budding grasses nod and sway;
infant creatures babble and croon,
as Mother Nature tucks all in
‘neath nightlight-blue lullaby moon.

Copyright, July 19, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Forgiveness

Dusted with determination
her bent old body plows a furrow
in the field of time.
She has bled into the earth,
eaten unleavened bread
with sacramental wine

Old Mother seasoned with
sorrow, proud of her pain
and the daily acts of contrition
that may bring absolution,
or that may crumble
like the gauzy wings of moths...

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When the gauzy sheen of evening’s touch
Drapes my breaths to climb farther than light
I  enter into oneness with the self…
And this hazy  mind lays quiet, absent
From  a jagged  pace,   releasing  calm essence
To hold an inner world, steadily tranquil.


 
Capture That Emotion Contest
Sponsor : Nina Parmenter  2/12/2019...

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this game of faces
played out pages fast,
fret filled thoughts, dark places
stuffed full brilliant cast,

dream parts falling
barked out loud,
haunting muse keeps calling
hid by gauzy shrouds,

but if "a little wise the best fools be"
can verse be looked upon so proudly,
or should we, as Mr. Bradbury agrees,
just be "stung with a theramin, loudly"?...

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The sun cast bright golden yellow
Through the boughs of tall trees
Exaggerates gauzy light fog
Wrapping like swarming bees

The grass freshly mowed lies in clumps
Upon the dew laden
Ground, soon it won't have to be cut
By Ginko leaves hidden

The beams of light filter through fog
Magical its soft glow
Soon the magic will be gone; heat
From the sun will flow...

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A fathomless day
Visually blissful
Metaphorically ready

Musings from my 
Internal soul dragon
Suddenly heard

A blessed ribbon
Of purity wander
Into my heartstrings

Magnificent plumes 
Ribbon through my
Sweet marigold garden

Gauzy silky dandelion
Wisps guide imagination
And make poetry

Written: 3-24-2019
Contest: Ribbons
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Our garden's masterpiece,
Fairies in each fleur-de-lis,
Blossoms of gauzy glory,
Perennial veils of fairy stories,
Beribboned spangle treasury,
Fairies flitting so flowery,
Our queen of ruby roses,
Posies for all, one supposes,
Flowerets the best cuddle,
Essence of Spring, residual,
There are fairies in the flowers in our garden,
One ruby rose--then a garland!!...

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I've watched the isles at dusk
Cool and mysterious they lie--
Where old and deep-boughed cedars
heave, as gleaned from a cloudscape 
on earth's threadbare attic,
While lines of faded stars 
slip into gauzy white--
to appear like brushed, eerie ghosts
on howling psalms that sought 
the need to settle in the vault 
of an empty, ruined church.


 Brian's Select 4...

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Snowflakes fall, spinning, swirling twirling, whirling.

A flurry of ballet dancers in gauzy white dresses. 

_______________________
March 23, 2023


Poetry/Bantu
Copyright Protected, ID 03-1533-953-23
All Rights Reserved,  2023, Constance La France 


Written for the Standard contest, Bantus
sponsor, Suzanne Delaney, Judged 04/06/2023

Second Place...

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Banked clouds hide the sun
     Fog a gauzy sheer veil
The Whip-Poor-Will finally stopped
     Doves now sing in the dale

That Whip-Poor-Will's fast jazzy song
     Was an alarm clock's tune
He sang and sang 'til exhausted
     While looking at the moon

Will sleep the day like so many
     He'd fit right in today
The young guys would love him plenty
     At night he'd play and play  ...

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Walking the riverside, the rain stopped, the sun reappeared.
Weaving thru the weeds came the dragonfly.
A trembling shimmer of gauzy wings.
Darting electric blues,greens and bronze
In a crazy zig-zag dance.

Droplets clung to rain-splashed leaves.
A mosaic of life-nature's multitude.

The dragonfly bustled with fingertip precision.
Gathering fragments of gold,
It sped away,
A life in a day!...

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A night endows in poetic lull of waxing moon
A nightingale tunes in cool of summer June
Flickering good-bye in midst of shrubs' shadow,
Fireflies scramble off filling open-air jaunt tow
Through scarlet gauzy of light and odor of myrrh
One lone firefly gracefulness, a beacon of glamour
upon steeple leaf as it appears in utter darkness
Each blink of light adrift    then gone in the blackness

8/25/2021...

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Filtering filaments of shouting color
Dancing brilliant motes

Defining sunlight by crowding into invisible shafts
Reflecting hope and brilliance

Revealing resistance with every tiny fragment
Defying gravity to fly the final arc of existence
Catching the sun and revealing an unseen world

That every breath is defined by gauzy curtains of sustenance;
Should we be so dispassionate  that we inhale all this
Unknowing...

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