Short Girded Poems

John the Baptist in a camel hair "suit"
Girded with a leather belt to boot
On a steady diet of wild honey and locusts
It's a wonder he was able to maintain his focus...

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Memorable every day and night
Exceedingly, teasingly bright!
Girded with kaleidoscopic light
Artful in words and forever kind
Never gone from my sight!
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Dreams during daytime
will never withhold,
glorious glitter of girded gold,
and shadows like sounds of a sunny sky,
moving the mornig through meandering rye,
and sunrays sowing seeds of a summerly sign....

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Mere husks remain,
unnaturally strewn,
lying by the dozens
on a red-soaked field.
Once stoutly girded,
masking fiery resolve
underneath unassuming
exteriors, naught but the
faintest hints linger,
sad siren calls to
former greatness.
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I know I might not be the best
But I try to be different from the rest.
Its true that life is always full of test
But like a soldiers with his vest

Girded firmly around his chest
And vigilant like bees in their nest
My striving is to be at the crest
Because in reality life is not for jest

#PoeticLord#
(C) May 2019...

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Girded loins sway
in restive need of sterile quarry,
lithe star spangled limbs
span the velvet heavens,
silver huntress Diana
unbends slender crescent arms,
looses the gleaming arrow,
unknowing, unerring, the missile
flies to the mark,
unflinching, the prey falters
in fatal ecstasy,
finite pleasure 
alloyed with infinite pain....

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gaunt garden growling
girded in hankering
rustic roses moaning
rumbles roasting sydneys
fiery figs fostering
damped daffodils smirking

felon fashion fiddling
with nocturnal nimbling
nature  nasty puking

airy atmosphere hoisting
callous surges lurching
voluptuous vines squashing

it's our garden
whooshing wind's warden.
    19:12:10:10:55...

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find. keep. love.
some like to chase.
capture.
then chase away.
some enjoy the chase.
some chasers become the chasee.
Find love. Lose it.
chastity kept none safe— really.
for the target matters not— flesh or no.
But the mind and all
it’s manifestations of love 
permeates, even the thickly girded heart.
when the chasers intent is to
find and keep love....

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Fall the night upon me dark
Naked born this journey embark
Of friend or foe as yet unknown
Time will tell in deeds be shown

In shadow times when virtue fades
Within a soul love does degrade
All around in greed and pain
A girded heart with taut refrain

Fall the night upon me dark
Tend this weak eternal spark
Battle scarred and scarlet stain
Upon this hallowed ground remain...

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Time to put my armor on
the enemy approaches
and this won't be fun.

Time to put my armor on
She'll be clad in armor of fire
Girded in the knowledge of
every one of my wants, 
needs and desires.

Time to put my armor on
Equipped with the sword 
of allure she'll cleave my 
heart and they'll be no cure .

Time to put my armor on
and March myself to war
it's hard to fight an enemy 
that I adore.

©SamHarty...

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The Horse Nebula
rises from flames, forged
from Milky Way core.
Saturn flanks his right,
Jupiter his left --
Gods girded for war.

Lightning bolts whistle
above the red glare
for all to beware.
Dark stallion ascends,
riderless, regal,
through the rarified air.




Photo taken by the author at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, July 29, 2019, showing Saturn, Jupiter, the Milky Way core, and Southern Delta Aquarid meteors....

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All day I kept you on my mind
Like a map
That only knows the way to love again

All day my compass kept pointing to your heart
The true pole
Of every star of goodwill, of every hope of happiness

All day I girded tackle, rope and gears to climb
The Everest of your trust
Each firm foot hold inspiring confidence the summit will come

All day i lit fires to warm the trembling dark
And felt a spark
Inflaming our hearts, and burning our nakedness above the world....

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