Short Gloam Poems

pink gloam
a reflection
of sunsets long ago
mirroring my longing of days
gone by...

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Lemon hues drape an  autumn- sky
Mellow its crawl across eve's wake -
Near a lagoon's edge, tiny shadows appear
Inviting a rhapsody from birds' drool
Where pines, maples play to honor a season's gloam.


Let's Do Some Alphabet Contest
Oct 3, 2017...

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Do you see it
Flowing across the stone bed
Glinting everlight in the misty gloam

Ever moving,  ever flowing
It's sapphire waters rich with love
Setting sun , glowing water

Like a river of stars
From my heart
Out of me
Into you
Its waters glowing like fire in the night...

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O June   linger on with your youthful charm;
Fireflies and evergreen still gloam to disarm
Woods  brimming lushly , perfuming the air…

Let springtime flaunt this elegance   so rare!


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Wnen A Fourth Line Helps It To Rhyme
Contest of Silent One     6/9/2018...

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UNNERVED

a fresh grave, gravelly dug,
collar gathered and put upon.

the doghouse, below the gloam,
godforsaken with a gaping hole.

guard of gray-glass, at midnight,
hardly hinders gathering ghosts.

unnerved fear grips my sleep,
gangly bedroom curtain grieves.


9/2/2017
Contest 335 Any Form Contest...

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Find protection under its dome
  As those raindrops come pouring down
  When the scorching sun starts to roam
 Find protection under its dome
  A parasol beneath the gloam
 When those rainy days come around
   Find protection under its dome
 As those raindrops come pouring down
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We knew we couldn't take the summer home
in globes of flakes just like a winter snow.
As falling sunlight faded into gloam

we stood upon the beach for one last show
of tangerine and seafoam in a poem
until our dreams had no place left to go.

We knew we'd never be this young again,
but prayed the glow would stay until the end....

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What would you say if you lived to a hundred?
What bits of wisdom to pass to your kindred?
More time at work, I assure you it ain’t;
Precious to Him, the death of His saints.
The kingdom’s not open to blood or to flesh.
Fear not the twinkling when all is made fresh.
Out past the breakers, press on through the gloam.
There He awaits; be precious, be known....

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 A note rides on a Sonnet's rhyme
 And travels on to Shakespeare's quill
 A bird sings with nature's chime
 Its melody fluttering in the sunlight still

 Inspiration takes us to starry skies
 Where the seven muses roam
 Luna then begins its rise
 and glimmers in the gloam

 On the shore the waves repeat
 As palm trees sway in the breeze
 Dancing to verses in a poem's beat
 As a song sails on the seas

 10-20-2024
 


 
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Now and then the ocean is a blur 
in footprints so quickly nothing, spurred

against that wild channeling — 
God, she took my memory,

her baggy tides overrun,
seaweed returned in the surf, serendipitous stun,

How to follow you in your deep sea tomb — 
Sometimes I breathe in water to breathe in you,

the gray ocean like a rod — 
my prayers stopped time, God, God — 

there floating within the sea fog's gloam,
the buoys, and a girl's cheeks that froze....

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There is a small piece of the world
The color of mother of pearl
As soft as the smooth inner shell
Where the humblest hermits dwell

And the sound of the blood’s rush and the roar
Is the calm, sleepy shush of the shore
And the faint scent of sagebrush in bloom
Spans both cool beach and hot desert dunes

And the tumbleweeds, driftwood and gloam
On the eventide, they always come home
And the stars in the sky and the stars in the sea
On the eventide, they come home to me....

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to the tune of Home on the Range

In the woods, in the gloam
There’s a muttering gnome
Like his mind, he’s wandered away
And he should be interred
Yes, the thought has occurred
But the jailers would not last a day

Big daddy’s deranged
He’s losing it more every day
He makes up strange words
And it all sounds absurd
But the kids do not care anyway

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Some of the many happy verses Vivian
was subjected to singing and walking in the woods.
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Dazzling flecks of gold fall lightly from flight,
joy and grace spun from translucent silk spools.
The sun like orange sherbert melts from my sight,
resplended in a rich robe of fine jewels.
A cooling sky bathes in soft sunlit pools.

Honeysuckle blooms on the horizon.
Cotton clouds yawn, puffing over the sun.
Taste the sweet dreams of her ripened peach gloam.
From Heaven, kisses goodnight have begun.
The sun, now spent, sleeps so bright stars can roam....

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