Short Glossed Poems

glossed cover binding
abridged fine print with fluff swells
periodical...

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blue azure panels
silty wisps shroud the canopy
glossed with rosy dreams...

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BURNISTA j

encaustic
      wax
on
lime
fused
  fired
for
cohesive
glossed
  effects...

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Winter skaters on Christmas' ice
 steps slippery glossed in-flight, nice
 slide and glide from ice to snow
 shiver, shaken, frozen toes
fell on hidden nests of field mice....

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I, the many
a harlot's realm, betrothed
to the light, each door a seed

yet, eyes 
ever glossed in overtones
of harmonic gaze 
deep within her strings

and enter anew
in silence... 
... raw...

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A single shot while hunting ruffed grouse soaked my socks a deep sanguine against the snow.
A kiss to your broken lips glossed over the fine-looking lies we let slip onto the story of your indiscretion....

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Slip sliding from chilled breeze
Slivers of flurries waltz
Softly mantling old trees
Silver-coated by rain:
Snaking down down glossed yard
Soon...frost will enchant you
Smile! Crystals peck your cheeks....

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Nails
Tool box
Where’s the hammer?
They take a good pounding.
Nails

Nails
Women speak
A good salon
Painted, polished, and glossed.
Nails

Nails
Lone tool
My worst nightmare
Clawing out of coffin
Nails...

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Stunning tail-light of eve
Sweeps  across the heavens
Streaked with chrome blue tassels:
Swift the leap glossed by dust
Spin of Hailey's Comet,
Streams quickly... then fades off!


Pleiades Contest of Joseph May
10/6/2020...

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Majestic river tumbles down
gleaming glorious in dawn's rise.
Herons surface glossed in onyx
sprayed by cascades of polished jade,
and I curl boughs in pleats canopied wild
on bank of prayers rolling to meet sea.



Written 2/26/17 for the River Line Contest...

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The scarred desk, littered
with the wrinkles of young,
melts into chocolate

canary
easter bunny
birdsong

My ear mutters
"Are you there"
not able to finish

my homework
grinding
pepper

she reduces herself to glossed lips - 
they gloss over everything

dull
turn on the light...

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I climbed the face
     of a lightless dawn
glossed in silent frost
     between
wanting
and 
     knowing
naught.

From above fell my tears
crystal
     upon your eyes turned
beyond.

I watched you out of sight
and 
     left you there
on the down side
fading
     into yesterday gone....

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at the glossed rainbow
sky and grass held varied hues
bright days were foreseen

vast mood umbrella
nature's smile turned upside down
in green ecstasy

from the stained rainbow
I saw teal world was changing
and pink flowers smiled

in gold altered mists
I found my happy outlook
sizzling saffron sun...

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Mercurial

  authoritarian lead style
heterodox
    person
or
    group
holds
   lightning rod
for 
    criticism
from
   old-fashioned
readership

FACTOTUM

works 
    tirelessly
glossed 
     as "do all!"
with
     force 
behind 
   command
 refers 
to
  handy 
     versatile 
sort 
of
assistance

Written: March 21, 2023...

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A safe lie to make,
   outweighed T-Bone stake.
A fassad way to fake,
   not for Heavens but your sake.
Concrete ankle drowned bottom lake,
   no more time to never awake.
Live nightmared body shake,
   blind eyes glossed opaque.
Ice cream flavored frozen cake,
   ungiven life chose to take. 
Now you gotta live with that mistake,
   if I die before I wake......

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~The youth,such soft supple skin.
Play yet a steady reminder of how maturity takes a toll.
All the while she sits,smiles only to transcend reflection in the mirror.
Her hair streaks silver.
Through decades,every milestone has been met.
Laugh lines set deep.
Eyes glossed over like film.
Still,elation brought fourth by a glimpse of a grandchild, can not be measured.~


7/13/2012...

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There she was
just a few feet away

Glossed lips
Powdered face
Faux lashes
Contoured cheeks

We locked eyes
then she looked away
cold and distant

Maybe she was
tempting me
to walk in her fire

She was sweet
like sugar

Sugar is what tempts us
pouring upon
our wildest fantasies

Sugar gives us cavities
rots our teeth
our soul
our world

It seems
vanity is
always in style......

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Braving storms, push and pull piercing my 
Parched soul, while glazed in flaxen mists
Framing lingering dew drops 
Consoling my warped core, 
As I drift amidst 
Sweeping mistrals 
Calling me 
To the 
Blue 
Glow 
Of our
Ocean home,
Swaying to tides
Eclipsed by sundered
Coral sighs glistening 
Upon glossed ripples bleeding  
Devout love encompassing my 
Frigid heart, seeking the warmth of you....

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Spherical Exchange

Dawn unwraps the sky and wraps up twilight,
All birds, plus boats, exalt anointing prime,
Colors glossed to their righteous hues, picked time,
Advent horizon ere an orb takes height,
Chance night favored souls harmoniously,
Spheres gift display ceremoniously,
Dawn unwraps the sky and wraps up twilight.

2019 October 16

*3rd Place*

Make it Seven
~~Joseph May...

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Miss palm is gracious
She glitters like glossed sequin
On a gay night

With a little fragrance
She would be fairly like

Her five daughters are
Idiosyncratic characters
Sent from above to show we mortals
What's beauty

And together: The darling daring palm family 

Like a shadow on a sunny day 
My companions
In the park, on the street 
even in the dark of the night 

But be wary of Miss palm 
and her five daughters!...

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There’s nothing goddess-like
about those moonbeams
silver glowing arch 
not of your back
soft and inviting 
but of your bow
cold and piercing
silent slayer.
There’s nothing to adore
within your face 
gleaned from marble
glossed immortality 
as you condemn with 
opal eyes.
There’s everything wrong
with my animal lust
stag in mating season 
wanting your body 
more than life itself 
denied by your
virginal lock....

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I have wished on the morning star
to help us find the way we've lost,
the kindness we gave without cost.
The love...it now seems very far--
a ship that's lost is what we are.
Beliefs have become wildly tossed...
I have wished on the morning star.

Entered fantasy--door ajar,
have ideas that in past were glossed,
a line that now can't be uncrossed.
We continue into bizarre...
I have wished on the morning star.

October 13, 2002

Rondine...

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In a spring that swept in nothing but frost
Breath bating, waiting, no warmth did it bring
Lifting spirits stalled with chilling exhaust
In a spring that swept in

No rays emerge like young sunshine offspring
Our patience was low, now seems all but lost
Each degree lower with less hope to cling

When our page turned, nature over us glossed
Like a bird flying south missing a wing
Halted we're here when she's ready to sing
In a spring that swept in...

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How could hands touch with 
such tender velocity! 
Eyes, with bolts of lightning, 
electric.
Yet have the softest, velvet
synchronicity?
That WestCoast night, hearts 
bound and eclectic

Your arms about my waist, 
in the windows, fog-glossed 
reflection.
A moment’s, Monet’ sacred 
masterpiece!
That cried out for human creation.
Of you, of me, to bring to life,
a being in God’s own time and divination.


                

               12/31/2021...

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abstract endings pacified 

  pedestrian beginnings, 

save yourself before

             you're slap-happy,

 choking on interloping bourgeois 

       mind-control subterfuge

   under a darkly cast spell of

plebeian sugarcoated reality,

  waxing tween whitewashed rainbow

        hues and unicorn attitudes,

  beyond uncompromising comeuppances

     from behind unglued glossed over walls'

                congealed mid exoneration's excuses...

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