Short Heaped Up Poems

A winter forest
Frosted leaves lay heaped around
Hedgehog sleeps within...

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crystal clear cute cubes 
heaped into hills, frills, and flakes ---
white carpet around...

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Serene

in a garden,

bronze Buddha sits smiling,

unfazed, heaped w/ new-fallen snow

again....

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yearly grain storage
too tiresome modulation 
over spilling crib

 
shaken a little heaped flat
housewife's face overflow smile...

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Buddha cast in bronze

--- heaped high w/ new-fallen snow ---

smiles unfazed, dwindles

cross-legged in the garden

under the sky's vast length, breadth....

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Sweet potatoes, special cuts,
 Grandma's spices, nuts,
Raisins cooked in every bite.
Flaky crust baked light,
Cool whip heaped up high.
Thanksgiving –
Pie!...

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rough gray stones uncut
heaped upon a rugged hill
anchors for crosses 
precious those stones became the
day Christ's blood dripped slowly down

Copyright, November 8, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Sweet
Strawberry jam
Sticky gooey gummy
And warmed up it is the most yummy
Heaped up on toast is what I like the most
Baked up fresh in grandma’s oven
Delicious on ice cream
Strawberry jam
Sweet...

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Where does it go?
…spun around
it lands on me
it is mine….
the jealousy, the hate, the rage
where does it go?
spun around
it lands on me
the joker’s laugh
heaped on my head
a sadistic enterprise
a revenge?…....

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CLOUDS


    Compact aqua masses.
    Cumulus ! The heaped stuff.
    Cumulates water drops.
    Constellate in dense form.
    Clouds gather and roaring..
    Covers sky to shower.
    Cluster of clouds melting....

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Love laughs at life,
Scorns the scourging whip of years,
Dulls life’s sawing knife
And watersheds its tears.

Love smiles at death,
Soul withstanding soil,
Heaped upon the flesh whose breath
Expires. Love’s Death’s foil....

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Love laughs at life,
Scorns the scourging whip of years,
Dulls life’s sawing knife
And watersheds its tears.

Love smiles at death,
Soul withstanding soil,
Heaped upon the flesh whose breath
Expires. Love’s Death’s foil....

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There once was a fair swanky maiden
Who each week at Weight Watchers weighed in
    Her whole new attitude
    On her arm fresh tattooed 
Heaped desserts no more for her laden



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on October 16, 2018...

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Good Morning!
Creatures, crawlers
Goblins, grass, grazers
Roots heaped on trash
Life flowing above
Flowing underneath
Life flowing through death
And spaces beneath
Dazed dreamers
Crazed lagoons
Dancing daffodils 
All seasons in bloom...

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Seven/seven, my birthday,
my family will fete me.
No need for costly gifts,
they bring loving hearts.

Memories will be renewed,
many old stories retold.
Praises will be heaped on me,
their love, all I need.


6/21/14  Written for "A Positive Contest"...

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I am the master poem. 

I express a clear and genuine emotion 

using a fine vocabulary. 

I am the product of a moment of clarity 

and several teaspoons of pretense. 

I have no flaws, unlike the trash heaped around me. 

Give me five stars, slut....

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Everyone cheered as the fire was lit
And innocent laughter surrounded the Guy’s pyre;
As crackling flames engulfed the stuffed figure sitting on top of it,
A hedgehog hibernating below, in the heaped dead leaves and briar,
Did not survive the children’s bonfire.

Guy – an effigy of Guy Fawkes burnt on 5th November...

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Warm leather once danced on happy feet
Now cold and still abandoned by the wall
Lovers strolled along moonlit paths
The pairs now long gone into the past
Children played joyfully in the park 
Those shoes are carelessly tossed
Young and old marched to their death unshod
Leaving behind empty soles heaped high...

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Heaped in the same organic embryo 
Forget the last ditch effort
To choose beyond the pail
Trading thin-ice thoughts
For a politeness to perpetuate 
The flimsy manner of excuse and apology

Your relationship to One
Like the poise of a rising Sun
That same energy to give or take 
Stacking collapsibles or elbowing for some space...

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Here comes the county snow plow down the street,

     He will clear the street of snow and that's neat!

         I'd scooped snow, how I did strive,

            To move heaped snow from my drive!

               He just grinned dumping more snow at my feet!

Entry for Charles Messina's "Same Word Winter Limerick" Contest
(6 January 2019)...

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To________
Music ,when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory...
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves , when the rose is dead ,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed
And so their thoughts, when you are gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
As the moon glows upon trees 
The birds will sing a song so pretty only 
To____...

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Within the filing cabinet of your mind,
there is a drawer of broken promises.
Best of intentions to sort into an order of some kind,
the need to do it, you swiftly dismiss.

Your own broken promises thrown in with those of others,
create an untidy, heaped mixture.
A closed drawer neatly covers,
Yet in your mind a permanent fixture?
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You don’t look much like a strawberry, moon
But you do look like a shortcake in June
Round and gold and waiting for that sweet mess
Of strawberries and syrupy sugar, oh yes

I can sort of see it now, like a summer dream
Of beaches and carnivals, heaped with whipped cream
Now you’re gleaming white and clean as an empty plate
Right in front of whom I sit hungrily and wait....

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Sky filters through scant woods
printing a cold sunlight on shadowed tree trunks.

Only December has this light,
it both scours and forages,
it scythes away all heaped-up flotsam.
A December wind,
sings its own death song.
Ice hangs unseen upon the air.

The woodland acres shimmer,
then tremble upon a long fading note,
one that ushers in
last rites and other mixed blessings....

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Love, you are my dazzling light,
In times when life seems very blight. 
Love, you are my armor shield,
When conscript caught me heaped.

Love, you are my stunning beau, 
In middle of heinous view. 
Love, you are my very soul, 
When things got into toll. 

Love, you are my forever, 
In past, present and future. 
Love, you are indeed my half, 
That He gave me to fill my gap. 



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