Short Heirloom Poems

the long journey
away from your memory
heirloom roses...

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senryu

grandpa's hand drill
replaced by a battery
male heirloom...

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Whispered lullabies
Dance through nights and memories
Eternal heirloom...

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cat sprawled upon a wicker heirloom
perfect blend of humble and attitude,...

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Kind heart always win
An heirloom ring lost and found
Returned, rewarded....

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The cherry blossom
Known their early bloom spring
Japan's pride heirloom.
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obvious fake
priceless
Grandma’s ring

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(C) John C Michaels, March 2017...

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Listen to poem:

iridescent pearls
rope of beaded memories
family heirloom 


Pixabay image by: Myriam-Fotos...

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In sacred gardens,
your heirloom roses ascend,
the chipped-paint trellis—
in yesterday’s reflections,
where petals fell long ago...

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basket
pink rosemaling
spreading endless sunshine
treasures lovingly shared again
heirloom...

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bland, tatty, old vase
no monetary value
mantel’s pride of place

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(C) John C Michaels, March 2017...

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Today I’m thankful for Indigenous wisdom
wisdom that needs to be respected…

The earth is not a resource to use up…they believed
It is an heirloom to be treasured and protected...

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Memories

Renewed by scene

A heart carved in sapling

Mighty red oak thirty foot high

Heirloom  

Memories can be pronounced mem-o-ries or mem-ries...

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Day 
is night's heirloom
after-day
a ransome of Macoutes

The sculptor 
is a grave who
paints Pol Pot
in red costume

Someday
history may well explain
this violent shortage of coffins....

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Mama got the pot
at her neighbor’s garage sale
sixty years ago.
It outlived her and
will feed her son, and his child
and his children’s children
long after he’s done using it
as his snare drum....

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victorian jet
long string of well-crafted beads
treasured memento

sepia image
with grandmother wearing beads
past elegance viewed

my own photograph
wearing the same string of jet
family heirloom...

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LACE
Ornate
Rich  texture

A jeweled pattern
Draping fine elegance
Of Mother, exquisite bride

“prized heirloom from time's love story”



Clarity in A Treasure Box
Contest hosted by nette onclaud
28th June 2016...

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A knitted quilt lays on my bed's divan
Needled by Grandma, generations ago
Its wool fiber pliant and wide enough
To keep the family cuddled in bonfire eves
Sheltering me now, her heirloom's gift.



C T Contest: Wool
Jan 17, 2016...

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Harry is heartbroken,
his wonderful mother
has died. He passes her
heart shaped gold locket to
her great granddaughter. She
hugs him and places the
heirloom around her neck.

Contest  H Pleiades
Sponsored by Kim Merryman

02 18 17...

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For
The love
Of moonstone's
Lucent beauty
A treasured heirloom
Promoting clairvoyance
And intuitive feeling
Hanging on a graceful décolleté 
Where its luminescence gently rests
Superlative Victorian Moonstone....

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The earth is shaking and fire everywhere
The wind sounds like a trumpet in the air
Words from the mountain ablaze in the stone
Now lay in pieces with rubble and bone
Forever adrift in the veiled black space
The golden record whats left of this place...

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If for poems, you have a knack
Punch them out, and don’t cut slack
For fame is just one measure
That marks a poem a treasure
So keep on gifting poems uplifting
Well deserving of preserving
Each one placed inside some album
For descendants as an heirloom....

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The antique barn has treasure, junk,
Stacked together in the dust,
Some worn-out tools, and one old trunk,
Massive padlock sealing it with rust.

What hides inside? Some rare old book?
Heirloom brooches of old gold?
We pay five dollars, and we look—
Rotting newspapers, must and mold!...

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I hear serenading songs of summer swallows
and ruffling feathers of roosting starlings.
I catch the sweet scent of heirloom roses 
that have not yet budded upon the bush.
All these things I know have been given to me
as surely as I see you standing before my eyes....

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He is slated as a loser, why?! 
By whose standards is that measured by?
By what ambitions he ought to abide? 
Is there a normative success guide? 
They have excelled but wait a minute -
Their gain is not his loss or is it? 
No grace in how much one can consume, 
Humble and true is human heirloom.

April 23, 2023...

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