Short Hewn Poems

When ore
New hero
Hewn ore
Won here

Here now
Nowhere
Own here
Oh renew...

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Golden, Aspen leaf
spirit of painted horses
Hewn logs Cabin, fall...

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Linear form hewn from tree	
cold to touch
of bare feet

© Feb 22 2010      Charles Henderson...

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She rests her feet on crescent moon,
the shadow of a pearl, in June,
distant sky in lapis hewn,
her ivory starlight wishes strewn....

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here  i  stand
roughly hewn
from  a  block
lifeless    too
excavated in
tawdry   glint
eye  collapse
with consent...

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The scream of the tree hewn down
Is drowned in the chainsaw sound.
In the silence afterwards
All is known
In the blood
On the ground....

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hewn 
stones 
circle
me
raw 
ancient
power
now
medicine
wheel
sacred
directions
clock
wise
sun
wise
renewal
love
illumination
experience...

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For weak rhymes not hewn strong enough
A stick and straw’s not the right stuff
Who’ll huff and puff blow
Down constructions we know?
The editors howling so tough...

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Instrument
Of His death
Hewn out cross

New cave tomb
Never used
Borrowed hours

Angels wept
Paradise
Awaited     


Form: Tricube
Written: January 30, 2023...

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fall trees sacrifice

                               blood orange leaves, nature's carpet 

                                                              over wood hewn steps






Written on 10/21/2015...

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intense . . . to begin with, belayed by hours
hewn soliloquy through obverse platitudes
benign, betrayal among friends, in grounds
of open mouths, a kraken of tongues regale
upon which bar the cocktails finally arrived...

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Moonlight dissipates.
Soon dawn will break.
Hewn out in the sand,
Dunes take shape.

Seagulls glide over seawater,
Free to reach the heights.
There is beauty and there is grace,
Each possesses in their magnificent flight....

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nature’s gallery 
	rough-hewn graven images ~
		sculpted windowpane

Inspired by but not entered in* the Ice, Snow or Frost Haiku Poetry Contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin

*I was just too dang slow in deciding which one to enter! LOL...

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how precious were
          these little blooms of life …

hewn down by such
          a senseless form of strife …

pray we can change
          this world to one that’s sane …

so these sweet lambs
          will not have died … in vain....

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Don’t you see,
 A battle rages
Away above the grasses
The mighty trees throw spears of air
And bend to dodge the blades
Or cones where thrown by lordly pines
As cut by edges hewn like hands;
These lush and greening splays
Appendages of bows
The warriors, donned of moss and fir...

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The Cross is our crutch: we are lamed and maimed,
Crippling sin in our soul,
Defiled and scourged, our faith defamed,
Golgotha our gloried goal.

The Cross is a bludgeon for smiting down
Death in his sable gown.
It’s Roman-hewn and Jesus-borne,
Encircled with blood-flecked thorn....

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The Cross is our crutch: we are lamed and maimed,
Crippling sin in our soul,
Defiled and scourged, our faith defamed,
Golgotha our gloried goal.

The Cross is a bludgeon for smiting down
Death in his sable gown.
It’s Roman-hewn and Jesus-borne,
Encircled with blood-flecked thorn....

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July soon followed the sixth month of June.
Sun blazes brighter and raptly warms.
Clouds may burst by late afternoon
and oft spin wild thunderstorms.
But, sky and sun commune
to embrace their norms.
For late-night boon-
darkness forms
pearl hewn
Moon.
...

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The writer, the reader, and the writing. 
The lines that divide them are marginal.
A symbiotic relationship built upon words.
An author blazes a trail hewn from letters.
Traveled by the readers, great and few.
To each find themselves at the same end.
This road we venture alone and yet together....

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It stood where it always had;
the top slightly worn and bowed
like the man who had hewn it
from the ancient gnarly Oak
he’d chanced upon in the woods.

It bears on its ancient top
photographs and eulogies
of the man who had hewn it.
Gone now, the cares of the world
he’d carried upon his back....

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A complex tapestry,an orgy of
audacious colour,beautiful,
true innocence in poses and postures
rough-hewn purged from the mind.

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Bubbled glass in green
lit with tongues, electric hewn
now sit empty, brought down from the sky
in line on his antique armoire
The sun still remembers them
and kisses their skin
their insulator breath like a fire within
Breaking my walls 
in reflections electric
passing the days with no purpose....

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lips like waves
wielded wounds wave
callous curls hewn
by dark dews
taunted torrent puke
per punctured prune

crazed coziness cluster
felon fondlings fostered
rustic reels registered

heaven's eyes seeped
dripping damped weaves
locked liquid lease

such sassy trend
carved emotions' crest.
     '20:02:27:14:15...

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One must ascend approximately
Ninety-eight hewn stone stairs
To reach the hell that is
Forgetting what it means
To live at the bottom of the hill
Or one may forgo this education
And travel swiftly up and down
By automobile
Naming this purgatory life
And eternal bliss a television
Viewed from a leather couch
Artfully turned away from the window...

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callous crimson crept
etching crisp crest
hanky' surges sworn
plied pulpy pawn
dark dribbles reincarnated
rusty reels cremated

felon flames moan
cussing cupped clone
bruised biddings thrown

loquacious wind wielded
spanked saucy shredded
hewn syllables welded

tuned taunted tiers
of the fire.
'20:04:03:18:54

Note: Of The Fire....

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