Short Hollows Poems

Empty Orange Bird Haiku

River takes on night
Floats, orange bird covers flight, dark
Hollows, void on void...

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Chinese whispers
up and down
round and round
spins
effortlessly
into unguarded
hollows
deceived
beginnings
ends at
destined
trickery....

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In the depths of the hollows
The prominent eye watches
It sees what goes on around
Knows the hearts of man

Russell Sivey...

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Natures beauty we bask in and wollow
Pops of greens lined with gold hollows
A mirror like image shines in the water
Mountains run tall as to the sky follows...

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Besieged by a storm
The skull of death lights the night
Show of disaster
Lightning hollows the insides
Of her shallow beating heart

Russell Sivey...

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                                       Jack Frost on mountain
                                      Overlooking hollows hills
                                        Sun_Jack disappears...

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I feel the heavy rivers' flow
I am the silver river
mettalic music
over moss and stones
left alone 
I fill the hollows of your soul
finding my way back to the surface 
of the sun
in your eyes....

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Hollows suck deep inside,
Growing strong with every tide,
The mouth of hollow lies below,
Where monsters live and sadness flow,
When I fall, they eat me alive ,
While they dance, I crawl to survive!...

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Nodding smiles in Jester's torture
Nothing escapes the fallen tree
   Close my eyes in hollows hiding
Desperation saddening...


Contest-- Arbitrium Divisa 2-- by Gregory Richard Barden 7/17/2019 
2nd Place...

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You are formed of the wind
That bears your name

In the breathless hollows
Of the gale
I hear your song

Like a Siren culled
From an ancient storm
It calls to me

And I am loathe
To turn away
And from you flee...

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my shallows

my
shallows
swallows
theres depths
dripping them
in
my
pools
breath
breathing
more than
time has left
ban me there
ban me here
words
don't
care
in
the
hollows
of
my
shallows
?...

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Take a
Trip to
The holes
In heaven
War without
A war to win
But these
Spaces between
It’s rapidly
Out laying lines
A magnamonious
Expansion
Left places
Between
Hollows
In heaven
Strangeness
Contained
In a coin...

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soft peony clouds
ensconced with wet petals
drops of liquid sun
pools in earthly hollows
reflect sky and earth as one



(June 19, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin USA)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Early morning shadows like mists
Creep across the lower ridges
Settle down into the hollows
Like the pervasive poverty
Of the hill country.
By noon the mists have lifted
The shadows receded
But poverty remains.

written September 8, 2021...

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Concern of his “how long he lasts”
Deserves loud laughter.
What matters is how long he lasts -
Before and after.

To be precise, the charming part, 
That hits the Gold spot, 
Hides in the hollows of his heart - 
She forgets-him-not. 


May 21, 2021...

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If only we reach in the hollows of our soul
Where no-one but we ourselves can go...

If we dig beneath all the truth and lies
If we open up to what it really implies...

We can search a life time trying to find
What was in front of us the whole time...



03/02/14...

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Why are you found between the silences after culminations of art?
The pianissimos of ballad chords
I whisper a song beneath the hollows of my lips with eyes closed as if to pray.
And as if to say: 
You are everywhere.

As I ghost bolero alone with mannequins made of air....

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...inspired by M by Seamus Heaney


Her cranium, its bumps and hollows
cradles secrets stored beneath,
neurons firing, never tiring
of their journeys to belief.

Thin vibrations mold, embolden,
prophecies, cunabula
suffuse the soul, engage the spirit
of the tortured Akhmatova....

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A desolate shore reaches,
its gritty scree taunts
a green and tumbling sea.

Breakers slap an
umpteenth juncture.

Kelp sea pods dilate,
foam swirls in the shingle,
barren wombs drink.

Krill churns out
of a sandy dross.

Waves carry their children away....

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...inspired by 'M' by Seamus Heaney


The cranium, its bumps and hollows
cradle secrets stored beneath,
neurons firing, never tiring
of their journeys to belief.

Thin vibrations mold, embolden
prophecies, cunabula,
imagine then the soul and spirit
of the wondrous Akhmatova!...

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In the hollows of a long and dreamless night,
The soothing beauty of a dawning twilight
And tired sighs of a homeless train passing by
Keep me company in the loneliness of this high
And I speak aloud to the crowd of whispering trees,
“I’ll live to find peace before I die from this disease.”...

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In the hollows of my being
mental photos move about
doors attempt to shut out
what was already  in - severity
plaster walls sharing testimony 
with squeaky floors
warmth mingled with kerosence petals
ancient melodies oozing hope
ties of embryonic attendance 
anchors of strength obtained...

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The Challenger Deep.
The deepest point in the ocean.
What bizarre creatures live in the murk
Of this part of the Mariana Trench.

Creatures that never sleep
In the sea's endless motion.
In ancient hollows they lurk
Deep in the Mariana Trench.



*Inspired by a wikipedia random article*...

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Thy wooden heart
Stands unloved 
Within the hollows
Of the forest despair.

Bare limbs reach 
For passions 
Still longed for.

Rooted deep 
In dying heartache 
My tears
Unable to nourish.

Dreams of sunlight
into dank soil 
Now immersed…

Thy flourishing hopes now
In flora decay....

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...dedicated to the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

Her cranium, its bumps and hollows, 
cradles secrets stored beneath, 
neurons firing, never tiring 
of their journeys to belief. 

Thin vibrations mold, embolden, 
prophecies, cunabula 
suffuse the soul, engage the spirit 
of the tortured Akhmatova....

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