Short Honed Poems

I bared my insides,
you sharpened knives on my ribs;
cutlery, bone honed....

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the old year now fades
with this pen honed by your hands
sonnets from my heart
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Kestrel
Focused falcon
Honed huntress hovering
Adjusts; stoops; lands; dispatches
Raptorial...

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God is
a finely honed machine
You are born 
just to be replaced
Your smile
will smile once more
But on someone else's face...

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Truth thrives in contradiction
  the difference sharply honed

A neither nor redemption
  as zero-sum is known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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Knowledge whispered in hushed tones,
he listened in silence and concentration all honed,
he now whispers to others-who may or may not listen the drone.
 
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May you be honed 
and strengthened 
by the humiliation
of occasional defeat.

Yet, in triumph,
may you shun urges
of chest-thumping
arrogance and conceit!...

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To pierce today’s attention span,
fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust
—one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017) 
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To pierce todays attention span,
  fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust,
  —one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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Specks of honed firelight
Grinding out the light of times
Flies run in the dark
Lighting up the night spaces
Bringing harmony to night

Russell Sivey
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Squeezing out a different meaning,
with each new moment passed

The choices honed, all time dethroned
—no instant first or last

(Mackinac City Michigan: July, 2019) 
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The winter has honed its attack.
“I'm freezing!” my butt shrieks alack,
as up climb the freezes
from toes passed the knees-es.
It's so cold my foreskin grew back!

12/30/18...

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When the morning lark has honed its  silver chirp,
a dream-like canvass floats into a higher octave,
setting passages alight with sun filled prospect as eternity dissolves its outer limbs....

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A combination of Haiku and Kyoka

designer originals
from feed sacks
after the chickens were fed

her artist's touch
honed with the aid
of her foot movement
on the treadle machine

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When I was single and living alone
Cereal curbed my tummy’s moans
Eating Cap'n Crunch
Breakfast, dinner, and lunch
Was a cooking hookey I honed!


10/4/11
Received 2nd place in "Cereal Limerick" contest...

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Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One with
Earth Mother
Ever on call
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 Love in Friendship

Don’t neglect a friend,
Especially in times of difficulty
Friendship is the foundation of real love;
Giving advices and confront each other-hold the hearts together.
A love honed through friendship lasts for a lifetime!

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may you, in cowardice,
    be bold and prevail,
         yet kind to those who
              struggle, stumble and fail;

may you be honed 
    by occasional defeat,
         yet, in triumph, shunning
              urges of conceit!...

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What is love?

The Bible and the bards have long since honed 
 A perfect exposition of this force,
So though my heart this power of love has owned
I'll simply, such discerning words endorse.





Sponsored by: Faraz Ajmal

07/08/18...

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Grass waves in trembles, all alone

Beyond the trees

Long shadows creep from twilight's throne

Beyond the trees

Where sun takes leave and stars are honed
 
Nay a whisper, nor farewell tone

Beyond the trees




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For Deb's Contest:



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Promise
Moon held and made
bathed-beams of love sonnets
dried by sun's own romantic pledge
of streamed warm rays on love's future solace ~
As days then nights honed my prayers
my pain slow climbed sky stairs
and found you there
Promise




... CayCay Jennings
August 31, 2018

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In crystal maze, 
miracles are honed
from mother milk 
and father bone~
Memories cackling,
mocking faces of time
uphill flowers brutal climb
suckling from sparkle sky...
at pinnacles of their breath, 
gently wither into death.
Memories roost silently
in sediments of time~






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One moment east of twilight
Shadows outdistance the sun
Sharpening peaks and hallows,
Honed against the sparks of light.
Deep in the brow of the silence
I stand to watch the moonrise,
Overtaken by the dark





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For Contest : 215
Sponsor: Brian Strand
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  Kiss my eyes 

with your lips,

inhale the visions,

peel ing strips,

cataracts

from all the years,

layered horrors,

gathered fears,

gently excise with

your blade,

honed down from

the love we made,

clouded corneas 
of pain

to

let me see 

love's light

again....

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I imagine you with the ten inch chef’s knife honed to razor edge

My eyes closed against the fear within, weeping for the danger without.

Your tender silk soft hand clenched tight ‘round the haft, a lily white wedge

Raised above my chest as I sleep, to plunge right down, hoping that I do not shout.
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