Short Hushes Poems

Adulterated foods are
In many markets!
Money hushes the police!...

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moon hides 'neath the clouds
as rain hums a song tonight
hushes thirsty earth...

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In whisperd mountains,hushes the smallest cry, 
and suddenly all what is freezes....

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# 2:

mist hushes throes of lament as kin's shadow leaves...my breath fails to rise.

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as night falls
on the landscape
a veil of silence
hushes all
in calm and beauty



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on September 23, 2022...

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It brings beauty,
It brings joy.

Beauty, love, stregnth,
All of these it brings.

It hushes the songbirds,
It quiets the forest.

It fills me up,
When I hear the notes....

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A place that gives wings to my dreams
And hushes my fears, worries and screams
Where I’d develop stronger wings to fly
Rising so higher, touching the blue sky
That I dream and pray it ends not as dream...

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Day-after-day the widow
"listens out for the ordinary" 
and hears only susurrant voices
until deafness overcomes her

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
April 21, 2012

Inspired by Jan Oskar Hansen's "To Be Alone"...

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Sky ornate with starlit shimmer, 
a pallid moon leers through a smother of cloud.
Wind in sporadic subtleness hushes through a clash of trees 
as a lulling stream in synchrony 
entices one to harmony  

Deep within im smiling....

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When we speak
some whispers 
sense a hiss,
encumbered hushes
say nothing...
When we ask
how chances lost
remind us why 
Each sentence tears
a willing smile down
If by chance again we asked
...nothing good
would emerge...

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a velvet brocade of ultramarine
hushes melodic whispers stirred from the gardens
where lovers prolong their goodbyes



AP: 2nd place 2021

Submitted on November 11, 2021 for "U" contest sponsored by CONSTANCE LA FRANCE - RANKED 5TH...

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ice
brushing..
repeating...
it's winter song..
snow falling, twirling
a lonely sparrow cries
frozen vines turn to windchimes
scribbled trees in vision withdraw
ghosts are singing in the blizzard's roar
an ice river hushes in frozen awe....

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we're so out of touch
there's no life outside our sphere~~~
hands touching bodies

time hushes to hear
expressions of love's longing~~~
nothing else exists

surging while merging:
two bodies becoming one~~~
sweet oblivion

Eileen Manassian...

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Putting cards in a play box
Treating wise men to joys.
Looking sideways at an old sock
Beating tin cups on toys.

Imprinting faces in the carpet,
Sleeping soundly, bum in the air.

Mum picks me up, loving me quietly,
Hushes me to lulling-land, fingers through my hair....

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...  in the rhythmic swishing 

          of the ebb tide hesitantly 

               leaving the sandy shoal,

                    something there hushes 

                         down  the turmoils, tremors

                              of the tormented, weary soul ......

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In the house of criticisms
the wall is lined with mirrors
echoing reflections of those
who brawl, spewing hate
and criticisms that stunt
progress or emotional evolution,
The house quakes from the
venomous quips, that are spoken
in hushes, traveling to the hearts
of unsuspecting souls..........

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Romantic shadows of
Luminous love
Lend intense warmth
To a midsummer night as
Sensuous fragrance,
Shimmering moonlight,
Combine in nature's backdrop
While a quartet of flutes
At the water's edge
Enhances spectral mists and
Hushes soft laughter
For a moment of nocturnal tranquility....

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In the rhythmic swishing

   of the dawn's ebb tide 

      that hesitantly leaves 

         the soft, sandy shoal,

            something there hushes  

               down the cold turmoil, 

                  the trembling, the fear

                     of the weary, urban soul....

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Long walks at night
A cold breath freezes my soul
The moon warms it up
She shines in my body,
But my blind eyes cannot see it
I was told she had a face like a clock
She spots the thieves by the garden wall
She hushes children
And charms the flowers 
to close their eyes
Until the rooster sings his song...

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I just wonder why
Woods are moving as I passed by.
I hear silent hushes from the swamp,
It’s like gentle beat in my mind
My rhythmic footsteps
Crunches of dried leaves
A calm wind floating
Let me fly and feel the air!
Giant leaves in the forest
Filled with misty fogs
Coated with mystery
Such an enchantment....

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He walks into the bar 
Like a movie star

With swagger 
Out pouring the lager

Topped by a mop 
Of such mythical proportion

It hushes the crowd 
With its absorption

More adorn
Than a unicorn

Waving a pompadour 
As big as a brontosaur




9/3/2019

Swagger Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier...

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Birds bedded down. The cool air circulates.
Whispers of crickets. The black noise hushes.
Yawns give way to tears - the ducts erupting.
An autumnal wave crashes over me.
It’s obvious how seasons come and go,
as mom’s settled in purple urn - the ashes
keep; without incandescence in her sleep....

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Woman, you fan the fading flame of my mortality.
Nestled here in your warmth, blissful, soft serenity

that soothes and hushes down all hurt rememberings
of triumphs lost, of losses gained, of untold sufferings.

The spell of your charm seduces, to treachery leads,
as I grope, as I fumble about, as my lifeblood bleeds !...

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A bright and beautiful blanket of snow
Silently hushes earth below spring shows

White heavenly glory this covering brings
You’ll see its splendor uncovered in spring

Earths radiant colors will then unveil
New life within this warmth revealed

The blanket lifted will then expose
The warmth and love that God enclosed...

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artic chill
     of polar snow 
storm censor

black ice 
     hushes 
moonlight nomad’s frozen
     scream

Date created and posted : 7 October 2020

Contest : Writing Challenge - Septolet Form

Sponsor : Constance La France


NB The artic chill conditions are a metaphor silencing and censoring the excluded homeless nomad....

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