Short Lapped Poems

Salinity shores
Lapped by waves from the past
Heavenly skies grace...

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Sugared diamonds 
sweeten a day by the sea;
Laying all about,
Pure white delicious beauty; 
Slowly lapped up by the waves....

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Tears stained her good skirt.
Lapped child, he’s fair hurt.
Kissed knee with first aid.
Soft wiped the laud dirt....

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Prone,lying side by side
Lapped by an ebbing tide,
Together upon passion's ride-
In love's embrace enlocked
This watershed,no longer shocks....

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The flood waters lapped all around
Leaving not very much dry ground
So we all rowed home
And got The Road Home
Raising our houses up off the ground...

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Ole Blackie the cat lapped his chin
his Ma had put milk out ag'in 
he'd brought her a mouse
and left it right out!
she saw it and screamed, then ran in!...

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I once tried some camomile tea,
It was bland and tasted like pee.
‘Twas lapped up by the dog,
Who then snored like a hog.
From then on, was just beer for me.

Jack Horne for Francine's Beverage contest, 29th October...

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I sit on a rock
Looking faraway
Where the ocean meets the sky
Forming a huge circle

I hear 
The sand gently
Lapped by waves

A gull flies by
Glancing at me with a smile
Seeming to say
Isn’t ocean vast and beautiful?...

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a grain of sand
cannot enter the water
without creating a ripple
and she is more than that
and I am more
than I might have been
because of her entrance
into my life
her ripple having moved through me
and lapped every shore...

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weak seek middlemen
church, temple, mosques
offering solace to the fearful
who pray and offer penance 
lapped up by hungry ghosts
leading to entity attachment 
reinforcing imaginary shame
thus holding us in bondage
in a prison of our making

09-January-2023...

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Karma lapped me 
for the eight time
[possibly nine]
slapped me on the 
shady side of life...
left jagged streaks of black and blue
up and down the flanks of my false pride.

I though I was playing in a sandbox
but in fact it was the heart of God...
time has turned into ticking scars-...

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Take me to Crete,
or take me to Rhodes
Please Mediterranean 
me in my soul
Salt me in waters
which lapped at the feet
of every sentinel
army's defeat
Blue me in atmospheres
sun up my core
Forgetting me there
makes me just want it more
Take me to Rhodes,
or take me to Crete
Please Mediterranean
me to complete......

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Bitten

bottom lips bleed

as passion breeds

entwined breaths

exhaled

  tongues in lapped content

stolen visions sent

shivers scrape her spine

tonight that trust is mine

teeth naw a blushing raw

soft whispers feign

 a taste~her lust~insane

nights holding back the day

the lunatic's at play...

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"Foggy mists engulfed the bright
 When raindrops fell throughout the night
 The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
 When sweethearts kissed at Lover's Park"

Waves gently lapped the shore nearby
 as we embraced, my love and I.
 My fingers touched my sweetheart’s hair.
 It felt like silk, so soft and fair.

Stanza 1 by Charles Messina...

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 Castle Dreams 


"O'er thee, like thine own sea birds 
       I'll circle without rest
     For me earth holds no corner 
       To build a lasting nest."

She of long ago, alone
      as I
    she, buried in my heart
             as waves lapped
a word or two of mine
    sea birds dropped upon
 her lonely thoughts
   thus entwined...

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my favorite place to be
our legs intertwined
bodies over-lapped
arms wrapping a loving embrace
my favorite place to be
your tender touch
the light in your eyes, sparks my soul
my favorite place to be
bodies and souls melt into one
the world fades away as our eyes fall to rest
my favorite place to be
awaken to greet the day with you by side
my favorite place to be...

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Creeping in to crash
in a surge of turbulence
and a crescendo of froth
the tide returns.

Endless eternal crashing,
eons of smashing into
rocks worn smooth
as obsidian.

Great lava rocks thrown about
by the shore now lapped in calm
as out to sea the building
of another cycle begins.

Slowly it builds
growing in heighth
building the roar
to engulf once again ...
Forevermore....

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Spurned faces muck in the dust
Raised by ceaseless motion
Of cyclical concerns

Waves settle in lapped sounds
Falling into synchronicity
On the line of the horizon

Plummet line sun draws tight things
Moon soothes caress, balm of the earthbound creatures

Clouds fly slow fast
Petrified in yawning quick glory of surprise
Breakthroughs

Drawn up and through
Splayed upon the dimensionless
Foreground...

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Remember when Dr Pepper was first introduced?
Of course you don’t, but your grandparents might
The advertisement was terrific
You can drink it hot or cold
It will make you feel daisy fresh
It will greet your guests and do your homework
Our parents warmed it up on the stove
And we lapped it down like kittens
Now they have strawberry Dr Pepper
I am running to the store now.
I imagine by now it drives the car for you....

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...and the warnings rang strong
...and the cauldron wheezed
...and the magma lapped at strapping branches,
genetically equipped, with a passion,
for protecting the bulb
...and the poet rhymed on

...and the emperor, Nero, has resurfaced
...and the swinging, singing, stinging swarm 
cycled back

...and the funk of it reached fecal proportions,
surpassing sweetness of rotting racoons
on the roadside 
...and the poet rhymed on....

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Down by the bay, 
the Canadian goose flew
Landing on the green grass
Watching everything go by
It stood without movement
As if to wonder about its flight
As the water lapped the shore,
Reflecting the skies so blue
An old place for me, 
now seemed to be new
Colorful boats are docked
Near the stage for bands
Those summer nights I visited
     - Here I am again -
Looking toward the lake
As I sit and wonder too ...

Heidi Sands

9/20/19...

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Stalwart, salient, silent,
broader arms release / embrace 
our metered miles. 
Measured with the tenuous touch 
of when to now.
So paused, we then invent, somehow 
this time of shimmering moments.
As the darkness of dusk is lapped 
by the edge of the day, 
heads all bowed, the new nuns pray,
faces bathed in the blue-white 
spiritual light of i-phones;
angels walking this new earth 
with faces wearing the crowns 
of haloes that have slipped down....

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Her meringues make me water 
pristinely pure with elegance 
so sugary sweet 
offered up a special treat 

eyes fall out of focus 
as delicate swirls entice 
cobalt blue biding 
interpretations 

tantalized, lips licked 
a simple teasing 
and pleasing 
of the tongue 

nibbled, flavours seduce 
every taste savoured 
lapped, loved, and treasured 

making each morsel last 
never letting another 
precious moments pass...

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I stood upon the shore and stared,
I stared far out to sea.
To where the horizon met the sky
In perfect symmetry.

The shore, it was desolate
A lonely place to be.
Seagulls called in plaintive cry
As though they pitied me.

Alone, I listened to the waves
As they lapped upon the sand.
How I wished that you were here
And we were hand in hand.

But you were taken from me
It was not our destiny.
So there I stood, on my own.
Just staring out to sea....

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The tree branch crossing needles.
Bushy with white rays.
Perched, an angel topside.
Glowing to the gaze.

Ornaments of glass.
Pressed transparent shapes.
Strings that dangle, spin.
Memories in napes.

Skirt below the tree.
Draped and lapped and snug.
Packages on top.
Hovering the rug.

Light bulbs glowing bright.
Bulbs of shiny glass.
Currents flowing faster.
Still to eyes that pass.

Frosted stalky tree.
Towering it tapers.
Rows of magic branches.
Visions turn to vapors....

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