Short Ledges Poems

Water crashing down
Sliding over stone ledges,
Flowing forward now....

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ledges of night wane

smothering dark corners--

 I hunt your fragrance...

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Teetering mountain goats
balance precariously on 
narrow ledges of loose shale......

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smiles without teeth,
hands that rub ones back leads to ledges;
allowed by words.......

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From upon a ladder’s high ledges
It’s time to trim up the edges
Each critical slice
Makes topiary nice
And forms the most pleasing hedges...

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Living along the ledges,
  life is about the edges

The meaning sharpens and cuts
  —the higher you go

(Bryn Mawr College: August, 2014)...

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Reflections of life gently flows
Time removes rough edges
A sigh;
There is continuance from throes
Water goes from ledges
To fly.

Edward J Ebbs - 03/06/2015


Written for a Contest, MEMENTO OF WATERS...

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Gothic creatures of old
  gaze down from their ledges 
    glaring at unseen threats.
       Grotesque legends of stone
    garner my attention 
  garish symbols ward off
ghoulish evil demons.




Written on 11/30/2016
Pleiades...

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to see hawthorn on the Summer hedges
bluebirds on the ledges of the low lying sill
 near the old cotton mill
bird song fills the air, chirping cheeping, caterpillars creeping.,
through the leaves of green 
glistening in the summer sun....

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I rode a painful trail,
because not doing so curtailed

Biting hard on Areion’s bit,
all else in life assailed

With blinders on I forged ahead,
whose route my will complied

Its ledges steep, all fear below
—my destiny astride

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Grandeur
And sovereignty
Poetic splendor wide
Lofty red canyon craters locked
Deep inside the ledges realm your eyes drop
Through colored portals steep to hide
The grace of this treasure
Timeless in its
Grandeur



December 2, 2019
A Red-Letter Day Rictameter Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula...

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To everything..
Turn, turn, turn
Standing upon this ledges edge
Uncovered as peering amid
The city lights below
Biopsies water colours..
Moments splashed about
This vestige of neons
Dissecting organisms hues called life ?
Time, seeking purlieu sorties
Reasons incised..
Lifted from the palette
Of brushed; their rhyme....

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M orning sun rises in multicolor splendor
O ver snow covered high crimson peaks
U nder speckled sky thin clouds saunter
N ever tired of flowing the stream speaks
T o the rock ledges in continuous murmur
A t the valley base lies the mysterious mist
I nside it hides the trees and their treasure
N ature awaits you to see what you missed....

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See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.

On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.

Look into the garden,
Where the grass was green;
Covered by the snowflakes,
Not a blade is seen.

Now the bare black bushes
All look soft and white,
Every twig is laden,
What a pretty sight!...

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Old sentries standing guard for centuries
Exposed rocky ledges staring outward
Like true natives with rugged determination,
Nature's hieroglyphics in emerald green
Reflect gold splintered sparkling gems
High above savage river's ragged edges,
Far below the sounds of rapids whooshing
Unaware the circling echo of eagle overhead.

written February 13, 2022...

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10.30.19


Suicide is real 


Anxiety
Building up
Crushing
Desires of 
Ever existing 
Feeling like a 
Gnat
Hoping they’d see me.
Invisible 
Junkie 
Knives call me, 
Ledges scream
My
Name 
Oh, come swallow these 
Pills. Having no 
Qualms about living. 
Ropes around my neck
Slipping
Through the cracks
Useless 
Varmint
With flaws on 
Xerox
You’ve counted me as 
Zero...

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Blistering thunder
Cracking asunder
Craters form
High ground being torn
Its ledges are sharp
Concealed in the dark
The rain blows in gales
 —ancient prophecy hails

Blistering thunder
Fate pulls you under
Vows you made
Point straight to your grave
Death’s legions await
You fall through its gate
Your last moment burned
 —no more chances to learn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)...

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Treehouses, yurts, airstream trailers 
Ticket to utopia
Velvet curtains, kaftans, capes
Come with me
Ladders, fire station pole, slides
Promises promises 
Cushions, hammocks, vesper breezes
Forget the thinking
Music, sounds of nature, yodelling
Sometimes yodelling... 
Mountain tops, goats on ledges, light snow fall
Ski lifts, snow angels, apre ski
Ticket to utopia 
Imagine imagining creativity...

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The gray granite outcroppings loom
masticated mountains blasted yet brazen.
Their jagged ledges and softer heights
topped with rust brown and burnt orange maples.
Fog distances them 
 softens them 
as they seem to overlap
Recede ..into semi transparent wash
like the edges of a tissue paper collage.
Each layer 	seeming to de compose
into the next    each symmetrically
more exquisite than the next…...

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Sitting here sipping upon a monster's energy drink
Trying to clear my mind that perhaps the fog shall lift
Her palette may appear this verse an image, something ?
Short nights long days still walking through yesteryears haze..
Upon a train unto nowhere at least within this life I would wish
Here, amid a world without inspiration ? Winding staircases rising
Towards empty ledges her paradox; vertigo's revolving doors bizarre....

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Redeeming Faith in God

Redeeming Faith – quiet companion of Hope
 Steps out on ledges where we fear to go;
Embraces doubt on stumbling feet –
 Strong arms of the Covenant - now complete.

A light through the valley where shadows gather;
 Arms wide open lead to Son, Spirit, Father;
Sends up shooting stars with blazing light -
 Strength in weakness – a nova so bright.

6-23-20
Contest: Let the Pens Flow - Rhyme
Jenish Somadas...

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Sky feelings
gently traveling
past rainbow ledges
away from tall grasses
that smile at the ruffling.

Sky feelings floating 
past majestic oak trees, the 
keepers of the aged secrets,
champions of the forest,

Sky feelings, approaching the 
fragile, dainty flowers
who rapidly conjure up their own
unique feelings

Sky feelings, looking for a naïve or mushroom,
who can retain the peace they
were asked to bring to 
the meadow....

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At the mountains in its span
in transition snow and landscape.
Night is dying with a lantern
at the rising reddish sun.

Shaky ledges, toppled boulders,
reminiscent of the arcades –
chasm and charming below cascades
free as life, beyond borders.

Edge of granite cliff is stern,
shy is at it growing fern
and the vivid new grass sprouted.

With a new life nature bursts,
myriad forms quench the thirst.
Song of nature is life bounded....

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As water rushes the river rock,
smoothing out the rough, sharp edges,
she dangles sun soaked legs from the dock,
while admiring the mountain ledges.

Smoothing out the rough, sharp edges,
borrowing innocence from bygone times,
while admiring the mountain ledges,
she toe taps her harmonic rhymes.

Borrowing innocence from bygone times,
she dangles sun soaked legs from the dock.
She toe taps her harmonic rhymes,
as water rushes the river rock....

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To everything turn, turn, turn ~

Standing upon the ledges edge; uncovered

As peering about her city lights below?!

Gathering in biopsies water colours

Moments splashed atop their vestige be neons

Dissecting organisms called life; time

Seeking purlieu sorties reasons incised!?

Lifted, from his palette of brushed; this rhyme....

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.."SwitchBlade" *...

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