Short Lengthening Poems

Pine and pond
Shadow across the water
Lengthening the days...

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lengthening shadows
reach out to discarded
eucalyptus bark...

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A hawk swoops past my
Feeder lengthening the food chain
On Sunflower birds...

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Deadly cold stone shouts
At the lengthening shadows
Prasing his Great God!...

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see him 
west
ahead 
faster than sun 
see you 
east
behind 
just beyond 
lengthening shadow 
stand still 
ninth hour
watching 
both ways...

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It's  here,it's everywhere

Fogging up the place
Crowding up my space
Echoing in my mind
lengthening the time

What's here,nothing only

#So lonely...

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Michael Degenhardt noted the short count for my first Pine and Pond haiku posted today.  
Here is a possible revision:

Pine beside the pond
Shadow across the water
Lengthening the days...

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Hair falling off his scissors
Stopping the lengthening 
But not the aging
Blackening hair with his dye
Stopping the whitening 
But not the hair dropping
As the system of nature is
Irreversible...

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Topsy turvy lives,
we lead.
We rare ones,
a special breed,
not all can be.
Sunrise is sleep, 
mid-day slumber.
The moon, our luminary.
We awaken 
with lengthening shadows.
Hallway haunters are we....

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Thus will the pagans party
knowing cold cannot
defeat their sun
cheer wildly
as lengthening shadows
strain
to touch the symbol
of their joy
once more mark
the return
of their sun

John G. Lawless
12/21/2020...

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undulating mounds of snow and ice
with fissures arches and caves
give way to an ever lengthening day

before a golden sunset
the chrysalis of spring
begins to crumble

an intrepid tulip springs forth
poking
through a blanket of snow...

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Surrounded in primeval wood,
In awe of fern, and flower--
I attempted to delay the night
By lengthening the hour.

That day might last a minute more,
Till my pondering was done--
Delaying, and for beauty's sake,
The setting of the sun....

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golden hour..

as afternoon darkens

lengthening shadows

bright indistinction

fading to boundaries

deepening feelings of

past times and

bittersweet joys

 this storyline

words of emptiness

love expressing

golden hour......

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hotdog
                                             bun lengthening
                                             juicy sizzling fresh
                                       grilling boiling firepit cold
                                                    campout...

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She comes gradually every June.
And hides behind the summer moon.
Shines on us with brightness and glee
Forgetting that darkness wants to be.

Knocking routine and time assunder,
Waking us up in awe and wonder.
Lengthening days and warming hearts
Til Autumn comes and she departs....

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In the sordid sky above my wasteland life,
clumps of gloomy cloud hovered glossless.
In their lengthening shadow, 
a desert grew in my desiccated being.
In the dune of my devout desire, 
God made an oasis for me.

______________

April 26, 2023
Contest : Bite Size Contest No. 62
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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shimmering shafts of thin shivering light

     streak through and softly shred behind me

          the whole length of my lengthening shadow,


as I face the breath-taking, blood-red horizon 

     of the darkening dusk, and as I gaze grateful 

          at the heaving halo of the sleepy, sunken sun....

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Like a frightened mouse, away he darted,
but he's soon back to where he first started;

         and furtively he glances back in fear,
         distant, lengthening shadows drawing near;

                    his confidence torn to shreds and tatters,
                    only being scared now crucially matters!...

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Before the day turns into night
Bullfrogs quietly rehearse their “harrumphs”
Dragonflies draw slowly closer to shore
Mosquitoes hone their epees
Bats line the runway awaiting take off
In the lengthening shadows an owl rolls its neck
As field mice roll the dice
A lone muskrat leaves no wake
The marshlands chorus warms up
...

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Iike I  dimly recall now
  gratefully doing long ago,
    once again I shall gladly bask 

     in the faint light, heaving halo
        of the sunken summer sun 
          as thin shimmering shafts 

            cut my lengthening shadow, 
                but there was a time I guess
                  I was happily shadowless !...

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Shadows of Evening

Distinct and lengthening
Shadows of evening
Allow a discernment of 
What by habit we notice
As separate:  we and shadows
And an external fading light..
Herein lies an evening insight:
We seem to live as shadow
Not recognizing that we are
Not formed without Light
And we..as shadow..are 
Only shading of Light......

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Something in the historian slant 
   of the mind instinctively mulls over 
      ever-lengthening, darkening shadows
         of all that comes to pass and fades away.


Its pondering, contemplative yet leisurely, 
   soaks in the acute clarity of the present
      then watches it recede and trail behind
         to form part of the landscape of hindsight....

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An afternoon prepares you
with lengthening shadows
that cool and leave
you listening to the hum
of air alive with wings
lifting to where
somber canopies open to sky
and in the evening
with stirrings that stretch
in the corners of your quiet
and there, under moonlight,
you hear its trembling presence
drawing closer, closer,
yet never near enough
to reach....

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On the twilight backdrop rinsed by the rays of the setting sun, 
where I give the final strokes of brush on the edge of canvas, 
my landscape is illuminated by the divine glow of eternal light, 
and I see me in the lengthening shadow bigger than myself.

(Stanza taken from : Something Bigger Than Myself)
October 28, 2020
Contest : Liberum Divisa 2
Sponsor : Gregory R Barden...

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The day is brrrry.
I stay inside, drive everywhere I go.
Longing for my birthday,
Groundhog's Day,
and all that comes after.
The melting, the warmer winds,
the lengthening days, 
the things that bring
the depressed spirit back to life.
Window-staring,
watching the layered, coated people
walk shivering on the sidewalk.
It's almost time.
The season of shorts will soon arrive.

1/22/2013...

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