Short Likens Poems

Something to read, discover the charcters.
A blessing. 
A hope.
Maybe funny, sad.
But, still, you are glad.
The heart likens it to a poem.
Read my friend and enjoy!...

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My wife contends I have no spine,
and likens me to wimpy toilet tissue.
What I fear most, and what’s at issue,
is what I suspect her darkest design –
to bend and fold and crease me
into a piece of artless origami....

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Inside the Keepers pantry
Jesus can stare at any mirror
Our lives have changed
likens the chaff of wheat 
The Lord is neigh
as truth wrestles amongst the shimmering trees
and we are guided by our missives
The green patterns of holly
roots our dreams...

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Constantly is one
Contacting you is keeping alive
And loving you despite the distance
Is a gentle rain
Rapidly to dampen
Loneliness that hamper and threatens
Thus,  energizing and maintaining
Our LOVE
And repotting, therefore is for existence
And likens a life supporting device....

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A mountain of faith
Like a mountain of dust 
A good gust of wind
Will banish all trust
Faith likens hope
Delusion to some
To others the vision of
Great things to come 
Foolish is he who stands
Twixt the two, for he
Risks the wrath when
He faces taboo
Better he sit's on polemical
Fence, than enrage the 
Faint hearted with no
Recompense!...

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African Spring  

The rain has settled
liquidy soil
ingested to wait
the blessing of Spring
nature renewed

mystical blooms
surround the veldt
in Africa
endeared by Sun

Clivia
yellow strength
likens Sun

waits for
its kin

Moon

Diminished Hexaverse Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
April 20, 2019

* This is a hexaverse poem but not listed on selection...

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The cactus is a joyless plant 
which to dry slopes inclines, 
and those who would engage with it 
are sure to feel its spines. 

But once in every year or two, 
the cactus brings forth fruits: 
and then its golden succulence 
its grimmer self confutes. 

Before the "chumba" pine swells up, 
the cactus flames in flower, 
and I would brave its fiercest staves, 
to see it in that hour!...

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Your life must have been worthwhile
You success is one milestone
Turning another facet of life
Likens a turning of a book of each page.

For every millennium
And for every momentum
Life after life, page by page
Is understood served well a purpose
Although its meaning contrive
Misleading a mission of life
Is just a page worn out of use.

You let open a dream
Strive for it leave no post mortem
All you did must conform
To your style and idiom....

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