Short Mahogany Poems

Of mahogany,
an acoustic guitar plays-
Hug a tree, fret not...

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Even with power of the red sun,
She could not destroy anyone....

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...strong, towering tree

   shawled soft in moist moss

   quiet dignity......

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Like mahogany, 
I am no longer free 
to create.  Inch-by-inch 
the square above steals fire -
now gold dust turns to vapour....

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haiku

majestic
mahogany tree - 
my old bed


04-29-2018

Contest:      haiku - Trees - 3-5-3
Sponsor:     Mick Talbot
Placement:   1st...

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Destiny beats kings queens like black drum
Rising to the challenge hard for some
Unknown forces of evil to overcome 
Mahogany strength comes from the son...

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Looking at the scarp
Of the mahogany cliff
Cerulean tides
Calm down the racing mind thoughts
Offering a peaceful state













3-16-2016...

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So many days, 
So many moons
Have drifted down and by
still and calmly.

Like these 
Forgotten kisses
Under the grey shade
Of Mahogany in
A summer day....

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Haunting, oh so haunting,
  Hanging --
On the wall over the chair;
  Hanging --
Made of ‘hogany...
Mahogany with human hair; 
  A relic,
      With an icy stare....

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Unfolding your 
Paper mache wings
Greeting this
Reddish brown
Mahogany wind 
Yes, sweeping 
These golden leaves, 
Swirling you, again
Around this 
Pink carousel...

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Ink
death rose
gothic mood
gallows bouquet
sweet scented aroma, grave companions
deep Mahogany, blood stains, velvet touch
doleful embers
charred petals
mournful
grief...

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aromatic and deep mahogany
decoction swirled with steam
a cupped nectar of rebirth
morning glimpses of heaven
first sip a remembrance
nuanced tincture
delicate demitasse
mmm...Mine...

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Unmistaken and unread
Words, walk, wakeup
Past the mahogany dresser
And the ruffled feather bed
Behind the sunrise
Where love speaks red
Words, walk, makeup
She is a woman
Unmistaken and unwed...

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The dawn's quiet benediction 
sanctifies the soft 
drizzle

     dripping through the canopy 
     of that majestic 
     mahogany,

          unto my humbly bowed
          head, quietly 
          anointing me!...

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sanguine arrangement next to a ruby glass candy bowl
geraniums crisp and ruffled, sitting on a mahogany desk
cherry wood vase with a scarlet plume next to crisp white paper
inspired to write my striped circus clown shoe poem...

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Those wide mahogany eyes, 
I cannot help but cling to, 
like goosegrass clings on,
too dear, may I hang out here?
just for a little while longer,
you know it’s freezing outside,
and I already seem to miss,
the crescent of your smile.
...

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Of the earth,
Mahogany hue,
Simple plan,
Swathed
In morning dew.
Unadorned husk,
Natural beauty dwells,
Radiant spells,
As encroaching dusk,
Dawn’s a new day,
Appendages beat their first,
Luster and splendor burst
And true colors
Ascend....

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DAYDREAM

Rainy April day
In the fog    drenched leaves drooping
All nature asleep
It’s Sunday morning o’clock
Kitchen dry    the coffee hot

An old hollow log
Mahogany in the wet
Lay in our backyard
My eyes hurry inside the gloom
Wonder    wandering...

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DAYDREAM

Rainy April day
In the fog    drenched leaves drooping
All nature asleep
It’s Sunday morning o’clock
Kitchen dry    the coffee hot

An old hollow log
Mahogany in the wet
Lay in our backyard
My eyes hurry inside the gloom
Wonder    wandering...

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Bonfires of autumn
Smoke blends with silver moonlight
softly shimmering
under mahogany skies
as crystal stars all sparkle

Colorful leaves flew
down yesterdays of our lives
on fresh, cold breezes
Hues December remembers 
like pearl moon's recall of gold...

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WOOD-FOX, A SCULPTURE

The fox has drawn a circle
around herself. Deep-red 
rich as mahogany. Who carved
these eyes so they etch
a silence in the room
as we go about our reading?
She inhabits a stillness 
between the words, a quiet 
that survives underneath....

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someone asked me to define the peace of ethnicity
I am just a Mahogany child
of Babylon
sitting in my tree
my grandfather planted this tree
I am sitting in my grandfather's tree
eating a strawberry
reminiscing
that is what peace looks like to me
I am ethnicity....

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Moew...
I wonder why
People use their bright black eyes
To glimpse the dim corner
Are they chief mourners?
If not...
why they keep crying on that mahogany desk?
Are they an actor of burlesque?
Or they only act as a deterrent 

Human-being is so...
Difficult to understand...

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Do you ever stop to think that you're a bus?
No I don't mean a vehicle that would go to toys r us 
I mean an actual bus
Thats a representation of all of us
They stop at red lights 
In spite
Of fights
Lonely nights
A low kite
A repetitive life
Green light, go 
And that's the show...

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Mine, full of old clutter.
But cultured!
Mahogany chaired.
Mantel-clocked.
Beneath whose framing's gold
As quaintly curved Age-locked
Grand pictured.

Laughingly echoed through
By contrast
Placing a price on
As worthy
Is this: of an open plan's
Nouveau riche buying spree.
Does not last....

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