Short Marbled Poems

A marbled temple

to harvest of fresh caught fish ~

the priest geneflucts....

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A blue marbled sky,
High morn' moon,
Roosters crowing
      and chatting chicks,
Listening to cogs
Falling in clicks....

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your sweet smell of love
fill my lungs
 till they burn
I stare into 
your marbled eyes
into a trance
far beyond my wanting...

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My soul of marbled stone,
my body, flesh and bone.
My God, my great sculptor -
will chisel my dead soul,
and one day make me whole.

01.03.2024...

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Prime Rib

Prime rib bone in, marbled fat
Spiced with garlic cloves
Smoked slowly on a grill with
Mesquite wood chips till
Center is slight pink
Melts in my
Mouth!
...

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Statue of Eros, beheaded. 
Genitals gouged by offended Christians.
Gaze raptly at the dimensions of the cavity. 
Imagine the marbled masterpiece
Of his more sexual face....

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ringed with marbled dreams
passions are subdued
in the soul of time
be still - listen


live
a smile, a tear
at this hour of dawn
by you lies my heart



quat sequ 2 or more quatrains in sequence...

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You'll find her up a steep game trail
strewn with slippery stones
marbled with metal
lightning all around
yellow eyes off the brambles.

At the end-you'll find a mind of flint
and a heart that strikes the match.

...

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a renaissance 
  pieta piece
a touch
  from our Lord
so
tactile

marbled sculpture
Frescos,
painted so bright
  fresh as yesterday
a
 work of art
suspended above,
   in space
poiema
gifted
 by 
God's grace...

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Hedge holly,pearl bordered
chalk hil!,common,marbled white
in small heath,marsh,
silverwashed..
ephemeral fellow...betwixt
a milkweed speckled wood
and a meadow clouded yellow.

A tribute to the UK butterfly species...

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The Nile drifts restlessly in fresh woodland
Babbling over rocks and marbled edges…
Like a goddess in search of her old legends.




2/17/2016
PD's Contest:  River of dreams 
(three liner poem or 3 monoku) ...

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hand cups a breast
fingertips trace lips and thighs
learning curves of love

crescent lid of light
In frozen glass marbled eyes
penetrates 

Yoke, spills, dilates sun
Noble thick mourning tears
Drop, slip off a dome sky...

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(B)lue Jay in a flock
(L)and in the Cherry Tree
(U)nder marbled color skies
(E)ver so bright with the snow

(J)oyfully jumping together
(A)round on the ground
(Y)esterday left some seed to be found

Heidi Sands

12/20/20...

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inspired by Malia’s poem ‘crack the code’

the unspoken poems
are the loudest
the ones you don’t utter
the times you don’t bother
symphonies of silence
votes of no confidence
trust marbled with rust 
what’s become of us?

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charted chains
slaved remaind
oppressively
re-gained
staind
love
my
eyed
rolling
marbled
on
the
floor
green
greenhouse eyes
effect on breath
taking all mine
am i blind
myself
had to
know
look at me now
broken heart
on
a
plane
charted chains
?...

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Pale brimstone
on days windblown
hover flower to flower
ducking Spring's sudden shower

Common butterflies so blue
each season,two generations new
small heath,argus,marbled white
&speckled brown,slow in flight

Winter's caterpillars green &small
fragile miracles,to enthrall...

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she lost a marble

ran downhill to catch the fall

slid the slope and bruised her knees ...


found hidden treasures

near the spring of bouncing hope

drank from the source and marbled



01st November 2020

contest spina sedoka

sponsor Nette Onclaud

memory of youth...

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Alley cat sitting
On a fence post, in the dark;
Movement in shadow,
Catches his marbled, green eyes;
One leap and dinner is served.

Such a feast will last
Him and his friends, a whole day;
Opossum will fight;
But, alley cat’s determined
One leap and cat is the meal!...

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Pale brimstone
emerge on days windblown
hover flower to flower
ducking Spring's sudden shower;
Common butterflies so blue
each season,two generations new,
small heath,argus,marbled white
and speckled brown,so slow in flight;
Winter's caterpillars green and small
fragile miracles,to enthrall....

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Meet a gender bender.
There was a precocious 
revolt.

A cryptogamic kinship.
Someone writhes 
ecstatically.

A god writes a hymn 
on the chest of
a new born baby.

Beyond the origins
lies a marbled tale.
You have reached nowhere.

Inflammable was
the blue birthmark.
There was an arrival.


Satish Verma...

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On raised thorny stilts
Marbled lampposts, lifted eyes
Clawed leaves for soft filth

The spider grown fat,
And hard, and round, and callous 
Like hogs, blinds the sand

I know my species
The same purpose fits the flies
The outer shell lies

Barrels hiss with us
Clambering to scuttle time
Gravity's dead claw...

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Globes of amber, sky-blue, sage,
what they’re thinking, one cannot gauge

In sunlight, marbled crescents glow, 
snake-like, rodent’s worst of foes

Evening’s dusk, hunting hour, 
Pupils black, their depths devour

Sleepy, languid, hypnotizing, 
Curious, cunning, and conniving

Twin moons, dark illuminates
Cat’s eyes always captivate...

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Re-post inspired by Rose contest

MIRACLE OF FLIGHT

Pale brimstone
emerge on days windblown
hover flower to flower
ducking Spring's sudden shower;
Common butterflies so blue
each season,two generations new,
small heath,argus,marbled white
and speckled brown,so slow in flight;
Winter's caterpillars green and small
fragile miracles,to enthrall....

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Those sparse promises are put to bed
Yet they ripen like a lie
The County Kingdom
is made from last years chancers
Darkened coaches reach their destination
Our smokey trails
are honed like marbled mantles
Predictable success are nothing
compared to the chirping of the birds
Call Summer a lie
Those bright mornings
folds its wings and flies
I cannot sleep...

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A COUPLET
Once, in the past
by you lies my heart

A TERCET
Ringed with marbled dreams
passions ns are subldued
in the soul of time

A QUATRAIN
Be still - listen
live
a smile, a tear
learn suffering

A CINQUAIN
At the hour dawn-
loneliness...
The wind dissipates the mist
separation..
Autumn is done

Inspired by the titles of Trumbull Stickney's work...

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