Short Metamorphoses Poems

          reddish butterfly
           fated metamorphoses ... 
          beauty is fleeting ...

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the utmost love of all
 is the one that transmutes
the loved one into you 
and you into the loved one...
That's when the coupled
,metamorphoses into one
by the merger of love...!...

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Transforming square peg
for a round hole,
a bird nest of an ark
holds secrets within 
each crevice.
Surface metamorphoses,
in flight a snowy egret. 



2-12-2022
A STRAND (1072) Poetry Contest
Brian Strand...

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smile seeped'n acme
crushed by punctured
moaning metamorphoses met
rustic switch rent

grotesque grips gaunt
tumbling twain taunt
oozing odds sprout

saucy sauce swell
damped smirking dressed
felon fosters fell
 
smile's salient reincarnation
spanked saucy alakazam.
    20:01:18:11:11...

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SOMETHINGNESS
Ugly, shapeless, formless:
Amoeba metamorphoses 
into concrete images;

Dark, void, hollow-hearth:
Dim cave metamorphoses 
into residence of light.

Dungeon beggar hobnob palace princes:
Nothingness metamorphoses 
into somethingness

©Angel Simon 2013...

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COMING ARE THE LEAVES BECAUSE IT’S NOW FALL

coming are the leaves
fall fully at autumns breeze 
just at those colors

coming are the leaves
those reds, yellows, brown-orange
metamorphoses

solid green leaves now…
changing from red yellow brown
because it’s now fall 

10/17/18

written by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2018...

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Italian olive leaves metamorphoses now
Into exotic flowers beautiful burgundy
While another sycamore's exotic honey boughs
Reflects its gold from mirrowed glass organdy
Until the acorn spice tumble and fall from zephyr windy  


Sponsor:Russell Sivey
Contest: Autumn, Fall Colors
Written by: Sara Kendrick
August 23, 2012...

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hoity heist healed
cremating callous creed
dark tumbles drool
bounty bills booed
lanky lists shred
wanky wills wept

mystic metamorphoses moaned
crumbling, crushed clone
cunny crest thrown

bruised concerto bled
sassy syllables crept
twain trail crest

porous past punctured
tampered tunes tortured.
    '20:03:25:18:23

Note: Dedicated to Oscar Wilde....

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wielded wits wept
bruising bounty belch
felon feelings fetched
taunted callous cleft
hoisted hurts bled
moaning mist melts

meagre metamorphoses squashed
pluming punctured prank
tolling toiled trance

masticated memory lurched
basked coup's birth
vying voluptuous verge

braced ocean breaks
drown drooling mistake?
     '20:04:23:17:47

Note: of pestered picture....

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wet wits worn
perforating pulpy pawn
pestered passion puked
cremating clipped cruise
hoisted hankering drooled
felon fate bruised

meagre metamorphoses moaned
spurring sassy sow
gullible gifts grown

dark diminuendo birthed
dribbling crescendos fitted
rusty rhythm rusticated

felon ambiguity flown
by blitzkrieg blown.
      '20:04:17:19:26

Note: Of airy ambiguity....

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tamed tragedy wept
whooshing wail crept
vying voluptuous trait
callous comedy create
mystic metamorphoses moaned
felon form cloned

like taunted torrent
rustic waves rent
hoisted horizon etched

same spell scorched
and tuned touches
fostering felon form

dark drama danced
into traitorous trance.
     '29:03:22:09:17

Note: Dedicated to Aristophanes, the father of Comedy....

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The genesis of its life;
 Inadvertent step on the toe.
 The little dark seed is planted;
 A spark starts a fire.
 An enemy is born.
 The valley of the shadow 
 Of unforgiveness;
 A fiery way for hatred
 Roasts dark
 The heart borne out of purity
 Of the creator.
 Desperateness to kill
 Metamorphoses the pious.
 A sword is wielded
 By the hand
 Of the new-borne
 Into the dark kingdom
 To do the avoidable -
 Revenge!...

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The theme of this poem is leaves;
Beautiful lateral structures
that dress the deciduous trees;
ephemerals one can’t ignore.
We first set eyes on them as green,
Protuberates on limbs in spring;
Next we see them as indigenes-
Transpirational living things
with various shapes and sizes.
I myself favor the maples
Their many metamorphoses:
various colors one beholds
in late summer and early fall
their greatest splendor above all....

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Sweet-n-sour pours
from heaven’s ethers;
the taste of crimson and
citrus metamorphoses
and a lemony-sugar
tipped with ginger
plays across the palate.

Mind to body and back again
neurons dance in 4/4 time
to the flow of colored
syncopation;
taste of lavender
and pink cinnamon-coated,
 rose hips;
yellow chamomile soft,
relaxing and savory.

Pour through me,
a rainbow of flavors
caressing my soul.
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Spicy smell metamorphoses
in the garbage.
The same chunk that stimulates 
the taste buds
induces nausea. This is a bin
of dual relief.  
As the darkness falls on the bare
reality, an arm 
stretches through the hole
that nobody tries 
to caulk. The stray man picks up 
a gnawed chicken 
leg bone, a scrape of fried mackerel,
some steamed rice 
mixed with reddish yellow curry...
He recycles the 
junk. Hunger can burn away
any disgust.

First appeared in The Literary Hatchet...

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