Short Pealed Poems

The laborious art of sealing the deal
   ~ Complexity's layers successively pealed...

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A Storm rolled across the field,

Flashing lightning and thunder pealed.

The rain came crashing down,

and I almost nearly drown,

cause the top of my tent was not sealed....

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 Her lover's kiss
 Fell on her cheeks like gentle rain
 Her lover's kiss
 Filled her with ecstasy and bliss
  Thunder pealed, sweet kisses again
 Heartbeats pound with passion's refrain
 Her lover's kiss

 4-23-2025
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by Michael J Falotico

                                               layers of a heart..
                                   pealed back like fruit from a tree..
                                            deeper the sweeter.....

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I hope I am appealing to you
See I am big and yellow not blue
You hunger for sweets
I could be your eats
You pealed and ate me all up ~ who knew...

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There is a sadness soothing to the soul,
And with its smoothing, Herakles made whole.
And deep within him, pealed a bell,
And those who hear, must harken well:
For from the void, its rhythms swell,
And all contrivance shall it quell!
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She tiptoes on the brink of lost love,
Her world declining open emotion
While an orchestra echoes her sorrow--
Alone,  the ballet dancer curls
Not a bright face appears-- just teardrops
As the crowd stands in pealed ovation.



Contest Brian Strand 263
17 Jan 2017...

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I 
knew
your woods
through every
quiver of bonfires...
although our music pealed a wind
flamed  evensongs   quickly  languished,
cleaving my breaths into dry twigs; and hushing a faceless moon
                                                                 with your shadow-dance flight.




Contest 235 of Brian Strand...

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No mercy shall be shown to those lie above
Kill them, burn them, into the hell the must be shove
To those who are happy must be in pain
In cruel world above, the corpses must reign

From the land of love to lad of hate
They shall rust in here, be our puppet
Their blood shall be spilled, burned or killed
The war has begun the bell must be pealed...

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*Image of Shoreline Sunset by Pixabay.

Moonlighting In June

Doctor Jekyll's special starling,
shortly pealed off, started snarling,
molting inside,
till speaks Miss. Hyde,
"Tough to be out cliched, darling."

2022 June 04
*9th Place*
The Moon in June (Choose One of Five Forms)
~~Andrea Dietrich: Judged 2022 June 12

*HMS: 8,8,4,4,8...

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I’m in my mind
but after being out of mine. 
You found the guy I hide. 
So eyes are pealed for rustic stays.
I will bag up what you planted for me 
just to give you, your better days. 
For you I saved. 
Now my spending’s grandiose. 

Sunshine and showers. 
   



2/17/18               'Sunshine and Showers' Contest
                                 Sponsor: Robert Haigh...

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The maids danced in the floral field.
So pretty were they in the sun.
Their bashfulness was slow to yield.
The maids danced in the floral field
With happiness while church bells pealed.
That happy day was filled with fun.
The maids danced in the floral field.
So pretty were they in the sun.


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1/24/2017

Contest - January 2019, Week 2,
Any Form, Any Theme

Sponsor - Brian Strand

1st place win...

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Nothing Lasts Forever

Weathered clapboards count death’s cadence
bleached bones of faded lives
rusted bells hang limply – silenced
mourning beneath long tearless skies
sad emptiness when longing dies.

Once, bells pealed, come hither
bright sunshine kissed love’s tower
none felt the doubtful shiver
one heart condemned to cower
blood stained - within the bower.


©1/15/2018

submitted to – 10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme II – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Laura Loo...

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