Short Pleated Poems

cheerful azalea 
enormous pleated pink face 
brings tropics to yard...

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silver furrowed brow
warm streams seep through pleated seams
shrivelled folds bleached white...

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A ripple in time creased and folded like an origami pleated neatly in my heart 



Feb 19 2023 
A Ripple To Me 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: JCB Brul...

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lacy ruffled gladiola with your dainty ways
made of a gorgeous pleated crepe, you take my breath away
describing you would be a win,
where to begin? Where to begin?...

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your short pleated skirt
is out of date long ago…
oh old fashion dreams

31.05.2019
Writing Challenge 5, May 2019, Senryu Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart...

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As striking a picture, leaf-twirled
A little off the ground
For a colour movement
Autumn-rich skirts, pleated and whirled
In both the folk dances
Scot and gypsy present....

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Her tangerine wallet
    clashed with her marmalade purse 

  Purple pleated pedal-pushers
    just made things much worse

  No eye had she for integration
    her colors smacked of segregation...

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in your accordion pleated folder
you file me away
like just another bill
you have extra days to pay

watch out for the late fees
if the check isn't mailed on time
it can cost you plenty
but it is a victimless crime...

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pleated mountains peaks
     clockwork waterfalls
       chiseled crevices
  pressure etched artwork
      cascading timeline
         gliding the dial

3-25-2021
Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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prancing in the forest
not expecting lively
finding it anyway
twelve ragged edged florets
umbrae of lavender

periwinkle spider center
lying in the woods like a discarded faerie
pleated but not pleading
creating a fey fantasy
of mystique and life...

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A Wish For Spring

a finely pleated skirt blossoms
on a just new Spring afternoon
then rushes back to wrap around legs
strutting free of silk stockings
bare feet glory in fresh green blades
recently pushed above the earth
suddenly soft mist of rain scatters all....

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Autumn trees burnished with silken robes
Uniform, Katsura lobes glow with cherry strobes
Twinkling-orange, Sugar Maple stars; brimming mother 
lode
Unseemly, brown-spotted, White Oak pinnates; fools gold
Majestic, yellow-crowned, Aspen leaves' pleated folds 
shimmer
Notched, White Ash lanceolates bathed in purple gloss 
glimmer...

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Girl in red, a dress
                 Pleated down to her knees, skips 
                 Down the lonely street.

                 Man in black beret
                 Sunshades set on face, striding
                 Down the narrow street.

                 Girl turns, sees this chap
                 Hurries her steps, man does so too
                 Girl runs, man runs too....

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Sacredness, suspended clown.
Some wearing golden crowns.
Happy songs jump and twirl.
Spin and hop, pleated swirls.

Color mixture flowing blend.
Tumble sault, flowing silence sends.
Painted frown from skidmore.
Laced slums, funny lore.

Playful red cotton ball.
Candy wonder, canvas falls.
Whistle blows in center ring.
Six new clowns to sing.

from my poem book - DREAMS...

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drum majorette
with her kick high boots with tassels
short pleated black and white skirt
oversized gold-embellished band hat

leading the ban on an autumn day
homecoming parade for a small town
promptly put on little girls’ perpetual pedestals

not recognizing this is the best day
she will ever have in her life
not anticipating her fatal car wreck tomorrow.
her grandmother waving and taking photos!...

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some things are plain to see
when your eyes are clear
comparisons and judgments
withheld from passions lair
shackled to old memories
chained to what is lost
on a shaky bridge to tomorrow
what I held and what is lost

I sift through the pieces
of what was not true
my accordion pleated mind
filing traces of you
you sleep in the bed your made
it was all your choice
while listening in silence
to what once was my voice...

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Stiff pleated fronds in concert rise
to wax under the April sun 
and trill their canticles begun
in verses jade that they comprise.

Chartreuse of thorny branches splay
a tumult to belie the grace
that on display they interlace
like rose stems on a breezeless day.

Atop the thatched denuded bole
gush fountains cast in cardamom,
an opalescent diadem
that glistens on the mossy knoll.

In thus exuberant array 
do cloistered peacocks mime ballet.

1/20/18...

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Time to go

Spires rise above the clouds
gleaming gold against
the rainbow sky.

Pressed and pleated uniform
stylish on his shoulders
but he doesn’t know why.

Last thing he knew
it was time to go and
see his father and mother

Time slipped away as
it often does and keeps
us from one another.

This latest job he
finally got, he has
worked for all his life.

To guard the Pearly Gates
keeping an eye on Earth,
protecting his God and wife.

Created 15 Jan 2018...

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