Short Pliable Poems

Bamboo needs soaking
To make it more pliable
It's easy to bend....

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Nicolo Paganini
a violinist a he
With fingers so pliable
he a virtuoso fable...

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a lone jack-pine
carves a pliable sky--
the artist lingers


*See "About This Poem"...

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Quite pliable plump.
Makes soulful sough souffle sound.
Tonic topical unbar country funny....

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flowing and oozing
pretty silver, pliable
Gemini magic
eclectic with mystery
teases imagination...

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With fingers so pliable
Vivaldi violins play breathtakingly fast
In seasonal works ,written to last....

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their greenness is different than anyone else's
They have a sway that reminds me of a pliable back
I watch them waving and I smile...

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She was lava lamp pliable
Easily moved and positioned
Flippy floppy appendages 

Ridiculously compliant
Rare signs of life
Loud breathing

Danger of falling
Bed sore bound
Six year coma...

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Soft pliable clay, peels away with tools touch; cold and wet.
The sculptors’ eye sees life in the clay before, it reveals itself.
Scrape away the excess baggage and a new beauty is born.

...

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priority reconfigured 
authority 
we still considered 
caution
manifestation tranquilize
lives
slip through broken hands
stolen
magnified symmetry
infinity
illuminates coercion 
vulnerable
pliable all & whatnot
forgot....

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Back in her day, she had been a pliable kitten they said
Wondered about speaker’s sanity, had he landed on his head?
Two pairs of amber eyes followed me as I wandered from room to room.
I halfway expected these two to push off on a broom...

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The Willow


Rhododendron,
Baobab,
Methuselah.
Steadfast. Unbent. Pliable.
Wind. Water. Fire.
Arrow. Sword. Brick. 
Cupid’s missile.
Weeping Willow.
Rigid. 
Frigid.
A ladder. 
The tower.
Faithless Leap.
The salt water stings. 
Weeping Willow....

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"She dances she glances
Beyond her shoulder 
She peers 
Looking back
Her beautiful smile 
She poses in the mirror"

She swings, she sways
Pliable like a gymnast
With graceful ease
In frenzied joy
Like a droplet
On lotus leaf!...

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Memories turn to stories with time
And even happy ever afters end
Moments sift through our fingers
and dissipate devouring our lives
A tear so soft and pliable grasps the smile, the loss and the heartbreak
Pain imprisoned in a spherical salt cell
falls earthbound
and dies...

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I do not slither quietly under rocks
Unassuming and older, sure
Those who misjudge me
Rarely do it a second time

I am flexible, pliable, eager to please
Ninety-eight and half percent of the time
It is the other one and a half percent
That surprises you, sometimes taking a bite....

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metal hearts harden
ridgid rugged thoughts touch cold
firm resistant sharp
~
unbreaking inflexible
passions strong conscientiously
misogynating
~
firm now pliable
undeniable soft light
beats now soften heart

9/25/23
written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023...

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She was a doll
Compliant
Easy Going
Pliable
Unassuming
Quiet
Understanding
Compassionate
Until she felt she was being taken advantage of
Or she felt she was being manipulated
Or she felt like she was being used
That is when 
The claws and horns came out
And she became full-blown Pandemic Patty...

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There is a patchwork woven in where fingers 
once slipped through.
Rips knit together make a newer flesh.

A million brims and a million holes are
All pliable.

I've played with fabric and cloth.
I've dreamed of welcoming stars.

(But you unmend me.)

Touch me from within my sleep—
I feel no pain....

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looking for
just the right dirt
looking to
make brown sugar 
mud

finding 
so adding sweat
and spit and coming
along to take
on shape

kneading
doughish
needing
drips or
drops
more

to keep wet
pliable from
a bun to a
mud
pie

i create as
i speak to
try to make
a likeness
of you

my precious...

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Secret things in the heart
Is either birthing 
In the light
Or in the darkness
Both will be exposed

Clay that is pliable
Can be molded and formed
Into a chosen vessel
In a Master Crafter's hands

But Clay that is dry
Is put back into clay water 
In the hope
It will be reborn pliable

©? Brenda V Northeast    31st Dec. 2011...

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TREES

Everyone notices leaves
Displaying their annual cycle
Spring green to Autumn gold
When fallen, a russet carpet 

Trunks respected as guardians
Pliable branches, reach skyward
Bark, gnarled or smooth
Hides the proud rings of age

Roots never seen below
Stretch to grab the earth
Drawing moisture, their duty
The foundation for all above...

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After Dieting


Me, finally free
I’ve untied my hands
And let them explore
Greedily

Soft and rigid 
Hard and pliable
Textures and smoothness,  
Merge

Grabbing a succulent treat
My fingers  grip
The lurid wrapper
Twist

I shovel the chocolate devil
Through parted lips
Madness consume me
A.D.


For Dahlink D Guzzo's contest...

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Golden filigree font idly patterns the skin 
embracing the pages 
As softly as a mother 

Translucent, moon coloured, pages 
littered with emotion. 
And mystery. 

Pliable, soft to the touch, pages  
Turn silently, seducing  
quiet contemplation 

And oh, the end!  The end! 
That final page,
that final turn, 
triumphantly heralding
the sadness of a friendship finished....

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Happiness resides
with the unmuddied clarity of a peaceful mind,
in words that flow from the mouth like ripe fruit,
each syllable, sincere and bright.

It’s a potter’s steady hands,
without urgency, without an urge, you are shaped like pliable clay,
just a calm rhythm
of mind, word and fingertip in tandem,
soft and rhythmic, as if they’d been joined for a lifetime.

...

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When everything is about to crumble,
Retreat,
When you are sheltered within that pliable form which surrounds you,
Stay tacit,
If all seems as if 11:11 will never reach your life,
Speak out,
When hallowed words strike with a silver tongue,
Battle,
Fight the fights you wish to win,
Never let yourself down or give yourself up,
You but know you before you can begin to be you....

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