Short Poises Poems

Specks of fire  flies by

Flickering amid shadows,

Glimmering fireflies.

Lone vibrant beacon poises

On steeple leaf in darkness.


3/9/2022
 

'Firefly Tanka ' Contest  
Sponsored By:	JCB Brul...

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Haiku Trilogy 


Fox poises mid-step

Rabbit scent tantalizes

Mouth waters wildly

 

Eyes peer intently

Haunches crouched, slung low to ground

Biding time to spring

 

Mountain lion growls

Padded feet part tall grasses

Hunter now hunted

©R.Selena Howard-Rowland,2012...

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Dying red roses

The love I lost reminds me of dying red roses
Bleeding colour on a marble headstone imposes
One day records someone’s death into visual noises
Perfect except memories always remind poises
Kill or be killed is the ritual we practice resources 
Feeling pain is all about the colour of dying red roses...

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With flashing lights 
And eerie noises
On many nights 
With astonished poises
People look up and see
A UFO, two or three
An abduction story
In every group
Attracting glory
- a press scoop!
Funny how these frequent visits
Of flying saucers and other spaceships
Only find one place to stay
And that is in the country called the USA...

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thin-shelled orb of fragrant poises
brought by God's aesthetic hands of divine voices
sculpted to mould pleasure
painted to colour fainted lives
formed to give rhythmic dance above the zephyr's gust
in a blink - NOTHINGNESS came

" like bubbles LIFE is just a matter of a wink of an aye ... all will end ...all will vanish "

~ no bubbles will last a lifetime ~

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Back Creek Sounds 
Rhythmic wave crescendos, 
Like dynamic static of radios, 
Tinkling and gurgling noises, 
As liquid over rocks poises, 
Ospreys shriek at laughing gulls, 
Slapping water on slicing hulls, 
Burping diesels add staccatos, 
Winds strum mast-stay legatos, 
Sails fill or flap by whispered pressure, 
Bouys gong in the background with hauture, 
As my toes on the sand go crunch, 
Shouts my stomach, “Seafood for lunch”....

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A small speck of dirt on my floor
is worse to me than brutal war.
Gritty grime and nauseous noises;
ruin Perfectly prime Poises!

Once you're put together we'll talk,
I'll watch your details like a hawk.
Oh, us early birds get the worm,
if you're late, you'll make me squirm!

Foul bluntness never held my charm,
radicals just cause all alarm...
Life should be like a golden scale,
Beautiful balance never fails!


Beth Watkins
ALIGN WITH YOUR STARS!!
06/05/11...

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The zephyr breeze disturbs the leaves
through pristine forest trees,
and water gurgles over rocks,
while coursing to the seas,
disputing shrieks beyond all sight,
as if there is a riot,
yet with the gloom I left behind, 
this does become my quiet.  

Thunder bolts though distant now,
are carried on the cloud,
a rustle made in dying grass,
can be a nervous loud.
Sombre tones of crackling fire,
may well fill the night -
where natural balance poises,
this quiet I will not fight....

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