Short Polishing Poems

Alabaster blue
Angelically mirror the sea 
Polishing the shore...

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polishing Dad’s car
Sun tea in a Mason jar....
searching for north star...

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just like life tests a man
water will wear away the stone -
I'm polishing the line...

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polishing of golden calf

with ebony hair
— wipes Christ’s feet with tears

1/26/2018...

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Big Green Apple

Utterly honest and 
open big green apple addicted to 
substances used for 
smoothing, polishing, and 
cleaning.
...

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Santa Claus was in a tissy,
At this time of year, he's always busy.
Frantically polishing his big sleigh,
He forgot it was Christmas Day....

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we're all born with gifts
life's about unveiling those gifts 
living involves polishing those gifts  
love's about uplifting others with our gifts...

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polishing pieces
                               fragments of a broken brain

                                       spinning poetry







MagiCicada17...

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flattery and compliments oozed out of her
she would apple polish a weirdo, a cur.
a suave sycophant of the nth degree
her nose as brown and smelly as an eye can see...

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Geo is an apple-polishing sycophant.
He’ll kill you too, says hard-of-hearing Grandpa Grant.
Confusing sycophant with psychopath, I guess.
The next family reunion is a horrible mess....

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Teachers are supposed to be polishing gems.
but instead, are cracking the gloaming of innocents. 
Judging children by their race
when all they want to do is to play.
Jim crow is cawing for souls once again....

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daddy’s stepping out
mother Russia reach around 
polishing his throne

***

According to Alnur Mussayev, Trump was recruited 
by the KGB’s 6th Department as a spy in 1987, 
and given the nickname Krasnov....

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flame polished
my
hands are wet
polishing flames
of
regret

names abolished
my
plans far fetched
abolishing names
a
nest

fame demolished
my
demands star bet
demolishing fame
at
best
?...

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                                                Caressing waters
                                          Clearly polishing the rocks
                                                Mimicking our lives...

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You performed
superiorly well
Magnificent, they yelled for you

You Dreamed
Certain utopia
However, only you will gain

You militant
Got crowned
Warm, your sitting place stays

You made
this society
servant, to polishing your shoes...

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Dentist

While polishing some canine teeth
and cleaning out some gums.
the werewolf bit down viciously
on the dentist’s thumbs.

Although he bit him brutally,
nothing will transpire.
The patient was a werewolf,
but the dentist’s a vampire!...

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Purple unicorns prance into my mind
Polishing up ideas
Worthy of a princess

Followed by kittens wearing toothbrush hats
With smeary feline smiles
Diabolical laughs

Trixie takes over immediately
Pirate queen gives them the boot
She is ready to play!...

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Suffering sautées souls
Peeling away the impurities 
Revealing the obscurities
Redeeming even polishing
Character like a crystal 
Creating out of clay
A great new display
Despite mud of former day
Wiped and made
Shiny and new
A pearl birthed by world...

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Wanting
twin lips of a viola.
Sun 
polishing the dagger.
Death was only feet away.

A seething ocean 
of mirrors
unmakes the bed.
You sleep in shoes 
like a *****. 

Naked as a moon 
the hand opens the gate.
Sheer feline 
night moves in
purring.



Satish Verma...

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Rumi said,
“Polish the mirror of your soul
that it might better reflect God.”

An antique hand mirror,
the leaded glass is warped,
its wooden and carved frame cracked
yet keep polishing it.

One day hope to see
what has always
been in front of your face....

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The Goliath reaches deep underground,
grabbing a hand full of coal
Crushing the black rock in his huge maw,
polishing it to gleaming diamonds.
Flinging the treasure into the ebon sky.
So at night we can look heavenward,
and enjoy  a million stars
 in a midnight sky....

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Take off your mortgage and remove your career,
stop polishing your act.
Stop taking stock,
stop the clocks 
and open the locks.

Let me in
let me in,
let me in 
let me in.

And let me begin where you end,
let the footsteps fall,
a path to amend,
and you,
friend....

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when
rain tumbled
the skies they blackened
lightening wrapped around branches
and pulled stripping some autumn red leaves
wind shears push crystal rain against my house
polishing and cleansing away impure dust and debris
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g
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/
shower...

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a lay (lei)

Took a walk in poetry’s field,
many poems caught my appeal.

Planting of new notions I saw
and older verse puts me in awe.

Metaphor, hyperbole, rhyme
alliteration, form take time.

Patina on each unique write
shows poem's polish and sheds light.

January 13, 2020...

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Dragging our lobster claw 
haphazardly across rows of ivory song
scratching both beautiful and hideous notes 
throughout our lives-somehow we stay afloat-

Racing the foaming mouth of death
polishing up melodies of opaque regrets...
High tide swallowing a lobster claw
and a grand piano bench....

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