Short Rainless Poems

Cricket - Haiku

missing legs and sound
forest, rainless storm rages
remembers cricket...

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On a starless rainless night 
'fore my eyes... 
The last of the snow-hill, 
Wind-blown... 
Melts

Left...
Is wet-marks, 
On cobble-stone 
Till, the next snowflake...
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.
Drops...

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Unearth me,
sift my confusion through your eyes,
dilute my anger with the moist of your lips;
graffiti my skin with prayers of trust;
grind my fear into a fine dust—
wrap me in the quilt of your ragged lullaby,
and bring me to life under a red and rainless sky....

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I knew I’d offended you, your smile
of hurt, the one reserved for whipped
spaniels; you use it too.

We didn’t speak as we strolled through
the woodland park , picking up acorns,
dropped by passing tree top squirrels

And when my hand brushed yours, you
pulled away, like a nervous electric eel, 
stranded in the rainless mud

I knew I’d offended you....

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Up above the wasteland of my lonesome life like the seamless sky, 

clumps of rainless cumulus clouds weren’t consumed hovering, 

made dunes of desert in my heart where I saw their dry shadows fly, 

and there you became a lake in the arms of oasis of my yearning.

(Stanza taken from My Sailing Soul)

September 30, 2020
Contest : Rithimus Divisa 7
Sponsor : Gregory R Barden...

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Up above the wasteland of my lonesome life like the seamless sky, 

clumps of rainless cumulus clouds weren’t consumed hovering, 

made dunes of desert in my heart where I saw their dry shadows fly, 

and there you became a lake in the arms of oasis of my yearning.

(Stanza taken from : My Sailing Soul)

September 30, 2020
Contest : Rithimus Divisa 7
Sponsor : Gregory R Barden...

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S U I C I D E N O T E

This rhythm is a tide
of blood oozing in sickly
veins to rainless bones;
stanza by stanza- clots
drip and stink.

This poem is music
to the winds,
to loose whiffs out
the window panes,
to hidden souls
afloat dark haze.

This poem is a suicide
note authored
by a depressed soul,
he heartened to
embrace the kisses
of the great beyond.

it is sin to read this poem....

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Black Cricket

Black cricket moves along the forest floor
Soundless with no legs
Lost them in a fight along the food chain
A predator, a mantis, is somewhat nourished
Cricket shies away from battles now
It edges forward almost like a turtle
Drinks a drop of water
Remembers the war is over
The water falls and rainless storms
Are buried in the jungle
Cricket moves to the edge of night
Its only home...

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It's like resting peacefully 
In the arms of a lagoon.
Dissolving into nature itself.

It's like waking up in the cool beauty of dusk.
It's like a greeting from flowers,
finding solace in the grass.

It's like a pep talk from the trees.

It's like the world consoling you for the first time.

It's like life giving you a second chance.

It's like a rainless, cloudless storm,

With sweet lightning cutting through the flesh of orange-lined dusk....

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Your touch entices emotions in a wave-
With all the time to count one day-

My love for you around to flow-
The waters of eternity can show-

Softened with pools of immortality-
My love as are the drops of infinity-

If it happens, a need to cry-
I hope to show my tears can dry-
The apparent sorrow in the river of times-
Sounding through, rainless chimes-

My dearest you are to me-
More beautiful than the sea-

With the beams of heaven-
Off the towering mist shining-...

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Laughter lives in starry nights
for tears are cried beauteous night
given sanction of childish fears
knowing not shelter is near-

Journey within self
time unto an end
broken heights of shattered dreams
rainless nights did send-

Fortuitous heart that speaks a lie
knowing not reason or even why
rivers of sin that sail in my mind
keeper of mercy
born again to die-

City of my birth
awaken to dawn
freedom death in a kiss
forever haunted
by memories as this-...

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