Short Restlessly Poems

Bamboo wind chime
Even though no wind blows
Still tinkles restlessly...

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pregnant dove 
flying restlessly~
no trees

to plant tree
search nearby~
no mud...

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stones within snow wombs
restlessly leap to be born ~
weak sun midwifery 


17 January 2022...

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Wonderful
Only beautiful
Never dreadful
Dreamy times
Endlessly chimes
Restlessly pries
Filled with cries
Unforgettable moments
Lifting you into imaginations...

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I sleep restlessly
Clinging, grasping, desperately
To what I must let go 
In the last dream before waking 
I am water that cuts stone

December 31, 2017...

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I gaze at a bowl

Where goldfish swivels through moss

Its fine gills aglow---

With such aquatic prowess
As it wiggles restlessly



A New Tanka Contest
Mar 31, 2015...

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I sat in the field
my heart in my hand
grass blows beneath me 
it sways where I stand
when the spell binds loose
and it's all in my head
I'm restlessly resting awake in my bed...

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under the desk
in her bed shaking....
the dog fears the storm
restlessly napping, listen
wind, rain, acorns fall    

never know what might fall or happen next...

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Wondered Why I Am So Afraid

Often have wondered why I am so afraid,
While in my bed I often so restlessly laid;
Need a connection;
Course correction;
God please help me I prayed and prayed.

Jim Horn...

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Oh teardrop
You caress my cheek
Focussing my mind
On one single track
Until my skin stings
My tongue tingles
All slow motion
Removing my energy
Until I sleep
Restlessly
Saturated from
The inside out
With sadness...

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The Nile drifts restlessly in fresh woodland
Babbling over rocks and marbled edges…
Like a goddess in search of her old legends.




2/17/2016
PD's Contest:  River of dreams 
(three liner poem or 3 monoku) ...

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OXYMORONICA 


In the heat of a midwinter’s day,
4 beautifully ugly geese came to lay
They felt alone in the crowd, 
Because others were silently loud,
And they kept their mouths wide shut; there they restlessly stayed....

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It dawned.
                     Slowly. In chorus.

In plique-à-jour.

I see, through first born,
light, a second time,
restlessly still,
                           
               required, I breathe...

To breathe once more....

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Like the marathons of my
  forgotten youth

I now shy away from the 
  longer poems

Sprinting restlessly anxious
  through the waning light

New moments explode
  —the old voluminous tomes

 (Flight To Las Vegas: January 22, 2016)...

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A ragged cloud from horn-filled hell
Restlessly tumbles and yaws
A silent beam, bounced off this cell
Made echoes hooked like claws

Now the swirling serpent comes again
Caught by radar’s sweep
Against a snake the souls must fend
And wake from slumber deep...

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old women still have dreams
so they lie restlessly
in soft single beds 
away from mirrors 
that fracture their expectations;

they turn towards walls 
where cracks can be smoothed 
with shaking fingers 
and shadows can be reshaped 
into ageless promise......

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A mothers milk poisoned 
By cleverly planned lies
Natures honey sours
When it's web of deceit dies
A babe lay restlessly dreaming 
Only to let out her painful cries
A mothers touch will no more
Calm her innocently stormy eyes

M. Lyn Church 
February 1,2014...

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Endless nightmares I see
Falling down with gravity 
Paralysed so I can’t move
I am bombarded with what I won’t choose

Restlessly I struggle to wake
Crying out to avoid my fate
Now awake my heart is racing
Will my sleep be now forsaken.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Labyrinthine mind jams  along mazes
Searching restlessly for inner fortitude;
Till  amaranth weeds point eastward--
Reams clearing passage  through sunrise
To unveil enlightenment—an epiphany!



For Contest sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Minimalist Form--- dated Oct 16, 2O17...

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Restlessly he searched here and there
for his soul,
At last, in a dry land
at the bottom of a well
he found it,
quite unplanned.

What he saw, what he made of it
he did not know, nor could tell,
for in truth
it looked much like heaven
and a lot like hell....

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Beaded tresses and silk kimono rustle with finesse,
Her geisha heels tapping restlessly on moist Yakasa weeds
From  an enchi...there he comes secretly, through groans of monks’ bells


*enchi---Japanese garden


-----------------------
Brian Strand...

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Blooms bountiful on laughter lane
Purple peonies after raging rain
May melodies, sunshine songs
in emerald elms and garden green
A waking world, scents swirled
Saffron spring, scarlet ruby rose ~
Creamy clouds roam restlessly, slow.


Written on 5/6/2023
For: Alliterisen Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Restlessly lounging  against the foamy seat
I looked upon the clouds in a different light -
Were they as soft as they appeared like my dream?
Nervously, my thoughts wandered if I'll tame her 
And light back the fire  in those  runaway eyes;
Imagining the self as the embattled conqueror.


Feb 12, 2019
Contest: Capture That Emotion...

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I 
wandered
restlessly
in the desert
as the sands of time
blistered my weary feet.
Then as the sun bled crimson
and night’s coolness washed over me,
I awoke! Again, that damn Sandman
had snatched slumber’s deepest comfort from me.


Written by 9/15/2014 by Andrea Dietrich
for nette onclaud's "In the Desert" Poetry Contest...

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It came to me at night
from its restless place
with its heart pumping
rapidly, restlessly;
“Will you eat me now?
I am ready for your meal
I want to feel a doll tonight
a perpetual one I am
eat me without soup
break no bone, 
spill no blood
roast me as I like
not in hot oven
but make me hot
cloth do not remove
eat me as I am”
doll whispered to me!...

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