Short Rifts Poems

Height  of  all  mountains
Within the rifts  and  valleys
Seems  to  be  enhanced...

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natures wing wind
rifts jamming the springtime dawn
skylark lead singer...

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When the
Light touching
The sea
Surrounded by
The blooming
Coral blossom rifts
Dancing before thee...

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natures wing wind
rifts jamming the springtime dawn
skylark lead singer

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Looming on the horizon
A flock of  yellow jacket bees
Pollinating red coral rifts
Thirsting for the sea...

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Bad gifts
Cause rifts

Be rash
Spend cash

Debit
Credit

Worthwhile
Their smile


20th December 2014...

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fringed rifts tear
aside a curtain
ragged with light 
stage is prepared
soft murmurs
grow into roars
voice raises to
a deafening scream
that erupts and whips
waters with
thundering applause...

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The Wise Men followed the bright star,
On camels from a land afar,
They forgot their gifts,
And to avoid rifts,
Detoured to the local bazaar


22/11/22

A Brian Stand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest...

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Arunansu

your name is a river running
smoothly through deep wooded rifts

your poems are little paper boats
carrying a candle of sandalwood and beeswax

upon the night tree's ancient branch
a black panther watches...

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As enchanting as the sea,
is your beauty;
farthest my eyes can see,
is Greece embracing unity.

From the farthest south,
a prince in his youth,
will come and offer you gifts
that will end all your Kingdom's rifts........

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Cruel your glass heart, broke me down
life’s fault lines cut, rifts in me
tears flow swift now, I move on
don’t want you back, I am free

Entered in “four lines of melodic poetry”
Sponsor - Nette Onclaud 
Dated 30/08/2019...

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The icons are falling
As idols are rising
Perhaps for their gifts
Being spared coming rifts

For the poets we grieve
Are of this fabric's weave
They are this tapestry
The fibre of our society

And they have marked us so indelibly...

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Rocky with rifts,
Sliding earth consuming me,
Sinking into the dirt beneath my feet,
I must flee,
Though the road ahead seems rocky,
And there are ice-coated mountain tops,
Staring at me from the distance,
Brutality lives in this journey....

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Softly bending snowflake drifts
Passage carving moving rifts
Sleepy quiet longing spring
Motion silent crackle sing

Candle hopeful glimmers burn
Music soulful seasons turn
Now to celebrate a light
Simple peaceful silent night...

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Love
is what
I needed
to find the place
where I had fallen.
Crack of dawn runs fingers
of lace through the fallen rifts
where Love caressed, and molded me.
Where its bright radiance once spoke of
memories and dreams loose in silken streams....

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Chills of comfort
as smooth as skin 
grazing grey stones. 

In the next room-
technology is hard at work
churning, turning
while the guitar gently rifts. 

Harsh winds are whipping, 
we are lying 
above a pale yellow floor
Dreaming-
across a hazy tundra....

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fringed rifts tear
aside a curtain
ragged with light 
stage is prepared
soft murmurs
grow into roars
voice raises to
a deafening scream
that erupts and whips
waters with
thundering applause 

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September 10, 2017
Copyright © Darren White

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When I started throwing some, 
I felt, as though my heart numb;
Weren't they things I got as gifts?
Didn't I save them midst rifts? 

Foods we consider true junk,
Needs, in quantity, get shrunk; 
That the generations come,  
Could feel truly safety-thrum...!


21 March 2022...

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With my plucky granddaughter, I'm ne'er bored.
She saunters at connate emblems and depth.
And the way the fay sway with her.
Five-year-old darts on slight span.
Brilliant, brittle crane drum,
Tall, hefty gist sight,
Pitch in limns burns.
With swish rifts.
Wingbeats
wheeze....

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They are as oceans,
Vast, deep, and open;
Unfathomable.
I dive into them,
Drawn in with each look.

They are the night sky,
A fractal beauty;
Sophisticated.
I would spend my hours
Just exploring them.

Windows of your soul,
Exquisite blue rifts.
Incomparable.
With each fleeting glance
My heart and soul soar....

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We gape at the sky
this Fourth of July,
as rockets ignite
to deal us delight,
while strangers unite.

I’m such a dope,
it gives me hope
that Nations torn
can be reborn.

Let God’s gifts
heal our rifts,
our esprit.

Let’s pray
we stay

free.


July 4, 2022
Diminished Hexaverse Poetry Contest Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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Ribbon arcs across skies;
Red, orange and yellow
Revel with blue, green and 
Ravishing violet
Romanced by indigo --
Revealed by raindrops’ slick
Rifts of the sun’s white light


Susan Ashley
April 15, 2021


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Pleiades R Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

howmanysyllables.com: six syllables per line...

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Relations steadfast, sincere
Bonds of love true, unbounded
Break up, rust, soon wear and tear
Over time out of no care;
With trust steady, unbroken
And respect unfeigned, so true
The cracks be mended, tended
To stave off much deeper rifts.


Visual # 2

IMPRESSIONS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
Date: 10/20/2020

Second Place...

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amplified questions   

I sit alone atop a mountain
my guitar in hand
peering out over the valley below
beyond green patched rifts
playing in the key of lost dreams
fractured chords out of tune with 
decisions in distorted decibels
high volume idiocy wailing
as I telecast amplified questions
which now return to me
in the feedback of my own doing...

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The white and red flock
Flooded the  fall skies 
Honking and beating 
Of ethereal wings so wise
I froze in my steps
Wishing I had a camera
To capture the view
Of beautiful flesh
Conjoined in unison
A veil of harmonious flight
In awe I sat in the grass
Until the flock
Was out of sight
How blessed am I
For all of Gods’ gifts
A vision so nimble
Cascading the rifts 
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