Short Ringlet Poems

Winnie the Pooh
Always would stew
About getting honey
To put in his tummy.

Piglet,
His tail a small ringlet
Was a godsend
To his anxious bear friend.

9/10/21...

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Like an innocent ringlet
the corkscrew opened up
her world of tedium
to a heaven, to an intensity
of the stars she had not seen
before.

She clung madly to bliss,
devoured her bottleful
with so baffling a love,
the woman was swallowed
into fractured pieces
of fume

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
December 5, 2012...

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The most precious girl, I've ever seen
The loveliest hue of early green
Long blonde hair with ringlet curls
In frilly dresses, she gracefully twirls 
If only I could slow the clock
My baby, I would, forever rock
But time moves on as it tends to do
Leaving me feeling all shades of blue
Learning daily, full of curiosity
Mama blinked and now she's THREE...

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Listen to poem:

I gasped, as asp clasped fast
around my head like a plaster cast cap.
It was coiled round and round
like a ringlet of hair wrapped
around a curler, with head reared up 
poised like spitting cobra.
What spell can I cast to uncoil, unclasp the asp?
For I'm too scared to grasp the asp
and cast the serpent skyward.
Perhaps wearing the Uraeus asp cap
means I'm a Pharaoh!...

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Jagged trees eat the sky, hungry for its breath.
The jaw of the ridge curves around a valley throat.
As I descend down the steep canyon to the lake,
The sun drips from the east to the west.
By the water, the mood gentles.
A sunlight sonata plays.
Each ripple holds a separate sun.
The rocks above the water's surface match those below,
both wearing ringlet gowns of shifting animal print.
I float on the dance floor,
beneath the wild sky....

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AQUARIAN AQUARIUM

coral reefs ripple beneath
crystal clear cerulean
cinematic hues of cool
Caribbean 
blues

psychedelic underworld
swims and swirls serenely
a show room of shy seahorses
Surrealistic
muse

ringlet tails coiled regalia
resplendent heads held high
rocking to and fro below rare
Aquarium
views

gills in pink and lilac breathe
dark sharks lurk and scheme
in this tropical kaleidoscope 
of
Aquarian
pool





© Kim van Breda—19 February 2015...

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