Short Ripened Poems

On the ripened figs
Little birds are pecking at
I'm licking sweet scent

02.07.2020 Chattogram...

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The moon gazed.
The stars ripened,
and immortal whispers charmed the forest
with her tale,
........when we hugged....

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A large farmer's field
Is naked without the seeds
All seeds are planted
Into the wet earth to sprout
Then ripened for the market...

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Beef Tenderloin

Savoring center cut with drippings of Santa's ripened sauce


Written: November 15, 2015
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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Mellow yellow morning rise
A dewy dharma dawn drapes
deeply, waking me to rich
ripened raptures of Nature’s
picture perfect abidings....

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Ripened grapes turned to wine.
Brandy’s wine, burned in time.

Written by Brenda Meier-Hans 
10.13.2014
Nette Onclaud’s Contest:
In its Essence...

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I see a cherry without a stem,
you see an iron dusted planet 
so where is the common ground?...an over ripened  tomato?
I think its time to leave....

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Calm The Moment

Dewdrops rest on ripened vines
Summer sky calm scene
Felled violets grace the ground

R.J. Lindley
4-12-2014
Haiku (Nature's Beauty)...

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or peaceful vines
to turn a fork to tines

fluffy kisses guessing
without dressing

on occassion
pink ovation

to feast and dine
on a ripened vine!...

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Ripened by the sunshine
Red and very juicy
Ready for me to eat
Rich in vitamin c
Really nice as snacks
Rinse before you eat them -
Risk of small wriggly worms!...

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Red ripened fruit on mangled little tree
Spoiled readily before its time
Beauty simply fallen on bended knee
Tasted heavily of divine crime
Now no more doth it shine...

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I saw the pain

I saw the pain 
On a plain but ripened face
As he made a race 
So as to plot his aim 
I saw the pain 
Cast on ebony 
Ruffling her paste 
As she tries to bring back a phase...

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Words
clamor
and curdle
into ripened, 
red embolisms
of vulgar syllables
that dam fresh inspiration
with futile, vagrant dissonance.
I diagnose my swollen fingers
as unfortunate strokes of distraction....

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Haiku (Still)


now seen dust
light gray on the head of his chair —
I wait, the ripened pear.

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(c) 2/24/21 sally young Eslinger

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The fields are bursting
and jaded trees await fate,
among crowding blooms.
Moonlit nights attract mauve dreams.
The lusty year has ripened.


Written on 8/82022
For: JUST AUGUST Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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FALL
autumn
harvest time

farmers are busy
gathering ripened crops
to feed us through winter time

“transition from summer season”

Pyramids Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Joseph May

09/11/20...

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Rosebud so compressed

impatiently, your fullness

labors to unfold . . .

How short the ripened glory

before your tired petals fall.


June 28, 2020

Contest: Strand Completely New (2)
Sponsor: Brian Strand
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Identity is free flowing
    when you're young and growing
      at least, it was for me

  Yet somehow when I ripened
    my anxiety never heightened
  I was male, as male as male could be
    ~ two ears under straw hat, 'twas me...

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Each ripe moment streams on
Through a jeweled prism--
And my being feels cleansed
To gush along the tints
Of polished dawn waking.



Entry: Amelie Mara/ 9 Jul 2015
Mystique Contest / nette onclaud
#2 ---Union with Higher Self

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                                                        Ripened Blackberries
                                                   Fall to ground to germinate...
                                                       Gentle hand grasp ate...

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Traced backwards through dreams gone—
Saw a cobblestone path creasing palm of land
Slowly, images ripened beneath memory’s dawn
Faded, pattering feet stroking stone into sand.


2010.10.


NOTICE: I'd like hard-core critiques, please!...

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Sunshine silver through the leaves
The sweet sour taste
Of sun-ripened grapes
Norwest warmth
Playfully blowing
Laughter of adults satisfied after
The harvest
Sweet juicy pears
And a gentle warm autumn wind
And a gentle warm autumn sun...

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I picked a ripened pod
And split open at its seam,
Hundreds of seeds attached to
Fluffy tufts of hair.

I blew gently and sent a
myriad silken little
parachutes into the air
across the meadow!



Abdul Malik
12/20/12
Natural Landscape...

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To reap the harvest
The ripened bounty of love
Surely in the diligent sowing of the seed
Enough time be found

For through the longing nights
Dew drops and the pouring rain
Surely comes the sun of purity
To fall upon her face
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an old apple tree
where a house stands abandoned . . .
limbs with empty nests

hanging from the tree -
a child’s swing from long ago 
swaying in fall’s breeze

scattered on the ground
round the trunk of the old tree . . .
red, ripened apples...

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