Short Sapless Poems

My words fall down and skitter around
  like leaves from an autumn tree,
    dry and crinkly.
                   Sapless.
                   Lifeless.
Vestiges of prouder times
  when language used to speak my mind....

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Bid on my love



  

Sobs sapless fragment of my thirsty soul,
as cravings of illusive heart condense to mole,

Intense passion inked into scroll of trust,
Bid on my love first to later escape disgust !




Written Dec 4th, 2015
For contest by Tammy Reams

Awarded HM...

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Please, Storm!
Let the children live!
Give milk to the sapless breast.
The desert spreads a spill so dry 
it stretches wider wings of death.
Lightening shocks our eyes.
Thunder’s anger bolts.
Angels weep their own relief 
relieving tiny throats.

May 2, 2016
for EVEN THE ANGELS WEPT - Poetry Contest
sponsor: John Lawless...

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as I sit here sapless most unable to see
my memory recalls one who truly loves me 
your fragrant rose I press in this page 
The crackling of stem overtaken by age 

our bodies trembled on cold winter's night
as you covered my lips in naked moonlight
how shall I live when my true love's gone
but through a dead rose moonlight lives on 

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Judy Konos
9/15/15
Mixed Senses
Evening...

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Lotus, whose sapless roots 
Deep in stream’s muddy soul,
When lost the mossy bond below
Is turned gray in deeper gloom.
Her mate the light of all that live,
In pain he sinks in golden waves,
And the verge of seas are found
Billowing clouds that wailing loud.
Life is but a sweet  and snappy  scent
That keeps the pulpy mass in place
On frames of bones big and small,
Veins, sinews, marrows in tones. 
When is lost that fragrance blest
We are, but a fetid maggots’ feast....

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