Short Saps Poems

as the wind blows south
the poplar tree saps black blood
soaked are roots with pride...

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       Water, source of life
  overflows through all the pores
   blood, sweat, tears...our saps...

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A virus takes your energy
And everything it saps
Results in lack of everything 
Except, of course, for naps.
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Secrets of nature




As you unfold nature's eternal saps, beware of the Venus fly traps !




Written Dec 6th, 2015
For contest "One liner two"
Sponsor- Silent one

Awarded 3rd place win...

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Mama Forest
She weeps with saps

Hoping that the rubber blood
Will satisfy the professional savery of man.

She weeps as her offspring
cry in Congo and Amazon

When will her saviour come?
When?
She cries.

Will you be her saviour?...

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The lighting, it was over-bright
Sleep, now a luxury deprived
For here there is no day or night
The lighting, it was over-bright.
Lethargy saps the will to fight
How long can he retain his mind?
The lighting it was over-bright
Sleep now a luxury deprived....

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Sun seeking sunflowers' stalks stand stylishly sleek
Bite birds, butterflies on beat before blazing blooms
Farm fields fire-up framing fascinating flourish
Gushing green grass giggle with girlish gaiety
Still soil sings soulful song to silent seeping saps
Reaper respectfully rallies with rapt rapture....

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Sharp strokes
Pain pokes


Blur feel
Strange will


Weak steps
Queer map


Walk slow
Poor flow


Wrong way
Harsh sway


Ease saps
Lease traps


Luck fades
Loss trade


Too late
Closed gate


Fate brinks
Last think


Feel slur
New blur




Leon Enriquez
18 December 2016
Singapore...

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punctured peace puking
afflicted passion pulsing
lousy lust lurching
dainty draws drooling
dark desires dangling
fetish fate fostering

lanky life lusting
sundry saps starving
hoisted hacks hunting

some choose wives
some, salient strife;
twain tamed ties

grotesque ghost gadding
when d.t.s' declining.
     19:12:03:14:56...

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spooky sleep staggering
with wills wielding
hoisted hands hankering
lurching, fiddling lids
sumptuous state stuttering
eerie end enveloping

Zeus zipping zeals
pricking pulsing peels
moaning mists munching

summoned sundry saps
gaunt gods grasped
pruning punctured pats 

"Leave for Earth,
damp desirous death."
      19:12:06:07:49...

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Born on the tough side of hollow earth 
Raised in blood, bone, sweat, tears and dirt 
Toiled through the grace of emptiness 
Taught in the cradle of nothingness 

Braved the tides of looming fountains 
Dared the storms to climb his mountains 
Through ups, downs and rough plains, he grew 
For the sweet saps of his will to brew 

 Short story or not poetry contest 
5th place...

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In the wake of the night
I long to make a flight
Out of this world and its trouble
That saps my blood, making me wobble.

To escape the tide of this wicked world
I wish and will a ride on a cloud
To drift my way to heaven's gate
So fast I won't become The Late.

Oh God of heaven and of earth
You created me and gave me breath
Your will to come do in this world
So command the devil, his troubles still to stand!...

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Your energy saps;
Your body wants naps.
You might just collapse
In the heat.

Your spirits are low;
Your movements are slow.
Impatience does grow
In the heat.

Your thinking’s not clear;
You’ve lost all good cheer.
You might disappear
In the heat.

You can’t stay outside;
Even shade won’t abide
As your smile starts to slide
In the heat.

In due time you head home
Where you finish your poem
Under a/c’s sweet dome – 
What a treat!...

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The xylem saps are heading south
like the majestic autumn sun,
deep down into their woody roots.
Soon deciduous leaves will die
and their exquisite lingering
dissolution's will manifest
tinctured, ephemeral beauty:
crimsons, oranges, yellows and greens
and all the subtle hues in between.
A sweet, earthy scent saturates
the cool, autumnal air we breathe.
Then one by one each leaf succumbs
to a gentle rain or zephyr
descending silently to earth....

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Weary bones slide
Humble moves glide


Heavy heart knows
Dreary feel shows


Things once easy
Struggle to be


Pains here and there
Spring out somewhere


Logic can fail
Reflex now ails


Eyes seem to dim
Frail body grim


Plain recall slows
Forgetful show


Feel movement slack
Touch seems to lack


Good old days miss
Loss of prime bliss


Obsolete map
Old age now saps


Decay of breath
Soon a sure death




Leon Enriquez
22 August 2018
Singapore...

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In conversation
the sounds
of her thinking astounds
logic rebounds
argument confounds
rationale knows not bounds
there's no reasoning
with what she expounds
or justification
in that which she propounds
when all facts fail
and reality surrounds
her point of view
tho' it has zero grounds
piled on in mounds
with absurdity she compounds
adding injury to insult
my brain it impounds
traps me wraps me saps my energy
inducing mental lethargy causing  total apathy
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