Short Sentry Poems

Rocky forest floor,

beneath a sentry of trees

Adorned by moss...

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Lighthouse
Strong tower
Giving light warning
Sentry that saves lives
Beacon...

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Grey bowed wing heron

lands as sentry of quick death ~

pickerels dart deep ....

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long lashes of sleep
the sentry of a child’s dreams
— counts diurnal gold

2/18/2018...

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Humility demands annihilation of self
                                       ~ Pride stands sentry...

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perched on purple coneflower, red-winged blackbird darkens nest

5/31/2018

*darkens - makes less clear...

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Sentry sits alone,
Amid fallen heroes graves.
He was their symbol.

Quietly he sits.
It is fitting he keep watch,
For they gave their all....

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I have seen your wall
So delicate in place

Cool and rich as earth
Beneath my hand I trace

Adorn with shells and feathers
Rings intricate as lace...

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nightfall on ocean
     sea of black and indigo
             ... protective beam shines




sentry on cliff's edge
      with light of warmth and comfort
               ... lighthouse guides us home...

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Oh blackest night,
how elegantly you 
do decorate your canopy.
Twinkling stars 
sparkle gloriously 
in the Heavens.
Brightest yellow moon
shining it's beautiful face,
keeping watch as sentry
to Earth's mysterious gates....

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On Taking Secretaries To Lunch

If you live in the valley
know the lava above
has the tact of Comanche
demeanor of dove
Hoe furrow
don’t sprinkle
your seed
then enwire
Post sentry
tall criers
Go home
to your love

Donal Mahoney...

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Haiku-

a skillful sentry...
keen eyes-all senses sharpened
blends in surroundings

~*~

Senryu-

i can brave this chill
not the below zero at home---
The snow queen’s domain

~*~

For John Freeman's "Natural and Beyond" Contest...

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Sentry sits alone,
Amid fallen heroes graves.
He was their symbol.

Quietly he sits.
It is fitting he keep watch.
For they gave their all.

                               Judy Ball










For Bald Eagle In Cemetery Contest by Carolyn Devonshire...

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And with the forged visage of thunder's sword
Her sentry slays monsters of gray
Freeing astral blooms to spark and blaze
Across the brief November sky.

9/01/21

Liberum Divisa 7
Sponsor: Gregory Richard Barden
Taken from 'Brief November'...

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no arms

to break my fall


I wait

hollow-eyed

for sleep


silent sentry

in the jungle night


I lie cemented

in self


counting black holes

in space


where once

there were stars

to wish on




~  Harley White...

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SNAKE VERSUS CROW


the tail rattled.    with its black heart

and glaring attention, the crow

pecks.     road burn on the underbelly

as the snake slithers down

to the creek.       crow can occupy

as sentry to my property,     presently.


5/18/2018...

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*Image of Battle of the Little Bighorn by History.com

To See Or Not To See

General Custer had a sentry,
A man of trust whose name was Henry,
He lost his spyglasses,
Used his blurred eyeglasses,
Yelled, "Those Indians sorta friendly."

2022 June 01...

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stars shimmer in sky
moon on routine sentry watch
crispy spell of snow below

embers from fireplace
peek out through the windowsill
night sleeps blanketed in snow


Jan.11.2023


Winter Sedoka Poetry Contest
Syllabe Count- 5,7,7   5,7, 7 HMS
Sponsor- Charles Messina...

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I dreamed I saw the grave of Ernest Dowson
Bleakly set
In some forgotten churchyard corner,
Lone and wet.

The spectral London fog descended cold on 
Sentry grass
Where seldom any visitors or pilgrims
Deign to pass.

And in my reverie I bravely scattered
Roses there, 
And felt a frail and wispy “Thank you”
Warm the air....

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A wee fellow, sporting an outsize bold-orange chest
  The male of the species, ever doing his best
    To protect his shyer, pale-chested mate

Back and forth struts Mr. Robin 'cross yard and fence
  Twitching and turning, movements taut and tense
A most dutiful look-out, if not so in actual name
  ~ Noble sentry, setting Madame Robin's heart aflame...

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and when
bird, black skin
waves hi and grins
and then does it again?
penguin

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eye blinks
my instinct
detects distinct
baby sphincter high jinks
end stinks

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fruit tree
sin's entry
serpent sentry
promised wisdom plenty ~
empty

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sheepish
not finish
and diminish
wooly be bahd punished
by ewe?

...

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Beings in Imagination 
By Mark Miller 
Brazen colors dance suspended, 
Over time's delay of existence. 
Frozen stills by photographs gravitate 
By a grounded descent in cognitive dissonance. 
Emotions explored yet unexamined. 
Sentry ghost crawls through holes silent facticity 
Thrown down the relative subjective 
As our pendulum stands over the meek blue of blind devotion....

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Crow’s Feet


What dark epaulette drapes
the scare crows shoulder?
Gazing bleakly upon
withered corn stalks
rustling in the wind’s
disdainful howl.

What mistaken duty
denies dismissal’s call
condemns the sullen sentry
to cower at death’s touch
mourning silenced wings

What twist of fate
draws him to the ground
in featherless
shivering
death?



John G. Lawless
©11/15/2017...

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Unseen; unknowable
What's held in reserve
Til with helpful urgency
Hoisted to preserve
By this self's myth: angel;
Sentry; squiring knight.
Which role-forging is of
A gold-breasted might.

Unimagined moreover
To deem compatible
Ourselves for! Low and cheap!
Pluckless; unpolishable!
Til before each distress
Each in turn has swelled!
By which sword-play, tear-wiped
Sympathy's, dazzled....

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simply awake
No music lulls
No quiet snoozes
No counting naps
No stretching tires
My clock taunts me
No comfort lullabies
No breathing relaxes
Pajamas strangle me
No coolness soothes
No meditation stupors
No visualization sleeps
No position tranquilizes
No supplements sedate
No aromatherapy calms
or finger painting slumbers
I am insomnia’s vigilant sentry.
Where, oh where's the sandman?...

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