Short Shading Poems

Brave and bold are you
The green shading what you feel
Stuck to rock with blue...

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Any qualms, quaking aspen
In shading a graveyard?
"No; not when, worn and wrinkly
My own pride discard!"...

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Drawn to day's sunlight
Behemoth reaches higher
Shading his neighbor
Light plumbs the depths of darkness
Sending prisms of sparkles...

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changing
    shifting
perspecive
    shading
reflective
   impulsive
spots
   &slahes
star
sphere
   spires
&
   broken lines

...

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Whither,
O willow,
weeping so free-
shading the stream unto
the
sea.
Hither,
O willow,
whisper to me-
the comings and goings
you see....

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magnificent tree
shading the ground quietly
death to life below

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Destroyer A Poet's(I believe Linda) "any Haiku will do" contest...

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Whither,
O willow,
weeping so free-
shading the stream unto
the
sea.
Hither,
O willow,
whisper to me-
the comings and goings
you see.


Form:Cinqku sequence...

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whither
O willow,
weeping so free-
shading the stream unto
the sea;
hither
O willow,
whisper to me-
the comings and goings
you sea.

Brian Strand June 1 stream contest...

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a darkness simmers
shading the edges of truth
                                      …..abiding in lies


©3/7/2022

Is Truth The First Casualty of War and Why is That

sponsor - Sotto Poet...

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Black
                  Dismal, Dreary
     Shading, Darkening, Tarnishing 
Candlelight, Shadows, Twilight, Gloom
     Bleaching, Decolorizing, Snowing
                    Pure, Clean
                         White...

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Oil of joy
             nourish me
Oil of joy
             make praise free
Oil of joy
             filling me
Oil of joy
             healing me
Oil of joy
             shading me

See more @ John 15:11 Ps 45:7...

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replenishing air
keeping the earth fresh
nurturing giants
animal cover
vital place for ferns

verdant thicket
hiding the deer
shading the grass
miracle oak

leafy elm
orange maple
cottonwood

birch
willow

tree...

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Comfort and bright light
Never shading the obscure
Blind to love awakening
Listening to truth
Keeping my eyes on over
Being concerned with brightness

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Brian Strand's "SIXES AND SEVENS" contest

12/18/2011...

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buildings 
of steel and stones

sprout up like weeds
filling in oceans 

cutting down 
mountains and trees

shading  bones
of past and present

blackening blue skies
and streams

as they take over now 
and future

encouraging the flies...

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Long, low, laden spurs
of bright pink trumpets
lean and languish
shading the grass beneath
that place the greener
for its covering
Above, a bee's incessant hum
perfect pink promises
waving high
against still blue cloudless sky...

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Radiant sun so bright in azure skies 
Oh truly this day is beautiful 
As I bake in the warmth, my hand shading my eyes
Forgotten, all thoughts of being dutiful 



YOUR BEST FOUR-LINE LIGHT VERSE, NO. 2 Poetry Contest

21.09.21...

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Her diminished and shading features
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her...

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Her diminished and shading features 
As if shrouded within a cocoon or now masked
Graduations of colour that death was successively imposing on her motionless features
Dimming her bouquet of red flowers that seem to float away from her...

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your eyes the color of the sky
your spirit soft pastels
your soul made up of warmer hues
shading in tans and orange
the color that I like the best?
the color of your heart
every beautiful hue there is
that makes up the color of love...

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where flowers once whispered
fainted petals lie forlorn
survival of the fittest
stand alone to mourn

uncovered soil shivering with chills
once gardens, now have lost their shading
a floral cemetery within one
whispers are now fading...

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a little bouquet of petals shading their tears on a window sill
I will wake tomorrow and look at the fading with an heart beating
as I waited for days for yours to stop the agony
fare well my dear and thanks for the share of a life well lived....

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Her diminished and
shading features 
As if shrouded
within a cocoon or
now masked
Graduations of
colour that death
was successively
imposing on her
motionless features
Dimming her bouquet
of red flowers that
seem to float away
from her...

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Leaf filtered sunlight
Speckles the water,
Tunnels of branches
Shading the stream

Little waves, lapping,
Knock on the kayak,
Paddle stroke rhythms
Rocking the boat.

Heron is gliding
Serenely greenwards,
Peace of the river
Filling my soul....

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Brightness and burden

Is the portrait of 

Many we meet..

She's carrying a book

For the little library

A token of giving..

She's also carrying

Worries of what seems

Shading her life..

Her bright greeting

Registers as the All

Of Thanksgiving......

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Grapes slumbering; on..'
Leafs shading, yeast patina'ed fruit..
Sun-downers tonight..!

Grapes ripening on..'
Vine gripping seasoned trellis.
Purple skies..' ( thirst )

Grapes burgeoning on..'
frame groans; the labourers gains..'
Andean moth drinks..!

©Joe Maverick 15-5-2012...

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