Short Sharpening Poems
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Fanaticism is the sharpening stone of ignorance's sword of intolerance!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
29 July 2018
Categories:
sharpening, fear, truth,
Form:
Monoku
Cooling moon shivers
Between sharpening mountains;
My lone watch begins --
All thoughts carried far away...
Just twigs upon the river.
Categories:
sharpening, solitude,
Form:
Tanka
unemployed thorns wait
sharpening their re’sume’s
………hope springs eternal
John G. Lawless
©3/24/2022
Categories:
sharpening, hope, rose, spring,
Form:
Senryu
stealthy Aunt Caren
a text from favorite niece
cat sharpening claws
with nail file
keep an eye on Mom
not to worry dear
she is in my sights
unaware of course
Categories:
sharpening, niece,
Form:
Jueju
Competition ...
what keeps us alive
Sharpening our edges
fueling our drive
Setting new benchmarks
pushing the bar
Forever defining
— just who we are
(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)
Categories:
sharpening, confidence,
Form:
Rhyme
Whittling the point
paring it down
cutting the volume
honing the sound
Sharpening each line
words drop and fall
meaning to thunder
— lightning recalled
(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
Categories:
sharpening, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Gray misty mountains
Cold light drifting
Frost sharpening the air
Twilight steeples
Piercing the sky
White laces the land
Hearth’s smoke drifts like ghosts
Ice crystals dance
Winter icy fingers grasp
Categories:
sharpening, dream, house, imagery, lonely, metaphor, snow, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Primeing the pump:
the time i spent looking over the ocean,
finding peace.
Sharpening the ax:
the time i spent amongst the tall green trees,
finding me.
Cleaning the lens:
the time I spent looking up at the stars
and finding
galaxies.
Categories:
sharpening, introspection, time, time,
Form:
Free verse
Recollecting the thoughts
Exercising the fingers
Sharpening the eyes
I wonder why?
Stable it has become
Smoothly it has come
Aggressively it has conquered
I wonder why?
Should worry be a norm?
Would worry be a norm?
Could worry be a norm?
I wonder why?
Categories:
sharpening, confusion, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
NEW AGE DYNAMICS 1
New age ethos drives
Urgency here and now
As this weary world
Morphs a new vitality
A sharpening stone
For blunt knives
To cut cleanly away
Old hangovers
And dangling debris
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
03 October 2019
Singapore
Categories:
sharpening, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
under the bed
and in the closet
they gnash their teeth
sharpening their fangs
so they can chew my flesh as I sleep
i stay awake as long as I can shivering in fear
finally drifting off the dreamland
as i begin to close my eyes
the closet door starts to open
Categories:
sharpening, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Intense black cat
Penetrating ebony eyes
sharpening his claws
in his comfort place
fading into the dusk
pumpkins for cover
spider scuttles past
afraid of feline giant
not realizing she is safe
feline is silent
still as granite
waiting for something furry with a tail
Categories:
sharpening, cat,
Form:
Free verse
cat claw marks on a tree
long deep angry looking gouges
a huge animal, possibly a leopard, tiger or lion
I envision this beast sharpening her enormous claws
maybe a velvety black puma with yellow eyes
terrified, my hair stood straight up on end
am I being watched from the shadows?
Categories:
sharpening, animal,
Form:
Free verse
my plane crashed
on my way to see
my crush so now
on a desert isle i
'm sharpening a
stick into a spear
for though a veg
etarian i wouldn't
dare eat a berry or
any greens knowing
nothing about local
things but damn well
know what a wild pig
would taste like cook
ed over a fire on a spit
Categories:
sharpening, muse,
Form:
I do not know?
One moment east of twilight
Shadows outdistance the sun
Sharpening peaks and hallows,
Honed against the sparks of light.
Deep in the brow of the silence
I stand to watch the moonrise,
Overtaken by the dark
____________
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Sponsor: Brian Strand
Categories:
sharpening, dark, eve, nature, night,
Form:
Verse
Soil,
Don't be fertile more,
Don't be a mother;
Child-traffickers, like mad dogs,
are moving everywhere.
Don't conceive any green more,
Don't conceive any forest;
The blue-eyed woodcutters, like butchers,
are sharpening their axes.
O Soil,
Rather become a desolate graveyard,
Rather become a melancholic desert.
Categories:
sharpening, patriotic,
Form:
Blank verse
Soil,
Don't be fertile more,
Don't be a mother;
Child-traffickers, like mad dogs,
are moving everywhere.
Don't conceive any green more,
Don't conceive any forest;
The blue-eyed woodcutters, like butchers,
are sharpening their axes.
O Soil,
Rather become a desolate graveyard,
Rather become a melancholic desert.
Categories:
sharpening, satire,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Is when mission impossible takes place
Is when control of the mind is a effort
Is when sharpening of the pencil is a chore
Is where there is a pause
Is where there is to be continued
Is where there is a yield sign
Is when creativity becomes a sleeping duck
Is when the taste buds becomes numb
Is when the eyes becomes unfocused
Categories:
sharpening, literature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
In the search for Crazy Horse,
I found myself
He freed my voice,
as he opened up my heart
Sharpening my words
like the tip of his lance
Leading me through the forest
back into the light
Across the wide prairie
where the winds blow free
The sun not only rising
—but pointing the way
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Categories:
sharpening, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
He took a Bite
I died that very night
the Sun hurts my eyes
His curse never lies
crawling spiders,spooky laughter
Guess he knows what VICTIM he is after
Step out on the dance floor
Saturday's WITCHING & I'M DEAD forevermore
Sharpening the teeth as the blood is awaiting beneath
My soul has been taken higher
Since I started dancing with the Vampire
Categories:
sharpening, death,
Form:
I do not know?
A sky of angry screeching,
demanding;
like a raptor in the wind.
Doesn't have the impact
that simple warbling brings.
With fear of cruel words spoken,
love retracts,
like claws on birds of prey;
and all I loved about you
has now flown far away.
Predatory words can rip,
into beings
lovelorn at their peak.
Not accomplishing anything but
the sharpening of the beak.
Categories:
sharpening, allegorywords,
Form:
Free verse
An ascetic dies in a shoe
spilling blood.
A surreal moon
wants to investigate –
a sectarian divide of
fraudulent sky.
And you want to be buried
under rose petals –
courting controversies
to clean the polluted river.
A lifeboat was needed
to take you for a quiz –
singing national anthem.
Emblematic,
You were sharpening
your nails.
Satish Verma
Categories:
sharpening, art,
Form:
ABC
A lurking shadow lies
Darkened eyes gleam
In the dust, it spies
Under
The canopy of dreams
Sharpening teeth
As if they were blades
An emptied sheath
A lovely serenade
Forming schemes
Under
The canopy of dreams
The pursuit of a touch
To make skin icy cold
With a frenzied clutch
You can be controlled
If it rips the seams
Under
The canopy of dreams
Categories:
sharpening, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
A lurking shadow lies
Darkened eyes gleam
In the dust, it spies
Under
The canopy of dreams
Sharpening teeth
As if they were blades
An emptied sheath
A lovely serenade
Forming schemes
Under
The canopy of dreams
The pursuit of a touch
To make skin icy cold
With a frenzied clutch
You can be controlled
If it rips the seams
Under
The canopy of dreams
Categories:
sharpening, 10th grade, children, dark, deep, depression, dream,
Form:
Free verse
You wait
In chortled glee
Time’s ticking toll
Sharpening itself
‘neath your dark robe
And I
Poor fool
Fear not your sting
As naught is left
But tatters
Of past now’s
And you
Life’s dark companion
Have counted every step
Held sway
Lest I falter
Seasoned my errors
With adrenal angst
I wait
In grimaced glee
Enshrouded
In an endless
Thinning veil
Awaiting
Categories:
sharpening, dark,
Form:
Free verse