Short Sharpens Poems

interminable
	rivers flow free forever ~
		beaver sharpens teeth...

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Drawing is seeing.
Doing sharpens our senses - 
Singing is hearing....

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Bistro and beau wine  
              obvious Parisian air
              sharpens smell, vision...

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Living along the ledges,
  life is about the edges

The meaning sharpens and cuts
  —the higher you go

(Bryn Mawr College: August, 2014)...

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It is hatred that sharpens the dagger of antipathy which intends to stabb love's heart!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
      31 January 2017...

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what are those? I ask, my voice cracking a bit.
They are long deep claw marks in my hemlock tree.
Made by a cougar? A mountain lion? a puma?
My cat cannot stop giggling....

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GOOD Hope top heavy
GOAD loses envy
GLAD all is just fine
CLAD encase gold shine
CLAW sharpens for game
FLAW lessens valued claim
FLOW down the river
GLOW a horn’s glimmer

...

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Kisses of an enemy 
fly at me 
their all around 
iron bars sharpen 
cut right into me 
friends wound 
I'd rather have pain around 
my soul is free 
though it never leaves the ground...

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The story of my life is wild;
New interests suddenly sprout 
outdated habits get tossed out;
Focus sharpens as the years pass
 led by an internal compass; 
Connected to that inner child,...

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Cupid sharpens his weapon
    Firms up his grip
  An arrow pierces two hearts
    ~ Man embarks on courtship 

  As for success
    Cupid cares not
  His, to light the fire
    Theirs to tend 'til it's out...

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Blue, red, black,
and white,
the April-wind has
so many hues
As you do your hair and
change your clothes
In the sky,
there are the 
mid-sea blues
How you love today and 
tomorrow sharpens the
knife-edges...

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A better critic
  than writer…

Your tongue sharpens,
  as your pen hacks

Bastardized on the altar
  of cold description

Disavowed by the jilted Muse,
 —ink bleeding red

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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A voice that sharpens in debate’s embrace,  
Feet that once danced now quicken the chase.  
Pages and gavels, the world's in my hands,  
Bound by the law but free where I stand.  
Dreaming of justice, unshaken, unchained....

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Raven often sharpens his beak,
Which is his military piece;
He uses his tool against the weak,
Yet, sure, in the name of peace. 



Aug. 5, 2020 
Enter the 'Favourite Poem in Rhyme from July 2019' Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Julia Ward...

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Fading deepest blue
cherry blossom storm falling
cleansing deepest wounds

Wind blows crystal rain
rain cascades carless droplets
garden bloom sweet jade

Stillness sharpens blade
mountains fade magenta skies
seas swell angry waves...

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His eyes and heart fill with angst of growing old, going to pre-school
The thought of learning excites him so, he sharpens up his manners
Spills his chocolate soy milk and finger paints me a new brown house

Copyright © 2011  By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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Isn't it interesting,
Love my weakness,
When it is a means to and of strength,
PATHETIC is the lone wolf who sharpens his claws for the heart of a woman who pleads on her knees,
For pathetic are the wicked who push you to fall when you're already down....

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Each of our actions, whether good or evil,

Inescapably

Sharpens the double-edged sword of

Divine justice

That

Is going to be used on judgment day

For

To determine the fate of our soul!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
   12 September 2021...

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A CLOSE SHAVE

Shel married a wife with armloads of fur.
He was very unkind, he did beat her.

         Smothers - never quits.
         Makes her shave her pits.

Smirking, she sharpens her blade on the cur.

4/26/2017
Jan’s Limerick contest - back by popular demand...

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Church fellowship hones us with a deep, shared, belief that sharpens our faith. 


September 6, 2018

Contest: Proverbial Monoku
Sponsor: Carol Connell

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17  NIV

17 Syllables checked with howmanysyllables.com
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Trails 
Not meant
To disrupt your peace
But to strengthen
Your mentality 
To be calm and focus
Amidst chaos or obstacle. 


Trails helps
Sharpens you
Self discovery
Self composure
Life understanding
Endowed you.


Know yourself
Know your worth
Know what you want
Do everything you can
Even when you face trails. 
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Wandering through B J’s
Using up the time it takes 
To mount four new tires
I chanced upon a small guitar
Leaning against a set of drums
On a shelf at eye level
I took it down and strummed it
It was  tuned as ever  it could be
I wondered as I put it back
Who  had taken the time
Do you know anyone
who sharpens fish hooks...

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A sword slices through empty space,
the air bleeding as sutures trace

To pierce not once but pierce again,
your breath scarlet, its stain portends

A breeze sharpens—all time erupts,  
seasons hemorrhage and flow corrupt

The wind incited—torn by pain,
truth the loser, impaled again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)...

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Waves break their rolling heads
on faceless cliffs.

The wind is lost,
it turns this way and that
only to crush its own voice.

Turmoil is lovely,
the howl of chaos
clears the mind,
sharpens both elation
and fear.

Standing on the edge
of a crumbling land,
footholds flying away
like storm-wrecked gulls

we are ALIVE
in the grave of this world....

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As his body slowly dwindles 
His mind sharpens even more
But memories, they cloud his thoughts
Bringing back his time of war.
The doctors describe the causes
Brain traumas and distress
They say that it’ll get better
His life won’t always be such a mess.
But what they don’t know how to fix
What he can’t explain
Is that the battle in Iraq 
was only the beginning of his pain....

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