Short Sheath Poems

Cracked lips,
      Cold sheath,
Lonely Cot,
      Dry nights,
Replated hearts....

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Hearts
Sheath the
Souls that shield
Universal
Love 


10/7/16
Lanterne Contest...

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my inner wildcat
is released by my donning
a leopard print sheath
my now feisty attitude
is obvious at a glance...

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Yen!

Come to me
Undress me
And wrap me with your skin
Color me with your blood 
And of course your soul is sheath...

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Posterity be damned,
today is your reward

The future but an empty wish
—a sheath without a sword

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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“Draw me not without reason
nor sheath me without honor”

There’s blood in the inkwell
—death on the page

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)...

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Air you breathe, hunger that sit
Fair you treat, thunder that skip
Hair like sheath, colored and lit
Snare as you beat, blunder over your slip...

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I saw the light
Behind her veiled face
The brightness behind
A cloudy sheath
Of confusion and loss
We know not 
When she left
We only know
What happened next...

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Hold your peace
Let the violence cease
Sheath your sword
Draw no more blood!

Let it off with a shrug
Give him a hug
If to Peace you belong
She shall make your days long!...

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Two warriors met
One with a sword
And one with a dream
Both of them went to war
With their weapons in sheath 
Both of them returned
One with a sword
But none with a dream....

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A shoot escapes biting this stars ray,
E'er so oft rain splashes near its day,
Lil glow often drawn in braids,
Wind tussles ardent in trades,
A petaled sheath loosens for display....

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.

        hear that

'twuz the raw cotton
  'bout mine sheath
        slid'n off
        slip'n on
           hern 
          naked
         the tide
          splash
       'tiz windy...

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this heat
rode my neck
sun baked brains
staining my vision
stroke
of
a
breeze
climbing
wind blown
perceptions
tumbling leafs
sword from sheath
least line maybe sayd
enough for me
?...

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Patty Cat, Patty Cat, 
Sheath your claw;
Rat-girl and Cat-girl
Rollin' in the straw.






Excerpted from Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (Austin: Banned Books, 1992)....

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Into pitch
Never black
Way out 
Arms stretched 
Reach for 
Divinity

Otherwise
Reverse

Overly opaque bones
Underestimated terror
Trembling shrill tones
Waking the death-bearer
Armed to the teeth
Raging empty sheath
Damned...

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Lover of the howling derecho 
on the vast welkin shore,
Carrying the aromatic mists 
of sweetest petrichor;
How it strikes! as the willowy blade
of an ambrosial steel sword,
Into the resting sheath
of the game's flooded board....

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A bliss mist penetrates love’s sheath,
grace God Himself does so bequeath,
enabled in pure hearts porous,
birthing magnetic field torus,
at play within, bliss ignition,
defying delineation.

06-May-2022...

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gate
level, fixtureless 
owing thrilling curtailing
snippet, delusion, lodge, sheath.
splitting, carrying, delaying.
askew, clockwise
egress

Written: January 12, 2023

Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger...

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Cut it- clean

Swath on down under the muscle

Slide along the bone

Withdraw

Now enter lightly, gently, deeply

Hilt rested upon the surface

Step back
(don't lose your grip)


Bow to your partner

Turn 
and
salute any onlookers

Sheath the pen and walk away...

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graying darkness awakes the sleepless night,
implausible moment, dreams come too light

bindable spirits beating as one, pause,
obscure by drifting underlying cause

existent amorous scene of warmness
sheath in continuance timeless solace

7/27/2021...

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Near
heaven's
gate,
God's throne,
Seraphims
gather.
Cry,
Holy
Lord, dispose
uninvited
wild bramble,
for it
sheath,
consume
the pure soul,
in your
lush
garden
plants.

6/12/2021


Waltz Wave Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman...

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Her black silk dress
Fitted her like a sheath
The taut lines showed
Her nakedness beneath

Save for black-stockings
Gartered at the thigh
Stimulating to the loins
And pleasing to the eye

She turned every head
With her glamorous allure
Filled each one with thoughts
None of which were pure...

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Needless is strife, in our short life
As we live out this dream
Sheath forever, the butcher’s knife 
Let love throbs in heart stream

Life goes on anyway
Let love be our mainstay
Pulsating night and day

Be thee bliss rife
Needless is strife

30-June-2022
Quietus ...

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true feelings 
concealed craftily
beneath the sheath 
of saccharine psyche 

fragile fantasy 
of self sanguinity 
fostered
by colors 
of chameleon skin

spurious emotions
sprawl surreptitious
pretentiously 
paraded skillfully
away from 
edge of reason
epitomize deftly 
camouflaged ego
...

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My mind insane,
From the taste of bare sin
Yet my mouth is that of a sheath,
Lying Underneath, My words hidden as the sharp sword.
Cutting away at the sane mind’s,
Known sin, for a pain/wound not felt,
Cannot be healed or understood by a skin unfelt by its touch.
For 
One cannot dream,
If the world never sleeps....

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