Short Shivery Poems

RAIN

River dancers on the shingles
Attenuating rhythmic shifts
Icy shivery down neck tingles
Nuances of seasoned riffs


John G. Lawless
10/23/2015...

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Your home fills a rancid life
Yesterday was very refreshing 
But agonizing voices murmured
Through the shivery cold
The moon's sight peers through
Your bloodstream zapping it
With a vinegary feeling...

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When the drop of 
Cool water 
Dropped
on a tender leaf
Giving a hard kiss

The leaf trembled
And screamed 
I hate your shivery touch!

Before denote its love 
The drop of water dissolved 
Over the leaf! 

Jayaratne Weerakkody...

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Sounds of burning water lilies
Disorient the future contours,
A shivery breath fills
My cheery corner.


The blazing shadow of the sun crushes
The sphinx of my star,
And the promises dissolve
Before the strangled star....

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The rote shivery wind is Winter's maid—
she breaks heart to own the season's floor;
via frost's degrees in my throat,
while my glean lancet's chills burn.
I tape her over my
skin; my fingers in
our stitches show—
her peel true.
Gloves are
off....

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the murky depths of the night drifts off the lone fisherman
     to the tamarind yellow river shaded with ecru of ambiguity;
  wind whispers wrapped in sweet somberness and  shivery softness; 
yonder a hint of golden honey light beckons a beautiful uncertainty....

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Hold on tight to this dream
it has feathers
that I found under the bed
where a princess lay her head
while her pony
waited shivery silver in the moonlight
at the edge of December
beside a laughing stream
that shimmered the thirsty
stones and said...
hope is a journey
best begun alone
alone alone alone........

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Hiberty jiberty liberty lox.
Quivery livery shivery shin.
Naughty Pandora opened the box
And couldn't get all of the troubles back in.
                                                  
Oh, briars of evil and nettles of sin.
Gaggles of sorrow, and worries in flocks.
Quivery livery shivery shin,
Hiberty jiberty liberty lox....

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When it's me for you to get blind 
Ehat else you'd have to see in this era

Inhuman

I saw one as to be dead 
In front one blink of my eyes
What else even could be expected!

Sophistication
Mad was I in order 
To have a simple thought process

Shivery

Soul at its’ peak and rupturing there
And one day it’ll die together with

Annoying?!...

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Shivery dawning sun
Spring breeze denies its warmth
An old friend's wool plaid shirt
retrieved in sleepy haste
Defeats the breeze 
Warm memories defeat
The death that took him.
Spring beckons me once more
Awakening the aches of movement
Teasing green in bursting buds
Tossing last years yellow holly down
As baby leaves emerge
Why is everything so clock of late?...

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Rocky trail
Fallen trees
Fresh scent of pine leaves

Scattered acorns
Wild blooms
Thundering sounds of a graceful brook

Brightly red 
Cylindrical Snow flowers
Show-stoppers for enthusiastic hikers

Chirpy Jays
Traces of wild foxes
Immensity of rocky mainstays 

Spring storm
Shivery gales
Sprays of tiny snowflakes

Wood bridge
Nimble stream
Magic of a mountain climb...

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I stack my bricks together
Assemble one by one
Construct myself a barrier
To hide from everyone
My soul's become too fragile
It's shivery and weak
Ramshackled by dishonesty
Enfeebled by deceit
So I've engineered a fortress
An rampart for the pain
Ensconced behind my barrier
I'll never hurt again
So I stack and stack and stack my bricks
My emotion thwarting wall
A soul saving work of masonry
To shield me from it all...

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A rain that felled in a rhythmic beat
washed away our muddy feet
rain frogs croaking beside the pond
has drone
so as the violent rain has gone;
drenching each tiny leaves of oaks
reminding us of a wedding vows
the rain has gone,silence the night
has worn.
we are moving ahead to the port of call
holding hands with a shivery breathe
ahead and ahead
through the streets forlorn..                                


Written by,
Rekha Antony...

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Driving so fast and so far
With the windows down
Letting the winter wind leave for a day or two
To bring in the shivery summer breezes.
To many lipstick-stained smiles,
Too many candied photos,
Too many times I wish I could feel like this forever. 
But as parents ask questions,
And wonder when we’re coming home.
This feeling of uncertainty sinks to my stomach.
As she drives the car back to our so-called homes,
I remember to cherish all these times spent in Nena’s car.
...

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The Nature is of miserly nature
Keeps stocks of the yellow hue
Selective in its use.
Like a sapient gift-giver presenting
A dulcet beauty of sunset
Yellowish entire sky.
The nature nurtured by the Father Sun
Entreats us to view pale sky
And shivery small sip.
Bathing the flowers in shining color
But days of glory too short
Green pushing out yellow.

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2-4-14
Dr. Ram Mehta
Form: Kimo
First Place Win
Contest: Latest Poem by Leonora Ghalinta...

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