Short Shudders Poems

in reddish crepe
    the angry autumn sky
     shudders in nostalgia...

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anvil clouds rising
forging white bolts of lightning-
every tree shudders...

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starstruck hearts gaze eerily into space, a spellbound earth shudders and exhales...

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A mind is a flower:
It opens to sunshine,
Shudders at storms--
   ~Yet quickly re-forms....

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Defeated man
Sips on a free coffee sample
And shudders
Even the free things in life
Taste bitter....

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an old owl shudders
a cacophony of geese -
wildly breaking wind

5/7/2020

An Haiku with motions...

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The way a shadow stretches,
When sunlight shudders down,
Can make the horns of a devil
Look like the sporks of a crown....

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Sweet but psycho,
drawn into the curve of that smile;
Oh those shudders,
dancing in fiery red high tops;
Still, her sign read ‘Haunted House.’...

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Winter Watch

lonely fence post shudders in glittering
shroud beneath an artful gaze...
dueling owl and mouse


deborah burch©1.30.2013


Form:Kimo...

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a canyon shudders
aspens shiver in the cold …
coyotes flee the wind

©3/2/2022

H Forms – Traditional Nature Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsor – Constance La France...

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“She’s my best friend’s girl
and she used to be mine”
Good lord! Ooh, my soul shudders!
It’s a fate worse than my own!
Much better to lose what I never had
to a stranger!...

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how about
the sparkling centerpiece
of a twinkling day
winking at me 
through eyes unseen
   but felt
warmly, on my bare shoulder
heaven shudders
      and so does my body...

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dont forget me

she bites back the words
watching 
silent
left behind again
she grips her arms and shudders
a lonely spike drives through her middle
an icy reminder 
of truth...

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Starvation is rendered flabbergasted
when in tinge
with a touch of reality,
retaliating
upon the mention
of thee who shudders
in a chair 
positioned so high
only the clouds could reach it....

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the pulse of humanity
shudders in throbbing pain
meanwhile muffled cries of hopelessness
await redemption as tears of time
may possibly wash away
man's devastation


AP: 3rd place 2025

Posted on March 14, 2025...

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  One empty black night,
Two yowls shrieked through the night air;
Three minute cat fight.

One shudders at the dying plea of beasts;
Two injured cats is bad; glad it’s not three!
 
Written 2-25-19...

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In March I asked the daffodil
What secrets it might hold
And like the loose-lipped lily
The flower gladly told 

Now December’s icy breath
Shudders the shriveled rose
And I do not dare to ask it
For fear of what it knows....

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I wish to love you
beyond your blouse
that protects your skin ...
Beyond bras
who  shapes yours
superb round breasts ...
Beyond your skirt
that protects your
enchanted treasures ...
Beyond the body
where your heart
shudders...

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the snow falls heavy on wet grounds
it's sight brings sad eyes
to those who want spring
it's cold bitterness nips at every nose
and shudders those who find it blinding 
snow in Ohio is a bad four letter word
followed by rain and hail...

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Tingling
my spine moves slowly with each sound
"Ssshhh!!!"
you speak 
again my spine quivers...shudders even

which is it?
A running horse or walking fingers?
I care not!!!
slipping into an abyss of...
well!
Coyly I smile.
Who's first?....sigh!!!...

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You are sliding a slippery slope
I tell my darling prince
He shudders, not knowing what he has done
to incur my wrath
I am not about to tell him either
The guessing is what keeps him on his toes
and possibly keeps him solicitous 
keeping the marriage alive....

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Beauty held her
      Light soft feather
Brushing his nipple so
It was as if a million
      Shudders flooded
His skin a crimson glow
Tethered hands gagged mouth
      No stifling his moan
The feather crept lower
Teasing ever lightly
      A will of its' own....

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fat and jet black cat
 
                                     glowing golden irises

                                   fierce snarl shudders all 





Black Cat Haiku Poetry Contest
Haiku poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori 
Date: 05-04-2022...

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SOME PEOPLE HAVE A WAY WITH WORDS, IT SEEMS
I ONLY SPEAK FREELY AND ELEQUENTLY IN DREAMS
IN A GROUP MY VOICE OFTEN STUMBLES AND FALLS
WHAT WAS MEANINGFUL A MOMENT AGO SHUDDERS AND STALLS
TRY STILL I DO, AND AGAIN TO EXPRESS
THOUGH SELDOM DO MY WORDS SATISFY ME, I CONFESS...

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Dreams of a boom
shudders the heart
The wild crack of opportunity
where to appear
seamlessly not welcome here

Spent most of my days in a caravan
When it pours it never stops
A trouble cured
for a  drowning man
Like a distant dream
His shirt is white
but he walks on stilts...

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