Short Shutters Poems

woodpecker
knocks in the bare forest
shutters slam...

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A butterfly wing
Shutters like an eye blinking
Infinite knowledge...

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burnished band expands
parabola descending
blighting gray shutters...

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hurricane humbling
sheer power shatters shutters
sublime surrender
...

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Thinking between the shutters of thoughts
into the aphotic abyss of the soul

Deep within the catacombs 
Grows a world of memories and dreams...

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you cover me like
eiderdown when
the rain comes

You lock the shutters on
menace that 
displaces rationale

I can close my eyes and
know you
will stay...

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daffodils' gold glow
ingesting sun, a spring ode
pierce winter shutters












Haiku written: February 24, 2021
For Brian Strand July Contest...

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The pin oak and silver maple trees
In the woodland across the way
Shift like shutters in the breeze,
I love to sit and watch them sway.

written June 21, 2021...

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Capture the moments 
through the eclipse of time
The shutters hold in through the lens of the eye
moments like these we keep forever
To forever hold the times we had together...

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'Tis Loki you hear
vexing the shutters and doors
Winter has come for our bones!

I've made thee a fire
Lie here with me before it,
under the watch of the flames

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Quiet Moments

Sunlight beaming through the slanted shutters
Tiny dancing dust particles floating mid-air
Underneath desk a sleeping dog snores
Vanishing baby dreams
In my quiet moments, they haunt me....

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only a runaway child 
knows the true sounds
of an old house

It is not silent
It creaks and shutters
gives breath at every door

if you are caught
nobody listens to the inside
of a house from the outside...

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The
days
shorten,
nature starts
to sit out winter
and
bird's
migrate-
winging off
to a warmer clime,
the
cold
weather
tempers the
photosynthesis
as
life
outdoors
shutters down-
closed for  business....

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It’s the images
we can’t ignore

when they come
they come in threes

one
on top of the other

all gears
flashes
and springs

the mind shutters
clicks shutters clicks
and shutters some more

© Whit Howland 2019...

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A lonely house behind the park,
The place is derelict and dark,
And shutters keep us out.
I picture inside bleak and stark,
With spectral dogs that howl and bark,
And ghosts that walk about.

Jack Horne for Constance’s Haunted House contest...

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receive
we receive
the days
as snow

they occur
as blizzard
they accrue
in drifts

and all
of us all like
antennas sometime
all the time

when the signals
build
when the windsheer
shutters

rush
on tuning
rush
we drift...

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festive lark 
she has a deer for pet 
that day chases flamingos 
fawning at Santa Domingo 
Deers and squirrels shutters yet
All quiet at weeks end


2/14/21
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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WhatsApp
Let it be at least like a game 
There is yellow card 
There is red card 
As signals of warning 
Before sending off the player 
In the game of soccer 

Falling the shutters down 
Blocking the chatter 
Sudden 
Unlike a game,WhatsApp...

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this is the moment after the loss,
the garden as heavy as a standing horse,
as a frozen moon hangs like a buoy at ebb

north is the direction of winter,
a stripped.down world before the crawl

i hear your letting down of the shutters,
your steps tired up the stairs...

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There is a gentle wind blowing
outside my window.
It cracks the shutters and
splits the screen.

It tears at my roots.

It spits on my shoes.

The rain falls.
It lets go of the cloud's grasp
and falls to its death.
A billion tiny raindrops,
shattered on the earth....

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It's September again,
Cool, September,
Aloof September,
With her haunting memories.
I refuse to get out of bed today!
There will be no laughter or music and
I have closed the shutters to block rays
Of the pesty sun!
Oh, September,
Goooooo! ... and
Take my blue days with you!...

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I just want to be left alone
I just want to be left alone.
Shrill trumpets bellow in the distance.
Leave him alone
Leave me alone.
Impotent I fall through the seams of murder.
Alone,alone,alone.
Eccentric muscles peel themselves away from bone.
Close the shutters.
Because I am gone....

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THE    GALE


The gale twists the grass double,
Pounds the oaktree with its fists,


Shredding the autumn hedge,
Shrieking through cedar shakes,
Howling around old ruins  
Where window shutters chatter in fear.
 
We heave against it uncertainly,
Waiting for the  white balm of fog....

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Eyelids flutter,
White canvas shutters,
Open to the work around,
Close these windows,
And I dream of sin and slave.

I'm red underneath,
But I hide it with parchment,
And nod my agreement.

When light meets dark,
And the villain shakes hands with the lamb,
Is when you'll know who I am....

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Paralyzed heart lingers for someone,
    Who meant everything.
Whom it treasured the most in heart,
    Suddenly makes u feel nothing.
Experiencing the bitter fruit of expectation,
    Enduring pain shutters your joy.
Torment slowly takes away the souls innocence,
    Concur that my soul has Ripen....

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