Short Sieve Poems

ideas through a vortex sieve...

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Snowflakes softing down
Sifting through the sieve of sky
Like sugar on cake...

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Krill in abundance,
Shrimp like creatures bloom oceans;
Blue whales scoop and sieve....

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Move through a sieve
Of memories,
Spilling like shards of glass,
Cutting into my soul.


Cynthia

written 2007...

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sieve sifting slight blight 
       fickle fact lung flung gargon ~

                choking chipotle




05.24.2020...

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Grievances galore
Filtered out by sieve of time;
The essence of love
Flows fine through it and soaks heart.
Ego lost its ground at last....

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amused I am
by the sieve 
of a mid-city wannabe drunk
through which but a single
narcissistic gutter-rat apparition
can pass --
Heini

Written: 4am 20 November 2020...

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Sifting slurry through my word sieve
occasional bright flashes give hope
but there is so much dross and the
yellow flakes in my quicksilver amalgam
may be naught but fool’s gold....

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My granny her first name is Dolly
Is loopy, she’s clean off her trolley
I know she’s insane
Cos when we have rain
She uses a sieve as her brolly


03/17/21...

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Extrovert Who Has To Hurt

Trump have heard is an annoying extravert;
Abuses people and always does like to hurt;
Gifts never give;
Swallows like sieve,
And he even has caused us to lose our shirt.

Jim Horn...

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TO LIVE
I am looking for the next life to live
Are you still having any fouls to give
Let's ignore the facts of any sieve
Don't forget, don't remember, just forgive
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando February 23, 2017...

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They claim they care
How their bank accounts fair!!
As your health, to paramedics, they leave
Their next loan tranche to sieve

From curfew to lockdown we flit
As on their ample behinds, they sit
While the masses hunker down
The deep state's in town...

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Meandering through
the cracks of a
Baltic horizon
stripped of
its lunary luminance,
streams of darkness slither
their way through
the calloused sieve of a
monochromatic
midnight sunrise
that unfurls its
featherless wings
over Leningrad





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Oh! come with me my love
Enjoy the blue of the sky above.
Walk on the sand, where our feet
And the crashing waves meet.

What more is there to life?
Let’s turn our back on anger and strife.
While time filters through life’s sieve
Let’s love each other.
And Live...

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My muse is a sieve
it pans for gold
it’s a strainer 
a skimmer
a fat separator 
it tumbles boulders 
until pebbles are formed 
it can chew on a feeling 
for days weeks or years
til it spits out a poem
my polished 
my crystallized 
bits of awe and woe...

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the straight jacket
of convention
bring
random
    consolations,
so 
apposite:
the drawback
of the trivial,
underlined
by the inauthentic,
unruffled
by the marginal,
proxy-proof
in the schemes 
of man...
distilled by the
sieve
of the commonplace...

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When you talk to me
My ears acts like sieve
My eyes know it all
My face can't stop smirking 
Cause even your lies 
Can't deceive me this time
I might be innocent back then
Letting me dance on your fingertips 
But trust me
I have become way smarter than I was...

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There’s comfort in conformity,
The dry herd steps forward to give 
Filed sighs, an enormity
Of purpose, peppered like a sieve
With empty space, paraded fast
Through love and loss, to lie and live,
Splaying bones to yawn death at last,
Our time to pass, we won’t forgive....

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Of its own volition
the brain erases time,
to rearrange events,
or change truth;

an embarrassing moment,
a misspoken word,
cowardly act,
wrong decision,
missed opportunity,
or lost love.

If you could call back time,
you'd become a sieve,
and filter out
all the pain....

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Frail and pale, oh! Can't you tell
That I have suffered a botched romance?
With open Heart, invited Hell
Though I assumed a fighting stance

But thus I learned, though I was burned,
(Always I succumb to fascination)
Perspectives glib, my Mind- a sieve! 
I mistook Love for Infatuation...

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Oh what a catastrophe it is
to live like this:    to not exist.
When life seems as a giant sieve
sorting blindly all we give,
seeping slowly,
taking bids
and sifting 
pain,
you must remember,
from pleasure.

Want to know how to achieve bliss?
The wonder's in
the
end-
less-
ness
.
.
....

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yet words that flow,
the rhyme you know,
forgiveness really matters,
exactly as you try to show,
hatred mind does shatter,

forgive, with love although,
so many curse the latter,
love at end of days you know,
sieve chaff from oats the patter...
be there soul that matters?

Don Johnson...

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The 'chase' can be a hunt
    though I hope it's not for deer
  I'd rather they chase criminals
    and put an end to fear

  Then there's 'Chase Bank of Manhattan,'
    named after J.P. Morgan, I believe
  A gent oft chased by 'gold-diggers'
    for whom his wallet was a mesh-less sieve...

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Thanksgiving day, heart’s gratitude
For blessings we receive
Mind battles fought with fortitude 
Fears and desires we sieve 

Each breath intake, Gods grace
Make easy, our life pace
Exiting the rat race

Love our mainstay
Thanksgiving day

24-November-2021
Quietus ...

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Be Sane

Insane?
The pain.
The rain.
The stain.
Remain.

Forgive.
Let live
No sieve.
Just give
Re-live.

Insane 
Disdain.
Complain.
Refrain.
Maintain.

Forlorn
Will morn.
New born.
No horn
Reborn

Insane?
Fast lane.
Regain.
Sustain
Be sane.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    December 22, 2009...

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