Short Sifts Poems

 down sifts
its way through the air
etheric touch

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Darkness sifts through night
A harsh dampness is instilled
Chrysanthemum weeps

Russell Sivey...

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poems grow shorter
~
heavy is the hourglass sand
that sifts through my hand

Kim Rodrigues (c) 2016...

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The heat of a gruelling day
Dissolves into dusk
Sifts yellows and gold 
From the parched brown earth
Into the colours of the sea...

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Number 22

FORM


Sand grains in my hand
Draining away swift
Eternal intent
In form that now sifts




Leon Enriquez
09 January 2015 
Singapore...

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The Stillness of the Night Awakens Souls


The hourglass sifts gently, day to night,
And visions lost ‘till darkness, now take flight.




For Brian's Contest...

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Flames sifts and seizes all, mankind’s desires burns through all 
All is exchanged for fire, for fire is the highest priced gold 
With a pearl within the flickering flames, still and wailing...

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loneliness sifts and drifts in light and shadow
hope always just a valley behind
with a mountain top to scale
never to glimpse
tendrilled fingertips pull deep
from within
drowning in not being...

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A dark wind sifts
		         through its debris
					           sighing
							      at the edge of .... dawn


3/26/2019

Writing Challenge 5, March 2019, Four Lines – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Dear Heart...

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as day slips into even
and sun draped winds
now evoke a midnight glove
where kissed dew
turns pirouette
on rosened cheek
air is took and chosen
Universal pinpricks
seem to lead the way
nigh time sifts
in shadows greys...

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Softly silver snow sifts, soundless,
lattice-like, a lacquered lace of layering light,
startling sparrows, shyly shivering for shelter,
on leafless, lustered limbs - lancets, londonite.

November 28, 2017
For Alliteration Contest...

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a stunning songster's
smooth streaming serenade sifts~
sweet to ears  sheer treat


Placed First
For Strand's (1065) Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Brian Strand
(Earlier submitted for alliterative Haiku Contest)...

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Feisty gulp
A hot cup


Mocha dawn
Moves deep yawn


Cold air drifts
Warm drink sifts


In a dash
Warm gut stash


Mocha joy
Swirls fond ploy


Autumn cold
Warm hands hold




Leon Enriquez
29 July 2018
Sydney Trip, June...

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Taste time
Move rhymes


Scent well
Taste tells


Smell sifts
Nice gift


Opt zest
For fest


Cheer choice
Trace poise


Dare dance
Sweet chance


Glimpse grand
Dear friend 




Leon Enriquez
11 September 2018
Singapore...

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my mind sifts through
these memories of you
the bad and the good
short times that we knew
sometimes happy
most times blue
melancholy wishes
that won't come true
so I pack them away
the lid still askew
finally, turning my back
on my love for you...

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He turns the page
Unaware, he digs
Her up, his treasure
Just out of reach.
He sifts the skin
Of her words
Each expression
Illuminates
The delicacies, 
The connection.

His concentration
Easily bears the weight,
Of the increasing
State of his bliss....

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End play
Prompts say


Dig deep
Boom sleep


Sure blast
Run fast


Blunt brief
Hurt grief


Dream drifts
Spice sifts


Last call
Purge gall


Past tense
Moves sense


Now trend
Grim end




Leon Enriquez
26 October 2015
Singapore...

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The night falls
Dust from a thousand years
Accumulating on that which the eyes once saw
Obscuring
Still the breeze
Silence the sound
She sifts into the gaping mouth
Nil the breath
Fill the body with her shadow
To sleep for ten thousand more
This black tomb....

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These eyes the world sifts harshly through, 
      see what I want them to believe. 

               ***************

           through life glistened eyes  
           glimpses of a desert road…
               view from a mirage

                     12 Jul 2015...

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Like drums, guitars, keyboards and pianos 
They run on a string of notes.
That reaches the limits of unlocking astonishments… 
The sound sifts to obtain dead notes 
And you are left in an incurable feeling, 
Until its destruction.
By ignorance the notes will never leave your circle...

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Be 
Easy
Now set free


See
Clearly
Feel fear flee


Poise
Frames choice
Beyond noise


Show
Wise flow
In true glow


Joy
Funds toy
In grand ploy


Fest
Greets zest
To forge jest


Lift
Fond gift
That love sifts




Leon Enriquez
24 December 2015
Singapore...

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Calm is the night
Where moon shines bright


Watch for a touch
That fills so much


Discard odd choice
Word in slow poise


A voice sifts sleep
In echoes deep


Cheer floods and fills
Whispers odd spills


Quiet time here
Can speak so clear



Leon Enriquez
26 November 2017
Singapore...

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Spring's here.

Birds sing as they flutter.
Honey drips from the sky.
Plants explode like champagne.
Sun penetrates my soul.

It runs like a river through my veins.
Flushing out the winter frost.
Barbecues drift through mossy fences.
Invisible pleasure sifts past me.

Time slows down, practicing for summer....

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The warm sand sifts between my toes
The water sees what no-one knows
Because I whisper to the waves
Deep things that hurt from hidden caves
When the waves do crash upon me
I float with power of the sea
I overcome hurdles to be
Those are the rocks, I am the sea

Heidi Sands


*8 Syllables each line

12/4/16...

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Looking inside the mirror

Rambling thoughts
Reflection in a window
Standing still
Frozen in time
Is this me?
Shall I not
Be anything
So many information.
Are my views
Mine
Or are other people’s
Opinions
Influencing me?
Is there charnel 
Inside
That sifts the many viewpoints.
Are nothing
My original thoughts....

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