Short Skywards Poems

tree branches stripped bare
point skywards like pleading hands
praying for the spring...

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Fiery mountain blown-off lid
                 Billowing smoke ash skywards
                 Molten rock avalanche...

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dry water resources 
                        withered trees, crops 
                        farmer throws hands skywards...

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Floating embers swivel golden flames go up 
towards marked enclaves a midnight sky 
skywards and onwards the stars and moon await...

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red kite circles
   
   and gazes earthwards -

   skilled hunter



   shadow gazes skywards

   and places poisoned corpse -

   coward...

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Skywards of  now
Vultures on gilded wings
hovering, striking
secrets of the carrion evade
Are you just tete to tete
now the lines are drawn
Large sephents over reach
to a Gypsy flute...

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My heart shall travel far
End to end where rainbows meet
Skywards the North Star
Beckoning the waves to glide
Quickly to come home
To thy warm, sweet embrace
And your bright summer kisses...

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Come, my weary soul, come,

It is time for you skywards to fly

The heavens, as soon as possible, to reach

Come, let's say our last goodbye!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
        02 June 2021...

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Call me cynical
Has anyone else noticed …….
All of a sudden
The price of flowers and chocolates
Rockets skywards high towards heaven

Oh silly me its nearly Valentines Day!

12th February 2015...

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A broken egg on the pavement
Speckled shell on a speckled path
And the blue inside
A light sky blue tint
A sky waiting to be filled by the bird
The skeleton mingling with the dust and grease and concrete dust
Instead of flying....

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When those abominable moments in our lives come
 
And with indignation our voices to heavens raise
       
We must think of the instances happiness our was
 
But failed the eyes skywards to turn, our Lord to praise!










© Demetrios Trifiatis
     09 February 2021...

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Dandelion little bud soon will have a golden crown,
taller this is bound to grow
 upwards, skywards to our sun, 
now ripened with blossom wide, unconcealed, too bold to hide,
 until the time is right to leave... 
though death is a mere bluff,
 evolving to a special stage transforming to fine fluff!...

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The backwash reflection
sent waves seawards
to crash headlong
into the oncoming waves
sending swash and spray skywards.
It was fun to go careering out 
and ride the surge, and get upshot
as the two waves met and banged together.
The afterglow of backwash aftereffect
was exhilarating that afternoon....

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Magic scenes 
drift blissfully 
across 
my gleaming eyes 
that capture lush green 
images 
or peer 
with deeper 
focus 
at heaven’s 
golden rungs 
ascending skywards 
as a blue enchantment 
lures 
perceptive life lights

Date ; 18/5/2020  Eighteenth Of May 2020

Title ; Look Closely 

Sponsor ; Edward Ibeh...

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When those abominable moments in our lives arrive, my loving friend 
 
And with indignation our voices to heavens, in protest, we wish to raise
       
Have to remember, the instances when happiness our companion was 
 
But we failed skywards, our eyes to turn to, for our dear Lord to praise! 




© Demetrios Trifiatis
    13 JANUARY 2015...

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When those abominable moments in our lives come, my beloved brothers,
 
And with indignation our voice to heaven, in protest, we feel to raise
 
We have to remember the instances of happiness our companions were
 
That we did fail, miserably, skywards our eyes to turn to, our Lord to praise!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
  27 November 2022...

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dazzling beautiful 
as i smiled
the whole way 
through  a dream
lifting the curtain
painting fairytales
you sure can
pipe enchanting 
sweet talk

you play 
in such beauty
magically cast
lifting skywards
in the song
playing one tune
sings sweetly
floating emotions

sky clouds 
touching cotton
embraced emotion
hello what inspires 
such amazing 
beautiful words 
is a dream...

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The road through wilderness snaked
The ocean of sand its bosom bared
Thorny plants skywards stared
Mirages stood, in falsehood draped
The rain too made a hasty retreat
No sound to break the eerie conceit
The nocturnal beings too walked in stealth
The dunes too, unsure souls, mislead
The lonely traveler felt a void in his chest
Where the heart had once snugly dwelt...

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A thin wisp
Like fingers entwining
Opening like a budding flower
Skywards

Taking a path, a grey meander
Spooling and curling
Relying on a gentle breeze
For safe passage

The momentary heat on wood
Sublimating to perfumed wonder
Entering my body to 
Ensnare the soul

The scent which evokes
For each a different memory,
A feeling; but to all…
Solace, fortitude, release...

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awake am I at three am as dark sky closes in
not a sound as I look skywards 
I then espy the brightest light when
sparkling diamonds rain on me 
'tis Venus sprinkling her gems of love
the brightest jewel in the darkest sky

Written after a sleepless night on 7th August 2021

Contest  'August 2021 NA's'
Sponsor	Constance La France
N/A

Contest  A BRIAN STRAND FREED VERSE 
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE...

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Incense whispers drift skywards
Echos amid the memory boxes.

Prising lids off revealing recollection relics -
Fragments labeled and categorised.
I run my hand over each:
Exploring the worn grooves of emotion -
Branded into being human by perspective!
Examining each piece I question it's reality...
Is it time to redefine? rediscover? to re-remember?

The pathway forward is revealed by
Incense whispers drifting skywards...

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Incense whispers drift skywards
Echos amid the memory boxes.

Prising lids off revealing recollection relics -
Fragments labeled and categorised.
I run my hand over each:
Exploring the worn grooves of emotion -
Branded into being human by perspective!
Examining each piece I question it's reality...
Is it time to redefine? rediscover? to re-remember?

The pathway forward is revealed by
Incense whispers drifting skywards...

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Staining the floor with her shards
and slicing the hands of the coroner
the broken doll rests in pieces.
Her etched face glances skywards
her beaded eyes trapped staring into the sun.
“Pushed too far,” the coroner says.
Porcelain women weep at the side of the autopsy table.
“Bury the fragments,” the coroner says, the coroner says.
His words move on
but the mourners never will.
He moves on to the next case
but the mourners never will.
He moves on.
But the mourners never will....

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My special other,
She sits beside me in the twilight’s embrace, 
We watch the sun take a sink in its somber mood, 
The ocean view, 
A delight to our sight,
The running waters,
A rhythm to our ears,
When feet kiss water,
A relaxing and unruffled flow permeates,
The world’s weight plummets,
Where sky becomes ocean,
Our dreams come out of their hiding,
They take flight skywards,
They soar unbounded.





June 19, 2022,
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest,
Mark Toney....

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