Short Slanting Poems

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human folly : haiku



         slanting hue 

              sink every desire due  ~

                        cackle at humans
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Haiku 113

HAIKU #113


Slanting sun beams
Autumn evening recital;
Random songbird arias

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Leon Enriquez
06 Nov 2020
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Premium Member WHITEOUT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sleet falls~ Needles of ice slanting through bitter gusts. Thermometers gasp, plummeting. blizzard.
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Misty Childhood Vision

By calm childhood's brook, 
shafts of brash, slanting light  
shone through a dewy mist. 
From a stone, there I spied,
descending from a thread, 
dawn's angel from the dark.

Slanting the Picture

This road
does not lead to my home.
   Do I ask the lake ?

*

   Tonight, the moon
shows a wrinkled face
   and depression.

*

   An untitled
poem, will find a blank
   page of life.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC


Premium Member Don't Be Dismayed

Don’t be dismayed at something that goes on forever.
It never happened in the first place —
only a slanting aspect of the constantly reconfigured patterns
nature loves to play on an uncertain sky.

Christopher M. Swan 2008

Premium Member Old and Lonely

through venetian blinds
slanting beams of light peep in
where she sits alone
reminiscing in silence 
hoping that the bell would ring

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25th March, 2015
Contest: Tanka 3
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Evening's Face

 
blue sky, dotted with white clouds sun, in his last lap of race slanting rays gleam in gold sheen their beauty to evening they bestow
March .4. 2022 syllables- 7/7/7/9 Lind 30 nr Poetry Contest Sponsor- Chantelle Anne Cooke
Form: Verse

Scary

Your slanting smile 
like a pendant-moon 
ready to collapse 
on pomegranates.

*

Monstrous, bug-eyed, 
my pug will jump; 
whenever, I touch 
his snub-nose.

+

Death was sparring 
after a brief encounter. 
What was the need 
for living more ?


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Premium Member Night-Flying

I drift aloft with gossamer wings,
slowly slanting toward the moon,
beaming with its nimbus glow.

Like me, it seems to shift positions,
darting between forms and shadows,
darkened slopes and rounded hills.

Shimmering streams grow mute below us,
sending clear, sweet twinkles skyward—
forever gracing souls in flight.
© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.

Summer Storm

by Maureen Staley Cary

When I hear that faint rumble, deep in the clouds,
The summer sky will darken, lead-gray
The rain will come in slanting sheets,
Forming mist as it hits hot, hard earth
The birds will retreat, like the ants,
But the earthworms will emerge from the softened soil,
Content in the break from August heat.

Premium Member And It Was Sparkling

Huge blossoms perched in a crystal vase;
And how it sparkled!
While early evening sun came in slanting,
In intense burgundy golden rays, flaming.
Beauty blooms bounced at west window,
And colors were flashing!
In a summer turned hummer-honeybees.
Varicolored blooms grace evening- so new,
Just as pearls in green grass-morning dew!

Nocturne By Vladimir Mayakovsky

I oiled the card of daily being
splashing the paint from glass; I pointed
slanting cheekbones of ocean streaming
on plate of jelly, I was joyed
to read the calls of some new lips
on tin fish scales; oh, it is cute,
But could you play Nocturne on ribs
of very noisy drainpipe flute?

P.S. My translation of poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Form: Lyric

The Forever Bees

The Forever Bees

Spring passed without them…
Their forever hum of summer was silent;
no hopeful tending to timid crocus,
no ceaselessness in the heat of the coreopsis field,
none of their hurry in the lazy slanting of passing goldenrod afternoons.
The forever bees did not come this year…
Loveless, my neighbor’s zucchini did not bear.

Slanting Eyes

We searched for your slanting eyes
as you plucked a dombra
on hills of Kazakhstan 
your circles of light
dancing, leaping, gyrating  
making heath grow
in bundles

It sang your mission
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth
ropes loosened, dangled
Where to ?

Into One Source
where we created you
so that love can 
jump again in
black lashes

Premium Member Siesta

Idly the weary ceiling fan rotates
            Air is hot but bearable
             A mood for lethargy.

Sprawled on the bed my Venus lies asleep
  Splintered light through slanting blinds
          Highlights her naked skin.


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Contest: Let's Try a Little Kimo
Sponsor: Amy Green
29th May 2014
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Creation

Rows of houses, leaves in gutters
Slanting shadows half obscuring
Borrowed light from a dying sun
Home of ghosts, papery facade

Twitches inhabit foreground air
Visible to the keen observer 
More bits of nothing to disregard.
As if you could.

Assembled on a vacuum base 
With faith connecting the floating visions
Which are called life.
Pray, life!

Melody

Rain is drizzling in slanting form 
And pelting my roof gently.
Outside, it’s cold and dark, the stars hiding
Behind blindfolded, piddling clouds.
Music flows through my brain.
My ears are full.
Every breath I take resides on pluvial melody,
Charging my pulses towards the mirth of 
Eloquent stanzas.
God, how on earth can I thank you enough
For music?

Premium Member The Moon In June

In the quiescent quietude of a tranquil June night Stood Queen Moon in her diadem with an entourage of handmaids Her shimmering rays like a slithering silvery stream Came down sliding, slanting and crashing Turning the night into one of fluorescent effulgence June.8.2022 ~Placed Seventh~ The Moon in June Poetry Contest Sponsor- Andrea Dietrich

Premium Member Days Will Bide Their Time

The morn dawned gray, the fog crouched o'er the sea
It spread across the land; on hill, in vale, it lay
Obscured the rolling meadow, 'till arose a breeze

As sun burned through the mist with slanting ray
A thought did find its way into my mind
That days will bide their time before they say

Now look at us in all our finery designed
To dazzle and delight, as -- our glory we unwind

After Tne Storm

A vision high and so enchanting
Of sunlight off rainbow slanting
Minuscule droplets rays refracting
Light expanding and retracting

Through prism lens colors bending
To form a rainbow spectrum blending
A never-ending arch of wonder
Beginning at the end of thunder

A warm and ethereal hue 
The world awash in colors new
Of bright, fresh tones in shades of green
And picture perfect sky serene
Form: Rhyme

A Possible Witch

you step like a puzzled vixen,
             you sniff at damp bark
             and beds of leaves,

clothed in burnt sticks and smoke,
            your eyes are slanting snow,
            wary of ice and shadow;

this falls between us,
            you wait under trees
            or at frozen gates

on evenings when I late home
            carrying the basket of stones
            you laid at my door.

Where and When and Everytime

Where and when and everytime
beauty comes to pass.

Always at a distance.
closer at it's class.

Spirits large and smaller
seemingly not meeting.

Slanting human eyes
from all the Gods are greeting.

Ora's 'round the trees
dimly being seen.

Blinding what eyes open.
Denying where they've been.

Loving what comes ready
while needing what comes later.

Patience for the soul
and pain for the creator.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Soaking Up the Sun

Saffron sun shone brightly, though it was a rainy day,
And varicolored umbrellas were up, in wild vivid array.
All shades were abloom, on the beautiful Dahlia Avenue,
And smiles were seen, in slanting rain of silvery hue!
Such mellow yellow gold, out of violet midnight dreams-
Like the heart of motley autumn, wearing spring greens!


Written on May 18, 2021
For: Charm me ~ Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Form: Rhyme

She Will Go

Like a concise rose
she crosses the lobby
knowing her goal,
carrying it out.
Tick, tock, her accurate feet
complete the flower.

A quiet perfume remains
after six o'clock
when late sunlight
illuminates the office
slanting across the empty desks.

But she has a vision,
that hides within her
like a thunderstorm
within an egg.

One day she'll untie her hair
on vast green fields
under darkening skies
and finally be.

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