Short Slashes Poems

The cat who slashes my couch
and loudly screams everyday
always orders me around -
I gladly obey....

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Manhattan
Missus
Slaying
The masses
With class
And glasses
Never giving up
With a sash
That slashes...

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Though it seems I don’t know the real format
All the dots and the slashes
Of the line.....but I do

Russell Sivey...

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wind slashes wyoming wheat field
blades of windmill spinning furiously
animals find shelter under bridge
rain slams down, breaking stalks
no mercy...

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This feeling falls on broken eyelashes 
so soft, more soft than a winter's breath 
though the folds of dreams fade from nightmarish slashes 
falling into a final death...

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Pain

Hurting

In my heart

Letting you go

It’s an agonizing feeling to bear

It slashes me deeply inside my core

Sidelined by love

Then it’s gone

It is

Over...

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Musical autumn leaves in slashes and swirls.
Flowing around me, making melodic curls.
Titters and skitters from mischievous squirrels,
What is more magical than September oak twirls?...

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Wilhelm de Kooning in a state of flux
spontaneous gestures at the crux

Joan Miro with impulsive slashes&spots
broken lined perspective dots

Henri Michaux painting without a thought
arn active process randomly sought...

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worry,
the darkest
                dark
of solitude
a
silent
        veto:
inanimate,
clouds my
field 
      of view,
brings
spasms
       of emotion,
disturbs..
                   
sunlight's rays
with
      shadows...

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sickle-sharp moon slashes
silken sky.
dusk darkens deep purple,
lights die.

tonight old hermit leaves
his cave,
weaves tales of freedom
for slave;

vanishes like off-season
monsoon,
back next night of sickle-
sharp moon!...

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Our world is torn;
We must be menders,
Carers helpers and defenders,
Brothers, builders and befrienders--
Though the ripper's evil slashes
Flay the world to grievous gashes--
We must mend  and employ
Needles of kindness and threads of joy....

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Smile as the world hates you.
Watch the knife cut through.
Identical slashes on your cheeks,
Infected and hurting for weeks and weeks.
Making a smile on your face,
Dripping blood all over the place.
Smile through the pain,
You know we will cut you again....

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shells wandered out onto the beach in strips and slashes
from the air it probably looked like a Shriner’s convention
God was materializing in the east in the form of an explosion
I ran to get my camera, not knowing what to photograph first
such an amazingly brilliant photographic opportunity!...

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ABSTRACTION

The black stripe
With crossing red slashes
Is not a chocolate cookie

These are paint strokes
Put on paper
Representational things – perhaps

But are they words?
Given aura
This could make them so

A thousand word poem
These strokes
But no chocolate cookie

Dave Austin...

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JOAN OF ARC

She earned the name
this woman
this welder
full leathers
shield in place
stinger
wielded with precision
smooth, molten slashes
melding cold iron
into heated union.

Joan of Arc!!
Don’t look directly at her
you may be smitten
by her welders flash.



John G. Lawless
8/29/2015...

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it slips her frame
the tiniest falls of water
cascade her curves
fingertips scratch
the liquid skim
trembled tremors timbre's
over the tensile taut
green splinters
in slashes of light
does she float
or does the water
raise her in their hands
in a hero's praise
its hold
of her reflection
just too long...

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Once lit by flickering torch light 
with animal tallow mixed with ocher
daubed on subterranean rock walls
now lit by streetlights or LED headlamp
slashes of spray paint and magic markers 
splattered on concrete bridge abutments,
boxcars, or walls of tenement ghettos,
but the message is the same
we were here....

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Sweet scented, star shaped, 

Summer sedative, silky spike 

Shines with its short stature  

Sign of sensuality and suppleness 

Supports spirits, slashes stress

Scents and colognes made from it

Small, lovely, luminous jasmine, the

Special choice of beloved-hearts



Place : Honourable Mention...

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eager exotic eyelashes
doubly dilly dots and dashes
quixotic crazy slashes
friendly farm ashes
wild window splashes
breakneck barley bashes
goodly gnarly gnashes
heavenly hopeful hashes
slick satin like slashes
meandering and marauding mashes
creative corny clashes
boots improvising as goulashes
eager exotic eyelashes...

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“Destiny” implies
a controlling external force - 
the random positioning of planets in solar orbit,
or the mysterious machinations of a spurious spirit in the sky - 
both impressively improbable and laughably unlikely.
Occam’s razor slashes!
And free will is the last rational refuge standing...

September 14, 2020...

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Along the path,
a hopper's song
slashes of yellow
feathered thoughts~

Along the path,
a slice of red
green scented heaven
a flowered dance~

Aside the path,
a faries brook
queen ann's lace
has found her rook~

Aside the path,
the clover walks
a mossy stone
to guide the lost~

At paths end
a burning lot,
of ogre croak
and texting snot....

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Listen to poem:

Menacing winds howl through the fragile trees,
In shadows, rain slashes windows like a whip,
Lightning cracks—each flash a brief, jagged tease,
Thunder roars, shaking the earth with its grip.

Outside, the storm batters everything in sight,
Nerves stretch thin as we brace through the night....

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Prayer

open door to heaven - devil’s descent at such prospects

teeth and claws - the nails on the cross

light seeps through Christ’s wounds - more sheep gather

angels take notice - boldness of blood, sweat and tears

angels and demons - double-edged sword slashes perversity

prayer’s perspicacity - heaven wins
...

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Furocity - it boils within the very vessels in essence
Bursting esteemed love, susceptible in it's unwavering
Vulnerability
Purity abreast of angelic fortification so easily crumbled
Shattered as splintered crystal fury slashes altruistic tracts
Lively divine power, immeasurable, snuffed by frailty
Resentful vengeance's suffocating unrelent....

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My heart sings soprano 
As my muse and I face
A pristine white page

Both of us exhilarated
We look forward to 
A day of unencumbered hours


Our excited imagination tears it up
Tossing down cartoons 
Scribbling poem after poem

My right hand can barely keep up
As my soul slashes feelings across the pages
Creating faster than my mind can catch up...

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