Short Spatters Poems

on a bitter wind
brown leaves swirl then settle down
rain spatters the earth...

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bright spatters run slow …
falls as the wind start to blow
warm Sun washed medow...

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and so there, this world
with the trauma and troubles
while out I saw upon the path
blotches and spatters 
of lichen 
I know, right
it was like walking 
on the back 
of a giant negative Dalmatian...

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rising blood red sun -
   spatters mount Fuji as
   whalers fly flag









I wrote this poem to try to write what a country's flag might
represent to an individual.  I love whales and dolphins so this
is what it represents to me....

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The truth is whispered in the wind.
  A lone eagle screeches
  Calling out 
  "Remember the persecuted". 

  Men, women and children
  cast out
  Into the Scottish winter.
  Despairing to God

  Sheep now graze
  Over the dereliction.
  Scottish  blood 
  Still spatters the heather.

  Amen...

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 Just a splash of color
on a rotting stump;
golden waves of pigment
spread on a brown canvas.

Orange spatters intermingle
with yellow polka-dots
and the newborn smiles
highlighting the essence.

Happiness is a blossom
of pigments in nature;
a time-lapse painting,
lightening the heart.
...

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He dabbles in this, dips his toes in that
Dithering with daubs, splattering dollops and spatters
Dilly-dallying, loitering lazily lackadaisical
Unable or unwilling to commit.
Half-hearted efforts lie half-baked, unfinished
Laying listless, languidly lolling and littering.
It's so annoying to see time wasted and fortuity fraught
But what can anyone watching do?...

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Blood spatters the walls
It pools under the bodies
She looks down at the soul less eyes
Wide open in shock
They never saw her coming
Never expected she could harm them
She was just a stupid girl
She proved them wrong
Proved them wrong with a blade
And simple downward motions
Ending their lives
They had no chance to scream
To cry out their shock
They lie there with their soul less eyes
Eyes staring at what they could never see...

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Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck
For if the struggle
Needs weapons
Give it words
Repudiation
Enthralled me but
Never shall be free
With only a host 
Of phantom listeners
Concealing its fury
With just a gentle hiss
Never venting its loath
Never turning to its maker
With condemned hate
When hail and fire converge
In just a fissure
Bearing only just a deeper malice
Inviting only an occult mind
And spatters only wicked stones....

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Ladder's up to climb the moon

     Dusk is drawing bits too soon

          Still, my wee one, let's do try
 
             Stardust spatters on the sky

              Lady Luna's  crescent  chin

             Just a jester's glowing  grin

          If you tickle that, her  gleam

   She'll be tending ... as you dream.





~ 1st Place ~  in the "The Free Verse Or Rhyme" Poetry Contest
Eve Roper, Judge & Sponsor....

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hand in hand the news sink in
as their world collapses and scatters
the veil over their head ever so thin
they parade largo in a daze
hollow eyes clouded by spatters
treasuring however many days
loud incessant echoing ring of chime 
undying love to the soul all that matters
across the gritty sands of time
till empty as the hourglass shatters



submitted on June 9, 2018 for contest RHYME TIME 4- 10 LINES sponsored by LAURA LOO  -  RANKED 2ND...

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