Short Sphinx Poems

Burnt offerings --
Tomb of Pharaoh and Sphinx
Blush mirror of death...

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Blessed purple phlox
Visited by swallowtail
Sphinx hummingbird moth...

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sphinx on planet mars
a juicy proposition....
man's goal-- to travel 

 © Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Sphinx
Sits on
Burning sands
Sunning herself
In the noonday sun
She needs no chaise
She is a
Bedrock
Sphinx....

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Was that Sphinx head on Mars
Or some prisoner behind bars
Seems like a mutated face
Of a different race
Like human parts in doctor’s jars...

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SPHINX

“What’s it all about? –
Existence    variety
What’s the mystery
Humans    eagles    reptiles    fish?”
“Easy    It’s all about life”...

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Like the Sphinx
Igor lies regally
With eyes closed off
To the world.
He finds his zen 
And feels the breeze
But knows not how much 
He is revered....

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There are various eyes.
Even the Sphinx has eyes:
and as a result there are
various truths, and as a 
result there is no truth.


                                 Nietzsche...

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a new riddle for the Sphinx

concerns terrorist high jinks

when our free-world countries blink

does bin Laden wink?



*For John Freeman’s Dodoitsu contest...

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In the hot sands do you stand
Crouched on all four
Waiting to devour the wanderer
In search of Truth 
The babes of the Jews escaped your fists
So you stand there with your nose in bits...

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Mamma said the Sphinx head was made from barley
Which Papa stole from the Mars harvest with Charlie
And if you look real close 
Especially at the nose
It resembles a picture of Bob Marley...

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Tuump's Mind and Missing Links

Trump's mind is part of missing links;
Should see his face found on a sphinx;
Hands so small,
That does appall;
Has kinks and must see some shrinks.

Jim Horn...

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Monsters




Legendary Sphinx,
Monster in every marvel,
An incessant love,
Unsinkable Titanic,
The ceaseless thunder of surf !





Tanka-5/7/5/7/7
For contest 'Monsters and marvels' by Debbie Guzzi...

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Sounds of burning water lilies
Disorient the future contours,
A shivery breath fills
My cheery corner.


The blazing shadow of the sun crushes
The sphinx of my star,
And the promises dissolve
Before the strangled star....

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There is something 
 Indecipherably spellbinding 
             Almost occult 
          About The Sphinx
        As though conjured 
            Out of the blue
        With a magic wand


Date written and posted: 01/05/2019...

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Zooming all over the globe

Breakfast with the Sphinx at Giza
Lunch shaded by the Tower at Pisa
Dinner on the Champs-Élysées
Bedtime in Pompeii
 
Seeing the world from my sofa.







Bite Size Poem no.40 Poetry Contest...

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The cat is so Egyptian-Iike,
in her grand, artistic grandeur.
Her classic flurry splendor.
Utterly silent and regal.
Like her sister, the sphinx,
In the Nile.
With that eternal, feline smile.



5/23/2019
2:35pm PST

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The essence of marriage, “even when you're right, you're wrong!”
A well-known phenomenon that becomes even truer as we move on
It goes both ways methinks
Because I'm a male Sphinx
I've been more inclined to go with hubbies all along...

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lazy, long afternoon
preening sphinx-like
catches a stray scent
aha! dinner!...
stealth-creep
agonizingly slow, 
'til, target in sight
she springs...
afterward, sated
lightly licks 
the corners
of her whiskers
curls back into
her no-hammock...

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Sphinx
           inscrutable, mysterious
  perplexing, mystifying, awe-inspiring
   statue, ancient, pharaoh, limestone
       striking, stunning, bewildering
               mythical, enigmatic
                          egypt





Date written and posted: 03/24/2018...

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She squats, a noiseless brilliant sphinx 
And thinks with drowses, yawns and purr 
She turns upward, gives her full think 
I put down my book and see her 
Grinning into her soft furry
O' as she brushes it pretty
With her delicate tongue firstly
Tail held high -it's Serenity...

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Is their life on Mars
Carlotto's image, the Sphinx
Was their life on Mars

Creativity
Our intentions bring again
To Mars, loss or gain

But then we must ask
Simply, what can mankind bring
Mars no longer sings



For Contest 'Subject Mars' written July 7th, 2015....

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Random Think!

Tiddley winks
Panthers, Pink
Le Pew stinks
Seegers’ Batfink
Kia ora drinks
Glasses clink
Octopus Inks
Mineral zinc
Giza Sphinx
Torvill ice-rink
JarJar Binks
Computers sync
Honey he shrinks
Corporate Inc
Bond minx
Nuclear brink
Rhyming links
Random think!...

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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

   (She with face inscrutable as the Sphinx.)

      Although she was nay forthright,

         Shakespeare wast somewhat polite,

            But saw through her nefarious high jinks!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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the tree ensconce in ice will fare bravely today as always nature takes over for centuries
and the mere imagination of men nothing to compare to the force of the unknown
a sphinx guarding the pyramids just a mirage of the past
as a kite flying the sky for a minute is only a plastic bag encroaching its branches...

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