Short Spires Poems

pic axing up    icy spires of her mind   free falling...

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ferns cascade
along a woodland trail
verdigris spires

...

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Sky liquid crashing
Enshrined spires, reaching to air
Petals everywhere...

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silvered spires stand tall
over alabaster floor
silence whispers awe...

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Thin
spires
in the breeze-
tasselled teasels
touch

bells
tolling
in the wind-
old memories-
die...

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O' you ancient towers and spires
erected over houses of liars
you will surely fall as says fate
change your ways before it's too late...

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Too heavy for sky,
Night cradles the harvest moon.
Soft, loitering, light
Silhouetting rooftops, spires
Jagged black against its glow...

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changing
    shifting
perspecive
    shading
reflective
   impulsive
spots
   &slahes
star
sphere
   spires
&
   broken lines

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The Thames
Pretends 

To be 
A sea,

But knows
It flows

Through towns 
And gowns

And spires
  And shires. 


(One last one.)...

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Scalding winds, cold as ice,
burn away frozen layers.
Drawing raw, unbidden scars,
upon the rugged spires.


For the contest, Show Me
Sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Canyons of loss
emotional wastelands
Spires of hope
grasping for sky

Riverbeds bake
 mountains are damming
Feelings once deluged
—barren and dry

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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A rolling roar erupts from above; echoes across the plains.
A living legend soars from craggy spires; a sacred sky beast.
An age old descendant; thunder bird wings darken cloudy skies....

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Bryce Canyon, what a mind blowing vista
Saw it on TV, couldn't believe it's charisma
Spires reaching skyward
A dazzling smorgasbord
Of nature's ability to amaze and create awe...

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To write and wander
among the spires

Her mystery ancient,
each look inspired

The sand the measure
of all between

What’s in my soul
—and unforeseen

(Monument Valley Utah: September, 2021)...

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 A rolling roar, erupts from above; echoes across the plains.
The living legend, soars from craggy spires; a sacred, sky-beast.
An age-old descendant; thunderbird wings, fill the clouded skies.
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(pronounced mik-fad'-yen)



I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen"...

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Cathedral Spires
By Franklin Price
6/9/2015
Contest-Four Lines Only (visual-1)

Cathedral Spires point to Heaven
Heaven where Lord Jesus was raised
Raised to be by his father there
There for true believers he waits...

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Ecstasy in love on fire
Heart breath passions desires
Challenge resentment building silent choirs
Improvised home owners caught in the spires

7/6/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©...

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Like
rockets
in the sky-
delphiniums
blaze
their
upward
revelry-
spires of colour,
sleek

My latest contest LIGHT MY FIRE is for this lanterne form either in original 5 lines or exteded 
sequence thereof as above...

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The Cathedral of Trees is without its nave as the willows did not behave, 

threathening its owners' hearth and home in their own grown so executed

were they having had their day, but its twin spires still desire to reach the heavens....

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Written January 25, 2016


Clouds rolling through blue pastures like bison over buildings
Perched atop the spires that yield signals to lands far away
Speaking truths to any ear that will listen
In any language worth speaking...

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Autumn
in the air-
drops of saguine
red

Thin
spires
in the breeze-
tasselled teasels
touch

Lost
in the
soft mist of
dawn

Rain
dropped leaves
spotted gold
mould in the
dew

a single lanterne is a half 
American cinquain...

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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clouds apple painted
a ripe orchard for angels
celestial harvest

terra cotta reds
smoky haze of forests' fires
October skies blush

pine spires prick the clouds
skies bleeding down in beauty
sunsets of the gods

Copyright, August 20, 2015...

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