Short Sprawls Poems

budding chartreuse fronds
unfurled in blooms verdant green
waned ochre fern sprawls


2020 January 24...

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Dawn Never questions Dusk,
Sprawls upon to bring Sunshine.

Likewise,
Forget What's Gone,
To Kiss Happiness & Embrace the Divine!...

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scent and lippy sealed
grey ruled cream virgin paper
written love sprawls kiss


(NB whilst this is a contemporary haiku and is not ordinarily titled, it is titled in order to catalogue and find easily.)...

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The red landscape sprawls across
The land of pristine
Beauty falls around bright color
Raw is the ravine
A spot so lovely
Abreast the grand gorgeousness
Tender Harmony

Russell Sivey

Form Seguidilla...

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A small dark-haired boy

absorbed in the words he scrawls

at an old wood desk

has thoughts brighter than grim walls

beyond which his future sprawls


Nov. 23, 2017 for Eve Roper's Photostory Contest...

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November delivers Autumn's prize

to stay before its last goodbyes

with its fiery, vibrant blaze

it brings us crisper days

while scenery sprawls

its golden shawls

bringing glow

'fore snow

falls
...

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Sunlight seeps
through the blinds,
oozes into the room.
The ceiling fan sweats
from its labor.
The clock creeps
at half speed,
pendulum dragging
through syrupy air.

On the stoop,
the old cat sprawls,
soothing her arthritic joints.

7/13/2017...

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A bed of rose petals  Hazel sprawls
bed started  collapsing then falls
bridegroom heated with anger
then looked at each in  laughter
she wanted pickles  and ice cream balls


©5/21/2015

Contest Name: L&H Limericks 
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey...

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In the chaos of youth lights
          dance without exhaustion
A ballet on the river
          dissonant music in the city

An agitated psyche absorbs
            the brilliant skyline
A bridge sprawls and intimidates
            perpetual motion in the city...

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Eden’s green pastures*

sprawls along mountain ranges---

God’s wondrous landscape

*Psalm 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures…

September 4, 2019
2nd place, "Let the Pens Flow - Haiku" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Jenish Somadas; judged on 4/26/2020....

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Hey secret admirer
You youare give me this flare
A thought of you creates this fire
Coming by you brings this desire
Like cancer within grows 
Like tendrils it sprawls.

Funny I never tell you
'coz you are that kind
Who makes me believe
That love is blind
Since I think you don't see
Which to me is poison...

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The future dubs.
A pride is shattered.

The philanderer moon
sprawls over the
candlewick.

A ghost walks 
through the wall.

A thin blade of
grass, holds the sun
for ransom.

Fireflies flutter in head
savagely.

I was not able to sleep.
What was the theme of the murder ?

No sugar, no salt
was worthy of death.


Satish Verma...

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Four-legged guard patrols the papered wall,
Stood by whispering windowpane wind drawls
She is grand, grandiose hardwood keys small
And all across the lounge room rug, she sprawls.
Four-legged guard waltzes to the evening ball.
She dances in her homestead in A minor calls,
The acoustic pride echoes bold and tall
And the chorus chords charms the hall....

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Oh, gentle love conjuring such love of us earnestly together
Fleeting falling sprawls as listus light welding fleeting as a fallen feather
Loyal beating hearts pumping life-giving blood
Solemn spirit journey soul embellished love
So my darling love welcome I your unrelinquish love


10/8/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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The needle and syringe,
all mankind waits to taste the sweet of ecstasy.
A way out, an open door,
the alchemist sprawls on the dirty floor.
His experiment sponsored by  greed incorporated,
just another delusional form of chloroform.
 With salty solutions, making him thirstier still,
the alchemist dies on humanities floor,
waiting for love and nothing more....

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(Haiku)

empty spot on bed. . . 
with TV remote in hand
she sprawls across it

(Limerick)

He used to steal every top sheet
and the blankets that covered her feet.
But now that he’s gone,
all the covers stay on.
Even sleeping, she now finds life sweet!

(Couplet)

Divorce might leave a gal lonely and poor.
At least, she won’t be aroused by a snore.


For P.D.'s Divorce Club Contest...

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Mid Uzi shots from vacant lots, which strike and ricochet
A painted girl with flaxen curl (named Wendy)’s on her way
To tantalise with half-clad thighs, to trick again today;
And indiscreet along the street she gives her pride away
To any guy who’s passing by with cash and time to pay.

In concert halls, beyond the sprawls 'round shabby cabarets,
unjaded thoughts of Camelot imbue divine ballets....

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A hundred miles North of here,
there are lonely shy sasquatch's
elderly crypto beasts
that roam the small woods
between gray urban sprawls.

I'm told they live on picnic snacks
discarded by occasional 
slow-walking hikers.
Corn nachos, cheesy puffs, 
the odd half-eaten egg sandwich.

It breaks my heart to hear
that they have no medical care,
nor any meds to take
when they get a tummy ache....

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Scene - I

On the kitchen window-sill
A sparrow hops
Its tiny black eyes
Searching for leftover rice grains

Scene - II

In the morning breeze
The blue curtain wafts
Knocks down the flower-vase
Autumn sprawls across the floor

Scene - III

In the corner
The broom sits dreaming 
Of home
A broom-grass mountainside
Where clouds sweep the blooms

We
The bird
The broom
And I wish
You're here...

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radiating sun
across clear tranquil blue skies
tree buds' petals warmth

hopping frogs capture
the first of blood sucking louse
plums dropwart blossoms

lips grin at the sound
from a rumbling waterfall
raw freshness afloats

skirting the valley
sprawls a field of wildflowers
butterflies sweet bed


(C) olive eloisa
10:25 pm
May 15,2014

Contest Name:	Spring into haiku 
Sponsor:	Debbie Guzzi
2nd Place, Praise GOd! :)...

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Willows whisper gratitude, 
drooping branches sway, 
they augur summers of serenity 
and winters of decay.

Images of grace, gently shivering 
in rains of sweet intent, 
they burgeon like a testament 
fulfilled and immanent.

Softly ornamenting 
with their sprawls of elegance, 
they pose like seasoned lovers 
who have earned their permanence.

Sprightly dancing limbs of fancy, 
mighty yet demure, 
they signify endurance 
for those untested and unsure....

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Gold fish


On my vision and swum one
Sprawls the heart of those humans
Ah! They say funnily
Not knowing my stay 
Why? In such a way.

What matters only viewing outside colour?
Innerly they knew me I’m fish ever
They want to keep me in aquarium
Construing a four wall of transparent

Limiting me within four feet boundary.
Treasured only to provide them pleasure
I’m with my fate not happy always
Waiting time to get old in the slap of time....

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In the heart of bustling city,
It majestically sprawls across,
Mesmerising and gorgeous,
Bounded by pristine stone walls.

Awash with memories, I recall
Nights slogged until dawn,
Gearing up for exams and events
And placements to top it all.

Lived a dream with friends for life,
On these hallowed lands,
Rightfully the 'place to be', now and
Even in the years to come!...

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Willows whisper gratitude, 
drooping branches sway, 
they augur summers of serenity 
and winters of decay.

Images of grace, gently shivering 
in rains of sweet intent, 
they burgeon like a testament 
fulfilled and immanent.

Softly ornamenting 
with their sprawls of elegance, 
they pose like seasoned lovers 
who have earned their permanence.

Sprightly dancing limbs of fancy, 
mighty yet demure, 
they signify endurance 
for those untested and unsure....

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Willows whisper gratitude, 
drooping branches sway, 
they promise summers of serenity 
and winters of decay.

Images of grace, gently shivering 
in rains of sweet intent, 
they burgeon like a testament 
fulfilled and immanent.

Softly ornamenting 
with their sprawls of elegance, 
they pose like seasoned lovers 
who have earned their permanence.

Sprightly dancing limbs of fancy, 
mighty yet demure, 
they prophesy endurance 
for those untested and unsure....

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