Short Spurring Poems

"writual"


a Rite
of Spring
spurring on
eventually
Autumn...

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time drifts on by
spurring memories
autumn rain



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 22, 2025...

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of joy’s single tear
the substance of a lifetime
spurring eyes upward
as a body freezes cold
God’s servant leaves calling card

9/3/2021...

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Inspirations are born
  iconic ideas that
    induce creative thoughts
      inner worlds that capture
    intense visions, spurring
  intuitive outlets
inviting and sublime.




Written on 2/24/2017
Pleiades...

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Leaping light in dull darkness
Moonlight mambo in nightfall nets
Mediative minds in spurring spaces
Vocal visions in vacant vicinities
Enlightened eyes in doubtful decisions
Queuing quietness in spooky serenities
Peaceful presence in rambunctious reality...

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Hope is life’s superb motivation
Spurring me to action when in dread,
Believing much better times lie ahead
No matter what the current situation.


Written July 9, 2021
Edited July 13, 2021
for "Motivation" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Shreya LN...

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Enough poison left inside
To keep me close to the healer,
Paddling alone only
Creates whirlpools. 

Together side by side
Power of testimony
Spurring us on.

Power of words
Making grown men cry
Power of stories
Made real to all.

Membership is free
But we’ve all paid dearly....

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Rabbits create quickly
fruitful procreation

spurring tender feelings
domestication shared.

I connect with one for 
just this dawn, she has birthed 

four babies, smack dab in 
the middle of my lawn.

March 20, 2020

hostess: Dear Heart
contest:  Alexandrines Modified Poetry...

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dreams
mermaids
stirring to life
in every man's
imagination
churning
spurring
raw whimsy
gleam and charms
'neath wanton
magic of
blue moon




earlier version submitted on August 3, 2019 for contest AUGUST NINETTE POETRY CONTEST sponsored by CAREN KRUTSINGER...

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He opened a door, approaching a massive thunderstorm.
The lizard king pounding vocal strings at the whisky a go go,
lightning bolts striking everywhere.

He was born groping for doors 
that's how he probably died
spurring the flanks of roan thunderheads
in a torrent called we call life....

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If what I am doing is called Art
then this must be an attempt
to recuse myself from my own mortality
by leaving a record of personal accountability,
spurring imaginations to judge its spirituality,
dispelling my propensity for any ambiguity.
Sure that's it.
It's Art!


06/29/2017...

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Milky bright sky with rain in her net
Morning performance with native duet
Whip cracks and choo-choos crescendo in song
Spurring near aves to jolly along
The flightless young to pipe up and squawk
Easy like eagle or hoarse as the hawk!
Where cockatoos chase each other and chatter
Raindrops descend, and pitter-patter....

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Alone stand I, amidst the multitude
Though my footsteps are guided
And my mind enlightened
My spirit lives alone
Friends far-gone
Shadows surround thee
Demons embody me
Evils, trouble my life
Spurring internal fright
Of the journey that awaits
Which discourages my attitude-
I hesitate to follow the path, amidst the multitude...

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You left me in the fist of a 
cold night,
when the eggs were yet 
unhatched;
a budding love denied. 

O that the Sun stole
through the sheild of 
dusk-shadows,
and noon stopped the 
wind 
from spurring me to 
spasm,
nature would have 
nutured me.

The Rose sprang at dawn,
swirling in pure ecstacy,
broken-heart entwined....

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Down from the gray rainclouds
came pearly drums of thunder,
silver flutes filled with silver rain
bushels of purple flowers tumbled out
followed by jays and bumble bees-
Suddenly all things were washed 
in buckets of emerald green..
Then a muddy-eyed devil arrived
spurring a dirty funnel cloud 
whisking away butterfly paths
and robin egg dreams....

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Sparks flicker from honey lips.
Shower me in purest fire.
Gravity lathes my ellipse
as we bask in our desire.
Shudders quake when passion grips
this yearning howls to inspire.

My mantle once longed to drift
in shame and disappointment.
Your voice charmed a brilliant shift
spurring my blazing accent.
Dancing comets praise our gift--
this hallowed ordained event....

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wet wits worn
perforating pulpy pawn
pestered passion puked
cremating clipped cruise
hoisted hankering drooled
felon fate bruised

meagre metamorphoses moaned
spurring sassy sow
gullible gifts grown

dark diminuendo birthed
dribbling crescendos fitted
rusty rhythm rusticated

felon ambiguity flown
by blitzkrieg blown.
      '20:04:17:19:26

Note: Of airy ambiguity....

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River Rules

They strain against the confines of her flow, seeking release,
aware of naught but the river’s instinctual calling.
The mock applause of clumsy bears slyly spurring them on
offering feigned assistance over the cascading roar.
Nature’s justification - “survival of the fittest”.


11/15/2016

submitted to – Form – River Line – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Rick Parise...

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Futuristic climes
Beckoning to surpass
Spurring inventive minds
Since moon crater’s crevasse
Once known world denigrates
Human kind expiring
Lost to predicted fates
Stupendous vanquishing 
fires onward challenges
Achievable data
Opens advantages
Kaleidoscope strata
Gravitational pull
Precludes events to plumb
Vessel christened ‘Virgin Wool’
Mankind decides outcome


4/21/21...

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The storm
Raving hear and rolling there
Grinning and half-smiling in rumblings
then it bursts out in violent assaults
Spurring the tails of the wind
Wild gestures of the tempest
Then the roar and blast of thunder
Followed by the sjambok of lightning
Triggering the torrents of moods
Gloomy cloudy pathos laden nimbus
Sadness and depression flow in galleys of time
And a man is left alone in the pathway of wonderment...

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Out on the heath hies a lady in white,
Riding a giant toad;
Who is that woman, luminescently bright,
Spurring her steed on the road?

West Country witch whom, legends recount,
Transformed her man with a spell:
Cuckolding lover, she made him her mount—
Unclad, she straddles him well.

Reptile croaking along on the path;
Lady, equestrienne witch,
Whacking his scaly skin with a lath,
Hopping each brook and broad ditch....

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An intermittent sound

Alerted my inner ear

Spurring me into wakefulness

As my name formed crystal clear

Theresa, Theresa, Theresa.

Repeatedly in tune

Urging my reaction

One morning in early June

I awoke to hear chirruping

So insistent in bird refrain

Guarding it's perch dutifully

To arouse me was it's aim

My curtains threaded sunlight

Heralding life anew

Another day thus realised

As away my messenger flew....

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spartian spirit spurring
sumptuous soles straying
salient strength scrunching
saucy strife stalking
spooky south squashing
sane stats straining

desirous dare dancing
damped desires dangling
drastic dances drooling

smothered sight smoothening
stunning spurs straightening
salty soaring sparring

oodles oomph oozing
dare awed spirit.
      19:12:08:09:22

~Note~ A dare saw a spirit floating in the air, ascending... It goes there at intervals... Wishing its parents could do it....

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