Short Stencils Poems

Cave
paintings,
graffiti
or catherdral;
wall
art
tells it
as it is-
echoes of our
mind...

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stencils
of dawn's grass
trace a hallowed climb--
as morn in display unfurls
I gaze at sprouts ascending in godly light

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stencils of night’s mist

brush your graveyard with ash dye

 laying on crushed weeds...

      this heart spills a requiem

and my tune—love’s offering.



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Brian Strand's Contest 245...

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Oh how she blazes more daring
than midsummer, flitting as a woman
whose spirit enters inside my pores
on a clear skyline. Like the glaze
she was born from, Mystic Moon thrusts
her citrine arms fluid, wild, loving;


her feverish way of tasting her own moment
highlighting the stencils of open light;
as she gleams, oh so lusciously!.




Theme #5--The Moon Contest
sponsored by SKAT...

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it didn't help
that he was an artist
an actual, painting artist 
I stole his stencils
to demonstrate a metaphor
but he swore 
that I betrayed him
but I craved him
I craved his closure
and he craved his canvas - me
with his stencils in my hands
I hoped
not for an apology.. no..
but just to retrace his history
gathering this anticlimactic moment
me
painting 
him


                                                  to be continued . . ....

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We are nothing but pencils
In the hand of times and seasons,
Our past and present are stencils;
Rough or smooth… for whatever reasons.

For our past errors we seek erasers,
Their horrors may haunt our history,
In black and white… in pure or poor papers,
We often want to write a new and straight story.

Our erasers may be right attitude…repentance
Because our errors may have grieved our God,
Our erasers may be outright acceptance
Of the Holy One who shed his tears and blood....

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