Short Stippled Poems

stippled ruby climbs
meanders through leafy stalks
… Once upon a thyme
...

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small lake off highway
gold captured by stippled waters
reflections dancing
sun’s silent westward passage
into a river of dreams...

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the live oaks sheltered
and sunlight stippled the drive
covering our heads -
our Grandmother's cashmere shawl
wrapped around all three of us...

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Listen to poem:

Frothing, frigid fjords
Fling forth fine stippled
Salmon, streaking upstream.
Roe-rich fish, flashing
Fat and fulgent:
Spurred to spawn, to spurt
Then sputter -- spasmodic.
Spectral. Unspared....

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PENCILISTA Leonardo verrochia
graphite
 glorified
silhouettes
  in precise
    elaboration
meticulous
  detailing
of angles
cross hatched
        conceptions
of
spatial cognito
sharing
  stippled
tones...

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she walks barefoot
waves rise and recede
endless succession of tides
silver of stippled crests
watchful eyes of moon
crests stippled of silver
tides of succession endless
recede and rise waves
barefoot walks she...

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In the tidy confines
of a cluttered mind
rests the timid notion
that lines taunt human

flaws foreign to the
forces nature conjures
in graceful arcs and
orbits, waves of ripe

marrow rippling with
stippled energies
ever-coursing from
all bounding cells....

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sunlight calling
I fly along a path
through parks and trees
nature’s song in a breeze
footsteps light
I’m buoyed by dreams
stippled waters
gentle waking
early reflections
of a tranquil stream
morning’s call
conversations with spirits rise
beyond mere flesh and bones...

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A clement breeze brushing over skin,
A salty scent breathed deep.
Eyes closed, waves heard below,
A muffled crashing,
A cool, gentle spray.
Eyes open, ebony ocean,
Stippled with touches of moonlight.
Rushing air caressing fingers,
Higher above the water.

A million grains of sand shifting under foot.

Still....

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ENGRAVISTA 
en relief
 intaglio planar
grounded
  spur-like aquinted
grained
 messaging
of defined
    contour
       en register
meshed
  toothed
       burnished
         etched
dry painted
  playground
in stippled
     precision
 stopped out
    imperious
       masks
dense& painterly
serigraphs...

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sunlight sauntered through
the dark edge of dawn ~
amber horizon

brilliant diamonds
stippled upon black velvet ~
glittering stars

silver ornament
hung in ebon skies ~
moonlight through the mist



November 22, 2021
Hiku (Disciplined Brevity) Contest by William Kekaula
syllable count checked with HMS and listed respectively:
5-5-5
4-7-4
5-5-5...

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The orange cool in my hands
blood orange open in the moonlight
breathing in the fresh scent
the juices savory stroke my lips
blood orange open in the moonlight
plump and painted red in my hand
the juices savory stroke my lips
gloved by stippled orange skin 
plump and painted red in my hand
breathing in the fresh scent
gloved by stippled orange skin
The orange cool in my hands...

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There are five
perhaps six, maybe more?
There's always the invisible
when observing deer.

A speckled group
braids a tangled grove.
Stippled light shapes,
not their appearance
but their disappearance.

Deeper in the trees 
there are mottles and flecks,
a sun-streaked shimmering.

Deer thread leaf and bough,
floating over
pools of light and shade.

I watch
tallying their invisible sum
on a green abacus....

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Dappled Winds

Phantom gliders in the sky rise at day
To rush the firmament on dappled winds,
Heaven’s piebald appaloosas at play,
Brindled tempests ruffle zephyr’s fringes
On stippled flurries in mistral tinges -
Flecks of dirges – the haunting calls of loons –
Laugh with ecstasy at mosaic breeze,
Born from the mottled rainbow’s pure cocoon,
In a dappled dance of impish teases.

2-11-22
Contest: D Forms - Dizain
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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Autumn's moon truly radiant and playful, 
    In a stippled and midnight blue hues.

  Fragile is the troth with nature. 
    Falling, trembling, withered leaves, 
      Drift throughout gravel beneath; 
        Dapple shadow cast across the ground in stillness. 

  Silence surge as nascent darkness draws. 
    Snappish breeze, spring up slicing through darkness, 
      Lays a gentle kiss, and it slowly fades.

  Stillness, a breath, the wakeful light of dawn awakes.

3/25/2022...

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