Short Stokes Poems

Someone stokes through the ash pile to rekindle your spirit...

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Dear Luna, soft ... wan, 
What travesty stokes your ire?
Waxing red with rage ......

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Adrian Stokes 'SCHIZOPHRENIC GIRL'

     
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Alberta likes to stoke up on some beer
That way, she conquers each one of her fears
   She can fly, even die
   Without batting an eye
But she still won't undergo a pap smear...

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Bobby Stokes pined to be a politician.
He was bright, idealistic, full of ambition.
But in office he forgot
what he clearly should have not.
Incumbents heed a dirty tricks tradition....

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Woman, you hush down, you soothe 

my hurt rememberings,

the triumphs I've lost, losses I've gained, 

untold sufferings;


The strength of your tenderness, 

blissful serenity,

stokes the amber embers 

of my own mortality!...

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beams of hope tendered
mirror images refract 
combustive spark

burning ember flames 
radiant glare recycles
residual steam

intense stare refuels
bursts of energy stokes flame 
sweet puffs of smoke stream


'Eyes First Meet' contest

Stephen Parker...

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I'm sorry to have rushed you.
I was unaware of how hideous you are with insufficient preparation.
My attraction to you fades with each tick of the clock.
I realize that what once was can be no more.
I've ruined you.
Regret fills each wrinkle
and stokes each searing pain....

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bent over
the fire
stokes
the logs
aflame
it’s holiday
the brink
of passion
the flash
the flicker
of hearth
and home
homing in
the pigeon
lands
with message
in its claws
hello
the chimney whispers
it’s holiday
the smoke rises
simmers

12/23/2022...

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Painting a picture
In-to words
Simple imagination.

With brush in hand
Broad stokes,vivid colors
Where does every-body go?

Such a joy
This thought!
A single brush stroke
For all.

Many brushes
It takes
And the taste
Of many colors

To paint
The complexities of life,,,...

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Demonic desires, dark, feral
Seek objects to possess
True love outpours, it’s touch plural
All’s but God consciousness 

Go with love, not with lust 
In God alone we trust
For what’s body but dust

Ego urge stokes fires
Demonic desires

15-February-2022...

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Twin flames
find each others
fire inside.  

Feet soles
walk on coals
without pain.

Flames lick
at their legs
scorching heat.

Lava rises
from depth of
their being.

Deep penetration
of burning desire
stokes fire.

Such intensity
eventually leads to
spontanious combustion....

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What’s left of my remembrance,
  now all that stokes the fire

What embered in the springtime,
  the winter does expire

To douse not once but then again,
  that spark which set me free

My wood left burnt with forest bare
  —and darkness all I see

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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What’s left of my remembrance,
  now all that stokes the fire

What embered in the springtime,
  the winter does conspire

To douse not once but then again,
  that spark which set me free

My wood all burnt with forest bare,
—and darkness all I see

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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From blazing forest scorched birds flee
Fuming wind waltzes in the flame-fest 
Calm cloud clumps in the smoky sky
Take the ashes to cauldron of oblivion…
Anger stokes an inferno in the mind
Let the soul shower cooling serenity.

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May 20, 2023
For Line Gauthier's Bitsize Contest No 64...

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Some people like it
 Very fast and hard
Other people like it
 Going slow and gentle
Some will say
 It needs to pound
Other will say
 Slow stokes work
Some are sure
 Hitting hard
  Gets it off
Others are sure
 Slow will work
  If there’s no problem
I just know
 Sometimes it’s one
  Some times it’s the other...

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Be still
Just feel


Stray thoughts
Now blot


Dare see
Just be


Keep poise
Charm choice


Voice books
Just look


Seize joy
Cheer toys


Faith scopes
Just hope


Seek truth
Know proof


Cheer stokes
Just poke


Learn more
Glimpse core




Leon a Enriquez
24 August 2016
Singapore...

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The pillow queen stokes her empire
her quivering hand follows her letter
to all it may concern

cry in the dark
although she maybe strong,
made out of ploughshares
the sun still flickers

so much has gone already
and little is wept for
growing old
your strands of whitish hair
you may pray like a cygnet
but hopes are fenced 
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The 
blaze in
the forest,
the scorched birds flee.
Winds blow hard fuming
waltz in flame-fest burning.
From the charcoal sky clouds fall
take debris into history.
When anger stokes inferno in mind
let soul shower sanity to be kind.

Written : October 2, 2017
February 7, 2020
Contest : Strand Select F, Any Form, Any Theme
Sponsor : Brian Strand...

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A simple word means so much
Fulfilling, the heart doth touch
Joyous feelings of belonging
Holds the soul, forever longing

Time and distance hold no fears
Uttered sweetly holds back tears
Nestled within it stokes those fires
On reaching out it sates desires

A simple word that means so much
Be close at hand or out of touch
Minutes , hours, the passing day
To live in hope to hear you say ( I am yours )...

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Itching fingers,
graceful strokes,
where will the notes go?
Only the song knows;
Pulsing, riveting,
amplified for effect;
the freestyle is created,
strummed by a guitar pick;
Scratching out chords
unable to stop,
he's on cloud 9
even among 1000 raindrops;
strings catch fire,
alive in his hands 
the instrument knows;
A legendary song, Decadent!
With itching fingers,
graceful stokes,
Where will the song go?
Only the guitarist knows...

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My soup world is all the world is all
The world I care to go
When the sun shutters fall
And strange winds blow
My soup friends are all the folks
My heart cares to know
When loneliness stokes
The fireplace of memory. No
Place is better, a better people to share
A prayer breaking the hegemony of fear.
I love the deep drink
Of friendship here, pulling us from the brink
Of times despair.
I love my soup world, love you all so dear....

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A touch seeds feel,
Love calls to me
Ever softly
To forge a thrill.


A feel floods more:
Love in full flush
Moves profound blush
Here at my door.


A squeeze of air:
Love in swift stokes
Can lighten yoke
In simple flair.


A sensuous thrill:
Love comes to light
A sparkle bright
As truth reveals.


A moment deep:
Love transforms daze
In sublime craze
As joy now weeps.




Leon Enriquez
14 October 2017
Singapore...

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You scan the room
eyes meet 
smiles are spawned

Blushes shared
sideways glances
embarrassment cascades

The dance has begun
awkward moments multiply
rituals are invoked

Stares become contests
flames of desire kindled
yearning turns to wanting

Time stokes the embers
into uncontrolled heat
that cannot be squelched
 
Days become longer
nights intolerable
until

That moment 
where lips meet 
and lust is born

Andreas Simic©...

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While craving for meaning, he stokes
                                            the ember,

                fans the flame of urgent, artistic madness
                                              for order;


                      but the mind sinks into the quagmire
                                         of the abstruse,

            and all that is left of poetic sense is deadened
                                        at the dead end....

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