Short Swaddle Poems

 
eucalypt leaves meal 
sad eyes of protectiveness~
loving arms swaddle 


12/10/2023
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       Swaddle she says
           "mine flesh
            with yours"

     As if this soul would 
              Cover...

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fair dandelions
vision swaddle in rain drops
comely butterflies 

3/27/2021
Poetry Contest: Spring Haiku traditional form
  Tania Kitchin...

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plastic seas sick and

                         dissipating birdless skies

                           swaddle ash and dust







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Once
My adoring eyes worked alongside my nimble fingers
To gently swaddle your tiny frame in a
Soft White shawl


Now
The same two eyes and hands check you wear you're seat belt
Before you drive off

And wave...

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Nativity

Twilight in the stable
 Soft rays slant in radiance
Lingering voices and starlight
 Swaddle the eternal light
Serenading the Word
 Who sang them into life

12-29-21
Contest: Bite Size Poem #31
Judge: Line Gauthier...

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Her back like an emerald
she will swaddle in the shore,
a blanket of pebbles for the hundred year old;
her ruby for the sea
but tonight she'll let it kiss the skies gone by,
ancient dreams of those far off stars,
watching the embers drip away....

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Scribble scrabble scrimpy screech
Dribble drabble dimply dish
Sunny solemn simple sojourner
Boiling biting bunson burner

Wrinkly brinkly water bottle
Twisting words we rarely swaddle
Scribble Scrabble Scrimpy Screech
Bare your buttocks, bubbly beach.



Written January 20th, 2020
Contest: Twist My Tongue
Sponsor: Nina Parmenter...

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I do not sing or dance or model
I do not ring or prance or coddle
I do not ding or chance or swaddle
I do not cling or glance or toddle
I do not sling or lance or mottle.

I play with words, and drink my water.
I laugh at life, and visit with my daughter.
I draw my cartoons, and enjoy my art.
I enjoy my grandchildren, they are my heart.
I spend time with my husband, we are rarely apart....

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Two Pair of shoes
Which swaddle mine feet
The way it’s accomplished 
Is really quite neat

For my two pair of shoes
Adorn my four paws
The paws which extend
From the base of my drawers

How I came to acquire
Four feet no one knows
Like a good pair of shoes
On a person they grow

In regards to my paired shoes
Enough has already been said
For they are certainly better
Than the two pair on my head...

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Silvery Moon drifts through open window.
Baby's bassinet is bathed in evening sky.

Across the open yards, Silvery Moon gifts,
gifts love and devotion to taper the shadows.
A shimmer to shield from darkness
dusting sleepy lids with light like baby powder.

Hold fast to fleeting innocence
and boldness of brilliant shield
as you swaddle my tender babe tonight
through open window, Silvery Moon.


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, August 7, 2012
Inspired by Babyface (Carl Sandburg)...

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