Short Swathe Poems

surrender your love
surround me with your passion
swathe me in your warmth...

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Deforestation;
blades cut a swathe through foliage:
beauty has its price....

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Aroma of fear disperses 
Notes to swathe the chill,
Relinquish dark shadows.
	
In your temptation 
I will wilt....

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sunset's bright sky show
red swathe, big Broadway splashy
night's rise, second act














Haiku revised: January 27, 2021...

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swathe in red, white, blue
white rose buds, baby's breath quilt
soldier's coffin
old Vietnam veteran
recalls others the heroes


5/31/2021...

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A maiden fair
  would never dare
    expose her hairy chest
 
  She likely would rather
  swathe it in suds and lather ~
    then cut it all off and drink it right down...

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Hide your daughters, had a haircut today
Causing mass hysteria with this stunning display
Masculine and suave
Cut such a swathe
Of charm and elegance, a study in grey...

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Best hide your daughters, had a haircut today
No guarantees though with this stunning display
Masculine and suave
Cut such a swathe
Of charm and elegance, a study in grey!...

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Hide your daughters, had a haircut today
Causing mass hysteria with this stunning display
Masculine and suave
Cut such a swathe
Of charm and elegance, a fabulous study in grey...

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Hide your daughters, had a haircut t'other day
Causing mass hysteria with this stunning display
Masculine and suave
Cut such a swathe
Of charm and elegance, a fabulous study in grey!...

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Whistling wind plays flute in
orchestra of air
where flying on music
birds in blue share.

Music flows rippling in
broken heart in despair
as stillness swathes soul
with bliss so rare.

November 26, 2019
Contest : McWhirtle Me
Sponsor : Charles Messina...

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M: Methodology
O: of
T: treatments
H: humoresque
E: etymology
R: repository.
Mum, you are only one you tolerated pain of my birth.
Related ideology is a passage of love and enjoyable myth.
A cycle of growth, you and me and me and you are all kith,
Over the centuries, a male and female has time swathe....

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Allow those sunrays
Bypass through the lenses
Compose up my window  
          Buffing 
Agree to those blends 
Seize on to my grip
And let my sun
Grant me my limelight
      Smiling, blurring
Sojourn!
Don’t swathe my sanity
My guide
My warmth
       The exquisite
My Love
You shall by no means
Recoil beyond the pillows...

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Between ice and sun, frost swathe—
By the last green floor of life;
One white blush— bride's cheeks bathe.

From the phantasm spinning gossamer fire
This stillness after my lies;
On one willow's night— my hooks in desire.

Nowhere find
A fading chime
Plies

Between ice and sun, frost swathe—
This stillness after my lies;
Plies....

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Mind-drifts

A wedge of moon flowers in a fading sky
Floating above a stained swathe of drifting cloud
Mind-drifts in starts and stops
As dark deepens in delves and dips
Cat-steps in dry crunchy grass
Cicada-song shrill and sharp
Starlings tweet in social chat
Crow-croak bass resounds 
Light ripples across my mind
Shifting thoughts, drifting wide....

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Soma nectar soothing, suffusing form
Scintillating currents swathe us in swarms
No name assigned, nomad knowing nature
Negating nothing, neophyte mature
Benign searing bliss spike, softens stature
Vaporised self, seeks but God in silence
Ignition illumining innocence 

Savouring solitude poetry contest 
Sponsor JCB Brul

(Alliteration, 10 syllable per line x 7 lines)...

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Short spates of workaholic spurts of frenzied work.
A burst of starlight
That ignites the black,
Blights the black,
Fights the black,
Rights the black
Until the dark silence returns,
Until the frantic moments
Are usurped 
By doldrums of daunting inertia,
A vast swathe of offensive nothingness,
A vapid vessel of pensive emptiness,
A quagmire of numbness,
Blindness, dumbness
And a brutal sense of futility....

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ANGELS’   BREATH



Yesterday there were none;
And it’s as if God suddenly 
Woke the angels and said,
“Let there be dandelions.”

I can’t resist the urge
To leave the woodland path 
And swathe through their bright petals -
A thousand yellow smiles swaying in the breeze.

Treading on the angels’ breath,
My feet bring fluffy seeds aloft
To sway in the smiling breeze,
And let there be more dandelions....

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Soaring o'er the rolling hills and copses in the dale,
Rising on air currents, while friendly winds prevail,
Remaining ever watchful, over seeing nature’s swathe,
A bird's eye view as the fields in sunshine bathe.

Peaceful scene below, serenity in the skies above, 
The dove flies gently, a symbol of peace and love.
Calmly, softly, floating; no inkling that it’s to die, 
For the dove's now in view of the eagle's eye....

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Tourist Trails

Savouring the swathe of Southern England;
orchards, oast houses, open fields,
cliffs with caverns camera-worthy,
splashing sea and salty cooling breeze,
well-trodden trails, treasures from history,
hidden hostelries, houses of refreshment.

The descent from the Downs, dropping slowly
to moist meadows where men once toiled
among heaps of hay at harvest. All this
so peaceful,pastoral, pleasing; now long gone....

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If I could reach the sky,
I would get you the moon and stars
to drape round your neck and arms
like priceless jewels.

If I could reach the heavens,
I would get you the clouds
to swathe round your body
like silk and fur.

If I could reach the heavens,
I would get you the colours of the rainbow
to daub yourself with 
like ageless make-up.

If I could do all that for you,
I would be your love
and love you to eternity
with no hindrance.....

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What words, dear God?
For an idiom 
Or an idea
Of all that this means!

If not then, or when
My soul resounds 
At a silent thought
Lights an eternal flame
Recalled at sacred hearths;

Within quiet chambers
Wounds would heal
Once dealt unwittingly
Now in privacy, thoughts
Wrench relentlessly
At souls adrift
Through time and space;

Words cut at passions denied
Allow this one impression
To swathe us
Dear God, what words?...

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The pandemic cuts a long swathe
through the human population,
bodies gathered and scattered
through emergency rooms,
intensive care units, and
long lines of refrigerator trucks
patiently waiting its human cargo.
So many dead, many unknown, 
Seemingly forgotten by family and friends,
Their funeral, the quiet ride
To a massive pauper’s grave.
Though forgotten by humanity, 
not so by the One who loves 
and named them at conception....

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With vision diffuse and fragile frame, 
  These, the twilight years commence, 
Yet arms to hold each other close 
  Seem no less fierce, less intense. 

What smacked of callow rapidity, 
  The rush of youth and virgin bud, 
Is mellowed, matured throughout the span 
  Of decades steeping in the blood. 

The two of us in sunset swathe, 
  As now, these twilight years enfold, 
Together we endure and sense 
  The perfect love in growing old....

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Her feet knows the path
Seeing amongst stones
Curled, the grass wet swathe
And stars dry as bones

Into night she walks
Head laden, heart spilled
Her prices for stalks
Less than she is billed

For mulch and tilling 
And the clouds too dry
Cost her more spending
The land makes her sigh

But the cycle keeps
In the wind she talks
And murmur-less sleeps
The toad neath the balks

The fog unwinds day
A barren tree shed
Leaves where children play
The sun on their head....

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