Short Swathed Poems

Ah, liberation-
from the knitted caste system
that has swathed my tan!...

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red harvest moon
deer graze on swathed crop...
lone wolf howls

10/4/12...

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a bright crimson cloak  ~
swathed around foreign lands
the roman empire  ~...

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Swathed in light and graced with brightness.... The shy comet peep from the sky.
         17:31:12:14:04...

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snow-swathed fir trees
glistening in the full moon glare...
in the silent night 


December 11, 2022....

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A swathed October,
With freckled bundle of leaves
In a child's fingers—
How warmth is supposed to be,
The ground for a bassinet....

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snow swathed twilight woods
     owl’s screech stirs superstition -
          the deer hunter shakes 


Susan Ashley
October 16, 2021...

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drawn like a moth to the flame we burn
breath by breath in mind-body urn
swathed in bliss magnetism warm
touched by God we magically transform...

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The passage of time has not changed anything 
Neither has it erased all that has been
I go down memory lane
I'm swathed by loss and pain


September 24, 2023....

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I surf through the silks
of his opium essence
swathed in moon-swept sparks
for this love stirs in silence
a verse sealed with fervent flares...

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when faced with unjust ugliness
we forget the truth of oneness 
we react but then soon recover
swathed once again in bliss shower
momentary is our weakness

16-August-2021...

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Do I mourn the falling leaf?
Does the rose feel the pain?
Does a rose a rose remain?
Can the rose be a rose again?
So swathed elite adorned
Though the leaves are mourned
Yet the rose a flower all
Until the rose it'self will fall...

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Of the earth,
Mahogany hue,
Simple plan,
Swathed
In morning dew.
Unadorned husk,
Natural beauty dwells,
Radiant spells,
As encroaching dusk,
Dawn’s a new day,
Appendages beat their first,
Luster and splendor burst
And true colors
Ascend....

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In the Calm of Blue

Under a soft serene sky I lie
swathed in a blanket of white clouds.
Sing me a sweet lullaby,
and free me of all cares
in the calm of cool,
mesmerizing,
comforting,
silent 
blue....

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The dale echoes in weeping tones 
Lay teardrops on the mossy stones
Swathed there in tranquil rain  
Fall they of torment’s pain
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love
To lift my eyes to see the sun
Oh angels mine what thou have done?...

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Mint Duet

Tongues swathed in mint
  Trestlework of undulation
    Swoosh of utter breezes
      The cool tingling sensation


Today’s Date: 12/18/2019
Arbitrium Divisa 5 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden
Original Poem: Sensational Lovemaking...

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Transfigure each atom of form
To become living light
Swathed in cascading bliss throbs warm
Heightened is heart’s delight

Head and heart alignment 
Flowing in contentment 
Soul glow luminescent 

Configure 
Transfigure

09-March-2022
Quietus ...

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There was poetry in her deliverance
 as she was swathed by butterflies,
whilst cosmoses glinted 'tween
tranquil transcendency furthermost
harmoniously fluttered reminisces


like a flower gently unfolding,

flourishing a deeper kinda nectar...

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Swathed in love’s shower,
the seat of power
grants free will traction,
enabling action.

For each soul mission,
we take permission
from our glowing heart,
adding bliss to cart.

Thus, we hold a rose
and sword in repose,
one in either hand;
benign thunder’s stand.

24-April-2022...

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When men get older, parts often sag
The "boys" hang low, sometimes they drag
or even worse, steep
in loo waters deep
like tender tea leaves swathed in a bag

*companion piece to "For Jan - no contest."  Thought we'd best be honest about this sagging business.  Jan — got a photo for this one?...

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Rainbow in full view, here and now
Enlivens feeble form
All we do is allow bliss wow
Swathed in magnetism warm

Bliss burn, joyous delight
Rapture through day and night
Soul unveiled, thus shines bright

Beauteous love hue
Rainbow in full view

01-September-2021
Quietus...

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All was hushed this eerie dawn
For ash had claimed the day
Disguising shape and muffling noise
Enshrouding all in grey--
Long the haze had swathed the cliffs
In veils of silver white
Till overnight like fleeting soot
It vanished with the light.


Any Poem You Wrote This Year (2016)
Contest by SKAT A...

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Silence melts into the whisper
Of frosty feelings, radiating
Hope for the snow blanketed
World, pure and clean, brilliant
Like a dream of white swathed
Prayers singing of sweet peace





Bite Size Poem #30 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
December 15, 2021
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Winter on Astor Street
 
                  The Gold Coast, Chicago
 
Beneath the canopy,
a doorman holds
a cast-iron door that lets
 
an ancient duchess issue.
Swathed in a silver gown
she tugs her sable cape
 
tight around a tumor
that nice young doctor 
will announce tomorrow.
 
 
Donal Mahoney...

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My boiling point’s hit third degree;
‘Lying swathed in euphoric slick.’
Your lyrics demand a reply;
What’s up with no resolution? 

Left an out of sync melody,
finish every strum that you pick;
I am aware your humor’s wry,
but so is my ammunition;

I’m what you need to amplify,
don’t you dare mistreat my passion....

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