Short Swathes Poems

drifting pollen swathes
golden contours round wood’s edge
fox cubs investigate...

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A LITERAL IMPRESSION
Flowing
swirling swathes swarm,
fervent,fervid feelings-
stirring stark sensations once hid
within....

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tree sips summer sun
sizzling wind whispers to leaves…
still shade swathes scorched soil

June 29, 2021
Syllable count : 5/7/5 checked on HMS
Contest : Summer Haiku
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin...

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Illusions,symbols of childhood,
coloured filled swathes of painterly
hues.A  private fantasy in slow
motion suspended in space.An
abstracted blur in flashbacks of
yesteryear,caught in a daydream....

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Flowing swathes swarm and wind
Bloom blush brilliant through my mind;
As expressions in outward flow
Stir sensations hid below;
Emotions made manifest arrayed,
displayed and essayed;
With poignant passion slashed
On my canvas unabashed....

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Flowing swathes swarm and wind
Bloom blush brilliant through my mind;
As expressions in outward flow
Stir sensations hid below;
Emotions made manifest arrayed,
displayed and essayed;
With poignant passion slashed
On my canvas unabashed....

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night silk swathes the woods

lush leaves weave moonbeam lattice … 

fireflies flash star flair

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March 3, 2022
Syllable Count : 5/7/5 (HMS)
Contest : H Forms-Traditional Nature Haiku
Sponsored by : Constance La France...

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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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Your flamboyant of a heart is of glass shards and ice

That stings like frostbite and slices like a vice

To your prey, everything seems like a perfect price

A beautiful contagion that swathes but smothers

Expels lucidness or causes demise amongst others...

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Sun’s hue drapes my dying day, 
twilight tinge makes a painting
of life new from shades of gray. 

Stars sparkle in crown of night, 
silver dust spreads on sorrow, 
swathes the scars with delight. 

September 19, 2021
Contest : Bite Size Poem No 21
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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Absolute Beauty’s Celestial  Delineation, Evening’s  Festoons , Golden Hues,  Inviting  Jubilation,  Kid’s Laughter, Myriad Nodes Of Picturesque Quietness, Resplendant  Swathes,  Tufts,  Utilitarian Vision  Weaving ‘Xtra Youthful Zest.



For: John Freeman's contest

By: S.Jagathsimhan Nair,   29 OCT 11...

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I can feel your presence, 
I can feel your touch, 
As I close my eyes to the darkness, 
I can feel your warm breath softly brush, 
It swathes my being, 
It engulfs my soul, 
Lost in an abyss of pleasure, 
Desires of the flesh have taken control, 
Nothing is sacred, nothing is taboo, 
Lust is the power, the wisdom and the fool....

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Sky,
Blue sky blue.
Curves over a kiss
Between we two.
While at sea
Pulsing in every wave.
Swathes us
In its infinite sigh.
And gulls glide silent;
Fade like feeble faith
Into evening.
That prelude to night's tide,
Whose waves break me,
Break over me.
Washing up
On the shores of my dreams,
The memories of a kiss.
And how sweet
Good-bye tasted....

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Astound me with visual auroras
swathes of rainbows in chorus
that leap across lofty skies
strange intriguing patterns that rise
iridescent visions of midnight forests.

Mind bending colors turn sinister 
haunting hues no longer minister
I awaken from dystopian dreams
seeking solace from simple means
I bask inside sunlight’s perimeter. 



Written on 3/17/2018...

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that crab nip
upon fingertips
as sunlight tilts his hat
and nighttime makes his start
drinking liquid
from the passing breeze
unanticipated tremble of the knees
Squawked yawn as seagull retires
and sound swathes
its way
through quicksand air
Slip your chill
past neckline
nomadic course down spine
Wrap your silk cotton
darkness around
safe but unsound
unfound...

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For some reason
I woke up feeling
extremely good today
it feels as if removing
a layer of silk veil
shrouding my face
allowing it to just float away
like a dead autumn leaf
Seeing a bit clearly
the umpteen possibilities
opportunities
swirl in my mind's eye
all I have to do is make
an option, just pick
where I go and what I do next
over time, I hope to see
swathes of silk cloth
laying softly at my feet....

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Where hazel bushes mix with sturdy oaks
and beech trees densely grow in shades of green
the fairy flowers come in early spring
attired in clothes of violet-blue sheen.
The swathes of bluebells, like a sheet unrolled
before our eyes, breathtaking to behold! 

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This stanza is a Sexain or Sestet.
Contest: One Stanza
Sponsor: Broken Wings
Placed 4th

© 14th July 2016...

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With each screaming note of pain
The darkness fills her broken frame
insipid oil glints and gleams
and streams
like blackened rainbow dreams
each pitch change
her quest for enlightenment
almost spent
but continues without pause
as darkness buries knife claws
Fingers forged in burning hours of lost childhood
But still stood
as darkness swathes her hopes
dreaming of the imperfect note
that will make her stop...

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on brink of summer
an eager Painted Lady
first to the party

drifting pollen swathes
golden contours round wood’s edge 
fox cubs exploring 

festooned with blossom 
blackbird trills in paradise 
serenades his world 

ladybird in rain 
slides down slippery palm frond
tiny splash in pool

nature varied in its forms
a wonderful world adorns


3rdMay2023
Haiku Sonnet poetry contest
sponsored by Joanna Daniel...

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ABSTRACTED

 an elegant
obsession
 transformed
 from the absence
 of light
beyond black
a
created complex
of smoothness
in
 surfaces
absorbed
by
reflected light
so
 hard to exploit

  a
 fascination
with luminosity's
potential
 to create
to juxtapose
&
 overwhelm
in swathes
of
the
normal

such
a
duality
of
the
delicate shadowed
then
 merge
to
 a free rein
in
 interpretation
of
notions...

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as swallows land and swifts take flight
inside late noon’s last shards of light
the chill winds that descend on day
cause dense green swathes of reeds to sway
across the flooded vista’s ground
in harmony with nature’s sound
of shrills that echo through the air
from birds and insects everywhere
while stars with room to breathe and shine
light up a land divorced from time
to show the beauty and true worth
of life in balance here on earth....

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