Short Swaths Poems

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Premium Member Abstraction a Freed Verse

ASTRACTION 

unpredictable
intersecting lines
 swaths of colour
 added
by a  chance
autonomous
process

reflexive
   echoing
intensive
 to coincide
in response


Premium Member A Warm Blooded Snow Woman

O wintery flake, you’ve not kept me warm.
Your passion promised to never alarm.

         Outside, I’m not sold.
         My briefs rather cold.

In my frozen breast, swaths of ice free-form.

1/30/2018
Form: Limerick

The Withering Bloom

At the dead of night
he came inside stealthily,
By daybreak he was gone.

He stole the essence of my flower,
left me with swaths of thorns in his wake,
a feeling of hollowness in my world.




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Premium Member Kaleidoscope of Abstract Hues

Astound me with visual auroras
swaths 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
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Waiting's Knife

…waiting’s knife
slices time in broader swaths
stacking jagged moments
chaffing minutes raw, in existential unease
…one second snags the next
                       …the knife dulls
moments fray and shred
tomorrow folds today; time’s teeth - rounded
memories meld a transcendent balm
deeply rubbed by fading voices

a hospice hallway dims…
one light - grows brighter
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.


Swaths of Death

Violent swaths of death, 
      a ghastly sight.
Blood-soaked soil, a 
      canvas of blight.
Screams of agony pierce 
      the nights veil,
Echoes of honor, a 
       mournful tale.

Deaths visage, haunting    
        scene to behold,
Their last breaths, a 
         story untold.
Gruesome remains, a  
          twisted art, of 
 mans cruelty, a world 
           torn apart.

No-See-Um Sway

Lulled by the no–see-um’s song
the grasses and I are yawning
tilting our heads 
in the breezes falling off the day
as if cocooned in imagined protection beneath 
a raccoon mama’s chin
we sway…we sway…we sway the night to day …away

and above us the grasshopper's song floats 
in swaths across the lavender universe (13.8 billion lightyears to bring to you)
a light house sways across the gray
trying to say...

















I love you

Premium Member Perspective

Today I stopped along a roadside path,
Drawn to swaths of gold and blue.
A calliope of yellow mustard, with hues
Of purple vinca, and wild sweetpeas too.

Harsh winter rains lay this hillside bare
But nature’s will the landscape overcame.
No artist’s brush could best this scene
This painting with a grass-green frame.

My burdened heart beat with hope anew,
I felt the dark and troubled day recede.
Perspective gripped my tired soul,
And gave peace to a heart in need.
Form: Couplet

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