Short Sweep Over Poems

  impish impulses
  sweep over me
  one more preposterous
  than the next

  I think I’ll take 
  the plunge and see
  if I can act on them 
  without context
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     The lyrics sweep over me
        as a wave of enchantment
           over a magic forest

     The melody embraces me, lifts me up
        o’er highest treetops
  
     to a place where billowy clouds
        lull me to sleep
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Where once was true is now a lie
The deep dark ocean cries with pain
Mans mark is made and felt right deep
Stops not with the shore.

Where once the sky was clear and free
Ten thousand planes sweep over thee
Man marks the very air we breathe.
Stops  no more....

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Misshapen flimsy mass
Rubbage under foot
Wet with spittle and DNA
Morphing into a Dali
Time melting away
Family needs more
Rubbage on the floor
Unmoving joints staring eyes
Hollow unfelt emotions
Sweep over like a helium balloon
Surrealism opens the chest of me
Deflated spirit; deflated balloon...

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Children can be pretty noisy while you’re driving 
As they are in your responsible care.
When you take the bus back to the garage,
After dropping every child at their homes or daycare
Make a thorough sweep over every row ensuring a child has not
Been left behind and make sure everything is secure. 

4/19/2024...

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Dreaming of how our life used to be
for loneliness now doth sweep over me
I feel you are there almost everywhere
though all I can see is your empty chair
Since that fateful day whence you did depart
your empty chair truly breaks my heart


Written 5th August 2022
Contest BITE SIZED POEM NO 50
Sponsor Line Gauthier

Contest BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
Sponsor Brian Strand...

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Delicate hands sweep over the strings
Stirring chords and melodies meet,
The harpist gently plunks and pings
Producing music soft and sweet.
She does not smile, concentrating
On the nuances of each crescendo,
Tenor of the performance elevating
Each measure a startling innuendo.
The climax brings a stirring rush
Exhilarating orchestral responses
As over the audience falls a hush
The music its hearers ensconces. 

Written July 16, 2022...

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Tenderly the ivory keys call to me.
Their vibrating octaves like different voices
soft and hypnotic, drawing from me 
the deepest yearning of my heart overtaking
my senses....helpless against its intoxicating
melody. Sweetly the notes swell,  filling me, 
lifting my spirit from its solitary place. With
 each push of the keys the hammers strike a
chord deep within. Waves of inexpressible 
emotion sweep over me enchanting, 
and mesmerizing they carrying my 
soul Heavenward....

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The center of a star reflects just like a diamond...
Returning a pearl within each silver breath that one treasures...
With faceted panels, I promised I'd never...
Sweep over a deep sea of blue waves unmeasured...

There is a pattern woven inside golden petals that kiss the inside of my heart...
Parts of my heart that I've thus' failed to start...
With soft fingers dancing, you're forever entrancing...
My star that's eternally far...


A co write written by Liam and Christian...

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