Short Talisman Poems

Against all the hurt
take this ribbon, spuned into
a lock of my hair....

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Where
does a
reflection-
begin and then
end.


Ekphrasis after The Talisman by Serusier...

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Persuader inside me
  dark sweetness cajoling

A talisman dangles
 —the present foretold

(Las Vegas: January, 2016)...

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Persuader inside me
  dark sweetness cajoling

A talisman dangles
 —the present foretold

(Las Vegas Nevada: January, 2016)...

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Frenchman Paul Serusier
with a stiff decorative style* they do say
yet a founder of the Nabis
what would make of this*

*Talisman...

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With four seasons
Easy to follow the true
No talisman but true
Nice to wear the true
Round the year
And through
As you never change
Then
The heart is true...

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Plethora we were, idyllic and rhapsodic
Dulcet, was felicity always our path
Destined to be in cryogenic chrysalis
Universal talisman below sapphire skies
Once radiant, soon evanescent




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Looking back it's no wonder why we had to leave
Such rhapsodic idyllic plethora, lost talisman
Felicity lost in radiant sapphire dulcet through
Our chrysalis once radiant, evenescent, blew



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Through felicity gowned greens and idyllic hues
Such plethora rhapsodic throwing dulcet trues
Chrysalis skies in simple radiant
Sapphire clouds never evanescent
Talisman, we're here or are we sent!



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The falling leaves
and the breeze
Got to sort her plans
Suppose Moses knew
Blackbird on high
Betty said she paid the price
watching the sky drift away
following summer
she lost the pace
how the river flows
without a prayer
or a talisman...

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I dove into a cauldron
Headfirst into a brew
I needed a phoenix talon
To wash my heart anew.

The witch & I are friends
He gave me his talisman
We wrote out names in blood
On a tree our names engraved.

Running through hemlock groves
Swimming through moonlit waves
Our friendship is a cobalt haze
Fortune smiles upon the brave....

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It seems to me that
Dawn is a talisman of sorts.
I construct honeyed, passionate poems
In the earliest hours of day.
My words are so mellifluous,
I read them aloud until 
The cracking of my voice
Pulls me back into reality.
The serenity of writing when all are asleep
Is simply ineffable and I cannot
Think of a better time to be an artist....

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The tug of ellipses
measures our weight
in the vivid gyroscope
clustered by gases
noble cloaked in
the curtain

to benefit from the
necessary intrusion
of thought coercion
until no fool or genius
questions the majesty
around us

or the ineligibility
of humans to pass
themselves off as
dabbling masters of
gods behind dangled
talisman logic....

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Betty was muched delayed
said she came from play
hadn't heard the news
Wistful and loose with her one eyed plan

If she had a talisman from the sea
she'd jump for joy
Going to ride on a galloping horse
cause she has a lot to say
yet hadn't the time to choose
going to see the porcelain man
and tell of her erstwhile plans
of  feeling freer than before...

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This is all I have
Shredded heart 
Rhapsodic essence 
Grimace on the face 
Cacophony in the ears 
This is all I have 
Lost talisman 
Waiting for a serendipitous 
Ineffable rumination 
With an ephemeral existence 
This is all I have 
Mellifluous sound 
Turned to screeching noise 
Crystalline entity 
Pirouetted to a crepuscular subsistence 
This is all I have...

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pharaoh's scarab
eternity's talisman
regenerative

afterlife rebirth
ancient Egypt's obsession
winged scarab takes flight

great significance
scarab held in diseased hand
talisman of hope




 'T' Words - 
Poetry Contest
Chosen Word: Talisman.
Sponsored 
by: 
Constance La France 
13/04/2023







Pixabay Image: PatternPerfectArt...

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Its outside of us somwhere.??
Inside of us; it is in our being.'
And breathing, hearing, seeing.'
In touching..We are a whole.' I
Must open up.' Defeat is passing
The spirit is not constrained, death
Is but a perception, eternity 'is real.'
As are we! nothing is the division.
We are comprehending' dreams are
Part talisman.. Our experience's are 
Woven in Gods eternal plans.'...

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Oh! Emeralds, simply divine,
    Each precious stone, beyond compare.
    Translucent gems, wish you were mine,
    As jewels for to grace one's hair,
    Or pendant on a chain so fine.
    Deep lustrous greens, of hues so rare.
    A verdant birthstone crystalline,
    Springs talisman, loves solitaire. 
    A brooch wherein two hearts entwine,
    From natures treasure chest, we share...

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I WAS CHALLENGED BY A SILENT ONE

When stirred radiant sapphire talisman spurts,

idyllic rhapsodic dulcet beats, hums

the pragmatic leaves lifeless fall

causing a plethora of chrysalis show

where a hub-hub evanescent felicity enthralls..
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__Olive Eloisa D. Guillermo__
4:22 pm, February 03, 2016...

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A bouquet in chocolate covered, rose made words....
Delivered the ballast their coronet and love's, communion
Anise her chatelaine esoteric, epitaphs ? Andromeda, gypsy moths
Metamorphe this curtain of night as she an effusion sub rosa: time's talisman
Archaic play'mates a covenant prolific cherubs,

                                                                                              ...."In Progress." *:*(*...

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Butterfly flame, blue on a cloudy day 
flawless facets natural talisman;
Mood enhancing weather’s never outdone, 
Sun pops of color beautiful display; 
An explosion of optimistic spray 
blinding eyes to every color but one;
Butterfly flame;  
Delicacy taking your breath away 
what a wondrous web that a smile has spun;
No matter what you have already won;
Forever flying there is no halfway; 
Butterfly flame....

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They say he's more than just a man 
They say he had a talisman 
For his arms are full of power 
They could climb a soaring tower 

He trains his brain to catch the rain 
He trains his heart to beat the strain 
His brain works almost everytime 
He makes his brain and body rhyme 

He trains himself everyday 
He doesn't take a holiday 
He holds the greatest talisman 
For he is a hard-working man 

April 14, 2023...

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The Autumn crocuses sway
amongst the shadows of the pine trees
The air is resonant with smoke
As the buddleia dies down

August as thick as musk
Blackbird came a calling
about Autumns shortness 
Somber yet always lonely

The impending storms
ignite the skies
Finding a talisman
To acknowledge the epiphany

August you are a gust of leafs
floating downstream
you are about  heartfelt loss
Tameness is not spoke...

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The Autumn crocuses sway
amongst the shadows of the pine trees
The air is resonant with smoke
As the buddleia dies down

August as thick as musk
Blackbird came a calling
about Autumns ephemerality 
Somber yet always lonely

The impending storms
ignite the skies
Finding an amber talisman
To acknowledge the epiphany

August you are a gust
floating downstream
you are about  heartfelt loss
Tameness is not spoken...

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The Autumn crocuses sway
amongst the shadows of the pine trees
The air is resonant with smoke
As the buddleia dies down

August as thick as musk
Blackbird came a calling
about Autumns ephemerality 
Somber yet always lonely

The impending storms
ignite the skies
Finding a talisman
To acknowledge the epiphany

August you are a gust of leafs
floating downstream
you are about  heartfelt loss
Tameness is not spoke...

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