Short Tawny Poems

over tawny sand
enveloping heat shimmers 
chimeric deceit...

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haunted
she hoots
rotates her head
and launches in absolute
silence...

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Tawny tabby Tabor taunting tiny tadpoles and tantalizing tasty tempered toads 

11/10/2016...

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basking in the sun,

        idling maned predator,

                    the tawny terror....

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moonlight reflection
tawny owl on silent quest~
river drifts on by

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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I hate
the killer in me
 Love
the killer of me
 Hate
the me in me
 Love
the killer
 Me



By: Tawny Kelley...

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The heat of the Sun
flushes your skin like a kiss; 
Soft tawny petals 
gently tickling your toes, 
Golden smiles fill the meadow.


5/9/13...

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Satin sheen with flawless seams
Tawny curves, each silken fold careens
Ambient light emitting pallid streams
Radiant magnetic field distilling dreams...

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Happy Donnie with hair of tawny
Delivering his speech quite bonnie
Critics take him to task
For not wearing a mask
Less love than for even old Ronnie...

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Our tawny little bird,
old world avian is
out on a limb today.
Often seen peeking face
of angel or small child,
or demon from knotty
oval hole in our tree....

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Dandelions, butter, roses.
Sight of circus bright clown noses.
Plane where tawny lion dozes.
Shades displaying,
sunny days with sprinkling hoses.
Children playing....

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Saffron vanishing from the curved
glass of a lamp, arms and legs 
banked in their sea-swept amber,
and underneath the tawny sand-
here too I am
forever anchored
-in this land 
 of dreaming...

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tiny winged maiden
flies in the night
dancing swirls in air
when the harvest moon is bright
sprinkling ribbons of dust
over prairie fields
vines curl and wind
around tawny clustered yields...

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A coconut shell, so fair and so bright 
More when it is lit by the shining light 
For without it's dark cover 
It looks like tawny clover 
With glistening glimmer that blurs the sight

5th place...

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Bright
leafs swirl 
rapt torrents
o'er harvest moon 
gemstone portent of
motley hued topaz glaze
nacreous in sullen haze
as grey dawn wail from tawny tree
house crib heralds wildlife orchard surge...

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in stillness of dusk
tawny owl is heard hooting ~
a forest nocturne



Owl Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Robert James Liguori
Date written: 10/15/2021...

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tiger.. unseen in the bush,
golden black stripes ominous,
beauty ferocious!

panther.. sinuous, jet-black,
moonlit shadow on a bough,
emerald eyes know!

lion.. basking in the sun,
regally maned predator,
the tawny terror!...

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~*~
Big brown
beautiful eyes
bewitching brazen eyes
I glance then gaze they hypnotize
her tawny tawdry bawdy bedroom eyes
they tantalize they mesmerize
sultry sweet smiling eyes
beautiful  eyes
Big brown 
~*~...

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He stood in his kayaker 
surveying the dark amber fog,
Creeping towards him, 
shedding saffron mist around him.
Yellow livered, he trembled 
as tawny chill descended his spine.
He peered carefully around; 
afraid he’d see a lemon shark....

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dew pearls shine autumn

colors burst in tawny trees…

gold leaves float to fall

______________

September 9, 2022
Syllable count : 5 7 5 
Checked with howmanysyllables.com
Contest : Autumn In Nature-Haiku
Sponsored by : Tania Kitchin...

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There once was a model named Connie
who wanted her skin to be tawny.
She took the wrong stuff,
so now she’s Miss Tough!
Her arms and her legs became brawny.

Feb. 20, 2016
* The rhyming vowel of COnnie and tAwny are the same in American English...

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I don't understand
   Why it is
I feel the things I feel
I do the things I do
 for you
I don't understand
   Why it is
You feel the things you feel
   Why 
You do the things you do
   Wait-
Now, I understand
   For you


---By: ~Tawny~

   My daughter...

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when fragile candles caress tawny skin, 
you watch the honeyed flame shimmer air. 
This morphs in shade by tinted cream
like jaundiced moths that kiss magenta lips


From 4 SHALLOW LOVE IS LIKE A REVERIE
Verses of metaphors3 by Lu Loo
30/4/2019...

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Dusk
Till dawn
As tawny
Night and moon wanes
Darkest dark; bats fly
Ghosts, ugly witches bliss.
Daunted and stark under lit
Streetlamps large black feline tail rise
On bittersweet brisk nocturnal stroll.
Prowling it yearns on spooky Halloween....

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Attired
in brocade gown
of shimmering gold, she
strolls elegantly along plush
carpet

woven
in autumnal
blush of tawny leaves; Lo!
embellished in blazing glory,
M’lady!


Autumn Stroll contest by Eve Roper...

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