Short Tempering Poems

Breeze
Gentle zephyr
Tempering this torridity
Autumn's scent on your
Breath...

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stealthy
  creeps the mist
  slips into
  minds
  shutting portals
  doors
  tempering flames
  extinguishing sparks
  silence...

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Id
greedy, primal
starving, seeking, clamoring,
impulsive, wild, mild, deliberative,
prohibiting, sanctioning, tempering,
sangfroid, equanimity,
Superego...

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twists and turns of earth life 
through tides both high and low 
trials and tribulations
today and tomorrow
torching feral torrents
tryst with trust sees us through 
tempering soul at core

26-April-2021

Pleiades T poetry contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

7 lines @ 6 syllables each...

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HEART GENTLE EYE MINDFUL

Keep heart gentle, yet eye mindful
With passion hovering at the edge
There’s a time and place for both
Rarely twinned, but each required
Balance is kept with a critical view
Fire and flame for tempering steel
Yet also used to soften and anneal
As it reaches the appropriate hue
But always aware of getting mired
And prematurely taking that oath
Or when teetering up on the ledge
Keep heart gentle, yet eye mindful
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A droplet or two surprises your face,
           Misty, liquid-like lace...
             Early Spring shower, heavenly dew,
             Softens the earth, revives anew.

           Machine-gun bullets tempering a roof,
           Tempest's reproof...
             Torrents of memory cascading down,
             Drainpipes alive, gushing sound.  

           Trigger for sky-werks of lightning and thunder:
                  Prelude to awe and wonder....

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Heart flutter hopes
like wind scattered leaves
tangled in dream twigs
By breezy adversity
 
Clinging and clutching to branches of memory
of yesterday's sunshine in torrents today
Glimmers  so golden they flicker so faerie
As dream dazzled  tears yet drip in dismay

Tempering splashes of minor discomfort
Mocking the mind games while three moves ahead
What will it matter when every thing's dead
Ride with the flow living the now
In a present so tense  it's teaching you how...

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Every one hundred years or so,
enters a flower graced with golden glow.

A quilted warmth- unbending light, 
halo tempering the blackest nights.

Blessed with precious- magic quill,
wisdom prevails in her patina krill.

A muse whom skirted war and garnished peace,
traversed angry ocean to serene stream.

Both drum and harp strings in her voice,
at the pinnacle of your life we rejoice.

Someday you'll waltz with saint and angel,
every flit of your wings an arching rainbow....

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