Short Tendered Poems

mildly tendered swab
droplets of sweet nectar flow 
butterfly kisses...

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with loves endearment
unexplained as life itself
splintered tendered hearts...

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War preferentials
restless badgers prone to kill
no sides innocent
we clamor democracy
tendered grandeur destruction...

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Disbursing our lives in a state of malaise,
scars become currency
—for debts still unpaid

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)...

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Loving, gracious
Overly tendered some times
Virtous love is in ones life
Ever lasting feelings of warmth and happiness...

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leave my skin on sight
leave my limbs in their sockets
I believe in your god
life is a tendered spirit
Religion? the Devil's work....

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Morning clouds hover
Silhouette shrouds prone pumpkin
Frothy kiss tendered
Flossed face shimmers in delight
Jealous sun breaks glassy spell...

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Token love tendered with a cheap card
Bartered lyric from a trite bard
Gilded, fabricated charm
Brokered, pretentious smarm
Words, symbols to treasure then disregard...

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Once spent …
there’s no tomorrow

Once spent …
all time is rife

Once spent …
your fortune tendered

Death’s currency
—is life

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023) 
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Silver lining,
 pouch of gold

Last remittance,
 past unsold

Blessing tendered,
pearl gateway plain 

Fallen Angel
—redemption claimed

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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Vase of red roses instead of 
fondue
Gilding my White Lilly not pudging 
with stew
Cache of sterling poems rendered
In lieu, greenbacks not tendered
Blue carnation her jaundiced face 
to clue...

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he was no hero
                      a mere farmer from Ahero
                who tendered crops of breed inferior
                                 bow to him
                               he was a man...

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There's only 17 words in the english language tendered
Most have 153 meanings, each day of those  entered
Seems some disagree
But got proof I decree
How many meanings for the simple word “present”...

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The words merely borrowed,
to then juxtapose

Each Poet the debtor,
whose lender forgoes 

All lines duly tendered,
with verses inured

The beauty, the order
—new feelings assured

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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beams of hope tendered
mirror images refract 
combustive spark

burning ember flames 
radiant glare recycles
residual steam

intense stare refuels
bursts of energy stokes flame 
sweet puffs of smoke stream


'Eyes First Meet' contest

Stephen Parker...

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A lifetime crossed
A time remembered
At childhoods cost
A soul dismembered
And flesh embossed
As if surrendered
Away he’s tossed
As trash he’s rendered
Abased, his family lost
After, for cash he’s tendered
An autos fuel exhausts
Airfare paid, return to sender...

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When you speak
to me
a certain way
I can see the words

Shaped and formed
with wings
of gold
 freeing what I’ve heard

When you speak
to me
a certain way
I can taste the wind

Calling forth
my hopes and dreams
— tendered from within

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
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HAVE you ever touched
the Divine Hand of all?
It is Grand and Strong
but Soft and tendered.

It has a shape of mountains
and Oceans Blue --
Even butterfly wings
and Daisies too!

Have you ever touched
the Divine Hand of All?

It has and Forever
always will touch you!

:: ~~ ::...

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Tropical rain pouring down
Giving us that pitter pat sound
Still warm and humid weather
God has put for us together

City growing reclaimed from the sea
Skyscrapers reaching to the sky you will see
Green gardens tendered well
Singapore a garden city nice to dwell.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Not one pursuit but led to disappointment
The system was designed to fail

Corrupted judge has tendered resignation
The horror lurked behind the veil

Another's cruelty fueled his vindication
The true believer's cause for pain

Described to him in full blown cosmic detail
The dronings of a world insane...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Mother and Child by Pixabay.
AUDIO: The Twelfth of Never, sung by Johnny Mathis (1956)
until the twelfth of never

a stranger shares confidences~~wedding day words tendered by a mom

2021 August 05
*1st Place*
A Brian Strand 1,2 or 3 line
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 August 07...

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Fantasy,
  a past remembered

Travesty,
  regret in embers

Sophistry,
  no reason proffered

Majesty,
  the treasure offered

Artistry,
  the future tendered

Modesty,
  true self is rendered

Memory,
  where life is gathered

Presently,
 —the time that matters

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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If there remains the slightest breath of warmth in an ember
let it be tendered with care
so that it may begin to brighten-
then burst forth into a dancing flame
stepping up to illuminate desires 
once thought lost, cooled by insensitive means
Let it relight the way through the chamber door
and burn brightly for ever more...

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Rendered seed concealed in Love's nest
Tendered sapling fondling mother's breast
Adolescent twig fluttering with pubescent zest
Immature leaves on mating quest
Maturing frond passing coupling test
Cherished branches sprout; hearth's bough dressed
In due time, seasoned fruit; perpetuity's crest
Stale, desiccate limbs; vitality's inquest...

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I have seen this life 
I was meant for...

For this dream escapes 
me not

My mind will not abandon
that which this journey
tendered...

I relinquish not one tomorrow
rekindle fondly my yesterday...

foolishness will not deliver me...

My hope walks nearer...

Within me resides my dream...

There is a reason why there is you and I...

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