Short Tinseled Poems

The tree looked magnificently gaudy
I gave and received some off beat gifts
some wanted others highly inappropriate
we gorged on strange dips and orange chocolate.

Wishing you a happy birthday, tinseled Jesus
now blow out those candles into your wish....

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Shopping spree,
Santa's sleigh,
tinseled tree.

Church-bells ring
children play,
and choirs sing.

Jesus's birth
Christmas day,
calls for mirth.


(3-Cubed)


12,20,2019
Have a Merry 3-Cubed Christmas Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich...

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Foggy mists engulfed the bright
When raindrops fell throughout the night
The lampposts glowed at midnights dark
When sweethearts kissed at Lover’s Park

The fluid rhythms, realm of rain
Where lamplight’s stream did gild the lane
Wet leaves dripped dreams from tinseled trees
And pulses flowed like rolling seas...

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The time has come to put away the tree.
Her Christmas charm has faded over time.
A month ago she greeted all with glee.
Now she appears the victim of a crime!
Disheveled lights and ornaments agree,
the tree tells us she’s tired in pantomime.
Because we’re sure to miss her tinseled glow,
I say this year we keep the mistletoe!


1/1/2022...

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I adopted a cat around Thanksgiving
He was the sweetest thing in the beginning
To my surprise
He’s in disguise 
With The Joker kitty I am now living  

This balmy yuletide season Milo despised
My silver tinseled Christmas tree he demised
Never expressing gratitude
A clawing catty attitude                                                  
Yet a contented kitty I have surmised
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Tinseled reflexives....

Emitting from this oblong box

As manifest projections

Exploding in reversions sky ~

Stardust as dreamfuls walking through 

This clearing, of magicals illusions....

Knocking upon fates hinged door

To dust away these breathless webs

Sweeping out the silence upon

Reveilles inverted request....

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...."The Exorcist" ~...

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Tinseled reflexives....

Emitting from this oblong box

As manifest projections

Exploding in reversions sky ~

Stardust as dreamfuls walking through 

This clearing, of magicals illusions....

Knocking upon fates hinged door

To dust away these breathless webs

Sweeping out the silence upon

Reveilles inverted request....

**********************************

...."The Exorcist" ~...

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Tinseled reflexives....

Emitting from this oblong box

As manifest projections

Exploding in reversions sky ~

Stardust as dreamfuls walking through 

This clearing, of magicals illusions....

Knocking upon fates hinged door

To dust away these breathless webs

Sweeping out the silence upon

Reveilles inverted request....

***********************************

...."The Exorcist" ~...

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One snow flake at a time builds Christmas
Spiriting colored lights electric in the air
Through white swirling waves of mist on Winter  
Remember ice cold pine trees bold green
Unusual bright objects ornamented all about
Branches tinseled, an ancient gold angel on top
Clear into late December
Shouting Merry Christmas freely
Whispering Happy Birthday baby Jesus
On one snow flake at a time if it pleases...

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Psychogenic stagnant waters; proxy..
Gravitational pulls within, lucids vortex 
Power play ? Spindrifts seminal phantoms
Hovering about hallucinations now, sailing away
Atop their mystic sea a fogs blanket to cover these
Misty dreams tinseled his truth as whirlwind horizons ?
Climbing this mast and stiletto in hand an etching, your vision...
Icon's fanning flames adrift amid, blasphemic pyres, of pseudo gods....

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I remember when you said 
it was all in my head
No light to shed for me to blossom
To you...I, a weed as an unloved flower
And on and on more and more
You did the Big awful and glittered it gold
As you sold your soul
and exchanged hope for soul's poverty
Repurcussions due to intense legal discussions
the scales of justice as a sword
and the pen mine
as my heart now chimes with tinsel

By Susan Mills...

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best Halloween was in 1962
I was a fairy with silver tinseled wings
felt angelic in virginal white shiny gown
aluminum foil wand looked fancy
I felt pretty maybe for the first time
be a lady my mother said
but two boys tried to take my candy basket
I clunked them both over the head with it
mothers called my mother
I dreaded hearing the phone ring
thought I was in trouble
proud you stood up for yourself Mom said...

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Each bough, each limb, each mantel draped
with dangling beauty edged
each bit a dream which does dwell
within man’s heart so pledged.

Each star that lights the evening sky
and pillowed cloud-scaped night
reminds us all of Bethlehem
of God, his Son and Light.

Each pristine bit of tinseled foil
does reflect sublime
the undeniable  goodness of the soul
which wakes at Christmas time.

* drape / edge / pledge/ dwell / pillow / foil / deny / wake...

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Encouraged by hefty gusts    from wind,
Maple swept    his wide reaching branches,
ensnaring half moon    in the wooded tangles    of his arms.

Then heeding wind’s    whispered advice
he teased and cajoled    hapless moon  
   into shaking    her silver dust    down and all about
   to glimmer wrap    himself
   to dust    his dreary coat    of bark
   with tinseled    silver shine.

All the while    thinking to himself,        
I really do prefer gold....

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