Short Trailed Poems

NOVEMBER

November saying hi
October says bye
Valediction for succession
Enter like a magician
Moving things from best
Bringing them to your chest
Edit and expunge the worst
Rewrite the trailed test...

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the night is the black down of a yearling
this sky a taunt of trailed stars
let me spin in a frosty lane,
                       head back,
                       too fast to count
and throw the dark to ground...

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Flame-leaved, to a fireside's
Warmth of embracing.
Charming trailed, now is Autumn
Cozier facing!

No sounds, which time of year
Rainy, whilst rug-lain
Could ever be heard to dull
That crackle; heart's gain!...

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The moon 
put on her wig 
of stars
that trailed across
the universe.

If I get
stuck 
out on the sun
please don't
try to comb
me out.

I am the farmer
that
plowed
the field of stars
in your 
field of vision....

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Wanderd corridors
     of lighted rooms
Rutted and trailed
     over years of steps,
Leading and led,
Seeing and fed,
Noting the moving things,
Hearing the rooster rings,
Familar faces
In roving places
Waiting our next touch....

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…Money…in a voice that rustled.
No sir, I do not have any money.
How about getting a job?
…Change…in a voice that creaked.
Sorry sir, I don’t make the rules.
How about running a campaign?
…Help…in a voice that trailed.
Sir, how do I do that?...

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I most value today
  what I used to walk by

And stop to revisit
  what trailed from behind

Those moments once squandered
  when offered again

In joyous acceptance
  —I embrace from within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)...

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Her pregnancy was like an open book
quite readable with just a cursory look.
She wore a gown that trailed in white
and grinned a guiltless smile as bright.
And why not, white was only a tradition,
her virginity a sold out first edition. 
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My best friend and I
Ran barefoot through the garden
Stirring the petals
Her hair tied back in two braids
Her skirt trailed out behind her

We sat by the stream
With our feet in the water
Talking and laughing
Until a pink rose I plucked
And wove it into her dark braids...

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Takes his time in sunshine,
Tentatively stepping.
Tranquil summer follows,
Trailed by its vivid blooms.
Too sweet fragrance abounds!
True value takes awhile,
Typical of rainbows.


Written on April 26, 2021
For: Pleiades T Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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He walked through the sands at Ayres,
playing a slow grinding song
of regret and broken dreams.

The moaning groan of the bagpipes
spewed bitterness and pride
in a twisted tune.

His footsteps trailed the sands behind
a steady line of sorrow
and loneliness for kin....

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The beauty of woman shone in her eyes,
And sweet scented lavender called my name,
As silent kisses began another game.
My mind so lost where her beauty is found,
As whispers trailed into those plaintive sighs,
Revealing her breath is the only sound.





Form: Wordsworth's Sestet...

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His eyes...
a walk through the forest, 
irises drowning in the sunlight.
I had never seen such sincerity in a person's eyes before,
until I met him. 
His eyes were trailed by his lips that widened in the most satisfying way,
displaying gleaming teeth. 
He was so pure,
so real......

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the speedphone in your head
sparky and light trailed
as a dancer with closed steps
you open doors in the night,

sometimes a ghost, a lost thought
your pages are torn and mixed,
burnt as a nut, you`re a paperchase
of loose clues, brillant and wild,
running with the comets to dawn...

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It didn’t matter what the titles were,
but that I read them

It didn’t matter what the author said,
but that I listened

It didn’t matter that his verse trailed off,
the pages yellow and torn

It didn’t matter that the world forgot
—what one man put to words

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: October, 2020)...

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Our
grandson
(then age four)
trailed behind his
parents as we stood
by our door. At their car,
he turned. . . Something was amiss.
He bounded back, climbed our porch steps
(with my husband's aid), then reaching up
to me, said, "I forgot the hug and kiss!"

For Black Eyed Susan's "Forgotten" Contest...

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Racing the dark from Albuquerque to Flagstaff
  old questions trailed behind me

The highway marked with broken dreams 
  of searchers long ago

As Gallup filled my rearview mirror
  the sun reached out and grabbed me

My last horizon dropping fast
  —the finish line aglow

(Flagstaff Arizona: February, 2019)...

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I died
And my heart cried
She told me I fled
I am my soul

I lost
For my soul’s cost
She said I kill most
I am my heart

I came
Searching to claim
She asked me my name
I am my face

I failed
And so we sailed
She thought we trailed
I am her demon

I loved
Designed and carved
She had my soul
I am my all....

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pretty pink blossoms
 hanging  over the water  ~
 swans trailed by ripples

 ducks touch down on lake
 blossoms fall in the water ~
  wispy clouds sail by

 blooms glide on ripples
 water reflects azure sky ~
 fish nibble blossoms

 9-22-2022
 A Haiku Collection Of Three - Nature Themed Poetry Contest
 Tania Kitchin...

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The boat plied along an emerald sea
The only noise the lapping so gently
The white sail set by a puff of breeze
As our love’s gentle sigh would please

You trailed your hand in the sea 
And the gulls wheeled as we could see
I told a joke and you loudly laughed
A perfect day again we wished would last.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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I wake in a world of uncertainty 
The mind ponders its way
Striving for answers
That left my heart dismayed 

Clues were never trailed 
For my wonders to be unveiled 
The hearts condition is frail
To Loves affections in detail

Look past the sky
May my answers lay there?
To what complicates this storm
For death to arise unfair...

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purpl'd eyes heaven
with tongue cloven
met mystic malady
embroidered ensconced epilepsy 
dripping damped desires 
jittery earth admires

saline liquid loitering 
deflowered dusts damping 
scrunched sans spooky

moistened mists melt
Jove's jumpy jets
twain trailed crest

dull disease dances
later lost traces
    19:11:16:11:56...

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In an octopus's garden withyou
As thewords trailed offand I left the building
I found myself thinking of Anthony
Then Isstarted to run to thetaxi rank
My heart in mymouth
I remember someone saying if youever think ofhim
youshould get out quick.
Ihailed a taxi got in and said elephant please
as we pulled out ilooked inhis mirror
And saw fire....

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trailed by stardust
the first star of twilight
where i scatter my wishes
glitters like your eyes
locked in the depths of mine

the gossamer breeze
caresses my skin
like a tongued whisper
escaping your winded breath
within the thrust of night

i arch myself blandly
in the contours of shadows
aglow with the lambency of moon
adrift in wishes of you...

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written in an Indian form, abhanga

Lil Bo Peep found her sheep
in a lovely locale
singing Luther’s chorale -
Mighty Fortress.

She’d trailed their tails through town,
but sheep had found a church.
There she ended her search
musical rest.

Left - no longer bereft
refrains raised her morale;
this church, a cool corral
for shepherdess.

June 14, 2019...

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