Short Tuft Poems

My hair used to be all black
Later, mostly black tuft with white wisp
Now, a bunch of white 
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SELFIE

cockatoo upside-
down-under.
checks out
camera, outback
jiggles traffic cam.
handsome tuft
hangs on.

6/2/2018...

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Today sun shined on green lush grass
The tuft reflects the fellow sun
Soft and fleshy
Scent of rose
Roams the air
Trees rough
Bush with thorns
Sky clear...

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The winter crawls upon,
the tuft of wet grass,
wet from the morning dew
As the chill of winter, shivers down,
the coarse chest of tress
Soon rodents shovel holes,
In search of warmth...

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prove me a poem
that has known love not
our proof 
has been purchased
always blood bought
riddled  misfortunes
curdling in a cup
drinking butter
milk
from
breast
leather tuft
?...

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born a baby
she was bald as
the years went
by fit and trim
she was
all but bald
except a tuft atop
her vertical smile
when my horitzonal
lips kiss hers we
form a cross
or an X that marks
the spot
where with
from forth
will the holy 
waters 
flow...

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The day is dull and gloomy
  and my spirit lags like gray tuft clouds
I thought your words might cheer me
  and on poetry soup I looked
for just a word or two or more
  to brighten the day and my soul,
but sadly, the words weren't apparent there
  where did you go?...

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A nesting is but invaded
All nestlings abandoned
But ‘four’ eggs shelled?

Mother bird is gone
Many a tuft of feathers
Drying in the winds!


Broken twigs have bent
The nest will sit misshapen
Under treed branches above!
 

Mother overhead flees
Skyward tweeting call-back cries
A hungry snake waits!...

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My feet feel their way
Along the rocky river bottom
Arms balancing
Waist bending
Ankles slipping, twisting,
Toes gripping on algae-covered stones
And maneuvering 
Through ice-cold hell
Hell 
Hell 
Hell

Until you.
A warm tuft of grass and clover
Soft and green
Ankles burning with warmth
Love
Salvation....

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whisper of a brush in a shy hand
smooth, no wrinkles, ageless

canvas dying
to be filled with primary colors

virgins
have not seen much

blur, dots, haze
blue-eyed babes

just see a mess
a good teacher

sees a masterpiece
in the crew cut

in the golden halo
in freckled face

in smooshing tuft
in Queen Anne’s Lace

9/22/2021...

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Chartreuse moss insinuates itself
into cracked brick as leprous eucalyptus
line the path, fallen leaves contorted 
into coral spines on weathered terra cotta.

Traveling between the trees I stumble
upon one sinewy stalk in a lithe tuft
heralding the second coming of a lily.

May's slate gray 
muffles the air until I hear 
the chameleon trill
of a mockingbird....

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Autumn bites the air
sharpening a September morning.
Fields of wrapped summers lie
in rolls of harvested hay.
Berries bruise tart hedgerows
their sprinting thorns startle
a dandelion sun.
Thistle heads tuft purple
tossing seeds into a fleece breeze.
A patchwork of seasoned meadows
sleep beneath cauliflower clouds.
Castle ruins crumble
among sheep cotton fields
on a hearty harvest noon....

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I have a new kitty,
That I named Tippy
He's a Maine Coone breed,
And very special indeed
Long dark colored hair,
Covers him most everywhere
A white tuft and tipped tail,
Are a beautiful detail

Yellow are his eyes
Adding a pretty surprise
He really loves to play,
With balls and toys all day
Someone abandoned him,
Probably on just a whim
While still only a baby,
I'm glad he now belongs to me...

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Tabby in winter, with a tuft of snow on your head
You got slammed when they came down on that sled
If you get buried, it may be quite a little while
Before we can save you, St Bernard said with a smile

Then he noticed that there were Bernards on her scarf
How bad could she be? He told his friends with an arf.
Tabby in the snow glared at all of those happy dogs.
They ate up her chocolate kibble like untrained old hogs....

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Tabby in winter, with a tuft of snow on your head
You got slammed when they came down on that sled
If you get buried, it may be quite a little while
Before we can save you, St Bernard said with a smile

Then he noticed that there were Bernards on her scarf
How bad could she be? He told his friends with an arf.
Tabby in the snow glared at all of those happy dogs.
They ate up her chocolate kibble like untrained old hogs....

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Drenching cold in every fiber
Washing away the little girl 
Who once believed she could fix anything 
With hope...
Clinging to spiky reality
Like a tuft of white fur to a filthy branch
So painfully determined,
Yet unrelenting rain;
Torrents of raw emotions 
And mudslides of despair
Saturate and smear her fragile innocence
Her hope will dwindle, 
Slowly drowned
Until nothing more
Remains
Of that child
In the rain...

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Timeless lyrical,
compassionate dance,
a shifting effect
of light and color,
the glowing full moon
conducts in folk tune.
Indispensable
distant humble stars
spring a russet, sign.
White unfolded wings
flitter wayward round
a rhythmic beating
in shadow, chill, air.
The spike tuft ears owl
melodies hooting,
influence passion.
A lovers' heartbeat
keeping steady rhythm.
A starlight guides the
way by windswept night.
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Lucky lovely elephant with a tuft of green
Created by a master artisan, that is easily seen.
With trunk upraised, in the luckiest of elephant ways.
We congregate around him, to give him some praise.

His décor is lovely, his metallic finish is a treat.
He is the utmost beautiful elephant on Rochester Street.
We follow him around, fawning over him, giving him our best.
He finally asks for some privacy, so he can get some rest....

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A TRUTH THAT I EXPLORED
                                     sukumar mohanty
                 (1)
My sun had already in back,
Returning from the field;
I saw the twilight tube-well;
	Eclipsed by the green arms;	
And lonely in the rust.
                 (2)
But I hear the buzzes
Flowing from the mewling tap.
                 (3)
What truth I explored 
For which I thought deep and deep,
Standing alone in frosted tuft,
And my little master giggled
wrap by a lot....

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