Short Twixt Poems

'twixt
hell and 
high water...

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the Satie 'twixt
'tween
major sevenths...

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...twixt..
    paint stick drip
and floor...

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Many a slip
‘twixt lip and chip
seagull swoop...

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A winter fog lingers
Somewhere twixt heaven and earth
Twixt blue and purple...

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Success
in life today,
is but a fleeting pause--
no more than a few days 'twixt two
Sundays....

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twixt grandsires and me 
long groundwork capital raised 

debt never known
•••••••••••••••••••••...

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Nicholas de Stael
who perhaps rings no bell
an emigre with an artistic knack
twixt figuration & the abstract...

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twixt
lips &
lashes
of the eye,
looks
to attract
& beguile..
a come
    hither..
to invite..
by a 
smile...

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judging 'twixt poems that sing,
it seems to me,akin-
to distinuishing
'tween a rose or peony-
surely both must win...

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Modern artist Milton Avery
twixt genre was he
His art make look a little quaint
he said ' why talk when you could paint'...

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Cassius Marcellus Coolridge
'twixt canines& art made a bridge
With caricature so comique
he personalised the anthropomorphic...

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Two, a couple, 'twixt them a divide...
O'ercome if both can divorce pride.


Written for "Two Timer's" Contest
October 14, 2012...

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I stand at the edge
Twixt rock and fire
Too weary to fight
Too angry to stop
The crows that haunt my waking steps
May never know peace...

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Two seconds left

   Field goal will win game

      Will he kick it twixt posts?

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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I give to you a rosebud
Held twixt my finger tips
As a symbol of my love
That cannot be eclipsed
The purest, sweetest rose
As red as your sweet lips...

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I miss you most 'twixt dusk and dawn
Wondering where you might have gone
Like Little Bo Peep
I'm stuck counting sheep
Thinking of you with nothing on...

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blank
          space
single
           breath
calm
            clarity
concise
             frugal
utter
             sound
'twixt
            'tween...

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shadows at sundown
standing in the flaming frame
lover’s silhouette —
‘twixt ebon bike wheels he’s posed
heel’s elation, she’s preened

12/16/2020...

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The
banal
in between-
the real & the
dream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dubuffet

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1035&page=1...

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Heat; day's, night's. The difference
Twixt caliph's oppressiveness
Swirled of sands about;
And what fine garbed, a-glitter
Offspring's, oozing sultriness
His own, lures back out....

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I enter
into a crowd
Of noises twixt the silence blink

As I leave
alas "alone"
I ponder those happenings I think?





12/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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A guzzler from Lollapalooza
just joined the parade - P. J. Sousa.
    ‘twixt his  trombone and feet
    he's a trifle off-beat 
The cops coax him "off" to their cruiser.

July 2, 2019...

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Getting older it seemed I was losing my grip.
Glasses would tumble before I could sip!
There must be an angle.
If it just had a handle...
There's nary a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip!...

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Pointiilist Henri-Edward Cross
found the genre a bit of a dead loss
Painting landscapes* was too slow
so introduced a space twixt dots to give them a glow

*https://www.henriedmondcross.org/...

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