Short Unwraps Poems

"You're born to write", my soul says…
Do I believe her, or doubt!
Writing unwraps deepest thoughts, 
Layers of my heart!...

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Melody from flute
Unwraps my immersed feelings
Senses touched divine 
Innermost emotions surge
Cadence fills the air sublime...

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An old lady from Bristol,
Walks around with a bag of menthol, 
She unwraps and licks,
Every time she an answer seeks,
An old lady with a heart like a ball....

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Christmas eve
door bell rings
Santa peeps

unwraps gifts
children gleam
sunshine snow

reindeer flee
dumped Santa
becomes guest

December 19, 2018
Syllable count : 3-3-3
(Checked on howmanysyllables.com)...

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Haiku
  The rose of yesterday
  Has lost allure 
 Since it was put in a vase

A cypress unwraps
When someone expires
Says the legend 

A tulip sways in Dutch pasture
Before being cut
Wrapped in cellophane and sold...

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My life has been folded over
  at least a hundred times

With twilight comes exposure
  and a reckoning sublime

Each crease a thing I’d never done
  each fold a place I’d hide

Now one by one the truth unwraps
 —my secrets open wide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)...

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My writing conceals a deeper truth
  than common sense abides

Each word unwraps a higher sense
  than fame or fortune buys

Every breath I take, the future staked
  the moment crowned as King

All beds remade where dreams have laid
  —the present everything

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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In college, my sorority
Required us to learn
The alphabet in Greek,
Which we recited in our turn.

Since then, I’ve used it rarely – 
In a crossword clue, perhaps – 
As my brain recites those letters
That my memory unwraps.

Lately, though, with Covid’s Delta
And now Omicron’s new streak,
There’ve been many more occasions
To recall my long-lost Greek....

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Sweetheart, a cerebral woman I respect
Enchanted by her month when all life awakes
Smiles from childhood lovingly resurrect
Morning dew, tulip scent, warm days, birthday cake

Italian squeaked from mom, in exciting tone
Delay the kisses and gifts till Dad gets home
Sweetheart- unwraps bows in absolute rapture
Yearly this feeling she attempts to capture!

Love you my Sweetheart-

A. Green...

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Before the breaking, my heart sees
Something beyond my expertise,

And on unknown sunny shores as these 
I find my circumstances freeze,

Feelings that make me ill at ease
Wrapped in a reassuring breeze,

A gust that brings me to my knees,
Playing on my insecurities,

World-weary eyes are hard to please;
The wind on my face disagrees,

Unwraps myself and gently frees
The happiness it guarantees....

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Poetry unravels and unwraps my soul in a way
My senses are wildly awake to absorb the sights
and mellifluous sounds of the world reigning my spirit, 
My heart opens to the sublime vermillion sky,
To the melody of sapphire waves lapping on the shore,
To the magical harmony of acoustic bird-songs!
My senses are entranced with the chimes of temple-bells,
I am spell-bound, beauty of the Universe becomes mine!...

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Spherical Exchange

Dawn unwraps the sky and wraps up twilight,
All birds, plus boats, exalt anointing prime,
Colors glossed to their righteous hues, picked time,
Advent horizon ere an orb takes height,
Chance night favored souls harmoniously,
Spheres gift display ceremoniously,
Dawn unwraps the sky and wraps up twilight.

2019 October 16

*3rd Place*

Make it Seven
~~Joseph May...

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I am a Nightingale…
 singing a song of lavender dreams and hopes, under an ultramarine canvas blending turquoise sky and sapphire ocean, 
                          twilight moon flickering ribbons of love, 
my audience - the pearlescent clouds, gleaming stars, souls with a poetic heart!




                 Taken from my Poem " Writing Unwraps My Soul"
                         A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest...

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The sky unwraps a silver veil,
Each drop a hymn, so soft, so pale,
As rain begins its tender play.

It drapes the earth in crystal lace,
With every bead, a sweet embrace,
A gentle calm on Christmas Day.

The lights reflect in puddled grace,
Like stars descended, face to face,
In every splash, a dream will stay.

Oh, how I love the rain's refrain,
Its hush more pure than caroled strain,
A holy hush where hearts can pray....

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A tarry bright smile
Whispers of soothing sounds
Tantalizing spices of seasoned aroma
Fragrances which evokes the upliftment
Of an unconscious soul
Beauty in it's modest nature
Life unwraps as it flips into series of previewing pages
Flashbacks of captions that entreats the mind
Distorted emotions creates a wavering countenance
Tales of trials
In pills and in portions
It disintegrates every story into pieces of treasured gold
Laying up bounties for a mysterious quest...

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