Short Vases Poems

Purple flowers bloom
In vases so beautiful 
In the kitchen light...

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water in the ice blue glass
sits among the vases
invisible to most...

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Red petals
On stems of leaves and thorns
Slowly unlocks its beauty in
Eloquent vases...

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jewels in jewelry boxes
tools in tool boxes
clothes in closets
flowers in vases
insane in asylums...

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White crepe rose petals
fallen.  Onyx table top.
Charmeuse memories
shimmer: Cloisonne vases,
Peau de soie breezes wafting....

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daisies in my hair
red and pink yellow and blue
the fields of frolic

vases hats gardens
trailing sun from window box
swaying to summer

anytime daisy
dawn sunset red midnight black
wild about daisies...

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Empty things-

Empty rooms-filled with things-
Empty vases-empty jars
Empty seats-
Cupboards that are bare-

Corridors-in my mind-
Long and narrow-alone I stare-
Vacant land -
You once – were there!  

17/11/92...

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In Paris away from darker side 
shows his aptitude for still life.
Painted with a genius brush
his vases of flowers,
vibrant visions are
captured on his
canvases.
Van Gogh
lives.



Penned 23 November 2015...

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The essence of being
Letting it's self into meaning
Much considered
States of thinking 
Vast 
Holding rareness
Fit for one of kind 
Flower Vases
Arrangement calls
Different as Cultural 
Curtains 
Inviting investigations 
Marvel...

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Flasks and drums
Vases and urns
Barrels for holding pickles

Bowls and cups
Pots and pans
Piggy banks for nickles

Beakers, pitchers
Bottles for milk
Mere vessels for the rookies!

For no container
In the world
Can beat my jar of cookies!...

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PACKING BABIES

packing babies
like sick vats
vases of acid
open an abscess

I watch…

as a million 
people run into
their thin papery
nowhere lands
safe

without stains
on their
fluorescent
fairytale
brains

© Kim van Breda—2 November 2015...

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color, flower, nature, rain, red, star, sun,




Climbing clematis 
Creep in among the trellis
And coloured stars show!


Rain and sun are needed
For blooming clematis buds
And butterflies to come!

Vases hold clematis
While water keeps them on tap
To display inside!...

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Swallowing 
My timidity 
With a long 
Shot of puff 

Amidst a sea of Jasmines
Sitting on wooden vases 

Rippling
The smile 
I hardly wear 
With warm 

Swaying lips-- so tender
Yet, as I dragged myself 

To outlast 
The whims 
Of doubts--
Inside me

My mate came, with question 
Marked on her face, in protest...

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They were the golden days in many ways,
When I once gave Mom dandelion bouquets.
She loved those bright vases of blooms,
Cheering the corners of childhood rooms! 

The lavender dawns and crimson evenings,
Plus the deep golden yellows in between,
Gave rise to such kaleidoscopic memories,
As a rare gemstone's glittering energies....

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Favorite varieties pungent sweet aroma 
Sweet enjoyable 
Scented in their beauty 
There's beauty in those flowers 
Covered with colors beautiful colors
Adorned flourish the middle 
Of the vases blooms 
Beautiful beautiful array of a bouquet of flowers


5/3/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Their purple blossoms herald Spring.
Their fragrance pure, memories bring.
Every year on Mother's Day
blooms in vases on display.

Lilacs, these I love the best.
Far more fragrant than the rest.
Such a short life that they live
but, oh, the joy that they give.





30/08/2022
for Eight lines of Rhyme: Your favorite flower contest...

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Rainy Days

On rainy days celery sticks make 
pillow forts, cookies eat 
packs of 
cards, test tubes learn 
how to 
draw, vases lip 
sync Gloria Estefan songs, paper airplanes look at 
old pictures of 
their recycled relatives, Styrofoam cups break 
down, ladders bend and 
stretch, and
lunch boxes grow 
long shiny 
silky hair.

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what if all peacock feathers were orange and pink?
would that be too wonderful?
would everyone have to have them in vases?
I would, for sure.
we know, my friends say, we know.
they have been to my home where everything is orange and pink.
my favorite colors, all over the place.
I have not painted the refrigerator yet, but I am thinking about it....

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White, the purity of fresh-fallen snow
   Pink, the shine of a unicorn's glow

Yellow, soft dazzling rays of summer sunshine
   Orange, marigold tea blended with wine

Red, lipstick's lure; sensuous kisses
   Purple, insignia of princes and princesses

Bright colors all, beauty's bounty of roses
   Fill crystalline vases, in gay fetching poses...

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flowers near the window
in bright yellow

a filmy white curtain
swaying in the breeze

late afternoon sunshine
bouncing off walls

a tea pot steaming 
a tea cup empty

a book lying open
on a vintage bed 

colour glass vases
sparkling in the sun

a tranquil silence
fills the space

photographs
on dresser

purple walls
need paint...

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Paradisiac haven with cerulean skies
White cockatoos and blue macaws
Flock between the coconut palms
Resembling celestial paradises

White satin sheets cover the king beds
Red exotic flowers decorate fine vases
Promise to couples romantic nights
Educing hidden passion in the veins









Example For Island Of Fantasy Poetry Contest
6-3-2016...

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Graying clouds, faces
Sprinkled with tears of sorrow...
Deepening thunders

Howling winds, braces
Buffeted by ghastly breath...
Trembling ropes and spikes

Blowing rains, vases
Overturned near grave diggers...
Strewn flower petals

Clearing skies, races
Blanketed the pink coffer...
Gifting her gray vault

Waning tears, faces
Leaked with canopy waters...
Tossing earth within...

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The fairest of vases sits upon a mantle high
While admiring eyes gaze; doors breathe a long sigh
No expression nor smiles, but its presence calls
To kings and serfs steadfast within encamped walls
Like a beacon shines through opaque, foggy skies
Captures glances of awestruck ones, mesmerized 
Unadorned, its beauty, most exquisite pales
But guarding red roses,  beauty never fails
~*~...

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I keep returning to the jewelry store to look at the vase.
It has all of my favorite colors.
hot pink, orange, turquoise, lavender
I really want it, but it is expensive.

all of my other vases have been thrown out.
Because I am horrible with glass.
I have broken them all into bits.

This would be an expensive one to break, my husband says.
That tears it.
I have to have it now....

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SEA GLASS

Memories are sea glass on the beach
Washed and cleansed from the waves
Staring up as eyes in the morning sun
Some blue, some green, some clear
Reflecting shades of different things
Once were merely bottles on a shelf
Or fancy vases hoping for better times
Each with a kind of gained elegance
Discarded, now as jewels transformed
Eager for collection and remembrance

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