Short Vignettes Poems

my life is Haiku
like a play made of vignettes
on vinyl it spins!...

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A
triptych
of vignettes-
in paradise
lost

August Macke's A Zoological Garden

on page 1 at http://www.augustmacke.org/home-1-48-1-0.html...

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12/5/1938
Miracle Man

From my life’s wondrous vignettes,
many happy memories were born.
But on today’s birthday as I reflect,
eighty-six finds me tired and worn.
...

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I often reflect

On the motions of dawn ,night

Changing life’s vignettes

Yet keeping heart balanced

From life’s negative drama.


Jan 18, 2016
Syllables Of Wisdom 
Contest of Silent One...

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RECOLLECTIONS
exquisite
vignettes
a
 reportoire
relished
approach
an
opportunity
encapsulated
in
cultural
cornerstones
with
luscious
touches
with
hybrid
conformity
phrased
&
 hallmarked
in
the
mundane
convuluted
&entangled...

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Drenched in ashen night
My thoughts are gone
Where a road pales afar
My shadow torn
Like a moan in the flesh
Weeping upon
A trail of love’s vignettes
Stained by rainstorm!



Visual  Of Verso---nette onclaud Contest
Ashley Conte
August 18, 2015...

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Seasons droop with age
  trailing like your footprints, gone
while anguish leaves me homeless.

Above, stars engrave
  vignettes of our first moondance - -
till I  burst into bleak tears.


Re-post  05/04/2019
Contest of Lu Loo: Best Sedoka- 577- 577...

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Never-ending bloodstained boots tossed on top
of the growing mound of vignettes
around so many young men
seeking a name to boast
courageous conquests
facing the best
gunfighters
just to
die

NB: A nod to Robert Hinshaw and his poem ‘A Stroll Through Boot Hill Cemetery’....

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A skin, bit rough, and brownish fair;
A rounded face and short black hair;
Fine vignettes on a wide forehead 
that seems to think the ways ahead. 

Cherry red lips, thick and pouty;
Two big ears, a nose that's humpy;
Big black eyes with flickery wink 
seem to fathom the way you think.

Self portrait poetry contest 
7th place 
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In the empty room loneliness sets
the rules in shades of darkest blue;
blue the color of regrets,
and haze of countless cigarettes
through which the past is dimly seen
as phantoms lost in-between 
the projector and the screen,
where relays of surreal dreams,
and jingle of the mind's tambourine,
repeats and beats life's lost vignettes....

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Like a sheet of mercury glass
reflects light imperfectly,
I pass life’s mirror,
capturing distorted vignettes,
experiences faded on the edges
or, here and there, heightened focus 
amplified the ridges of our years.
Funny how perception can exaggerate memory;
our mirrors may stand side by side,
but the image is not identical.

Copyright, May 8, 2022...

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We are to receive a gift
Through a method misplaced
Handfuls of nature chaste

Wandering seeds
Sprout for us vignettes of promise
That we may look upon the world through fresh eyes

Innocuous gems
Sprout for us the warmth of contentment 
That we may grow beyond the reach of suffering

Flora, give as you must
Bring hope to a budding youth
And shelter us from loss...

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Hands
mixing
neutral shades
as brushstrokes form
etches of life’s vignettes in washed-out tones,
Reflecting grim  shadows doused by night’s  ash
Where black  white hints
Trail along
Fingers
Stained.
Grief
In oil
Expressing
Artist's lament
Through paint of tears which words cannot portray.



tetractys 1st place
Contest NO  85 for Briand Strand...

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Tossed upon blank beaches
like men without souls,
shell fragments littering the sand.
Each broken shell once could sing
lyrics lilting of glories past,
tales spun in Dresden colors,
soft, shimmering memories - 
blissful days beneath shining seas.

In broken men who walk the earth,
vignettes I view . . .
shattered beauty every one.

Copyright, August 3, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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hindsight
        a vicarious sanctuary
        exhiliarating  fluctuating
harmony
         conventionally coidtered
         exquisite enchanting
         in mysterious patterns
changing tones&
                        textures immersed
                        in stunning images
depictions
               tinged with
                            wistfulness
chaos
     from desolation
             of emotions awry...

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I trailed a garden once, which was pure delight
Enhanced by bold  mums and tulips white;-
Though unkempt, it had an air
Of sun-dancing there,
A landscape
Rare
Like morn’s drape.
Stunned by wild bloom’s flair
Vignettes of dreams found nowhere;
That my youth’s eyes remember how bright,
I trailed a garden once, which was pure delight!



The Andaree – Contest II
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
10/14/2015...

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Dim
The gloss
Of night’s sketch,
While musings pale
From  charcoal traces--
As  flitting vignettes  etch
Time’s  priceless remembrances
When fond joyfulness gripped our hands--
Until your whims smudged  dreams  blossoming
Then   l e a v e  me  naked  ... with still life’s  playbacks.



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Writing Challenge 2- April 2019- Its All About 10 
Sponsor:  Dear Heart       4/27/2019...

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Formed by mist that grasses adore
Reveries young coat the sky
Mixing life with energized core
Kodak of faces streaking by
-
I collect vignettes from a rushed earth
Filling cups of grails many by one
With these journeys since my birth
In rainstorms and summers rerun
-
To recall how wife and I debate
Only to clutch her in tight embrace
But time steals joy, not a dot late
With broken chain, I can't keep pace.
-

Frank H: I RECALL Contest...

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Cruising in a yacht
Sailing on the sparkling sea
Seagulls squawk above
 
Walking on the shore
Drinking sweet pineapple juice
And collecting shells
 
Taking a moment
To breathe in the salty scent
Of the pleasant breeze
 
Sitting in the shade
Under coconut palm trees
And licking ice-cream 
 
Waves washing away
Footprints left in the soft sand
And flooding castles
 
Shh, listen closely
To hear the sun sizzle on
The ocean's surface...

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Personal perceptions,phrases from the divine
happenings in arrested moments,vignettes of
little songs.Nostalgic memories of the 
commonplace,orient to occidental,ancient
form and  modern.Experience in sentence
sounds,paused and silent ,language in shape
structured prose read ,then said aloud.

Catch my recited PS antholgy on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

read my short forms @strandpoet on twitter

study my Christian and poetry guides kindle ebooks on amazon...

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She is hot and cold,
keenly engaged then a
distant horizon.

She is like cotton candy,
so sweet and pretty but in 
one bite evades me.

She doesn't respond
to my deep probing questions
impenetrable.

But when she is with me
the whole world reverberates
the passion we share.

Immersed in love's gaze
I see her soul leaping
spontaneously.

Always a question
whenever we meet is
who are you today. 

When do I decide
if there's enough growth to stay
or just walk away....

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Love Is...
 
I

Elusive mist passes through her fingers
Love envelopes and clings hot and humid
Once dry she wonders if she ever felt anything at all
Parched she cracks and awaits the rain

II

Swimming deep and then buoyed to the surface
She bubbles with excitement
Glorious joy infuses her being
Love engulfs her as she drowns

III

A cool glass beaded with moisture
In control she sips and exhales a sigh 
Love lingers imparting pleasure
Sip by sip she and he become one...

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