Short Wakening Poems

butterflies, then bees
lavender scent fills a breeze

wakening morning...

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Wrens
whisper
wistfully
wafting westward--
Wisp

Woods
welcome
white warblers--
weeds wakening
wings!



3.12.2019
Light Up The Page 2 Contest
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Dew

Dawnlit reflective

Wakening glistening sparkling

Meadow carpet radiance glitter

Fleeting fading passing

Transient evanescent

Diamonds 


20 June 2019...

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In wakening grooves
When you try and control it
All falls apart
When you forfeit control
All is bliss
In wakening grooves
Do what you love
Dew it as often as possible
In wakening grooves....

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S warmed despair,
O paqueness gleaned among cold air,
L ingering…I linger, linger, linger….
A wakening virtue devoured my sleeping soul,
C onjuring my intuition…reviving,
E nlivening, as I kneel down and pray…...

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Morning moon dancing in the sky
Wakening sun brightening my eyes
Fresh air funneling into my lungs
The taste of morning on my tongue
Rolling out the red carpet for the day
Ready to tackle whatever comes my way...

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Hot lemon tea
wakening me from my slumber
Whispering in a soft voice
Let's read them all
I look at my stack of books.
Which one first?
They are all my favorite
The tea is silent
Giving me no direction
I love that!...

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Hollow frail starved words
Hover in lost cavern's path
As the poet's road leads
On walks with dim lit dreams
Finding light wakening one's soul





Second Edition of Wayra
Sponsored by:  Nette Onclaud
August 18, 2018...

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morning
sun rays pour into
a room
sweet silence
sleeping young mother
child
dawning upon their innocence
wakening
stirring
movement
mother and child
together talking rocking
in the early morning
afterglow
love shining...

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Dewdrops

Dawn reflecting

Wakening glistening

Diamonds scattered cross the field

Meadow carpet radiance aglitter

Gems of nature deck the morning

Fleeting fading passing

Transient sparkle

Dewdrops ...

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March in with a slam 
Awakening from slumber 
Roaring with thunder 
Comes in fiercely like a lion 
Humbly leaves like a lame lamb

March 26, 2023

Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich 
Contest: Tankacrostic...

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I stopped by a clearing in darkened woods
to watch the sun come through the opening
the forest made, a shining light of good
in this a glade, so quiet, wakening
a question, why a small and silent way
no different than others, earns its pay....

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It is beyond the wakening twilight
That I listen for you
Closing my eyes…

It is somewhere adrift inside
This vacuumed stillness
You come to me…

It is these near silent whispers
Of your voice that reach out
Touching my soul…

It is you and I…momentarily...

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The day is long
 the night short
filled with restless dreams
 crisscrossing imagery
 of fictional and unfamiliar parties
trying hard to encumber life
 by restrictive containments
 anxious in the tossing and turning,
fearful wakening
 only to find
 it is reality....

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Flaming amber, gold and red

Wakening the earth to see

Crisp morning whispers caress

The soul’s breath with peace









Writing Challenge - Dodoitsu - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France
September 30, 2020

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star site
unchained spiral
light spinner showering falls
fill the eye of wakening man
form sentient tomorrows

dream dance
made fair opal
tears of joy enliven we
sleep being not a choice writhe on
eternity waits not


Poet:Debbie Guzzi
Contest:Pen a Pensee
Date: July 1, 2012...

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Wolves wander warily 
Warring strength in moonlight
Watching warm skinned bodies
Weakened with chilling sight 
Waging teeth, mouths water
Wakening woeful fright
Mortal wounds with death’s bite 


March 20, 2022
In Search of Prey Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May...

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Dreaming is the relaxing of the mind
allowing  pleasure, love and hope
a contrived fantasy

Wishing and hoping
beautiful things not allowed
in life's token.
Desires all  unspoken
within dreams, can be fulfilled    

Face reality
upon wakening, all gone....
Just "what if's" remain...

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Without you holding tightly
Bits of my soul break apart
Winding up toward my thoughts
Where dreams once lifted my heart
Caressed me with secret hope
Painting my yearnings hues of
Warmth, passion and assurance
Wakening my faith to grow






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Threads of sunbeams resurrecting sleepy whole breaths of existence
  Darkness fragrance afloat casting spells wakening transient death
                 Animating progress of blended livable sanctuary


(C) olive_eloisa
5:33 pm
May 04, 2014

CONTEST: SIJO IN A TEMPLE
SPONSOR: NETTE ON CLAUD
6TH PLACE...

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The dazzling white lights dancing through the stormy night,
Bring a sense of inspiration and fill me with delight

A sudden burst of terror brakes through the night-lit sky,
Which seems as though the heavens and earth are breaking with the tides

As humans lay in slumber the lights continue on,
Until the wakening of the dead, until the break of dawn......

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Haiku #12,024-12,028


I welcome winter
with virgin clean fields of white
crisp air, well dressed nights

Spring's voice too, will sing
with nature's scent wakening
be done spring cleaning

Summer will slip in
my shoulders bare as I jog
through drizzle's warm breeze

Fall makes a comeback
I am awed by the clearing
a year laced with zing.

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Sterling white
Timid browns
The lakes are like putty
And I don't write poems like this anymore
Trusting in nothing
The nothing of the lake
Rippling waves
Wakening grooves
The lake does not move
Unless the sun calls it
The moon pulls it
Or the clouds fill it
Or man needs it
The lake is the river
Is the land, is the living
Sterling white
It catches mens' eyes....

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B-right sunlight after the rain
O-pens the door for fine weather; 
N-ight cold chill has disappeared, 
I-n sunny sixteenth September.
F-rom early morning you rise, 
A-wakening from deep slumber; 
C-louds so dark have faded, 
I-nclement season is
O-ver.

B-ad clime and unsteady wind
A-re not going to remain; 
Z-one of crimson causes
A-nother sunlight after the
R-ain....

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A distant liquid drumbeat stirs the air
an aromatic call to hither come
sip the darkened rise of waking sun
soothe the prayerful hands of wakening.

Sizzling, the strips of breakfast rant
beside the wide eyed pair in silent trance
as Pavlov plays the strings of memory
warm feet dart quickly o’er cold floors.


©12/5/2019

Smell sound taste touch repeat sense.  Poetry Contest...

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