Short Whitened Poems

If we had black stars on a whitened day, we would have a peppered sky...

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three black specks glide
white hazed sky whitened brighter
swan bugles trumpet...

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single silver birch
overlooks the whitened head stones
priest in black waiting....

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Home to a whiptail
Like half buried old driftwood
Whitened by the sun


By Robb A. Kopp...

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The heron that is so white
looks further whitened
when landing on the mudflat
so contrasting !...

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From whitened trees, leaves are leaving
Releasing fall, color flutters
Upon the wind's icy mutters
With a ruby river weaving
Homage to a season's grieving


10/20/23...

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wind
arctic
boreal
tatting across
whitened landscapes Chantilly with frore lace 
and snowy-stiff satin brocade cutting
defining the
raw winter’s
scalloped
edge...

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Hair of my youth was pretty auburn fine.
with glimpses and dashes of red said Valentine.
Oodles of melatonin to keep it a glitzy glowing red
whitened up when I got a bit older, said Cousin Fred....

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her chilled beauty...

   splashed in whitened paint

          through Christmas' buds

             my eyes turn into soot

and bury Mom's splendor



Not So Happy Holidays Contest

~ Contempary...

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whitened winds blow                                                                                               drunk Koi swim under ice                                                                                        icicles dripping...

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Lullaby 2

wind voices speak wild words
above an eider down of dreams
and nighted owl sleeps close to the trunk
when November rends our sky

rain changes from her silks
and whitened raiment wears
as winter casts its nets of frost
across the naked bowers...

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Collectors, traveling from far,
Dig in ashes piled behind
The weather-whitened, ghost-town bar:
Whiskey bottles there to find.

A hundred years have come to pass:
Cowboys—gamblers—girls—all dead.
Half-buried legacies of glass
Gleam beneath the rotting shed....

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The flying winter-end moves ambivalently 
Scoffing with whitened celebration 
And thrashing through adoration
While nippy Jack Frost chuckles underhandedly 

Into the evening joyful delight 
The spring time moon, sings in speckle red 
Life moves triumphantly in joyful wed
And stillness beats the night...

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in negative temperature
on whitened branch
refracting winter's dark
inversing frosted blanch

pitch to mirrored pool
of symmetry below
in opposite of dual - 
serene in its afterglow

© Goode Guy 2013-08-05

for David Wilson's "The Reflected Tree"
for the Charles Taylor Arts Center 
ekphrastic poetry event 2013-08-11...

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But as we begin
to break down
and burn
We will wistfully 
watch and learn
that in this lifeline
you’ll have to
be a
dismally
darkened dove.
Left to let go
of the one
thing you’ve
ever loved.
As you raise
your weakly
whitened
wings to fly
into the
numbing unknown
nature of
the nurturing
night sky....

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S-aturday eighteenth February
A-ims to clear the sky; 
R-ed beacon has whitened
A-ll the clouds up
H-igh.

Q-uest for the fine clime, 
U-ntil you find the dawn; 
I-t's a beautiful day, 
N-ight is brought to oblivion.
A-llow the lonely twilight to make a change or shift; 
N-ew dawn has let you receive an early birthday gift....

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G-ray clouds Wednesday
H-ave been whitened by the beacon; 
E-arly sun March fifteenth
R-ises above the horizon.
L-et the raindrops fade
I-nto the black and blue; 
N-ight shadows disappear, mist is nowhere in view.

E-ventide turns into dawn, 
B-ehold the fine weather; 
I-t's a beautiful new day, 
D-ark cold night is
O-ver....

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May winter's days 
And Frozen nights 
Continue opening doors,
 of marshmallow puffy clouds 
Letting out sparkling frost bits
 specs of dirt 
drizzling a puff whitened snow star flakes
Snowfalls
Winter days, frozen nights


a dedicated verse to Sally Eslinger-
1/26/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Tender blossom ~
Little blossom,
Intoxicates with such perfume;
I smell you ~
kneeled before you,
Warmed by summer afternoons.

With your sweetened cherry fragrance,
Showered in such glowing radiance,
Such elegance in shining metal
Caressing velvet whitened petals.

Little Blossom ~
Tender Blossom,
Yes, I love you
Lonely one;
My fragile flower in the sun....

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There's a quick remedy for those neglected smiles,
even your dentist won't tell you that...
it's still a well-kept secret;
grandma whispered it to mother,
and mother to daughter,
but not father to son? Isn't it hypocritical, boys?
All women must be kissed by impatient men,
and what's more attractive than
teeth whitened by inexpensive baking soda, guys?
It's time you made yours whiter than Paul's!...

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While the water’s whitened waves
Flew forth fast in foamy sprays
All amidst an airy act
Blowing, blasting, beating back
Seeing swarthy, seaward sailing ships
Onward o’er the ocean dips
Upward, downward, driving days
Seeking harbors, havens haste their ways
The ships sail sure in stormy seas
Calmly coursing comes a breeze
Now softly sailing, slides the ship
Muffled, mellow, made my trip...

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Joyful this heart a-fluttering,
As the golden drift of soft light
Cascades on hands, laden with ice
Kneading whitened snow into balls,
Frozen like a moonlight’s pearled orb
Releasing its crystal glaze of nights
Only a winter thrill can dare...
So, let Jack Frost swing brightened tunes
To dance on lanes, a- wandering!



12/4/2015
Acrostic: Jack Frost Contest
Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton...

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shivering 
with the morning cold
only autumn leaves capture the dreams i dream
like the ripping seams 
of my heart
that dance in this morning cold
or at least that is how it seemed
shivering
is all the i know
ashamed of hotness
of all sorts
because autumn leaves
left all but one autumn leaf
I am left shivering 
with the morning cold
this was something like
my encounter with un-whitened snow......

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First a raindrop,  a cold and icy core
 then a whitened flake joined by one or two more;
clustered gatherings before the storm
 a build of slow intensity as snow begins to form;

Come now winter once more to its return drawn
 earthen shadows no longer warmed by downed leaves forlorn.
Gray tunes in the day, as all creatures feasting slip away
in the mist and quiet flow this day of blue to shades of white and gray....

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Sparkle from a whitened tooth
a seamless movement of pace,
enslavement in catholic youth
buried under a veil of lace.

Elegance from a pearl white gown
truth hidden from her face,
under a studded crystal crown,
in slender and with grace.

Dreams of a forever and ever.

An eternity set for revamp,
taunted by a death of a ghost
images of an ivory camp
long life and regal host

(Princess Charlene Lynette Wittstock)...

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