Short Widening Poems

circles widening
spiraling sunny center
to winter icing...

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centrifical force
ever widening circle....
yellow leaves central  ...

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This morning
Widening
Only through the
Grace of God
Illuminating the
Reverend's Sunday sermon...

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intoxicated
by earth river and sea
and sung
by your widening heartbeat
into this joyful blance...

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Snow
Melting slowly
Water flowing
Down mountain.

Soil eroding
Channel widening
Stream flowing swiftly....

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Sweet Home Eden.
Amidst widening desert.
Faint lions whisper:
"globes warming, rains rare."
Sweet Home Eden, for how long?...

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Soul is aped disease.

Fall irritated at night!

Heart is a journey.

Heard around kiss printed out.

Kept widening on your cheek....

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the brightest
light of
life shining
in the
eyes of hope
thus beginning
the river's journey 
still widening
through your
simple smile...

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Spatter Riot

Percolating slowly through the thin orange sheep skin,
The poison of chaos oozes through widening pores,
Bringing to boil the spattering seed of evil.
...

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His pants were quite dry when he got 'em

His classmates just laughed when they caught him

A wet widening stain

And it sure wasn't rain

Now it's way too easy to spot him

...

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Listen to poem:

i reach for you
but you're not there
i call your name 
but you don't care
there's a rift that's
widening by the day
i struggle on my own
to find my way



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on June 17, 2022...

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This is for us
At each moment
When heaven’s grace
Is thrust upon me
It is for us,
Each blessing
Each praise
Is not only
For me….
This is for 
The tribe
I am only
A part of
The whole
That lives in
The widening
Continuum....

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Veins of mist
web and thicken 
to a clotted stutter
of images
slipping from words
into a fog
of quiet from where
a finger traces lines
in air as if mapping
what has been lost 
finally widening
to a circle
taking in
all of you....

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Why?
“To rise,”
explain I.
“To grow strong, wise,
to live and defy,
evolve. Expand in size,
in mind, spirit! Then you fly
to higher levels; win the prize,
by transforming when you choose to die.”
Then, her eyes see—what wonder and surprise!

...

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Will you come for a 
final goodbye in dark.
I will wear you like a moon.

*

The black hole was 
widening. There was no
sin, if you bring a candle.

*

September, morning.
The cuckoo gives a two-note call.
Anybody still sleeping ?


Satish Verma...

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December eve wakes for me. Enamored by
a million stars in a widening sky, it shines down
on a frigid desert floor, and I, in wonder, spy
beauty of a  Joshua tree. The fire, sparkling like a gown, 
dances on branches lifted in prayer of silver crown....

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Crashing crescendo creating

widening whirlpools

turbulent tides.

The endless eternal smashing smoothing

looming lava pinnacles pinned in

an everlasting embrace.

Wizened widening eyes stare

struck in awe 

at the bounteous beauty

dancing....

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Just nodded silently, at the time wind hit
Nor the storm can get on
Lengthiest roots rooted far and wide
Making out as a stable and silent one
Bearing silent only
Girthiest branches widening
Growing at speed 
Standing all alone and stable
As a silent tree...

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Sacred drum pounds in my chest
only for love,and nothing less
disappointments may have been many
still beat's strong and always ready
widening gaps' of seperation
does not detract my strength to lessen
my honor and gratitude,this life i'm given
in hope's for all a love enlighten.........

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look beyond
and then look further
did you see it?
look again
do you see it?
start to focus
no beginning
will not end...

that's forever

have you seen it?
eyes are widening
depth perception
getting big
glance away
just for a moment
and you will lose it
look again…

gone forever...

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The room is empty but for shadows
My mirror is reflecting the setting sun
See clearly
How flowers shrink
And the spark is leaving

Targets are in reach
But the mind runs slow
Everything is achieved
And now my skills decay

But the sight is widening
And details appearing
Senses awakening
Even though
The bright is paling...

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They separate us by gender,
and segregate by race

They separate us by intellect,
and isolate by taste

They separate us by fortune,
and detach us by fame

They separate us by family,
nepotism to blame

They keep us divided
through life ever long

The poles ever widening
—too lost to belong

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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Wanting, waiting
Desperately seeking
Searching, eyes fading
Tears are streaking
Hope not abating

Looking for signs
Distant, heartbeat
Stars to align
To be complete
Have something as mine

Here within the void
Widening, berth
Love to be enjoyed
All that its worth 
Not to be toyed

Lost to life
Stranded, islet
Upon stormy strife
To be found yet
In the counterlife....

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It calls to me,
From the darkness,
It sings,
Ever so sweetly,
A finger beckons,
Bloody and scarred,
I can feel the terror,
Clutching at my heart,
The whispers,
The hinge squeaking,
The door softly creaking,
The covers are over my head,
My throat locked in dread,
The closet inhabited by the dead,
Calling, singing,
The crack widening,
As I begin screaming....

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There they sat, together, the mother and daughter
Reading the writes of many hopefuls, many poets
With eyes widening, together they share the joy of words
They share the joy of laughter, togetherness and love
Together, the share of each other, a moment of perfection
For no other moment could steal away such a pleasure
As this morning brings two hearts closer forever...

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