Short Widens Poems

Canyon widens
River nearly dry
Are you in love with her?...

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winter widens
the road
through 
her
December gray smile
then 
letting go of it...

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

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When someone suddenly widens their eyes
Did they fart or have they just been surprised
If all of a sudden
Flowers become sullen
And birds drop by the thousands from the skies...

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Some days are diamonds, some days are diamonds
It's all bout how you approach each new horizon
You write the script
Bad stuff, just skip
With each new encounter, that door just widens...

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I can write a poem in six seconds
He stares at me. His smile widens.
I can write one in four.
Three I say.
Two.




Neither of us speak for a second
Knowing it is not going to be



a good 
one...

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silver light seeping
over toothed edges of land
widens the new day

moonlit shadows sink,
scrabbling brushstrokes streaking
canvas of morning's

golden silver threads
of sky bowing to green fields
clinging to dewdrops...

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Silver edges lands 
as dawn widens and dewdrops 
sprinkle backyards where tulips 
 
are sunk deep. Sunsets 
cup with their red yellow skies 
as stars burst through night 
 
black as her eyes, closing 
like petals so soft, easy 
to gently kill....

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floating dreams appear
lying in bed while sleeping 
happiness sets in

my world seems real
positive vibes are galore
my smile widens so

slowly dreams disperse
tossing, turning eyes twinge
sadness rears it's head

my world becomes real
negative vibes start building
my smile becomes frown...

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The divide widens
Moving in directions opposite
And with ways parting
Even though traveling on the same path
It’s like being privy to the quaking of earth before it happens
In slow motion
And knowing not what to do or say
Where to find cover or shelter
In the midst of all the chaos,
Does such really exist?...

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Here is where my hurt heart 
finds rest:

       beneath emerald canopies 
       at the park

       where a pebbly pathway meanders 
       and widens

       into a circlet with a fountain refreshing, 
       gushing;

       softly splashing, a busy birdbath here, 
       a turtle pond there.

With such solace, light as a feather 
my soul is....

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there's a slim space

between
the what  
  you want to do
and the what
  you have to do...
  
between
the where 
  you want to be
and the where   
  you have to be.

a space that widens 
   with time
into a chasm.
until
that dream
  that road not taken
  be gradually consumed
by the forest
  obscured   
  becoming indiscernible
from the trees.


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Written within the lines of every page, 
drawn by the free hands of my imagination, 
it is entangled with every beat of my heart;

For it swings through me 
as my breath deepens 
and as my soul widens;

Being too dangerous at the brim, 
it’s never too real to be candid 
neither too dreamful to be special;

But as life is so busy 
and time too conscious, 
it’s more than an apple to me....

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different drumbeats, separate Lives

he inhales the wind song

a static cling to yesterday

held in his heart until his melody fades

life, love, hope circle the drain

aging realist at one with his pain

love’s last aria

melancholy oboe resigns with setting sun
     
when two are no longer one 

chasm widens between haunting roars

tribal drums on opposite shores...

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The places I’ve been
all part of me now,
roadmaps of intention
tracking landscapes endowed

The history I’ve written
covers chapter and verse,
of promises made
and commitments diverse

The road ever widens
my scope narrows down,
the past out of focus
leaving town after town

Tomorrow unbeckoned
I search for today,
the future unreckoned
—the moment in play

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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The wonder divine ‘f heavens glow 

The glimmer ‘f warmth in winter chill 

The sky’s ornament diamonds chain

The scent ‘f bliss, delight to the eye

The one occasion in life, we cherish

The same as a baby’s birth ‘n first cry 

The bride ‘n groom exchange ‘f vows 

The sparkle's heart that in a wind blow

Twists our souls away ‘n widens its rays 

To reign till it vanishes in a blink ‘f the eye...

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Grimy hands hastens to 
undress me
cold fingers rubs my numb 
body
in vain,warmth eludes
little feet scurry past me
a moment's pause,my glazed 
eyes
widens small eyes,fixed in 
eternity.

Someone casts a shadow over 
me
i long to crawl back to her 
womb
stroke my hair,please!she jus 
sighs
I'm screaming in the abyss of 
silence
the rattling of the wheel-chair 
across the floor
is the only echo of my chained 
voice....

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“Food soothes the soul but widens the waist”

A connoisseur of fine dining and fast fry I cannot deny,
All memorable occasions seem to revolve around food,
Tables filled with tender meat, vegetables and homemade pie,
The succulent tastes melt in my mouth and raise my mood,
But my cholesterol and waistline are absolutely screwed!

Written by Lee Ramage
September 9, 2011
For Contest “6 Lines of Poetry, Please”
won 6th place...

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Sun is high I cast no shadow
for few brief moments I am pure.
My soul enters Eden’s meadow
where once stood my progenitor.
A sinless psyche reveling
in a pre-transgression garden
thoroughly chaste is my being.
But now a penumbra widens
and a darkness within me grows
my pure essence is repossessed
replaced with subjective sorrow;
spiritualness dispossessed
by a shadow of damnation
and light my only salvation....

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The heart I had,
	The feelings I possessed,
	Are now in vain,
	As my heart is in pain.

	The glowing cheer died,
	My heart now cried,
	But the emotions I show,
	Makes my heart bow.

	The crack that widens inside,
	Is getting more and more wide,
	No one feel that from outside,
	And no one intends to get inside.

	My sun has set in my heart,
	Feelings to live more depart,
	But I need to live,
	For the great contribution I should give......

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The split in the walls of Time
Widens, and you walk through
Corridors, eons, new…
Why can’t I come with you?

Up towering heights you climb
Seeking infinity
Far, in a sky-black sea…
Left here on Earth is me.

And you hear the centuries’ chime,
Caroling, one by one,
Tolling our time’s, now done:
Hope that is left…is none.

For now that you’ve vanished, I’m
Pining in this bleak place,
Dreaming about your face
Lost—untraced—in Space.
03-02-80...

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the house on the hill was left behind,
along with the dairy cows.
here in the valley the trees look more leafy
and the birds sing louder.
further south the stream widens
and the fish grow in size.
I hope the townspeople
buy my grandmother's cheeses.
on the way back I already know what I'll do,
I will take off my tight shoes
and I will run barefoot through the grass,
carrying in the pockets of old jeans
which will make grandma's smile shine....

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She, the friend of mine
Who perfectly reads my mind
Makes my perturbed brain shine

When I lose hope,
She unveils pupae of moths
And widens the scope

When I am sad
She creates rainbows
Colors to my life she adds

When I am happy
She laughs in flowers
Pretty happy as me

When I cry
She sends butterflies
Torments they loot and fly

Because, She, the only friend of mine
Who perfectly reads my mind
Makes me shine

June 27 2021...

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