Short Winnowing Poems

I don't care
how they read
as long as there's
a grain of truth
with the sand
someone will winnow
it out....

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Away your burdens
Away your weariness
Away your blunders
Away your awaiting sins
Away your arguments
Away your wayward disobedience
Away your winnowing elements
Away your unwanted thoughts
Away and be gone
Way gone...

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Sometimes money isn’t enough,
the wheat rejects the chaff

Wealth attained by winnowing gain, 
the scarecrow only laughs

Sometimes money isn’t enough,
the numbers rise and fall

Interest accrues¬ as attrition renews
—the richest count forestalled 

(Valley Forge: November, 2020)...

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LEAF
                         Rustling
                     Wind blowing

              The Winnowing Winds
            Making the leaves rustle
     Close your eyes to enjoy it's voice

"Leaves rustle, wind blows, it sooths me."

Date: June 12, 2022
For the pyramid poetry contest
Image # 2...

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THE WINNOWING

Wake of harvest, came time for winnowing
Separation loosing chaff from the grain
Bake of bread that gave them a bestowing
Creation: body nurture that they’d fain
Make in life, a time for spirit growing
Valuation of virtues not to strain
Then we might cherish food for soul above
When we winnow, retain the grain of love...

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A stoic stands at contemplation’s crossroads
winnowing the weeds of will
delving into the divine divisions
of fate’s frolicsome vicissitudes.
The face of a stony simpleton
suffocating on a stifled smile’s
guarded grimace
pandering to pleasure’s pain.


©3/29/2018

submitted to – Alliteration poem – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Silent One...

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Restless river winds.
       winnowing valley farmland.

       In Father's garden chickens squawk, squabble.
       Silver sunlight dances.

       Hens spurn gardens bounty,
       for girl in dusty pants,
       rattling evenings grain bowl.
       Prancing single file behind
       fowl feet indent narrow path.

       Wind rustles treetops....

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February throws off its winter coat,
Nature awakes to greet the warming sun,
then hides from the winnowing winds of March;
Greening lawns answer the mower's call,
grass,mud and moss recycled in trees,where
territorial praise greets light April;
Fresh foliage bedeck and blossom white
as Spring flowers in high definition,
ablaze and become technicolour May....

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Attention all
Love is the key
Love in you will drive away darkness
Love in you will walk your ways
Love in you will shine your drive
Love in you will arrive for you
Love in you will conceive seeds
Love in you will divert disasters
Love in you will dread your enemies
Love in you will drive away fear
Love in you will achieve drastic win
Love in you will work winnowing weaknesses
Love you 		
Love
Lord...

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We seine them up
like dust
in pollen-stained hands,
briefly weight them,
balancing them in minds,
determining worth,
profundity. 

And like those before,
we toss them absently
into wind—
winnowing maple seeds—
whirling them from us—
as we shape lives,
change destinies.

Now, 
they seem to flit
to nothingness,
like us—
pale night insects
pestering
opal moons,
infestations of night
thickly settling
on the liquid glass
of our tongues....

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