Best Futile Poems

clocks racing madly

to capture transient time

ever escaping



Sandra M. Haight

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Judged:09/13/2018

~1st Place~
Contest: Get Your Senryu On
Sponsor: Judy Konos
Judged: 04/111/2015
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When next you sit 
And contemplate
The emptiness 
Of your life,
Perhaps you'll muse
Past old mistakes,
Old Lovers,
And their lies.
Too many moments
Slip silently away
Longing for the past;
And moments mount
Against the day
To win the war at last.
With your lifetime spent
And no reserve,
Where will your last 
Days find you:
Contemplating the...

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I watch you from afar
Smiling at your friends
As they envelop you in warmth
While I stand in the frosty mist

You are the sun
I am the earth
Basking in your light
Never to touch you

If I could only reach you
The sweetest dream life would be
And never would I let...

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In my quest after happiness
I strayed looking it here and there
It remained elusive, often out of reach 
As the pot of gold at the tip of a rainbow,

I looked to the skies seeking it
I looked around to trace it
I rummaged every heap to find it
I...

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futile resistance

naturally one combined

two souls intertwined



(April 21, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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striving for riches
is like trying to
grab hold of 
the wind...

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He wanted to teach you something today
But you resisted his every effort.
You said school is boring, you hate it.

Minds engrossed in useless trivia,
Cold comfort in a job-hungry world
Echoing thoughts of seventies songs,
We don’t need no education.

He wanted to teach you something today,
To help you to...

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Even the Great pyramids,
magnificent structures of wonder
are overshadowed by
the majesty of mountains;
crowned in golden sun.
Halos glisten white.
Spoiled tower of babble.

The long and winding road;
travelers delight to follow;
a pitiful mimic of
the mighty river,
cutting, free, it's own path
with unbridled sinew;
recycled and recharged in the sea.

Enormous jets of...

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"Futile Fragments" ( A collaboration~ Linda-Marie P.S. sweetheart )
   

by~ LINDA MARIE *p.s. SWEETHEART

shattered to inner core emotions reside in vogue
as tattered tapestry etches death to vibrant vase
egotistical desires ejected common sense to rogue
fine ... adieu ... departure in the misty vague haze...

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Mother's wisdom 
To me folly be 
"True love cannot be found anywhere" 
Travelled I down the slopes below 
To the mountains beyond 
Creatures cruel to rip hearts 
Yet beauty lies on their faces 
Lexion the complexity I derived 
And now mother's follyTo me wisdom be...

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hey foe!!...
how long we lived in our comfort cages??

what lust for dirty blood we shared??...
what stories scribbled in our darkest pages??
and through many years of bygone springs
and a rain that drenched my broken strings....
i bled in my bed of stringing thorns...
i wept in my cold...

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I need a new TV stand
So I searched for one on Google,
Deciding in advance that I
Would splurge and not be frugal.

I bounced from site to site before
I found one so ideal,
In every way it fit the bill – 
Too perfect to be real.

My gut reaction...

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If I compare your charm with moon’s ray?
Stars will wage war by saying they are more temperate;
Snakes may take me to the task,
I may have to run hiding whole day.

Flowers may boycott their fragrance to me,
Garden will be a piece of art work on paper.
I...

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Do not tell me, please
how to cut the celery
I do things myself...

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Deep Wounds Do Bleed in Vain 

 
Even the Greatest of the heroes, humble and handsome today, morrow
Must Inevitably make themselves immobile static carcasses,
Their Doom must shall stab their mates into Deep woes,
Their vail of Agony stays mulish in 'em as the dark patch of...

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