Best Semblance Poems

serenity’s semblance on her lined  face

as I stoop at the casket

to kiss her pallid cheek


5/29/2014
For Debbie Guzzi's Three Lines Are Fine Poetry Contest
Submitted Sept. 3, 2021 
for  the 'Kimo Form Old or New' Poetry Contest
of Constance La France...

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Paraded endlessly, this spectacle the Elephants know to be degrading,
And their counterparts from the sea , the Orcas, resist in captivity
By refusing to unfurl their proud dorsal fin, stings my eyes like a gnat
Lodged in my cortex, no amount of profit seems to dislodge.

Waking from...

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Open fields
No farmer reaping corns
Eternal pastures
Bereft of grazers
Streets and avenues
Dead silence only broken by military convoys
Houses and apartments
Men hiding like mice
Schools and colleges
Momentary sirens
Graveyards and crematoriums
Bustling with the dead

That’s you, dear world, today...

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They said I'm a chip off the old block, but I'd never budge an inch
For it is of nature to bear the semblance of the one from whom you proceed
For it is blood to blood, nothing escaping
 For that's nature's will
All we can do is...

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Far you go
You ask me to come near,
You walk alone and quiet
You still try to reach me here.
 
In the words I write
You know I find you in me,
Still you will inhume
I know you are lonely without me.
 
Far you go
You still try to see...

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Your crisis of conviction
Of the ages and the aging
Left me a bereft,
stupid, scarred leaf  --
Trembling, weathered, soliciting 
something of a haven from 
Graver monsters still.

That I gave you 
So much tarp on which to trample
And the bit of flower I cultivated
Continues to gnaw at...

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In this world no such thing like hate 
It’s a turn about form of love 
A dejection of the desire 
To have what the hated person has 
Perhaps all would have been glad 
If there was no fate 
But somehow something depends 
Not on you...

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The semblance of my desires enveloped me to him. a pursuit for freedom I needed more. Sexual sensations were defining my limits. Enticed with passion I submitted my substance of longing .I needed his touch his hands to move across my body. Noticing him watching...

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A blindfold of choice
to circumnavigate the truth
a pestilence of history
to be spewed into their time
the fixations of deceit
and into slavery brought
their meditation upon the divine

And so by hunger relinquish their lives

Such a covetous will
and in the black ink of blood
lays its bitter hate
upon the seed...

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Some Semblance of Order

Order always has some sort of semblance,
To insure expected  without any suspense;
When will appear,
Seems so sincere;
Unless are being confused and also dense.

Jim Horn...

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…and now that I am retired
I am getting more tired 
doing nothing—
It’s more strenuous,
One never knows when it begins
and when it ends.

Wife, still works,
Kids, all grown up and gone.
Now, the days are purposeless
Nights, sleepless.

Too much is going on 
in this beautiful world
with some stupid people...

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D-awn
I-n
A-ppearance
N-egates
A-nother

T-wilight
U-sing
P-resence
A-nd
S-emblance

Topic: Birthday of Diana J. Tupas (September 07) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Painting You

Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights, 
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you for any relative, friend or acquaintance…

Next, I embrace the required courage
To face the blank canvas; to dip my brush 
In...

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My brethren say no to worry
Cause worry is a sin 
Tell God all your needs
Always with thankful hearts
And His peace would dwell in your hearts
Do not worry about failure 
What you consider as failure 
For a Christian may not be 
Jesus death on the cross...

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In the semblance of my darkest
side lie the sunlight after me,
In the dark blue face was a
smile that only a select few could see.
Only a few that fishes
like me when we see the snakefish

Maybe a glowworm or two in
my wake, still, I am onto Kinyeti's...

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