Best Shortened Poems

Creeping morn's damp coats fen and fair
Shrouded pond exhales its steamy breath
a solitary crow observes the creeping cold
finished fields of golden rod wave and nod
beckoning yellow tailed corn, farmer's friend
ripe stalks stand, a season's offering
air is still, undecided rain or shine
languid warm memories of summer...

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No mercy to the poor was shown,
only hard sentences given
Chained souls to the grindstone

Ghetto grief is accepted living,
hope shot dead by cold concern
Survival is a day-to-day thing

Revised history leaves a paper burn
... razed trail of abandoned factories
Modern plantation owners didn’t learn

Urban smoke cresting on the...

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There won't be any shortened bridges,Lord
I'll keep on loving him in pain
No more wave riding on endless seas
More of a parched throat love,Lord
That's what it will be...

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No worries they uttered
as the times streams by
The people don yari
Yes, they are irate
Everything don para
Plenty things don spoil
Yet they are still visionary
envisioning the now
to the coming years
Even as we are laden
with more burdens
reversing our journey
shortening our hopes
as we now live life
in bits and pieces

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for the first time I allowed the closed courtains.
I closed it,
without noticing it.

By that the sun still shines in stripes, 
it will not leave burns or blindness,
but like that I won't get rested easily.



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