Best Transient Poems

Along with cadent rhythms of the day,
night crawlers hum like bees around a hive.
Black shadows stretching longer, curve and blend,
to splinter into shards below the bend

Earth swivels axis arms to catch the sun, 
and reaches through the depths of sheer chiffon
In languid dusk, a moment...

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"The Phenomenal Transient World"



I had a thought
it came 
from Me

that internal Me
the Me, that Is,
I Am 

It traversed a 
world outwards
from inside

like the rings
recorded in the 
trunk of a tree

like the rings 
of water rippling
skipping stones 

they moved on 
electric currents
outwards 

into the vortex 
of...

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Sonnet: Transient

Of all my almost-loves and far-too-soons,
Hers brought a heat most akin to summer’s sun.
I ill-assumed, one night in joyful June,
A pair so young may ever-laugh in unison.
That season we peeled the rind of unripe love,
No heed paid the holocaust by autumn,
Till it was warmth...

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'Course as a grim teller of tall tales,
(albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming
quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign
cuz, stringing words together with
pride and prejudice plus
sense and sensibility, jocularity,
and conformity I dissed deign
(spoiler alert) iamb, trochaic,

dactylic, and anapestic metrical reign
jest your ordinary garden variety
dollar short day late...

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I am a misprint,
Ink blot on love,
I remain a maybe
Longing for fact,
No speck of lint,
A hand in glove.
Thunder; a baby
Will only react

When you etch
Parallel clouds,
Whistling on cue
To a dead town.
Dream a sketch
Of silent crowds
Becoming you,
This boiling crown

Chews thought
Into flagellation.
Holes in the walls
To spy through,
Seeking a...

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Like a transient thought
You entered my dialogue
Seeking to become
Discourse of my mind

Confusing my words
You tampered response
Bemusing my mood
Feigning what love was

Until reality grasped
A fraudulent trespass
Holding firmly at bay
Faux vision of romance

Yet, our rendezvous
Was willingly allowed--
Lascivious to assuage
Exotic wish of the heart

December 24, 2018
Placed first in...

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Freelance wanderer carefully navigating the vast expanse
Shadow warrior doth stealthily advance without 
remonstrance
With bartered lance, pawned knife; abridged parlance
Shuffling in tantric harmony o'er unforgiving terrain; 
nuanced eccentric
Camel cavalcade, entrancing spectacle across glistening 
sands prancing
Shrouded by the frantic wind; each, cloaked itinerant a 
tenured mantic
Trading the...

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TRAVEL FREE, TROUBLED TRANSIENT...

Lift the gate to roll with swine and the glory of it all
Ride the tide all night, abide by no law and stand tall...
Hitch-hike till' Hell says, "get out n' surf the SUN"
Do it all over Land Rover; don't blink 'till the...

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He said it out loud, as if for them to hear
I think I'm done here
Departure time has drawn near
He said it again, like a song

He said he would fold his clothes
Place them in a grocery bag
Which he did, and lit a pipe. He had a...

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(To her, who will never read this.)

Her hooded heart shields her from getting soaked by any sort of lustful rain 
She is impenetrable by any weakening feeling such as affection or commitment
She’s got everything but nothing and nothing to lose but everything
She’s the same way...

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I observe the far constellations with the hurry of a passerby;
the lightness of my steps becomes-the shadow of another earthly transient.

Galileo never missed one, he refused to be that cynical astrologer;
his work started an evolution-the age of invention for another earthly transient. 

Aristotle had respect...

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Tuesday fleets, the haze
settles on weary eyes. Gone.
Why so quick Tuesday?...

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It feels like centuries, a time far from here,
Times and events, Distant and unclear.
A bond we shared through thick and thin,
Once made of steel, now as weak as foil tin.
Why did this happen? I know not how,
When did it begin? It eludes me now.
My friend,...

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Breath of spring and fresh romances flown
Farther than where clouds their dew have wept! 
Hither sweep your hand upon all seeds unsown:
Reap the gold in winter’s wardship kept!

Bashfully, the moon of March ascends,
Shedding rays of silver light on bright
Dreams of green demesnes, whose rousing blends
Green...

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inhaled sublime fragrance floating around me,
            imbibed radiance of the gleaming roses red  
            gradually those flowers are losing their beauty, 
...

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