Best Vanities Poems

"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over 
amber gold wild bush honey running freely down the rough wood 
of tall sombre...

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beauty acclaimed
symbols
  of love locked out
palettes in 
   meretricious effect
dedicated
to
      the sensual
with intense
ethereal brilliance


   singleness of heart
rejoicing
in the truth
of
   beauty &symmetry
  in
     illusion 
of
a gilded tapestry

  ...

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'Vanity of vanity, all is vanity... and chasing after wind'
    evokes a mood of despair, precious few grins
  Ecclesiastes is read in most synagogues on Sukkoth
    though it might not win any congregants' votes

  Yet after chasing...

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How life seems endless 
To him that doesn't want to enjoy less
And like a driver that is too reckless
He seeks after those things which are worthless

Truly he loves to give his some pleasure
But this he doesn't take time to measure
How he searches for what he...

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Fine 
words
           it's
           true
melodious
metrical
                  metaphors
   ...

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Time has no Vanity,
 time
don't dye hair,
don't disguise...
just complies,
 Its role,
and does not age...
infinitely
 ethereal passes... !...

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stop spreading its disease as you do what you please
get down on your knees and let the king of kings in
come worship the Lord for we are his people the flock that he shepherds
love not the world neither anything that is in the world
the lust...

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I have observed this under the shadow of the sun,
That the labour of mankind is futility.
It is in vain that you should wake up at dawn and labour till the day is done;
For things do not go swift for the righteous man,
And a house that...

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VISIONARY VANITIES
 symbols
  meritricious effects
dedicated
& intense
  colouring
so sensual
 a longeur
so ethereal


brilliance
a singleness of heart
rejoicing
  in the truth
of beauty
  symmetry

of illusions
    imitations
 gilded
 bold
novel

a tapestry
    of mystery
creative
  human
in
celebrations
    of
    epic themes

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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All imported stuff,
  imported life in luxury.
    ostentatious life?

 none of that matters to me
 only my life matters......

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What drives
the human heart
to chase and grasp
at fleeting high
living lives of shallow praise?

It’s a shame
the lies they tell
to carve a path
cheating to fill the void
disobeying to master a craft.

But when the day is done
and their name is called
they leave empty-handed
weighed down by thoughts
with not even...

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VISUAL VANITIES
release
similarities
  in a subdued
influence

extinguish
   &
look passively
at preconceived meaning
ot of the energy
of motion
such inner forces
appeal
in
sensual language
idioms
of
intense brilliance
   prevailing
in a
   contemplative life
claiming beauty
   unabated

THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma...

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VANITIES
a pageant
an
 interaction
in
thedesired
  direction
distinguished
dazzling. &  radiant
elusive
  & shifting
overwhelming
with
a
potential
 shimmering
cloud
streaming
with
serene
  light


TRANSFORMATION
peerless
&monumental
in
   magnitude
a kind
  of desire
ego
 on conquest
to
diffuse
  light
a visible
facade
raw & exposed
so
original
&
anonymous
but
still
 intimate
&vulnerable
aspiring
enthusing
the complicit
to
imperceptibly
embellish
&
complicate
the
   posture
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Like travellers, 
We cross this arid land
Aiming at the city of rest.

As we traverse the landscapes 
We may, of a truth, sully our feet
With besetting dust of sin

But we must from time to time
Remember Calvary, the place of cleansing 
Where mercy flows immeasurably 

We go...

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With One’s Life 
 
There are always choices to be made and certain realities to square 
within the confines, conflicts, and limitations of human existence.

It is given and understood that human beings shall never be perfect,
despite their religious overtures and genuflections to Almighty God.

And, it...

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