Best Watches Poems

2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored trust in suited men.
They taught the poor were lazy
and spawned...

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A vision through the haze of time and rhyme
a mirrored beauty, Helen sits and waits.
I see her through the window for it's late,
at dawn, I'll bring her death, for she's not mine.
As yet, the key's not turned in lock sublime,
and I will stand and wait...

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old oak branches out
roots along the river's bank
bald eagle within

february 1, 2020

Strict Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula...

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The docile creature is shaken awake
Noticing the success of the carnivores
They are terrible in their growling, ripping, and tearing
Blood drips from their teeth

Why are the bullies winning?
The deer has choices
She can remain true to her disposition
Or turn into a wolf and become a night monster

She...

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Old Watches
 
    by Edmund Siejka

Of all the watches at the mall
It’s the old watches I like best
Antiques hidden in the back
Away from the brash newcomers
Rolex and Tag Heuer.

When I was a kid I watched grownups  
On early mornings
Carefully turn the...

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Those Who Watches Over Us 
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The other day we drove to our National Cemetery. 
As we dove through it, I saw something out of the corner 
of my eye, a slight movement; I did a double take to make 
sure of...

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My brother watches over me as I lie sleeping
He cradles me close, afraid I will wake
And he assures me I am in his safe keeping. 

I want to talk, tell him what my mind is seeping
But laggard thoughts are still opaque
My brother watches over me...

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"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,"
Israel's war crimes, a brutal truth..
The statistics are glaring and growing more bleak.
One thousand Gaze an children killed every week..
Fathers in anguish, mothers drown in their tears,
their babies now gone before their first year..
Every fifteen minutes...

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Looking down, I am pleased to see
Youthful pilgrims from St. Joseph’s and Francis of Assisi
In this Year of Faith
Making a journey toward many a sacred place

Mother is happy
As they proclaim a decade at each Holy Place
Giving Glory to her multi-ethnic face
She fills them each with...

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God Watches Over Us

On the nest sits a bird too afraid to fly.
Beautiful wings could help it soar,
but the pain of past failures make the lonesome cry.

God said to this bird,
"Trust” and have “Faith” in Me,
for I will carry you into the Blue and Clouds.
The...

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The world is so mechanical
It is so scientific 
It's getting to be so-so difficult
Everything works at a fingers touch
Everything is speeded up too much
Neon lights the night
Smog darkens the sunlight
Time is to the seconds
While details are at a multitude
There are directions for directions
And everything is...

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My connection to infinitive existance has been numbed from the very experiences written to ensure enlightenment for which my soul searches lifetimes repeated...
  As the distance measured by complicity learned into simplicity is explored , endured, understood , and loved...
  As is the...

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[I'm not really sure this is the right form of lyric, not doing rhymes here]

I look for you in the glow of starlight
I feel your presence though I am stone
and you become a mysterious torment
a whisper in a place with eerie keening.

I collapse on my...

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The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want…
The Lord will provide all of my needs…
The Lord will bring me to quiet gentle waters…
The Lord will hush the raging streams…
He will hold me in His arms and allow me to sleep peacefully at night…
He will...

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it would be nice if certainties came liquid
and don't wear a dirty robe
as the aggressive formation of the storms
or the negative balance of failed smiles.
we know what they created...
this altar of icy statues,
built with the defects called trust
and his emblematic surname pain.
the fingers that point...

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