Cursory Poems

Listen to the Wind

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Written: September 06, 2025, for contest sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open, and the world is full of beauty"...

An Open Book

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Her pregnancy was like an open book
quite readable with just a cursory look.
She wore a gown that trailed in white
and grinned a guiltless smile as bright.
And why not, white was only a tradi...

why we don't see, getting yesterday

...Inordinate 
Construction terminology limits interaction and 
Obstinate theory considered heating 
Cursory exam investigates
Finance
While article confides in history 
Another letters still

P...

Cursory Tri Cube

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Wet or dry, 
a swift shift.
I may fall.

Cursory
blows cut me
to the bone.

Making love 
a monsoon
enticing....

SATURN GOD OF TIME

...Saturn ! You magnetised with 
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on 
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round 
like fairy rings 
said you had so much
Love to give I...

The Ballad of Barley Pettigrew - in Three Parts

...I - Barley Pettigrew

I'll tell you a story, outstandingly true, 
of the young lad called Barley Pettigrew.
He was born with nine fingers on his hands.
For how high he could count, it met his de...

naykid edvard''

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                        "hi little birdie"
                     I heard thuh slight
                      Uv mine neighbor
                              yesss
                      front min...

Catty Natured

...You know how a cat is? The way it awakes,
how its eyes open, for a moment
not seeing anything,
how it blinks slowly
eyelids washing a mind
of anything but satisfaction.

Legs stiffen, stretchi...

Shuttering

...A lot of it happened when not looking,
they are captured as photo-images
still arriving
undeveloped.

Beneath the skin of a retro-vison
dark scenes of rain
slicing through confused clouds
for...

By George burn hing hard, I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright

...By George (burn hing* hard), I Shaw tried to be a stinking playwright

offers his unsolicited tidbits 
as scene courtesy 
the following virtually 
staged philosophical insight.

Arch back like...

TODDLER CLUB

...TODDLER CLUB

Higgledy Piggledy, here we sit
All are fidgeting just a little bit
And a giggle, however cursory
We are all here at the nursery
Look around, to left and right
Try smiling, and th...

The final frontier post consciousness

...The final frontier – post consciousness

as imagined by cogent, fervent, intelligent,
lucent, occident, reticent, and uneminent 
nonestablishmentarian.

The following disquisition initially des...

To My Secret Admirer

...i get you,
your obscure words
meaning the world to me.
your innocence
very dear to me.
yes i get you…

meanwhile,
my cursory mind
rests at the feet of forbearance
misfit to feel your longin...

Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago

...Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago... 
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater), 

and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice read...

The Late Chairman Mao Tse Tung

...You're facing a gun complete with barrels
And of all things with firm holder quarrels!
Chairman Mao would have laughed at you
And kept repeating "No... No it's not true!"
I guess, definitely, in ...

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