Diminishment Poems - Poems about Diminishment

My Thing Is This

...As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in sha...

To a Superior Judge

...I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice 
against restorative healing.

I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correc...

A Tragic Cycle

...Hearts succumb to tragedies, lead by pseudo eternities
Reaching out once more, in futility
For a spoken hope, that is void of action
Watching success bloom, breeding envy toward a friend
The cycl...

Earth Day 2021

...For what it’s worth, this day’s for earth
And ways we can protect it,
For all the harm we humans do
Is proof we don’t respect it.

The litter that we fritter
Often ends up in the ocean
Killing...

Pieces

...The return unseen, strangers to a home
Pieces fit so snugly, unsettling to think
Attempts at resistance, delayed responses
Hate clouds, above love's umbrella 
The echoes reveal, intention was rea...

Impassioned Decline

...At the shrinkage of the page
Expressions plead for length
Inhibition imposed on lines by columns
Words already accustom to scarcity
Pieces find focus in incompletion.

Thoughts flutter toward t...

Bicameral Covenants

...May supreme Force
become You.

How is whiteness
like straightness?
she asked

And how is maleness
like left-brain dominance?
he responded.

It seems, 
to usually curious
and always ancie...

Blank Space

...(blank space)







Do you notice
the blank space
above..?

The words 
you are reading
diminish
the message
above..

Here are 
more words and
more
diminishment..

You are invi...

Benediction To My Father, and Apology For Disallowing

...A Healthy Relationship Betwixt Yourself And Only Heir

A hint of helping this wholesome Harris son 
cane across thru the air
Hence this poetic expression 
of gratitude Matthew Scott wants to bla...

Benediction To My Father, and Apology For Disallowing

...A hint of helping this wholesome Harris son
can across thru the air
Hence this poetic expression
of gratitude Matthew Scott wants to blare
And communicate my genuine
appreciation crystal clear
...

El Wisdom

...I do pray to the government and the future,

I do see the complacent and our need for a feature,

I'm here, 
no race, 
no peers-

just 27 ears and you with your clear,

I do pray for the go...

Same Ol' Song and Dance

...As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and d...

Autumn Leaves - Group of Ten Old College Mates

...AUTUMN LEAVES-GROUP OF TEN COLLEGE MATES
==============

Summer ends, Autumn comes,
Days become shorter and shorter.
The green in the leaves fades away,
And red and orange take its place.

"A...

I Am Flattered By My Own Death

...Someone who once loved me dearly
Now despises me.
In such small things are paved the roads to hell.
A turning away from grace.
A tail-spinning stumble down the stairs,
Hitting my head on my loft...

So Fast a Falling Star

...Never have I seen a star
That did fall so very fast;
Tis a pity that its brilliance
Could not the longer last

But stars sometimes go out that way,
Having burned intensely bright;
So we weep for thei...

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