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Inattentive Poems - Poems about Inattentive

Premium Member River Reverie
...An old Mallard dines alone A memory on the edge of the flock A weaker yet still viable member An inattentive sentry Sifting grey mud Chasing soggy bread crumbs The sun warms his weary wings ......

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Categories: inattentive, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A flutter of wings rattles heart strings
...A flutter stirs in my chest, Awaking it from its inattentive rest. As a tiny butterfly wing unfurled, To unleash a quake in nether world. Such chaos reeks as tremor grows, It billows and flaps......

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Categories: inattentive, emotions, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme



Pictures of Ancestral Images
...No colder winter's evening reawakens, in an abrupt glance, this memory from others already faded in the inattentive recollection of a son's mind; even insignificant moments are worthy of thought. ......

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Categories: inattentive, child, emotions, innocence, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strayed Sheep
...Where is the shepherd Who left behind his livestock At the Lover's Seat? The hired hand sleeps Inattentive to the flock The sheep go their way They are unaware There is danger near the cli......

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Categories: inattentive, allegory, bible, symbolism,
Form: Senryu
Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch
...Am I really this old, so many ghosts beckoning? —Michael R. Burch Sleepyheads! I recite my haiku to the inattentive lilies. —Michael R. Burch Stillness: the sound of petals drifting dow......

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Categories: inattentive, death, god, grave, life,
Form: Haiku



Haiku Translations III
...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. Am I really this old, so many ghosts beck......

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Categories: inattentive, blue, life, night, old,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member In the mirror, one day, the stranger will stand and you will gaze long
...In the mirror, one day, the stranger will stand and you will gaze long, The shadow of what was, shall fade into the unknown to be. You allowed others to be the carriers of self, and they misdirecte......

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Categories: inattentive, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My green house project
...In the mid 80's, I took a job as a receptionist for a wholesale floral company. Encased in a glass claustrophobic space, I answered their busy phone lines as I gazed at the warehouse walls of green......

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Categories: inattentive, environment, flower, planet,
Form: Narrative
Tongues
...Gaelic: it was my mother's native tongue, and her grandmother’s elder tongue. Grandfather was a Romani gypsy, horses naturally understood his voice. My lips follow English, a tangled language ......

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Categories: inattentive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Being In the Mind of a Savage
...Being in the mind of a savage. All I know is how to act ferociously. Manipulating the minds of the weak, fearful, and the victims. Beating them into submissive. Emasculating the strongest, just......

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Categories: inattentive, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spirit and Stone and a Great Lake Nearby
...SPIRIT AND STONE & A GREAT LAKE NEARBY Her father was a difficult contradiction, annoyingly similar to a certain type of teacher, minister or priest, to a certain type of imam, rabbi or occa......

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Categories: inattentive, introspection,
Form: Free verse
First-Person Personal
...First-Person Personal By Sy Roth Here adrift wrapped in a coat of heebeejeebies Fearful of using the first-person personal Masking it instead by holograms of itself, Playful non-entities cavor......

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Categories: inattentive, 3rd grade, allegory, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Writing Under the Stain
...in an angst- saturated moment i find you there in my travel bag, injured by the neglect of a poorly screwed-on sparkling water bottle cap: m......

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Categories: inattentive, poetry, sad,
Form: Free verse
Takaha Shugyo Haiku and Tanka Translations
...These are my modern English translations of Takaha Shugyo haiku and tanka... hatogata horarete ichiju haya mebuku A single tree with a heart carved into its trunk blossoms prematurely —Takah......

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Categories: inattentive, animal, beauty, heaven, nature,
Form: Haiku
It's All Political
...Here they come, not one by one but the majority out of reach doubting reasons to impeach. It's okay to have a bully president tweeting nonsense, bias, wordings without precedent, stroke ......

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Categories: inattentive, america, angst, political,
Form: Quatrain

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