Short Abides Poems

When love abides
When hate subsides...

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Samuel Palmer-
               imagination abides in perfection...

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soft twilight abides
just before a full moon rise
night creatures appear...

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Self knowledge..

Is the ultimate prize..

Where your masterpiece..

Of life abides..

06/12/15
D.C....

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Where there are no thoughts
there it abides.
I see them fading
in circles,
further and further
away to nothing....

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In mellow mornings
I rise to ripe ocassions
Nature's ritual abides
I connect to life's beings
All points soul bulletin...

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Faith hides ~ 
  All is lost
    in the scheme
      of things

Faith abides ~
  My every breath
    a pair of wings...

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Home alone in space
Timeless energy abides
All things postulate 
Soft music under stoned stars
Relief from burned out being(s)...

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Night abides my hope love exists as he assures till morn steals his lie.





... CayCay Jennings
December 21, 2017...

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There's a path I want to see

As strong as the wave of the sea

Where comfort betides

And serenity abides

That path I want to see....

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Where everything I am 
abides,
When I stray away
Seduced by the mind,
It always finds me
Brings me back to itself.

I listen 
I become....

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No one abides in war, no rules in play,
Chaos and death lead the way,
Right turns to wrong,
As battle drags on,
Peace gets further away each day....

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Obedience

Heavenly love showers hope to man
as he abides by Father’s plan.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 21, 2010

Poetic form: Crysalline...

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So strong I stand

So full of pride

I now demand

You now decide 

So bow your head

There's no free rides

So now it's said

The Dude abides...

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Where is Love Found?

Love abides within.
When hearts of godly men show
Unselfish kindness.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 14, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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Grief

Oh my sore broken and empty heart 
has been rudely and coldly laid bare,
yet I know that grief is not the loss of love;
grief is proof that love still abides there....

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Keep poise happy
With a sure smile
As fond beauty
Fashions warm style
To cast a light
In steady stride
Despite the night
Where dark abides.


Leon Enriquez
18 June 2014
Singapore...

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With tear dimmed eyes we search for reason,
               In grief, hope seems denied;
          In earthly bounds love hath its season,
               Within Gods heart, no loss abides....

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mind escape
calm and eloquence abides
through life storms....
make a home within my thoughts
no room for the world in there


3/7/3/7/7 Tanka


* for Chris D. Aechtner's contest "T(hanka) You"...

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Still Abides

One must realize.
The “He who created life”
Still above abides.
Why does He put up with us?
Thank you God for love divine.

Poetic form:  Tanka
©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     11-14-09...

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Wolverine shadows
 in the Michigan mist
Blood trail encampment
 on yesterday’s tryst

Teeth at the ready
 fortune can’t hide
Death for a tribute
— when vengeance abides

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024) 
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To say we are loved,

is a feeling of comfort.

The sharing of our live's,

is how we understand.

Starting with the truth,

leads us to each other.

The spirit that abides,

seals us one to another....

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Churning
              fluid skies
wash
surreal
              scenes
from the horizon,
clouds
            rise
            light from sunsets
abides,hides
swirl rides
           above
           the sea...

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Where Peace reigns,
There is no room for confusion.

Where Love abides,
There is no place for deception.

Where Joy overflows;
There is an outpouring that runs downstream in life, drowning sorrows of every 
kind....

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Appearance
reality
their differences
hide
Within the
perception
that judgment
abides

If once
crossing over
there’s no
going back
The tradeoff
complete
their identity 
— hacked

(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
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