Short Absentees Poems

Christmas cards come from absentees
Bringing so many Christmas wishes
And those you get to see in person
Are greeted with Christmas kisses

It’s the time for friends and family
Exchanging gifts beneath the tree
A time to enjoy every single moment
And make it as magical as it can be...

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In the end, we were there-not there,
two present absentees 
sharing an apartment vacated by a relationship 
and the worst kind of loneliness -- feeling solitary next to someone --
partners in the crime of abetting mutual misery,
though neither of us can really be linked 
to the crime scene, can we? 

We’ve got each other’s alibi....

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late spring arthropods
not as things should be
many absentees
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swallows still absent
butterflies the odd one
today a wood brown
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azure springtime sky
should be full of life... empty
no i'm going blind
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house sparrows chirping
heard but cannot be seen
pond water warming
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the common garden
spider A diadematus absent
could be it is late
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Non sense, non sense all non sense
Along the way criticism makes no sense
Psalms of encouraging lights
Perish beliefs across entire sites
Your neglect in tones or silence
Cast the angst onto nirvana ballots
Voodoo statements erasing rational fallacies
Was all I hear from value absentees.
System prisoners shooting silent farts
Request the odds to alter non-oscillating stands....

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