Short Answerable Poems

Anybody
Answerable
As
Anarchy
Arrives
After
Apathy
Accrues
And
Action
Abates?
All 
Affected.
Aspirations
Annihilated.
Armageddon
Anticipated.

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28 October 2019 *2nd Place*
Tautogram Poems Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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You, topmost brass of the military chain of command,

       though it's your warriors who blast away humans from the land,

                                                     you're liable,

                                                     answerable;

           you can never wash away the blood of guilt from your hand!...

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Weren’t you lucky, up to time of your blood thirsty war,
Russian sports, especially gymnasts and ballet at the fore,
Gave your presidency of Russia somewhat of a credit,
Hopefully with Western sanctions you’ll swim in debit
And, as for the Patriarch of your Russian Orthodox Church
Strange bedfellows you are, so odd,
You Putin, and your puppet Patriarch, will one day face God....

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How many calories in
a muddy tower of winter-shed leaves? 
What taste on the tongue
of white-capped rapids as they lap
at the dirt monolith? What sound
it makes as the tower falls, finally,
into the belly of that river,
where the fish and our reflections live?

I do not know if they’re answerable
questions, but I ask away, if only
to remind myself that the river
is just as alive as I claim to be....

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What will you do?,  they ask
What is your plan?, they insist
Who will you be?, they demand 
I stare at them from behind myself 
My eyes opaque with indifference
My lips still but my mind frantic
Already struggling to perceive the 
present, forced to confront the future 
I DO NOT KNOW! The truth cries inside
Panicking now I simply tell them 
What I know they like to hear
I give them answers to 
unanswerable questions...

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When insects were crawling
dreams had contradictions,
a sudden drop in temperature
brought the quantum touch.

Ending  of the grief
or grief of ending
rejected every intact truth
and death was trailing behind the candle.

Fear and agony were following
the footfalls of night
Blindness was weaving a broken moon.
The time will not be answerable for any plight.

Corners of childhood brighten up
for sweet nothings
I adore the fallen god,
he was inhaling the earth....

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