Short Arbiter Poems

Bravery and recklessness
 riding together

Death as the arbiter
—glory abused

(Crow Agency Montana: July, 2009)...

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The voice of my enemy,
the loudest of truths

With death as the arbiter
—to win or to lose

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)...

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This was our family's saying,
"Lost something?" they're braying,
"Look in the bin!' family motto,
Arbiter of stuff, the rubbish grotto!...

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Faith …
the capacity 
to believe

Belief …
the odyssey
of proof

Proof …
the embodiment
of reason

Reason …
the arbiter 
of truth

(Beaupre: October, 2023)...

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Hearts on fire

Over heads that sire

New couple on the double

Every action becomes triple

Yearning for each other's hand

Maneuvering who has a better hand

On truth or consequence

Or Games of the General

No arbiter is allowed... just being real and literal!...

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Person crying and weeping for freedom
Roasted in the lonely cell of criminality
In seclusion from the family, friends
State being the arbiter and mercy-monger
Often kept for pleasure of a few
Never allowed to enjoy all that’s enjoyable
Ever living with stigma and fear of society
Reasoning is a taboo even under hellish pain...

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Good and evil are born out of perception 
Right and wrong are determined by rules
The finality of truth and falsity resides in belief
Justice and Injustice are the preserves of a selfish society 
Absoluteness is utopian 
Perfection is a trait of metaphysics 
Every action herein is but hypothetically temporal 
Divinity is the final arbiter...

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XIV. 

Come now before thee vested only in Equity.

Arbiter for non-save the spirit of the Doctrine.

Upon which that is inscribed upon the foundations are intrinsic.

Immutable and indelible.

Say now what cause exist to bar those that supplicate to thee.

Be not deaf to thine supplicant’s.

Avert not your gaze.

Before you subjected to thy query.

In resolute prayer.  


© veritatem voluntatem 2015?...

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Comfortable within her skin
And the secret contained within
For Death - that final arbiter -
Had claimed others, but not truly her.
In the silver light of a swollen moon
The death that "took her far too soon"
Was, through malfeasance, thrust aside
To a wolf's howl she began to rise.
Brought to nether-life once more
She is a new recruit to the unholy war
That has been fought for millennia:
The Dark Lord will make good use of her......

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Enjoy being young, the downward
rush of seeming omnipotence; too
soon the flow, inevitably will slow,
and then, the upstream paddle – 

enjoy being moist and juiced...
before the creak and the rattle –

although youth may seem an
unfair battle at times, with challenges
insurmountable, often one pleading
for a divine arbiter, old-age reveals 
the true tensile of character –  and
the worth of a trying journey before the
welcoming gurney –...

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Call yourself obstructionist
Who blocks a popular bill
A Democrat, I think not,

From West Virginia still.
You, the arbiter of right?
Your constituents starving, 

Coal companies pay your dues
Pharmacies in your pocket,
Stock is the name of your game.

Publicity you're craving
Run for the presidency!
Observe just how far you get.


written January 24, 2022
[A Welsh form usually employed to
praise or deride a well-known
public figure.]...

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silence can be 

proverbially golden


when cracks appear

patina can seal the fissures 

and cradle what is left 

once speechless bubbles 

make reason and sense 

until the arbiter of emotion 

glows from the dark


peace emerges 

from quietude and honesty 

as alchemy turns falseness 

into precious verdicts


little birds start talking to a rainbow 

in between picking at the worms 

of time and growth


the albatross is set free...

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His language is spontaneously slang with slavish saliva-
Watching beneath his own tooth’s.
What more can he appropriately appreciate when he is left with the tongues of a toothless bull dog, missed up in an unfulfilled destiny.
What is left for him to know is locked up yet again in an unknown destiny.
The ocean is wrapped round in circles of stupid destinies- watered and washed in Liquids of the dead sea; the final arbiter of death.
Fooled and unfilled is what he turned into- 30 years ago....

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reconised as one of the greatest harpsichordist 
his sonates for flute and harpsichord remain
an attractive part of chamber music repertoire
with six string symphonies he had written for
baron von swieten and arbiter elegentium in vienna
music by cpe bach is often listed with a reference number
from the catalogue of his works by wotquenne {wq}





Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
1714-1788

Can find his works at
Classics online .com



Entry For Brian Strand's FanFare Contest...

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