Short Ballast Poems

rocky plain girds base
icy ramparts ballast slopes
frozen mantle crowns...

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bake the beans - navy.
stir the gravy thick.
blue’s wavy, pot tips.
savvy cook, seasoned,
floats the pan
ballast-crew chows down.

12/7/2017...

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Tilted nipple, lend
Your acquiescent ballast
To rotate earths breast

Referring to the “Milky Way”
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*Inspired by Raul Moreno's  
Nature's Best Contest...

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BALLAST 

Hold me in your arms 
your love still keeps me grounded 
So that I can move forward. 
Hold me in your heart 
your faith keeps me cognizant 
to know I am always yours....

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The crux
of a theory
 is in what
it rules out
Clearing
the runways
narrowing
doubt
With the ballast
tossed over
all clouds
disappear
Obstacles
moved …
solutions
are near

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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Faith serves as ballast

anchoring my calmest self -

stress loves to perturb my still.


Faith holes make punctures

leaving me to drown at sea -

stress stays afloat just breathing.




CayCay
March 31, 2020...

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Can you feel the reaper,
The silhouette creeper,
The grave yard wailing weeper,
Can you see him,
The ghost of memories past,
The ghoul who is here to last,
The one you held as a ballast,
Can you hear me,
The pained lover to be, 
The poet lost at sea,
The bleeding heart that all but you can see.
Open your eyes....

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Precious counter-weights

ships utilized for sailing,

ballast stones got dumped offshore.

But in empty hulls

sailors found common boulders 

held incalculable worth.


(Sedoka)


03/14/2020
Pick-A-Title, Vol 15 - Sedoka - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Title Chosen -  "Ballast"...

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A bouquet in chocolate covered, rose made words....
Delivered the ballast their coronet and love's, communion
Anise her chatelaine esoteric, epitaphs ? Andromeda, gypsy moths
Metamorphe this curtain of night as she an effusion sub rosa: time's talisman
Archaic play'mates a covenant prolific cherubs,

                                                                                              ...."In Progress." *:*(*...

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When I read scripture,
pass by a temple,
synagogue or church,
a public meeting space,
a sacred nightly pub place,

Do I look first for what God hates,
or why and how and when and where S/He loves?

Do I look for reasons 
to explode more profitable secular bullets
or focus in on seasons
regathering His/Her sacred synergetic ballast,
resilient resident ballots cast 
for EarthTribe's long-term happier healthier wealth?...

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taken from me
abandoned in the outer reaches of my mind
crashing slowly against the breach
giving, taking, mingling in balance
my mental ballast has erupted
and my soul has eroded
my guilt peeks in on me
to remind me I am still in debt
in the Autumn season of my mentality
I am vandalized and sterilized
left broken and alone
no color
no essence
no future
in the twilight of my descent
I am yet a minor in time 
and can not consent to my downfall...

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Since the day I was born
I was betrayed and abused
mistreated and misused
and for ruining a life I was accused
for my birth was a curse
that brought me misery
to all the lonely nights
silents weeps in the corner
no one to turn to in my time of need
yes I absorbed all that pain
absorbed all that hatred
and mistrust
swelling up like a ballast
ripe to explode
nothing good comes from me
no light can escape my shadow
so for now you can call me 
Black Mass...

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