Short Behemoths Poems

June, the month of Jupiter, aligned above Venus,  
destined to collide by sight;

The space between the two behemoths, the 
gas the light.    

Jupiter above venus, in the night....

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In river tombs, patrolled by bull shark sentries,
sifting through the heartbeat of centuries
for fossilized teeth of terrifying behemoths
who never laid eyes on the many faces of man
would have devoured him if given the chance
a mineralized tooth and homo sapien hand
meeting where oceans and rivers dance
in the silt of Pliocene dreams....

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Watch that great, hot, metal disk spin on the burning horizon.
It bellows waves of undulating bronze
pouring brilliance over rolling hilltops below.
Its dazzling glare gives way to long, dark shadows,
cast by a myriad of towering green behemoths
gathering together beneath that metallic sky.
In stillness, they discuss the earth's darkest secrets....

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While mayhem reigns over the centuries
the endless wars and suffering
snakes eating their own tails
buzzards pouncing on bloated babies
endless cycles of conquest and oppression. 
A few behemoths stomping on a million minions
God why are you not stripping them of their glass boots.
Why are you not uniting the meek
where is our inheritance.



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*Image of Apple Pickeress by Pixabay

A Slice of Hope

An apple announces avarice appealing advice
before behemoths bite biblical bits by
connection, can causality creatively compromise chronology
distancing disastrous demonic development duly dissuade
eating Eden's elated enlightenment edibleness evermore?

2022 August 03
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 August 07...

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The melody of delight
extricate themselves
from the practicality of life

You glisten, beam
with excitement
as days of reckoning

blindly pass through
ecstasy clouded by
persistent turmoils

surrounding perpetuity,
utilizing deliverance.
Daily drills bring pleasures

that linger throughout brilliance
as dazzling behemoths
try to replicate

serenity's musical escapades
that bounce around and
reluctantly espouse

sounds drifting into
minds exuberance....

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Through the gray mist of the city 
black petals push up toward the sky...
like a schooner sniffing for lost booty
behemoths breeching for the moonlight.

Some make it to the sweetened shore 
the air sprinkled with chipped gems
others cling to the driftwood of hope
just to be nudged, then bitten in half.

This lantern makes no promises of happiness 
the thinning pride crouches in desperate prayer
the fates may favor the lucky or the blessed
but damn the faithless to the sated lair....

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