Short Bided Poems

Apparent

I always has been apparent
When all rights were declarant
And we remained undecided
All of our time was bided
Trump's idiocy was inherent.

Jim Horn

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Snowdrop all over the top
Runs to a quick flop 

Daffodil thrown up 
In a hasty set up 

Lily’s eyes bloom on 
petals grace a gentle beacon 
 
Orchid bided her time
It holds an euphonious rhyme

Blossoming flourishing 
blooming flowering

Dying falling 
Decaying fouling

All then the graden bare 
No red roses perfumed the air.





 






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I once tried crossing over
  a bridge that silence built

And for mile after mile
  the quiet maimed and killed

My speech was dumb and dormant
  as I bided all my time

In hope of passing through the cracks
   the exit doors unrhymed

My life dead on arrival
  till a voice inside decreed

To build a frame beneath that bridge
   —and set my meaning free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)...

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TWENTY YEARS ON

My life began on that warm summer day, 
Just at the moment you came into view.
I knew at first sight that you were just right  
And that we’d be together come what may.
I didn’t rush in like fools often will;
I feared if I did I’d scare you away.
I bided my time before I approached,
Then carefully planning what I would say,
I introduced myself shyly to you.
That you were just right, I knew at first sight.
The proof? We are still together today
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