Short Birthright Poems

Esau birthright was
Sold for a bowl of porridge,
Grasp of conflict pass.
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Such morsel of meat,
Esau sold his true birthright,
Cause the plunder hate....

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Empty porridge bowl
Birthright sold, no blessing left
Tears and flying snots...

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a crystal tinkling
moonlight following a star
memory’s birthright

11/15/2021...

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groom and doom splendour 
for trauma begs a birthright ~
vengeance pure and blind...

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february’s stone…
emblazonment of birthright 
in Aquarius.

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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“Only those things not made less by division 
—are to be inherited”

(The New Room: February, 2021)...

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Time waxes poetic
on a distant battlefield

The warrior a sage
—whose blood we all share

(Dreamsleep: September. 2022)...

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His birthright for a bowl of stew;
He didn’t count the cost.
His hunger got the best of him;
He came, Esau, he lost.
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Do our children inherit
our shadows

Denied of the light
their birthright implies

Willing them darkness
in probated limbo

Leaving what sorrow
—forever reminds

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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The optimist sees hope:

in the springtime sunlight
and the red sky at night
by the common man's foresight
in the free speech birthright

(Why not try one yourself in my latest contest' RHYME TIME'...

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Life:

                          Constant 

                         Fighting for 

                   One's birthright to

                               Be!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     05 January 2018

1,2,3,4,1....

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Dogwood
Full of blossoms
Blushing pink against green
Petals of four crowd slight branches
Summer flowers reign birthright of season
Grace a vase as the centerpiece
Creates smiling dimples
Unique beauty
Dogwood
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Looking into my face,
  I see my father’s eyes

Staring back with contempt,
  through a thousand why’s

Looking into those eyes,
  trading fear for pain

My birthright rejected
  —paternity’s shame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)...

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Mother Earth forever warm hearth,
The soil that gives birth to all mirth,
Long-lasting, all embracing and boundless,
Everblooming and always borderless,
A wealful delight ; a virtuous birthright.  


All rights released into Public Domain...

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To understand the problem,
look from deep within
where logic and the sciences
are both cut wafer thin

Our thinking trapped and handcuffed,
when seen by reason bound
those answers we were given born
—unquestioned and profound

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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IRONIC HEY
the greedy piglet finds a way,
to cheat his brother of his wage
cheaply use a brother hey
thinks itself so very sage,
ironic turn of page,
reborn in a cheated stage...
Birthright new age,
to engage...
piggys right.
Don
re:  "Irony"  Debbie Duncan...

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Under ice-coated sky, bare trees brave
Cutting cold, to drink silver sunlight
For chance of tender spring leaves to save
Hope-April's birthright

5/26/19

originally in 'I Love Nature' on this website

Submitted to 'Arbitrium Divisa' contest
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden...

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Death comes to all men 'til death's demise.
Death dances at each man's doorway
creating angst and/or appetite.
Death dances searching his partner's guise.
Mastering pivotal steps paves the way 
for nether worlds or a new birthright.
Death comes to all men until death's demise....

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While hidden deep from nature’s wrath,
waiting in disguise

Below the ground a season born,
its birthright undenied

As winter trees now bare their souls,
whose limbs reach out in pain

Tomorrow the most promised wish
—till spring comes back again

(The New Room: February, 2021)...

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Isaac was blind
  He couldn't see
That Jacob, not Esau
  His blessing received

Esau had sold his birthright
  For a bowl of bean soup
Some might consider him
  An utter nincompoop

But when you are hungry
  You're too blind to see
That your actions right now
  May affect Eternity...

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You,
pretty -
used to be.
Pretty moved out,
kidnapped Youth as well!
AGE, now lives in your house,
she forced your hope-chest curbside.
How dare your birthright forsake you?!
No. Pretty and Youth are not to blame -
what is given will be taken away.


Susan Ashley
July 15, 2017


(June 27, 2017)...

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My sixty-seventh March 13

Hoarse, the lion roar is fading;
the lamb sneaks up again.

Hot, another birthright tallied;
the candles are so dense.

Black, the coated wicks will smolder;
they huddle upon cake.

come to me, whom I’ve remembered;
come to me for whom I’ve ached.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
March  2012...

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I see a masked shape
in the trees

when the wind blows
the mask laughs
it's leafed face half hidden

it does not mock
as it is trapped, half exposed

the other half is mingled, attached
to it's roots of birth

when the east sun shines
the mask disappears

with a shadow
it jitters and trembles

succumbing to it's
birthright....

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She made beauty a birthright, my Ilse.
Her rosy cheeks, rouge unneeded,
shadowed her dark eyes.

I was impressed by her,
depraved by her,
all at once humiliated for her.
A hunger lingered inside me,
craving her name.

Still my salvation was denied by time
and the fleeting hours turned me mad.
Her finitude, my hellfire.
My temptation....

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