Short Bloodlines Poems

Tension in the air
Voices shall declare
Love does need despair
Bloodlines lead us there
Exchange this torch beware
We are the heirs of love...

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Genius?

Albert Einstein
Consummated bloodlines
Did brilliance shine on his lovin’?
His second wife was twice his cousin.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 22, 2010

Poetic form: Clerihew...

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Bloodlines of the Wicked
Beyond the Mind
New life found
Wistful earnestness
Glory unfound
Denied birth station
Duty bound
Assimilation impossible
Exist underground
Triumph inevitable
No blood around
Lonesome victory...

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Obsolescent parasites; gathering as dae's whirlwind swirling about: kyklos...
His child's decaying flesh: Insecticide's, repelling incubus bloodlines ? Fa chancre
Paris green tremulous their queue; lassa fever scarab's, 'croix de guerre schizein phren....

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Bloodlines

I saw her in a shadowed room,
She clicks dead people there!
In tempo to Matilda’s waltz,
She pulls them from the air.

She calls to those who tie by blood
While humming, reading sign.
She browses more for common bond
And what she can divine…...

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a line   a familiar voice   so much to remember
so much unknown   bloodlines   relatives and I
share   familiar words sound good   connections
talk of weather is the easiest   it’s colder there
aunt’s son takes care of her   he passes her the phone
she says life has always been harder since she left the farm
we’ve already lived our lives   each of us lives another...

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Mechanical Imaginations

you say, time travel, as if
we could somehow bend

all that was or ever will be -
mechanical imaginations

perhaps crying crystals 
or lit aligning alchemy...

though whichever way we
would come at such ideas

we're clueless whenever it 
pertains to warping waves

besides we'd be tampering 
with nature and bloodlines 

not to mention how our big
egos fancy us gods already 
jkb
1-4-16...

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quinzaines

Saul was dazed by his bloodlines.
Was his fervor wrong -
a disguise?

He blacklisted believers.
What was his motive?
Whence his steel?

God’s great Light transformed Saul’s mind.
What passion stirred Saul’s
blinded eyes?

He came to a place called Choice.
Is this Jesus right?
Is He real?

Praise God for His faithful ones.
Who blazed your thinking
past the lies?

Thank God for servant voices.
Who blessed your path with
godly zeal?...

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Death Is Free

Higher
Soars the eagle.
Heaven is infinite.
Death comes searching for my spirit.
Chaos!

Water.
My tongue blisters.
Liquid to quench my soul
But death rains down on my shadow.
Faster!

Ants crawl
Carrying weight.
Their lives short yet they store.
I would stay young, but death has come.
Be quick!

Hard life.
Freedom from pain.
The universe gives breath,
And death is free for the living.
Bloodlines!...

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Hand-me-down myths,
  like ancient monoliths,
    clan's fondest memories
      by nostalgia embellished;

larger-than-life sagas,
  truer-than-truth legends,
    hyperbolic narrations
      of happy exaggerations;

that's ancestral history,
  coloring one's genealogy,
    seeping, coursing down
      bloodlines, tribal milestones,


its gravitational whirl stirs
  generations'  imagination,
      east, west, north, south
         through word of mouth!...

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