Short Brashness Poems

chutzpah in new york
cheeky annoying brashness
nervy confidence...

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The brashness of crowds
Suffocates cool air at dusk
Raiding hurried urban tracks
	
No peace to behold
For invisible faces
Mocked by heaves of survival


30 Oct 2020
Spin A Sedoka Contest, Nette Onclaud...

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graduated cum laude 
with a PhD in madness,
practitioner of your
  own philosophy as
    the harbinger of doom,
tales of darkness where
the deck is always stacked,
what's the sense of light
   to an austere night
or spring's flourish 
   mid winter's brashness,
you don't need to be
      a rocket scientist 
    to diagnose absurdity...

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I stopped along the way and saw you.
You didn’t look.
Din, grime and harshness surrounded you.
I didn’t see you.
Then, love in all it’s joyous complexity blinded us.
I touched you.
Pain and brashness bled through,
washed away
like the brightest metal in the forge of life;
you emerged.
Gallant.
Shining.
You saw me.
I reflected your light.
You touched me.
Then, as softly as a feathers flight in the wind;
You were gone....

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