Short By Design Poems

Love is a two way street, with a one way sign.
Made for dual purpose, but defect by design.
 Karen...

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You are just a rose 
And beautiful by design
Gaudy with blue hue
Your purity is virtue
Makes a graceful man stumble...

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portholes
round by design
in sides of ships and planes
encircle scenes of sky and sea
plugged snug
...

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apple blossom clouds -
spring’s fragrant snow, fall’s gold but
no seed births home tree

Brian Johnston
December 17, 2015...

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"... and the lines all rhyme..."

137.4

is by Design.



"... how many days are in a week..."

Fourteen

Two... Sun days....

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As you see we have no Febreze
Butt cover your smell if you please
Just spritz three or four times
Then release by design 
and the next person won't say "Jeeze!"...

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Moments shared.

Flawed by design.

Now just memories.

Scattered across time.

Fleeting recalls.

Renewed disdain.

Karma aborted love.

For our past due pain....

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Four-lined Stanzas - my Quatrains by design.
Interwoven A-B-A-B- the rhymes.
Ten syllabically are read per line.
Written -- nature, sullen, and benign times....

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A Woman
      ------  
Is a Woman
   And there-by
Unique by design
      - Fore -
She is the Arbor
        Of Man
       - And -
   Here-by
      Attainable
In the Opuses'
         Of God

            GF...

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Chapbooks
by design-
arty posters
with illustrations so
sublimeWiliam H Bradley (1868-1962) of US Art Nouveau fame

http://www.willbradley.com

http://www.willbradley.comhttp://www.nga.gov/feature/nouveau/thanks_a.htm...

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My glory each of my days will shine.
I'm lovely in and out by design.
Mirrors only reflect my beauty.
But being good, my innate duty.
Milk of kindness flows from me always. 
While deep in hearts my real love stays....

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Down dusty lanes we quietly stroll  
Fallen' leaves , red and brown decorate the ground
memories covered with smoke and haze
fill simpler days of choices made
coming close to playful pursuit
death by design leads to life in the twilight...

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His only painting still to remain
Queen Quenevere of Round Table fame-
For William's talents were by design
Beaux arts,furniture,all things fine
Fabrics,stained glass divine.

William Morris(1834-1896)-a founder of the Arts& Crafts movement in Uk...

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Silently he moves,
secretive by nature,
cautious by design,
startled by sudden movement,
dashes to safety,
watchful in his burrow,
tricked by skeletal shadows
of overgrown grass,
hunger pangs his insides,
ignored,
greater his will to survive....

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A touch too close and a gaze too sincere,
Was the Jenga player about to pull an upset loss? 
Faulty by design, promise and execution 

Does a good love need time to catch its breath? 
Or does it weave long exhales into conversational counterparts?
...

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What is this thing called life?

Just a brief flash in time?

A rising dawn and then it's gone

With no more hills to climb

What does my heart believe?

Do I still have a chance?

Maybe I'll find here by design

Or just mere happenstance 
...

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In a Winter's Loft; Complete,
with Midnight Eyes.

Maturing Curiosity,
Echoing with Laughter;
Sparkling, by Design.

Scintillating Whispers,
Fruitful, and Confident.
Longing to be Understood.

Eagerly Anticipating the Last Page.
Always Wanting More....

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The Veil

On decrepit pathways hobbling
Life soul and world a wash of grayscale

Dark wings in shadows sing
By design the spirit to impale

An artist’s palette of black and white
Bright hues in daylight pale

Adrift in oceans of ravens night
Accursed walk beyond the veil

Stephen Allen....

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The eyes do have it
Seeing into the great depths
Feelings of vastness
Wonderful eyes shine through me
A platitude of desire

By design there’s love
Open hearted peace of heart
Shown upon my eyes
A wild show being as made
Timeless lives flow on inside

Russell Sivey...

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I can see on your lips
you have clumps of earth
from rubbish golfers
and the fact you celebrate dawn
as a thing that happens by design
only adds to your concoction 

just go over and tell them
what you think of their ineptness 
so we can leave and find other
reasons for your lips...

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One tear slides down a slanted cheek
A silver line, the only sign

Of anguish which she does not speak
Insistent smiles, bright by design

Thin fortitude, her whitewashed shrine
Gilded answers rain, lily meek

She lies and says that she is fine
When truth is too fearsome to seek

2/1/20...

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The Lord draw's
A long line from Divinity
By proclamation
And by design
The Lord is
Entrenched in Divinity
And for the Ministry
There is time, thus multitude
Of Trinity
Becomes' his long suffering
His cantor for Restoration
Is here-by restored
And refined to the end
Of time of being

GF...

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I should never have loved in inequality.
I should never have allowed 
my heart to take the bait
of loving someone as beautiful as you.

But damn it, love is blind!
I suppose it’s by design
for, had I to do it all over again
I must admit 
I would love you
all over again
knowing…
that you can’t be loved.
...

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Such a long-winded line!
Still for me it is fine
Slips and rolls off the tongue
Simply meant to be sung
Sense it lacks by design.
Surveys give it a like,
Same to Andrews/Van Dyke. 
 
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Pleiades S Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
     Placed 3rd
© 21st April 2021...

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A moment, the need, undeniable desire
A memory, the seed, igniting fire
A burning,  so deep, eternal glow
A yearning, so steep, upward to go
A craving, too strong, instincts grab hold
A mating, too long, can never grow old
A creation, by design, for humanity to know
A recreation, by desire, for infinity will flow...

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