Short Causal Poems

Monumental
Staid muscle sworn
Causal wisdom...

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Birds don’t sing 
in the dark,
but the stray dogs 
bark;
For many
that is a causal remark...

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shaken not stirred
causal whirlwind effect
mini storm contained
snow flurries mesmerize
a microcosm spinning



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted April 6, 2020...

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THE AIR BENEATH

passed the step-stool.
climbed high chair —
the air beneath
almost cheated me.
forgetful I am —
a causal effect
of midlife blindness.

Kim Rodrigues
12/27/2017...

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Be now normal
Make it continual and ritual
Forget the causal
Stay put not frontal
There are many things to do factual
All things you are in control
Unless fatal and impartial
Do things substantial
Mostly it will be rational
At level, reversal
Mutual, dual
Pastoral, beautiful and fruitful....

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Tactile Contrast: real Axe and all ow.
iahn the liahn i rwr and i meo
Anon-animas  no 'his Tree' and no Tale.
Cainst blind quotal status now hold Time to rail!
sine-pole verities always true,
To which were subscribed unqualified Coo's.
Causal science was set up to deal:
Autonomous self, rationality, free will....

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"A Paris"
Jazz and ballet
White dresses
Red wine

Violin strings
Moulin dances, stories so grim
Le Bois de Vincennes
Castles under clouds of sin

Cafes with causal chatter
When after all
What does life matter?
Drowning, the words filled with laughter

By the Seine
Walking amongst insane dreams
Singing of things never to be
In Paris a fiery inferno

		desires flame

	up in smoke...

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I was standing at the doorway
I was feeling awkward, for many reasons.
The old man was hugging his love
And both were in tears.

I was not supposed to know, any of this.

Life is not fair always, nothing to complain
A sequence of Rashomon, ugly and witty causal effects.
I did not know if they hated me or not
I was not supposed to know, any of this

Still, we yearn for some kind of love, knowingly or unknowingly....

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The crick of crickets
Sounds of late summer swan songs
Lightening bugs---------lights out
Clear cloudy skies, cool front nights
Windows open, Fall sensations waking
Seasonal transitions nearby
Mother Nature announces her why
Causal changes on the way
Cryptic storms before the calm
Bely our human hearts alarm
Can we make the supreme amends 
Needed to become universal friends
Keping all from needless, useless, endless harm....

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Window dressings pasted tightly
moisture frames their presence 
barely lit by cigarettes passing
outside in while I sit watching
the random dance of minions 
scattered strains of sound
music plays somewhere, I can’t....
...my head longs for sleep now, 
childlike, fevered presence roars
cool hands wipe away fear
alone with myself only lonely
I don’t feel well...scattered 
causal thoughts shrug across 
my addled brain.  I am always alone....

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Waterfalls gushing downhill in a violent torrent
During a thunderstorm,
with hefty raindrops relentlessly
drenching the ground,
Storm boisterous knocking
at the door, brings with it a sense of
playfulness and mischief
that can't be ignored,
Time goes on forever,
as a cleanly flowing brook.
via a causal nexus of living things,
anti-time advocate,
supplier of posture,
persisting at all times,
highly conspicuous.
Guardian of Existence

Written: May 22, 2023...

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