Short Commencing Poems

Realizing
Everyone
Should
Participate
Equally,
Commencing
Today

(5/28/02)...

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croaking crowns frogs kings
    ceremonies commencing
   when snow does not cling...

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summer commencing
sun tans caribbean skin
touch of warm beige













5-14-2016...

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Lilac and rose view
DEATH of the day approaching....
Rock wake commencing

© Apr 27 2010
For Raul's "Vanilla Sky" contest...

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The influx of spring
growing seasons commencing...
For corn, wheat, pot holes

© Mar 13 2010      Charles Henderson...

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the wayside flowers I see when passing through

never fail to touch my soul

God's offering to me

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3/17/2015


Featured poem of the week commencing 12/11/2016...

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In your footsteps,
Feet-bottoms cleated with thorns
Stirring emotions of pain
As they jab into the clouds' backs
Beneath the feet on your selfish body
Burning with pressurous threat
Commencing the clouds to cry tears that fall
Hence, soaking me wet....

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Bliss bursts
forth in fullness,
felt as spasms of delight,
ever present humming current
commencing the flow of soma nectar,
transmuting us as living light,
here and now in this form;
floodgates open,
bliss bursts!

26-February-2022...

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A new poem -
Let me revel in its newness
As I beat the way.
Let me count its lines
And wish it well
As it streams across the continents
And into beating hearts.


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2/12/2015

Featured poem for the week 
commencing 10/11/2015 
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Amazing this one number commencing A like of numbers.Trillions of numbers even all from one number.Only one number,it’s one and all others one’s members.Two is bigger than one number but in fact one plus one is two number.Numbers not end like a ring as numbers commencing from one number!...

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Life's random notes from a symphony
playing to nobody - nobody cares.
Like you, they will soon be washed away
on E minor chaos with conductor away.








8/31/2017

A 2nd place win in Brian Strand's
Early September Standard Contest.
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Featured poem in week 
commencing 9/10/2017....

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Dear dead properties, L-o-L
Now back to earth and for what it’s worth
A new year is a laudable blessing commencing rebirth
Advance in life and don’t come back, kidding 
Just don’t retreat or look back
Sweet sixteen I’m glad you’re that
On your back, me support thou sat
Feliz cumpleaños, and good luck
Love, a hungry acquaintance...

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I met a man called Truth,
And truth was what he wanted,
But I gave none to him.

I met a man called Love,
And he called out for me,
But I, as always, failed.

I met a man called Drunk.
AT LAST!
We both had wine together.


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2/13/2015

Featured poem of the week
commencing 1/21/2018...

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Sailing on a boat
                                               Embarks to a new harbor
                                                Prompting to abscond
                                              Departing from foregoing
                                              Commencing a longish trek














3-4-2016...

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I will buy me a shiny car
Along the way, along the way...
I will buy many things.

I will love me a shiny ring
Along the way... along.
I will love me solitaire.

I will love me my memories
And sing and sing, but
To no one except me.

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3/4/2015

Featured poem for the week 
commencing 7/17/2016...

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Light is fading
over the blackened bay
and Judy calls
without anything to say

I hear her voice
talking of prices
while the light fades
even more over the bay

Now bay is dark,
and Judy says goodbye
The telephone sits humbly,
waiting for tomorrow


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4/12/2015

Featured poem of the week 
commencing 3/19/2017...

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some ice on the eaves

a reminder of winter

outside of its time

like the avant-garde artist

unable to raise desire


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4/27/15

Contest  - Syllables of Wisdom 3

Sponsor - Silent One

3rd place win


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Featured poem of the week commencing 8/8/2021...

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There is a poignancy in boyhood...
The high voice, and ineptitude,
The yearning to be free of mother's strings;
The awkwardness of age fifteen, to wit
A boyish sullenness.

There are some things lost when manhood gained -
And mothers cry on thinking.


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3/10/2015

Featured poem of the week commencing 8/13/2017...

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Fog came early to Nebraska,
and slender churches became hidden.
Pastors came out of them with scarves,
their children tight-dressed 
                       and with white mittens.


Cars moved slowly,
dipped beams constant; the radio turned on.
The fog came early - unawares.


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4/23/2015

Featured poem of the week 
commencing 3/10/2019...

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aware in a bottle garden,

                                      a pear tree

                                                        diminished...

                                      saddened so


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2/17/2015

Contest  - Strand Special 11

Sponsor - Brian Strand

2nd place win

Featured poem of the week commencing 8/16/2020....

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Blissful  blossoms blooming
Look LUSTFUL lovers
Listless lovers looming 

Krazy killer kisses
Sweltering SUMMER season
Belly breathing blouses

Bayside BEACHES burning
Winter worries wane
Glorious gracious gains

HAPPY hungry hearts
Dwellings do not depart
Picture pretty parts

Take the time to talk
Let listening lead to laughter
Commencing comfortable communications

Hurry HAPPILY EVER AFTER...

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Blissful  blossoms blooming
Look lustful lovers
Listless lovers looming

Krazy killer kisses
Swelter summer  season
Belly breathing  blouses

Bayside beaches burning 
Winter worries wane
Glorious gracious gains

Happy hungry hearts
Dwellings do not depart
Picture pretty parts

Take the  time to talk
Let listening lead to laughter
Commencing  comfortable communication
HURRY  HAPPILY  EVER AFTER....

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My vivier is rich in fish
and is at the bottom
of my garden.
I go down there to see the fish.

I go to see my bright goldfish
that swim inside the vivier.
You won't see them in the river
or in any old wild place.

I like to feed the goldfish
that swim in the vivier.
I love the fish in vivier.
Viv knows I do.


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1/26/2016

Featured poem of the week 
commencing 6/23/2019...

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The yew trees 
Were like staid old ladies in green skirts.
They lined the way to the church door.

Like the staid old ladies,
They did not bow when the fancy vicar
Walked the path, or asked him how he was.

Like the ladies they were proud,
And all brown leaves from fancy trees
Annoyed him, just like they.


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3/6/2015

Featured poem of the week 
commencing 11/5/17...

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The lake was only small
But we boated.
Not far to go...

Back and forth
On the little lake
And watching the boat go.

Back and forth and go  -
Using up the day
That won't return.


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2/15/2015

Contest  - STRAND Choice 8

Sponsor - Brian Strand

2nd place win





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Featured poem for the week commencing 5/1/2016...

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