Short Decries Poems

when a close one dies, we realise
we are looking at waves, not the ocean
light of our true Self, delusion decries
eye of wisdom calming commotion...

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A moment of truth
a century of lies
The left hand deflects 
what the right hand decries   

A little bit pregnant
the ending begins
A monster gestating 
—and living within

(The New Room: December, 2023)
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as trickles hum to glossy oaks  and skies---

come waltz  me in the symphony of rain

enshrining charms adored .... though moon decries

love gone:   just let night’s movement whirl again.





Taken from the poem 'Final Dance'...

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Lustful eyes, feral their intent
Base instincts holding sway
Until we grant God’s love consent
Wantonness is our way

We may choose path of life
What avail, needless strife
Be a child, with bliss rife

Soul decries
Lustful eyes

03-March-2022
Quietus ...

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The ghosts of fear are nesting
glaring clouds that are driven
A procession of baying donkeys
The ponds reflection loudly decries
as gulls shriek for attention

Nighttimes plumage banishes bluish
A torrent of rain flatters
the receiving river
painted by the sunshine
in the days of gold...

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As a walker,
  I like pavement

As a traveler,
  open space

As a thinker,
  I prefer logic

As a mystic,
  only grace

A conflict sure,
  all age foretells

My soul,
  this state decries

The answer dearest 
  to the one

To the other
 —always lies

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)...

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Lust
Over burns
Lovers in turn
Full of disdain
Wrath
Feeds fire
Gluttony
Death, and despair
Greed
Just breeds
Raw rampant
Inequity
Sloth
Negates
Energies place
Wastefully spaced
Envy
Decries 
Ego’s dark side
Truths, never lies
Pride
Hard hide
Unearned burn
Circle soon turned
Lust...

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I saw him standing in the street 
he  so vacant eyed and weak,
refused to see me as I passed
For I recall the summer last,
when fireflies shimmered in the stream
and he had promised me a dream
before he set his soul on fire
with mistresses of white desire
and now his ashen face decries
the way a burning passion dies....

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Wet Shoes and Kisses

beneath its rain soaked blush
lust’s seething humid crush
hides beneath this cone of lies
stolen moments love decries 
no happy ending to this tryst
wet shoed squish of fading kiss
sad red umbrella
		      no Cinderella


©10/31/2018

for – The Red Umbrella Poetry Contest
sponsor – Eve Roper...

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The world collectively
lost its mind
When fires burned
our vision blind

From East to West
and North to South
Insanity
from mouth to mouth

The world has finally
woken up
Pundits quartered
their lies corrupt

Mobbed together
they screamed on high
But run for cover
—as truth decries

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023) 
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A proprietary hold on God,
religion does proclaim

Defining what we know inside
our souls will they reclaim

The Cross or Torah, Buddhist lore
each ritual decries

What can’t be owned or scripted pure
through centuries of lies

Divinity a birthright deigned
for those who search to find

What God embeds in every soul
—that structure can’t define

(The New Room: May, 2022)...

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My song is sad and badly sung
It catches in my throat and dies
No matter what the day decries
The bells of truth are sadly rung

To cry for a heart that doesn't care
Futile is the life that lives in vain
Crying with such delicious  pain
Lest you keep love alive, beware

Tomorrow dawns as I know it will
Still , hope raises its  determined head
And after all is done and tearfully said
My God, forgive me..I love you still.....

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as trickles hum to glossy oaks  and skies---

come waltz  me in the symphony of rain

enshrining charms adored .... though moon decries

love gone:   just let night’s movement whirl again.




in  love’s  tempo    as beats  far  roll  to sigh
of  final dance-steps   drenching our  goodbye.



Contest: A Rhyme In 60 for Laura Loo  1/25/2017
Checked with howmanysyllables
and pure-rhyme counter...

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When distance circles the shoreline
Painfully , a numb breeze  decries
How our lackluster glance mirrors
Frail changing of hesitant eyes.
Across night’s starkly blunt  edges
Fondness dangles like threadbare reeds;
Knowing warmth is not forever
When moonless summer’s  rapture bleeds.
~

My spirit homeless now admits,
This fleeting affair… love resists.


10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme II
Sponsor: Laura Loo    1/17/2018...

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Listen to poem:

And Now is Not When Not is Now
David J Walker
 
If everything must happen Now
And Now is now and not is not
 
And Now is then and Thin is Got
And one is When and win is lost
 
Wind will wend its way past Lest
(And sleep is never fraught with cost)
 
And evening east and morning west
And truth is lies unless its tossed
 
And everything has died in jest
The sun decries the midday frost
 
Now is not and not is now
And not will never cost a lot...

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The gelid wind is a knife, ice to bone
As Demeter decries Persephone's moan
I too shed a tear, crystalline nature
In the pallid winter of my discontent.

Downy flakes fly in my woods, this glacier
melts slowly, apart from everyone ashore
I die a little more each day I bore
Holes, In this winter of my discontent.

No ode to my urn shall abide tragedy
Created in frolic architecture, majesty
Denied grace in art, I cry a little more
In the frigid winter of my discontent....

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Smell of onion rouses I room
I brain sizzles on
blood soiled fat of I pimples
In this matchbox
a lone rattling stick
decries the clinging dark
Out these windows faint lights call
Within I box,the shadows grow
I hand trembles at the knot
I dream dangles in the void
Silent,the walls stare now
their ears are full
with frizzling omelet sounds
Hear them sniffing so
I must go before they speak
...to meet the sunrise while it sets
...to meet the sunrise while it sets...

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Through eyes of today they're seeing different surrounds
Hell for leather fanatics with no care for whom's grounds

Where religion decries that it's their credence to kill
With no care what so ever, it's no matter whom spills

Yet the big boys of this world can only attack each other
Yet it's their innocents whom have to continually suffer

Where will this all end, is this our self oblivion mapped
Or are we just an experiment, our time soon capped



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