Short Defer Poems

   Is happiness a virtue

     Ask the melancholy

        who they defer to

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the non sequitur
essentially when we defer
to what came before
which we regarded as a bit of a bore....

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Dogs obey,
Cats defer,
the difference something grand

Loyalty wags
its loving tail
—as purring hides the fangs

(Dreamsleep: June 2021)...

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A few seconds more 
Youth will set you ablaze with
Fiery beauty store. 

Staring at the red 
Why defer you the mirth till
Gray burnt is the bed?...

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Certain, certain be when a heart is breaking,
banish doubt and conquer the simple truth: that
love does not defer to the circumstantial
                          (nor to my logic)...

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Morning rebirth.

Stirred by a dream.

Rendered my serenity.

For the soft requiem.

Defer our mortal fate.

For life awaits.

With all of its virtue.

And veiled charades....

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My wails of woe
Won't bring her back.
They are for me.
They sound the lack
Of any future touch
With her
Who meant so much.
I can't defer
To some imagined
Promise land
The simple holding
Of a precious hand....

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Youth's sure, sinewed fire of limb and gait,
Reside not long not tarries late.
The unetched silk of fair Morning's face
Dons so swift a different grace,
As boastful Dawn must e'er defer
To the granite reign of Time......

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Dappled daunting dandy
 deft decentralizing defender 
deistic delphian deniar
 deliverable deflationary determinist
deny defer delude deflect
 divisive dissentious dualism
dogmatic dumbstruck duplicity
 dyspneic democratic disillusioned
Donald....

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Late one afternoon,
wind chimes rang a pleasant tune.
Sun would soon defer to moon.

Breeze blew warm and light,
wooing my desire to write.
Imagination took flight.

I wish I could say
I'd penned flowing lines that day.
Dozing chased my muse away!


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who we are is who we were
multiply and then defer
all the things that you just said
divide by visions in your head

   subtract the world 
of might have been
now give yourself a dividend
for the dreams that 
did come true
the synergy,
   the sum of you...

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In this Sleep and Death defer:

The former,

On a daily return trip, us takes,

The latter,

Into a permanent one, without a chance

of return!*







© Demetrios Trifiatis
   18 December 2019



* In Greek Mythology Sleep and Death are brothers....

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Inquiring minds want 
To know how it all works

Ticklish subject
A question that can get your
Knickers in a twist
Especially if they look you in the eye
So, I suggest

Take them out for ice cream
When you get back defer to father/mother
Oh, parental duty..spare me!...

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The strength of one that’s young and bold.
The patience of one who’s wise and old.
Is it false, or is it facts?
Are the reigns pulled tight, or are they lax?
Which would you prefer?
Or, in giving your’ answer, would you defer?
Life is about choice.
About heart, soul, and voice...

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I am not extremely important.
I am not powerful.
I have only minor influence.
I am a small person.

I thought I was omnipotent.
I defer to my leader,
To my country and to God.
I give my ounce of influence
To Lester Holt, journalist, NBC News.
This is my resolve.
Thank you for reading what I write....

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My mood is hopeful every time 
old calendars defer to new. 
Post-Christmas doldrums start to fade. 
It's time to bid the old adieu. 

God’s blessed us with another year.
New opportunities are here!


January 4, 2023
Bite Size Poem no. 58 contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier


January 6, 2023
entered in Brian Strand's Poetry Contest 1167...

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Friday afternoon, the day winds down
  My Muse, exhausted, limps around
Her brain, 'most fried, her vitality shot
  "I'm out of ink," she moans. "And I'm not---

"Not to worry, my friend," I console her
  "Sabbath draws near, so we'll both defer
 to the Lord above, Who on this day did rest
   to return to work after ~ completely refreshed...

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If I was your Father
I would defer
The big questions 
Would I rather
You follow the life of a Nun
Than to fall in Love
With all the pitfalls 
That love can impart 
On a fragile heart
All I can do
Is be here for you
No 1 can love you as much as 
I do
But if you do
Promise me this
He better treat you as good
As I do
Or it will break my heart...

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Despair aught I care, in distraught 
adhere I thought. 
I fear unsure in revere, insecure of 
love immature. 
Unfair sincere demure, disdain severe 
I incur pain.
Allure in dire devour, deplore I cower 
pure desire. 
Bizarre amour to perish amiss, ignore I 
defer jealous affixed.
Temerity in moral of boredom, surety a quarrel of 
Vulnerable Decorum....

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Oh me, oh my! It’s now July!
The months are flying fast.
The summer days, with sun and haze,
Will soon be in the past.

The calendar cannot defer
To what we may desire,
That time would pause a bit because 
The days too quick expire.

So we must take each day and make
The effort to embrace it,
Before July is kissed goodbye
And August does replace it....

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Remember once you were my friend
I’m quite sure you were
It was oh so very long ago
To my hearts memory I defer
We once laughed a very lot
I’m very sure that’s true
And then we went our separate ways
As people often do
Our acquaintance was not long; I’d call it brief
But that’s not what really mattered
It’s what you leave in another’s heart
And it was joy you scattered...

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Venture without stopping
Hold on to your dream
Remain flipping flopping
That dream will lose gleam

Demur without waver
Do not hesitate
Defer, Accept favour
And you seal your fate

Observe, eschew bias
And trust what you see
Maintain neither pious
Submission; be free

Toward freedom aspire
Spurn hegemony
Honest witness require
For integrity

2 March 2018...

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What is your secret? We asked the lovely new queen.
Create a faerie tale life for yourself, a glorious scene.
But where do we start? What do we do first? I asked her.
Once upon a time is a beginning to which you must quickly defer.
You will want a villain too, and a hero who can save you from them.
And of course always write “happily ever after” in your book, at the end....

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Why
By Miracle Man
5/31/2024

Oft times I hear a child question why?
Then anxiously await a response.
To, why raindrops always fall from the sky,
I stand slack jawed as if in a traunce.

Only God has answers to the question why, 
at His prompting only do things occur.
A child might question why birds fly?
To all childish questions I simply defer.
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I have tied it together,
captured all of it
the good and almost good;
the bad I have
put in a forgetful box.

My collection,
my opus,
my sickness
all of it bundled -
nine yards of nothing much.

I suppose
I defer,
I hope inside
a ticking
moussing heart

somehow
far beyond reason
a book of wayward poems
might emerge
in the lap of a ghostly entity

that once had my name....

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