Short Deferred Poems

Isn't truth the dream of lie but deferred....

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Basic compliment
Of credit economy
is deferred payment....

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I am not living
I am epitaph writing
The deferred reward...

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this one bedroom suite
formerly a dream deferred 
now a scene so real...

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“Ah! But I thought you were dead!”
“Death cannot stop true love,
it can only delay it awhile.”
What happens to a dream deferred?...

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Hopeless

from sky falls rainbow, 
as clouds lose silver lining -  
dreams deferred drifting...

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Writer's block: all thoughts
are seemingly, temporarily deferred;
the cursor hovers, as if holding its breath;
winking, watching, at the ready,
suspended, in abeyance....

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A fellow named Bean, quite absurd, 
Whose antics were rarely deferred. 
With Teddy in tow, 
He'd put on a show, 
And leave every chaos incurred.


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What future substance do you see 
for your present hope that is yet deferred?  
And what past hope has come to you 
as present substance now confirmed?

Where is your faith?...

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Smashed
            And on the rocks
         Shaken and stirred


                To a paranoid
                   Amygdaloid 
            Control deferred



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From the mighty breeze of legend pulls the word 

None to be diminished by a cord of doubt

His meanings for the reader all deferred

The turns of grandeur from another route...

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They think with only using words
How are they ever heard
no wisdom and willing to move without reason
they chisel away at what we call freedom
does that sound like a dream deferred?...

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"Kansas, she says, is the name of the star"
as for my mom's place, it was Mira Mar :)

"When she fell out of Kansas, a miracle occurred"
after we moved, my grandma's house remodel deferred...

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A lazy man's dialect
Langston Hughes' dream deferred
A place in the sun, postponed
Procrastination


Date written: 06/08/2020...

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Beauty
Aesthetic grace
Is muted for a time
Weary eyes searching the darkness
New dawn..
Absence makes these eyes grow fonder
Beethoven's sonata
Comes to a close
Sunrise
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Eccentric is not her word
Passionate is often heard

When she’s feeling absurd
She relies on the preferred
	Her hunger – stirred
Remembers 
		The storm, deferred
The brilliance of her love, incurred...

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Million dollar fireworks light up 
the eastern sky

leaving red tracers between broken homes
and marking the rank of ordered followers

blackened by the smoke of oil money
smoldering
and a dream deferred
in the cradle of life...

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What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it sink like an anchor at sea?
or reek like a corpse and then rot?
Does it ache like a broken bone? or scab and scar over like a battle wound?
Maybe it just spoils like old milk
or does it expire?...

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He is the son, 
of the storm, 
and from bone and blood he is reborn,
a dancing ghost-god matador, 
spinning in the sea.

Though he appears, 
calm as stone, 
he is lost amid the ocean foam,
unable to reclaim his throne, 
of human dignity....

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Unspoken word
Nothing is heard
Thoughts now deferred
Float in my mind

Safe from all harm
Peaceful and calm
Soothing with balm
Time to unwind


7th December 2014


Theme 1 - Remember what peace there may be in silence...

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HAIL TO THE KING ON HIS BIRTHDAY

Today, let’s celebrate MLK’s birthday;
His dream seemingly deferred, but not deterred:-
His reality lives and his dream of liberty is on the way;
His “I Have A Dream” legacy speech, reality words heard:- 


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MY HEART
IS A WOUNDED BIRD
WINGS QUIVERING
IN SILENT PAIN
WITH STIFLED BREATH 
UNABLE TO FLY
PALED FROM BATTLE
MY HEART 
IS AN ICEBERG
WEIGHED HEAVY
IN MY CHEST
FOGGING MY THOUGHT
WITH COLD MIST
RAINING DOWN 
MY SKIN, INSIDE.

AUGUST 2000...

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Iconic, late African-American poet, Langston Hughes. 
     Dropped "John Mercer" from name; paid his dues...

 As one of the leading voices in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poem, "Dream Deferred," deemed his piece de resistance.


Date posted: 07/28/2021...

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Muffled dialogue ennui sequestered intimacy so distant,
                                                    smothered in ebbing surreptitious fantasy.
                                                                              Musing how close is close?...

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Precedence are they mere fragments of one’s imagination dreams deferred of acceptance, denials, or excuses. Precedence beyond one’s control although it may seem.
In systems called life, Are their really second chances re repeated cycles in this game of precedence....

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