Short Deferred Poems
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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?
Hopeless
from sky falls rainbow,
as clouds lose silver lining -
dreams deferred drifting
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.
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?
Smashed
And on the rocks
Shaken and stirred
To a paranoid
Amygdaloid
Control deferred
***
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
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?
"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
A lazy man's dialect
Langston Hughes' dream deferred
A place in the sun, postponed
Procrastination
Date written: 06/08/2020
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
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
Love you hanker for.
Life, evermore bright
As fair bloomed, joy-flushed through it.
Heaven in a word.
Ah! A wing'ed heart.
Angel's peaceful flight
Here, yet o're Earth not tracked for?
Whose nest then deferred.
Iconic, late African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
Dropped name"John Mercer"; wrote "The Weary Blues"
As one of the leading voices in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poem, "Dream Deferred," deemed his piece de resistance.
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
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?
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
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:-
I love a play on words with birds
The topic gives me wings
I’m also stirred by tax deferred
Each among my favorite things
What I like best is when you jest
Your smile lights up my day
My heartfelt quest is we both stay blessed
Forever and a day
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
Muffled dialogue ennui sequestered intimacy so distant,
smothered in ebbing surreptitious fantasy.
Musing how close is close?
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.
DREAMS DEFERRED
dandelion dreams
dancing doting dogwood tree
deforestation
THE QUIET ONES
dark heart’s art tar scars
black blood beating beckoning
sociopath scream
BUTTERFLY BRUNCH
black blue butterfly
breathless beauty blessed beware
bird beak bite bloody
Caesar preferred to be quietly interred
But to Antony his friend he deferred --
With Rome's citizenry Antony conferred
Spurred them on with the passion of his words
Masterfully, did he their emotions stir --
They'd hunt down and kill the conspirators, sure
Worry no more, Dreams deferred? Temporary setbacks. Questions, Answers often Worry
Fears, wants. Constantly seeking one's body, mind, soul. Worry no more inhale, exhale release breathe eventually finding solace slowly releasin until one's peace of mind, body, soul worry no more.
Two old men walk with talk deferred
One finds a mirror on the way
He picks it up and says, "My word,"
"A handsome fellow, I must say!"
His buddy then takes a peek
He says, "He's handsome I agree,"
"But has your old mind become weak?"
"Of course that handsome fellow's me!"