Short Deficient Poems

deficient defense
jury easily convinced
justice forsaken...

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If wisdom be deficient
   a word to the wise is insufficient...

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Heart without a soul
and mind deficient of love
deserve each other.

November 8, 2017...

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I am the audacity 
The reality
Un-wanting empathy 
Deficient of heresy  
But free
To be 
Me...

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Youthful minds romping
Wafting through gardens of dreams.
Amid real world woes –

© May 13, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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Miracle Man Thought
1/26/2024

“Sometimes our lives are impacted negatively, 
from having an abundance; more so than by being deficient”.
Tom
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Each time spent with you, I have conceal that prosperous sentiment
That's meaningful to you,
Deficient to murmur the word I love you,
Effortless in speaking this tender truth
That you are the sprout extracted from my grass-root
The productive fruit which my heart so much pursuit.



Demeter Edwards...

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I wonder why they call them "Soup-Operas"?
they never promote any soup...
and if the soup was to be in the story line...
well their writer, well he must say "oopp!"
it's one of many serious wonders,
that plays upon my mind,
I guess you can truely say than,
I've finally really become the mentally deficient kind!...

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Close to the moonlight

I place my verse

they are still deficient

when compared to your love

 moonlight is meant for the night,

your words for the millions

my poetry for you

we are [ moonlight and my words] your slaves….


Dedicated to Wayne Hill...who was formerly known as Michael Wayne on Poetry soup...

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Warts on a hog for now will never go away
The heady preacher belts out a sermon
Halfway time to stretch then pray and pay
Binds you to perdition certain

A godless generation wakes to see
No way to reconcile even a minute
The overture correction will ever be
Achieving marker less than deficient...

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Apathy ll
Written: by Tom Wright
12-19-2014

Profound words, 
Frequently in an intense state lie,

Deficient of impetus to impel forward,
They continue in abysmal sleep,
Un-advanced, where they die;

More inferior than words
I’ve voiced in haste,
Were those reserved to linger 
In silence, and waste;
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Ya boo and fiddlesticks
to the thorns of life and all that pricks.
Ya boo, too, ye  plutocrats
who treat the rest like worthless rats.
Fiddlesticks to  ivory towers
where boffins sport their mental powers,
deeming themselves to be omniscient
and lesser minds somewhat deficient.
Give me the simple things of life,
these to share with kids and wife....

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(revised)
.
.
We have 
the agreed engagement of
fingers and the casual 
brace of arm on waist and
laughter to break the silence.
We sleep with limb touching limb
and feel the brief vacuum of absence.
.
I tell her that she
spent most of her life
orbiting around people
who never learned how
to show love.
.
I ask, 
among the 
love skills deficient,
why am I different?...

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WHAT'S THAT YA SAY, YER DIETIN'?
AINCHA HEERED ABOUT OLE JAKE?
HE THOUGHT HE MIGHT COULD GIT A GAL
BY JUS' CUTTIN' BACK ON CAKE

WELL HE KEP' A-GITTIN' THINNER
TILL WE ALL BEGUN TA FEAR
IF WE DIDN'T GIT SOME CAKE IN HIM
HE'D UP 'N' DISAPPEAR 

THEY SAY A WORD SAID TA THE WISE
HAD OUGHTA BE SUFFICIENT...
DON'T GIVE UP CAKE OR JUS' LIKE JAKE
YA'LL END UP FAT DEFICIENT!

Just another Warrenpiece...

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To only achieve one’s aim is surely
A deficient definition
Success is a simple word 
With unplumbed depths
It raises unanswered questions
Of what and why and how
Is this a noble quest at all?
Why fret about success?
I’m left wandering in the wilderness
Wondering about motive
Maybe if I allow love to lead
And tread this preferred path
Then questions about success
Will best be answered
By the those
Who need not ask...

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On the verge of extinction,
Yet battling its way out of my heart,
Like a bird gone rouge trapped in its cage.

Whispers promissory notes that its never too late,
Neglecting the omission of forgery.

Parents nagging for salvation,
But blinded by shades of deception,
I tell them I'll be okay at the end of the day.

Inspirational when all is divine,
Degrading when all is deficient.

Hope,
The contradictory standard....

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The canopy was beaming beneath radiant stars, as whirling
wedding night dances swirled round and round the garden …  
But her husband crippled, his manhood puerile,
Fate untied their sterile knot of desire.  

The world seemed to shrug; she felt herself
scorned.  Passersby avoided her eyes ...
Was it she'd been abandoned, deficient found?  
Or had the clock just run out on her cries?
  
              
              July 01, 2018...

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You don't realise in its instance
You are not capable to realise the capacity of the clock
Its all in a fog
You spend your time in a screen
And feel no need to become free
You become deficient in human needs,
You think there's no minute for you to be real,
To look at something amazing,
To really feel.

I'm a person trying to speak,
Look up at me, I'm going to make you realise.
You have more time than you think. 




Roselilly
November 2019...

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SIlence fell over Montana
Stretched outward, blew through trees,
Clouded out the sky,
Made its home on her hills,
Suffocated the light,
Immersed itself in rivers
Sucking everything dry.
Epidemic in air,
That she could no longer sustain.

Sunlight was refracted
Tangent arc of ice crystals
He was.

He took off his hunting gear,
Made himself anonymous.
Deficient and incomplete,
It was unavoidable,

that he would leave,
Montana in silence......

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When confronted with a panic or fright,
We think - OH NO! FIGHT or FLIGHT!
But we're deficient in counting the signs,
Given such politically charged times.

There are two other responses besides these,
Most commonly... scared people will FREEZE!
But whether you're a neocon or a lib,
The fourth is the safest - just FIB!

Wow! you thought it couldn't get stranger,
Totally fake bravado Trump's danger.
All those deferments will carry a cost,
As we mourn for those we have lost....

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The knots have knots…”God!?”
Threads of needing, want, desire;
shoots and branches, root and rote,
fragile tendrils, planted in deficient soil.

“God, the knots have knots?”
Nodes and nodules, full of spoor,
want desire…more…
hoarding, warmth, nurture, need;
shoots and spawns, no longer seeds.

“The knots, God, the knots please free…”
pulse and pump, push and bore
excrete the angst, open wide the pore.
release unhindered tangled twine.

The knots release…the planter pines....

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