Short Deflecting Poems

Enfilading fire
Breastworks deflecting shrapnel
Snipers breach trenches...

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any agenda
deflecting focus
away from the Self
for more than one breath
is a stuporous trance
genesis of delusion
anchoring us here

15-December-2022...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
If he offers you champayne
And celebrates like a winner
Just say to him
"Are you drinking your dinner?"...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
A best with animal magnetism
Is what he will probably think
Just say to him
"So you're the missing link"...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
And if they are relentless
And as thick as granite
Just say to him
"Do they ever shut up on your planet?"...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
“What would I have to do” he may ask
“For you to go out with me?”
Just reply to him 
“Shed 60 pounds really”...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
If he should hesitate over your name
Then that’s your cue
Just say to him
"Don't worry. I forgot your name, too!"...

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Intention of action…
inaction pursues

Deflecting commitment,
with roadblocks infused

Intention of action…
step one and step three

Step two is the question
—of what comes to be

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
“What would it take” he might say
“For you to go out with me?”
Just reply to him
“Me to lower my standards dramatically”...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
If he sugest he is your prince
Come to rescue you from your plight
Just say to him
"You live with your mom still, right?"...

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Put downs work the best
For deflecting unwanted attention
But try to be amusing
As this relieves the tension
“What would it take” he might say
“For you to go out with me?”
Just reply “a few years off your age,
I would suggest twenty”...

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without anchor all ships
sail and without passenger
no captain exists to guide
the dispossessed.  Only remains
of Peaceful Assembly can
be glimpsed in the association
of favoritism. A favoritism
of familiarity deflecting contempt
by means of ineptitude....

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how easy can it get
all we need to do
is remain at rest

ego wishes to agitate
deflecting our attention
it’s cravings never abate

invoking bliss magnetism 
flow of thoughts cease
joy fills body prism

staid silence enables
bliss ignition in the heart
spoken of in awe in fables...

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Reeling

         Feet skipping

                     Over black holes

Racing

           Deflecting time

   Searching for answers

 Clues

            From spirits gone

 From spirits waiting

Tumbling

             Forward and backward

Seeking
Peace
Within



09/10/13
© All Rights Reserved...

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As they slowly divide into fractions they crumble
Trying not to fall there's a chance you may stumble
As the Earth shakes & rumbles
I'm just trying to stay humble
Never forgetting my fumbles
Not believing their fables
Cutting the ties and turning the tables
Deflecting the lies
Find the truth through my eyes...

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as the universe appears and disappears
pulse of aliveness displays myriad hues
then ego surfaces, assigning meaning
to divine magnetism dancing in forms
deflecting attention, mitigating bliss
until single eye restores equilibrium

layer by layer as we thus vaporise
no one remains to weigh and size

18-November-2022...

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Deflecting the light, 
you stand in dark, 
to find the truth.

To find the truth, 
you stand in dark, 
deflecting the light.

The numbers had failed. 
The numbers. A prayer 
for my zero.

For my zero, I walked 
whole life. 
Whole life. Zero.

Pardon my dust, 
I was collecting 
for my black hole.

From dust to dust.


Satish Verma...

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Where once my heart seemed shattered
				(A million shards of crystal deflecting light)
My eyes, as well, remained so dim
				(For nothing to any longer gaze upon)
Yet, somehow I had known, we’d reconnect
				(You are the light that does so shine, still)
As the attraction that once was, would win
				(You simply are the reason, you’re as the sun)...

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PARTY FAVORS

Cruising 
oceans of anger
casting 
shadows on walls
Mathematical
equations
calming
nerves

Deflecting
we wave our
party favors 
of
loneliness

Protecting
bubbles from
bursting into
rainbow 
colored mud

through
hidden
escapes
thirsting for new
freeflow
shallow love 





© Kim van Breda—30 November 2015...

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Loving flow
Golden glow
Water flow
Sun so

Light reflecting,
on water so
Golden glow
Sun deflecting

Water of gold
Golden so
Water flow
Sun so

Golden flow
Your loving so
I know.........
Like the water below
the sun glow

Watery gold
My loving so
Your love flow
Me........,to hold

Watery gold
Sun glow
You...........
To hold
Loving me so...

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SEND A BUTTERFLY OR TWO

deep contemplation—consideration
initiated intervention
soft-scented and serene
 “yesterday—today—tomorrow”
drifts dispersing dreams

past and present—poised
integrated involvement
melancholy memories merge
quest questioning quietly
yielding—tainted—testimonies
deflecting definitive destinies


Please send a Butterfly or Two...

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Loving flow 
Golden glow 
Water flow 
Sun so 

Light reflecting, 
on water so 
Golden glow 
Sun deflecting 

Water of gold 
Golden so 
Water flow 
Sun so 

Golden flow 
Your loving so 
I know......... 
Like the water below 
the sun glow 

Watery gold 
My loving so 
Your love flow 
Me........,to hold 

Watery gold 
Sun glow 
You........... 
To hold 
Loving me so...

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Demure in her pose, modest in her ways
   Deflecting potential beaus, careful not to stray

Brief in conversation, shunning repartee
   Halting in her laughter, her faint smile shadowy

Eyes fixed on the ground, hair pulled tautly back
   Lips pursed tight together, her figure corset-wracked

Yet deep within dwelt beauty, of a type so rarely seen
   Her eternity of timeless verse, visionary... and pristine...

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IMPERFECTIONS

why do they want you more
now that you have left than
they have ever wanted
you before

does the pain of you leaving
give them some kind of
perverse pleasure

are they more afraid of living
than of dying alone the
way you chose to go ?

it’s no accident…
songs that sell 
the most are sad
sidetracking
bouncing beams
deflecting 
realities 
we need to know



© Kim van Breda—18 January 2016...

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Inhibitions deflecting attention,
employing soiled filters of narrow mind,
plunge us thus into spasms of contraction,
gripping consciousness in remorseless bind,
until ego urgings, we leave behind.
The breeze that blows, is free and unfettered,
spreading by pollination, bliss nectar,
which yet in deep dungeons, stale and arid,
stagnation being the death precursor.
Let head-heart fused, be with love throb married!

11-April-2021...

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