Short Defray Poems

Defray 
As guilty you are
No home
No Peace
 In your home
Innocent
 if you are
Every where
 Is your home...

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defray
debt, no delay
denial justified,
deal out to sharers what each owes
deem done...

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Political Damage

When minds contend
must each depend
on delivering cuts
that may never mend?

When ideas offend
do each then defend
their hurtul slings
to the bitter end?

When words betray,
can they then defray
the heavy costs
of the public's dismay?

When platforms collide
does each then divide
into tattered shreds,
comity denied?...

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Mind over matter,
Explore life's taverns;
Trust can engender,
A lonely cavern;
Play with full measure,
Hoist funny feelings;
Open life's treasures,
Reach borders fleeting;
Sense somnolent daze.
Sounds that now betray,
Urgent sure amaze
Ripe readings defray;
Give in to stillness:
Exit loneliness.



Leon Enriquez
19 August 2014
Singapore...

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The Heron, grey priest of the shallow mere
Stalks slow and calculated t’ward its prey
With cool far seeing vision of a seer
And knowing his own power needs no defray
For he alone adjudicates the day

His strategy grinds more than single axe
A long unhurried glide path to new gaze
Will reposition him for a climax
And total consummation of his plays
The end - submission that for him is praise...

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The words came as gifts
from the land of proposal,
a voice of enchantment heard far, far, away
Wrapped in the promise
of a better tomorrow,
new bows made of letters untie and defray
Although undeserved but never unwanted,
in the vanishing darkness
feelings pledge with the dawn
As thoughts await marriage, the silence has ended,
a committed engagement 
—betrothed in a song

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: March, 2021)...

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Walls invade privacy of badmouths!
Walls articulate,
Wandering how they articulate?
Echoes! Echoes! Echoes! Ears! Ears! Ears!
Walls have exuberance of ears.
Walls are deleterious,
Even though they’re stunted and dead like nails on doors.
Thee! Can’t even fight walls
Because, of their fortitude!
Trust walls not, when conspiring,
Walls! Have exuberance of ears!
Walls defray to whispers

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T.m.T scripts...

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the sack cloth lay
black as ash upon the mourners  
the sack cloth lay
tears could not soften or defray
rods could not break its rough corners
upon witnesses at vespers
the sack cloth lay


Revelation 11:3
And I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy 
a thousand two hundred and sixty days dressed in sackcloth...
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, 
but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, 
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord....

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There is hearsay of a brighter day
And if it does come my way
I hope it will stay

While the time whittles away
There is no game to play
Struggling with life's daily melee

All I can do is pray
I wont be lead astray
By the things that outweigh
Like the debt of sin I must repay
Only I can defray

With little time there can be no delay
Gods word I must obey
And his love I will never betray
For then he will take away all this dismay

4/19/2017...

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Sometimes I slave the day away
whilst waiting on a word
in hopes that it may just defray
my slide from man to nerd.

A kindly line or flirting note
might save from darkest thought,
while stuck in front of this comp screen
my writing come to naught.

But often true it does not float
in email or by phone
some silly quip or funny quote
to salve this time alone.

Of course, she does not know this truth,
that words from her do cheer,
I wait for them, and act aloof,
but wish that she were near....

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