Short Dereliction Poems

Deserting your own judgment
  —the highest form of treason

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Our history shows
Many clannish castles fell
Dereliction death



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/scotland-3.php...

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Greed is enthralled in us all.
Real or imaginative and never saw.
Each has their own level of call.
Everyone has this code in a fall.
Dereliction is the key for a draw....

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Suspicion of Duty Dereliction

latest prediction
started having suspicion
duty dereliction

Jim Horn

Seven more to go to
8,000. Just like how 
many more days 
does Trump have 
in office?...

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Sadly
He watched the old barn
Wither, fade, weep
Forgotten by time.
Neglect
A dereliction of youth
Seeking the future
Forgetting the past.
The old harnesses cracked
Tools bent by gravity’s inertia
Dust covered dreams
Wilting in silence
As an old man
Watches...

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fluid enclosed me
trapped in memory
my heart in a husk
feel the bow... 
of anguish
candle fire...
firefly
your face I love
dereliction are cheering
oars are fading... 
on the shore
I hope 
you keep the image
forever sung 
in the heart

Written: September 26, 2022...

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The truth is whispered in the wind.
  A lone eagle screeches
  Calling out 
  "Remember the persecuted". 

  Men, women and children
  cast out
  Into the Scottish winter.
  Despairing to God

  Sheep now graze
  Over the dereliction.
  Scottish  blood 
  Still spatters the heather.

  Amen...

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J-ust never turn a blind mind, 
O-ften open it instead; 
N-o time for dereliction, 
A-s you have a wiser head.

G-reet the day with optimism, 
A-fter the dark night is gone; 
Y-our birthday has come, 
R-eappearing is the dawn.
A-nother morn has broken, 
M-oment is there to find; 
O-n the fourth of September, 
N-ever turn a blind mind....

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Westport Winter

Dull 
same as outside
costly lamps are lit
while we waited
they leave with bags
tepid lipstick'd 
cups, coffee stained 
saucer dereliction
They'll fetch cars 
before tickets run out
raining now
a gauze curtain
to make headlights dance 
like Salome
Performances
outside Maddens bar
and rain tick-tocks a rhythm 
on umbrella's...

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Neglection: An Acrostic Poetry

Neither of whether hope nor cries,
empowered by a companion.
Grueling moments of surprise
languish as felt dereliction.
Empathy, why can’t just be nice?
Care has no intention.
Tender felt in pure disguise,
impeded to submission.
Only to mark in bold precise:
Novelty in aggression.


Pajo, John Christoper I.
12-08-21...

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Five lines in the sand – his quintet of children is skimming the surf

Like ariels chasing youth not yet knowing Plath’s substanceless blue

Streaming chariots of gleams into fireflies dragons dinosaurs and castles

Oblivious to extinction the full impact of tides and dereliction of beauty

Just foot prints on the shore reaching fast for jetsam flotsam and joy



21st April 2019...

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In graduating amounts of dereliction,
I see your needs unfolding as to work
upon some care of how ~ and see you now,
as you could be, and as I vow!

I see you, thrice, before my love, and its restore
still, solemnly and see you as a store
of faults acquired are liaison, but bore
and only love's direction holds implore.

From God ~ from God's protection
I see you now, and love you more!...

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There is a place
Beyond reason
Where people go
Without believin'
...in the unknown

No sickness or disease
No aging...
No sex, no race, no color
No....difference

No voice
Babies with bubbles in their mouths
Mothers without affection
Dereliction

Movement without purpose
Slavery a better state
Nations abandoned
...to become 

HUMANOID

Written by Trudy Schrader on 09/17/2021...

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I love him with all that I am ...
Beyond the noise and hype of this world
Beyond the ebb and flow of ocean tides
Beyond all the hurt and pain we have borne
Beyond the dereliction and abuse
Beyond the bias and disrespect
Beyond the abandonment 
The disparagement, the scorn
I honor him, his beautiful spirit, and his heart
And ‘though tomorrow is not promised to him and me
As far as my heart does know, 
I will love him to infinity
~*~...

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Friction
Dereliction
Tattoo addiction

Drones
Bunk loans
"You're fired" immune deficiency syndrome

Boatloads
Troll roads
Hipster mustachioed

Deadlock
Rhetoric squawk
Locker room talk

Medication
Gene mutation
Social syndication

Accuse
Right to choose
Hashtag abuse

Getting fatter
Online chatter
whose lives matter?

Political turbidity
Global humidity
Pokemon stupidity

Going viral
Vinyl revival
Fallen idyll...

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A termite’s a guy who just loves the woods
It gnaws him because he’s just not understood
His nightmares, a version of Sentricon hell
You love oak and cherry, why can’t he as well?
A villain who’s bred by your dereliction
Spy him out early, ‘cuz he’s no pulp fiction
He wants you to upgrade, pack up and move on
He’s Jaws and he’s Spectre ‘gainst your Termite Bond


—————

Chewing on No Sympathy For Termites by Milt Hankins...

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The devil is in hearts of the many too afraid to be themselves 
That are first to face the tune of day's clock 
With wickedness thrained their dereliction can't stop
They're prudently persistent about the way you do things 
Having absolutely no concept of love or compromising
When they finish destroying what they could 
They move on to another
So when you see him sneering back at you 
Across the table at the bar 
Know it's him the snake breeching the weeds 
The unholy morning star...

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