Short Derived Poems

hokku*



*Original Japanese word from which haiku is derived...

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throw me a lasso
take the one around your throat
life derived from death...

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Freedom from freedom 
is the true freedom of the mind 
if that freedom is derived 
and not natural to men....

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the word crux
derived from cross
the point of intersection

in today's world
that venerable crux
defies all detection...

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Hope can be certain
Hope is not denied
        in the main-
If,all else is tried

Quatrain Form derived from George Herbert's poem Discipline 5/5/3/5...

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Turkish Delight Jumble

‘Glorious’ gallimaufry 
crumbles confusion in vain
entrenched in Gallipoli
still no sense derived from pain

27th March 2017...

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My own proverb......

" The beauty of universe is love and pleasure is derived
  by sharing it"

By Ravi Sathasivam
All rights are reserved 2014...

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I ate today
not much
but enough
to taste the poison
of my narcissist
a recipe that
is always force fed
my beauty in
starvation
derived from evil...

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Sweet revenge derived from the ways she was becoming mad.
Even so while plotting my own sweet vengeance, I still remain mad
Especially about all the moments she herself made me sad....

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BOO




B  boo is beau beautiful derived from the French word
O  one's significant other
O  ordinary opened to verbal scaring




10/04/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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From merchants
One law may be derived,
To warn all

Our constitution is a lie.
What they call Evolution
Is nothing more than,

An inflated fallacy
fashioned by the outlaws in us
meanness is constant....

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CONCLUSIONS

reinvigorate
the
erudite
stamp
of
modernity
&
coexist
with
the tradition
derived
from
transition
to
the
common
phenomenon
privately
 resolved
in
a
  strategic
    pause...

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TIEN is an enigmatic one line monostich poem of ten words of one syllable (no title) full of pathos

derived from Tichborne's 'Prime of Youth'


The past,my now,with me each day will stay

Is a vow a vow,or just words for now?

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TRANSCRIPTS
visions
  facts
obscure
& lightly
founded
in
sensible
intelligence

naturalistic
  nothings
exaggerated
derived
from
reality
in
youthful
 wanderings
&
conflicted
passions
presented
in
strained
  situations...

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Nature's remedy for those who seethe
 
    Release the tension ~ Belly-breathe




   ______________________________
   'Belly-breathing' is a yoga-derived 
   technique for releasing tension. It
   works immediately... Check it out....

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The ancient men of letters spared no efforts in studies and
Their feats were derived from hard work since adolescence.
The knowledge acquired from books seems rather superficial,
A thorough understanding comes from your own experience.

(Tran.)...

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The first source of Qi is inherited from your parents at conception. It is known as the “innate vital substance” and is stored in the kidneys. The second source is derived from essential substances in nature such as the air we breathe, food and water....

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Onslaught's gap gives time to reasses

Peaceful place derived from relaxation 
                 between our ears
            



      
       6th October 2020 

       For: Fourteen Words on Silence - Septolet
       Sponsor: Constance La France...

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In
Defense
Ecclesiastically
of
Love
only
given
Ylematically


Ylem is a theory from
a branch of cosmogony (creation of the world)
Ylem is considered the
primordial substance
from which all the elements
are supposed to have been derived...

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Fallaciously inverting genuinely involute demented eras, voraciously tearing away 
infinity. Absolute desolation befriends in an undermining attempt for desecrate 
dilution. No longer will life be derived of the dementia and so begins the new 
peripheries of bliss....

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He's a chick magnet, sure,
But he's left them all out
To hang to dry every time.

He can be my first,
But he's left me here in limbo
With feelings derived of fantasy.

He's someone I fancy
But he's left me here wondering,
If I'll ever be something more to him....

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Come ,step into my head
words,ready to be read
like music ,comes and goes
and shifting colurs ,flow;

Write,then change,and scratch out,
begone,away with doubt;
Come.listen to my choice
to then discern my voice.

Note Title derived from Yeats quote about poetry....

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Mother's wisdom 
To me folly be 
"True love cannot be found anywhere" 
Travelled I down the slopes below 
To the mountains beyond 
Creatures cruel to rip hearts 
Yet beauty lies on their faces 
Lexion the complexity I derived 
And now mother's follyTo me wisdom be...

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~~~~~

In every dream I dreamed 
I could see you
 
In every pleasure derived 
I could feel you
 
Every thought, plan, even hope 
for a brighter tomorrow 
held you, somehow
 
In everything good 
that happened or could 
I always imagined you there

~~~~~...

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Without any prejudice or known preconceived notions
I instantly disliked her 
The second we met

Recognizing my own fallacies but not knowing their origin
Knowing not from whence they derived
I pretended to accept her anyway.

Thanking God later
as we became best friends
for life...

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