Short Detain Poems

Oh reality, 
You may detain my dreams for a while
   
But

Never will you succeed, prisoners them 
To keep! 

    
© Demetrios Trifiatis
  06 SEPTEMBER 2014...

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Break it off a bit
loosen the grip
On my sanity
somewhere in the back
Please detain the pain
let my cries signify
Not the same
un unhappy
Give me a glimpse of free
tell me
i
am
not me...

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Were Determined To Detain

We were always determined to detain,
All the water in swamp so it will drain;
Did disappear;
No longer here;
Now none of it no longer does remain.

Jim Horn

Wonder where phrase drain the swamp
came from anyway....

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Cockroach sat on heap of dung
Cock sat on the cockroach
Fox sat on the cock
Cheetah sat on the fox
Antelope sat on cheetah
King sat on slave-man
Baby came, to sit on king
“Treason, treason, treason”
Arrest, detain, interrogate”
Security guards, shouted loud...

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Take less, give more
Complain less, thank more
Hate less, love more
Fake less, be real the more .

Break less, mend more
Sick less, fit more
Play less, read more
Fail less, achieve more.

Detain less, retain more
Stain less, honor more
Raze less, build more
Less less, more plus....

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within my dreams 
continuously 
searching for you 
trying to find a way 
back to were we left off
can never fully detain you 
you always remain just out of reach 
of my grasp 
just as suddenly as you appeared 
you just as suddenly disappear from sight 
gone again 
then the pursuit starts all over again 
till i wake feeling longing for the past 
and for you...

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Soul is in darkness in hopes to detain
Heart is in reaction with a chest pain
Nothing is plain and simple, words in vain
Key is thrown away in hopes to maintain
A grain of control, though there is no gain
For the active pursuit is to restrain
The only voice willing to speak again
Not to create rain or a hurricane
Words are not in anyway said in vain
The soul does not exist to be in vain...

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They DETAIN me but I won't COMPLAIN 
Time MOVES slow  lamented BLUES
Don't CRY for me as I fashioned a SIGH
To FREE my soul to God as he comforts ME
So DEEP are my feelings for those who WEEP
The DEATH of those who breathed their final BREATH
I KNOW my place in life and time will SHOW
To RENDER my service to Him and then SURRENDER

 
Ralph Sergi  February 11, 2015
Contest Plucky two by nine...

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The life of this Fife was inane
No burglars did Barney detain
     Got locked in the cell
     As crooks bade farewell
Seems God gave him just half a brain

In comedy each plays a part
Aunt Bea cooked and huge was her heart
     Old Otis loved booze
     And Andy could schmooze 
But Barney made others look smart




*February 3, 2019
For Joseph’s Limerick Four Contest
Howmanysyllables.com:  88558 88558...

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I'm struggling
Bending and breaking
Like a tree in a hurricane
Trying to hold on
Yet everything seems so mundane

I'm struggling
Trembling and shaking
Like a child in pain
Trying to breathe 
Yet air is too hard to gain

I'm struggling
Hurting and wrenching
Like a soul going insane
Trying to break free 
Yet normalcy seems hard to detain 

I'm struggling
Though I'm still here
Standing tall
And moving on
Relief seems near
After it all...

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The Wellington Harbor vagrants that waddled
Removed from the sushi stand where they coddled
Were heard to say,
"That is okay,"
"For it badly needs to be remodeled"
   



New Zealand Police Detain Penguins 
New Zealand Police on Monday arrested a pair of penguins as they were caught loitering outside a sushi outlet. The birds, described as "waddling vagrants" were held near a Wellington train station as they made their way to a nearby Sushi Bi....

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kindness is adrift
in our world
seeking refuge
from blindness deafness
the color of skin
race religion language style
equator lands yield darker skin
protected from sun's rays
why must one bow to polar types
with ice-tinted skin
let us skin the Earth
take her pulse
expose her crystal core
for she is HOME
where is the heart
bleeding within -
human blood, an endless river
salty ocean surrounds
a sea of tears
our poor planet
dangling in space...

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A painter sits at work
he paints a bird
but it flies away
A crocodile he draws
it rises up to swallow him
A pretty girl he carves out
indecently she assaults him
A lake he paints on a wall
but it plots to drown him
A soldier he sketches on canvas
it takes a sword to cut him
He bangs tins pours paint
and breaks the brushes in anger!
All he created with paint and brush
emerge from nowhere,
arrest and detain him for life
What a mystery painter
in a mystery world!...

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No longer shall the earth remain 
with wintry rain squalls, spattered snow, 
for we shall with the crocus go 
from freezing to spring's winsome reign. 

Birds entertain us with their song, 
they trill and chirp so high, so low, 
and fill the skies where'er we go, 
their sweet refrains gone for so long. 

Nor shall the beavered dams detain 
the rippling rivers' allegretto, 
they shall flow where they must flow; 
no longer shall the earth remain 
with wintry rain squalls, spattered snow....

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No longer shall the earth remain
with wintry rainsqualls, spattered snow,
for we shall with the crocus go,
the sun shall sing its sweet refrain.

The birds and beasts cannot be wrong
to trill and chirp, so high, so low,
no longer shall the earth remain
with wintry rainsqualls, spattered snow.

Nor shall the beavered dams detain
the streaming rivers' allegretto,
they shall flow where they must flow.
Beasts and birds the sunrise shall sustain,
forever shall the earth remain in brightness....

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In this sweet little pig pen
Walls that once were friends
And bold shields 
For lounge room warriors
Now barricade 
Detain indefinitely, denying
Beyond them imaginings
For ravenous captives
With restless longing and fears
Choose now the door 
Indulgence to ruin, or
Patience to pride
An unforgiving master waits 
With bitter destinies to navigate 
Seize propitious offerings 
Fleeing these halls
To uncertain fate
Courage now, groomed in isolation 
Seclusion of rooms
No longer resting places....

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Again at dusk, my bird into the forest slipped
For the vigilant owl leaving behind cozy nest 
In the heart of cell to detain the roving crow 
To agitate the meditating dove for a needless cry. 

Deep down in the dense darkness of Light
My bird in that echo, a way finds
A drop at bay, the sea, end another
Even in mingle nay become the sea.

Hanging boughs and virgin fruits, too far
Like a wish indecent touching my heart
But that too wash’d like a mark on sand
For a man is man and God is God....

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