Short Detects Poems

A desk
     detects
     a mind's
       neglect

     else
     reflects
       pure intellect...

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Charlie
That's Me

Detects
Suspects

Here's Clue
For Flu

Veggie
Suey

Ban Food
No Good

You Do
Flu Through

My Fee
Chablis

Glug Glug
Chug Chug...

So Long
Drink Gone...

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The world of vegetation detects spring much sooner than men 
Buds and herbs rise up from their snowy arrest and wintry rest 
Boost lovers and lambs to spring and brandish in lustful deeds. 

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June 17, 2014
Tenth Place win
Form Sijo: (Syllable counts- 44)...

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His strings are attached
But he is as still as a stone
Unable to move his wooden bones
The magic wand has no effect
He has eyes  that seem detached 
No pulse that anyone detects
The puppet master  sits in despair
 It is just as he had feared
Alas! ...the puppet has become the puppeteer!...

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and when
bird, black skin
waves hi and grins
and then does it again?
penguin

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eye blinks
my instinct
detects distinct
baby sphincter high jinks
end stinks

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fruit tree
sin's entry
serpent sentry
promised wisdom plenty ~
empty

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sheepish
not finish
and diminish
wooly be bahd punished
by ewe?

...

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Fate, love, and coffee
turned into substitutable
with reminiscences,
Striving to be free from
cacophonous relics gifted
by your poisonous love
will my violaceous lyrics
mend my wounds, I urge you
a hundredfold of which you
allow no response,
I hold a bleeding soul, but you spurn
degrading you detects me though,
however, we can still endure any spell....

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vivifying fragrance of a flower 
all embracing 
yet unimposing
enlivening gentle rain shower 

each hue of the ebbing sunset
beauteous
rapturous
in wholeness cognition detects

likewise each chakra complete 
in alignment 
quiet contentment 
entwined with bliss mist replete

omnipresence has no periphery 
self aware
centred everywhere 
eternal timelessness continuity 

25-September-2020...

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AUTUMN BREEZE

When the magic is gone
	and all the stars have fallen,
do I just sit and wait for my final calling?

Is there still something
	to do, out there, for me?
If not before, then when comes destiny?

Ashes tossed, will I be known
	as husband, father, son?
Can I leave this plane with things undone?

Fair poetry I weave
	but words are falling leaves
and my soul detects an autumn breeze....

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The hope of a plant is water
 And the hope of the heart is love
A heart without love will falter
As will a tree if no rain falls  from above

 Perhaps lonely hearts can detect love's scent
 As the tree detects the scent of water
 Both these gifts are heaven sent
 To be treasured now  and ever after

 By water we are baptized
As we become born again
Heaven's hope is the cherishes prize
Where love forever reigns...

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No Trash 
6/11/2018
Tom

Only my eavesdropping ear,
Detects the audition of the winds silent whisper,

This temporary phenomenon will soon be filled, 
With the sounds of a three dog town awakening; 

(IE) the garbage truck and boom boxes at five o’clock 
From businesses that has invaded my neighborhood;

This silent whispering wind often shows its anger
By populating my yard with Cardboard boxes!

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An Ideal Father
Dr. James E. Martin
©June, 2014

Faithful to lead as God directs,
	Fearful if failure God detects.
Alert to danger along the way,
	Attentive to rightly God’s will obey.
Tearful if children go astray,
	Thankful if in god’s way they stay.
Heartily encouraging through every trial,
	Helpfully teaching all the while.
Eager in his duties to advance,
	Engaged in righteous, faithful stance.
Reaching out to those in need,
	Rightly dispensing God’s life-giving seed....

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