Short Detours Poems

Brain is rewriting
pathways that makes up my thoughts
lost roads past detours...

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Traveling life's roads
there are detours here and there.
Select best new course.
...

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On the Road of lies
travel the Dharma detours
at the signpost up ahead
next stop---the Outer Limits...

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Driving all evening 
Detours on the highways
Darkness came quickly
Drove to search a drive -in
              movie...

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nomad’s caravan---
detours on an unknown place
taking new chances


Haiku On Probabilities
For Marvin Celestial's Contest...

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All the turns and detours I've taken
To free myself from mean people 
Brought me here into your arms
The very  realm of pettiness....

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Life is similar to a maze. The pieces of the puzzles are scrambled and
    will eventually lead you toward your path, yet it has detours....

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excuses 
temporary 
detours 
journey 
creates 
momentary 
confusion 
to arise 
don't allow 
it to bog down
the internal 
motivational 
compass that 
exists in us all...

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Another day and I'm still riding my camel
Get there eventually avoiding life's hassles
Slow but sure
Avoid detours
Some temptations and your ideals get trampled...

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Another day and I'm still riding my camel
Get there eventually avoiding life's hassles
Slow but sure
Avoid detours
Occasional temptations your ideals get trampled...

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I love bridges,
             I seek crossings...
             I love people who are,
              overpass...
             May they teach us to cross
              paths and detours... !...

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improbable thoughts 
leading me
impossibility thinking
detours me in every alleyway
sheer blind faith
belief in the goodness of the universe
saving me 
guiding me
toward the bliss of myself...

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What's behind your well groomed facial hair
Pretend not to have a single care
Whiskers that hide scars
Moustache handlebars 
Detours to avoid the barber's chair



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on August 11, 2019...

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It was 40 years ago today
She walked down the flowered aisle,
Tears flowing down ruby cheeks
She'd be married in a little while,

Through detours and windy roads
Since you wore that princess crest
Have caused our love to grow
Cos matured love is really the best....

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Leave your adornments out.
Admonish fluff to flee,
Carried away from sight. 
Anneal your true meaning,
Never more concealing
Intention, with detours
Confounding what you say.

------------------------
15 April 2017...

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Endeavours often hovers in my thoughts 
Only for detours to persistently intrude
My mind, suspending my unexpressed
Frame of mind on a itinerary’s facade.

At a crossroads which way to reverse it’s
Directions, to turn and make a u-turn
On this avenue of distractions....

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Foot steps,
slow and timid.
Such determination
to conquer fear of the unknown.
Ever wary of what lies just ahead.
Softly walking the path of life.
Never taking detours,
playing it safe.
Foot steps


Paula Swanson
June 1, 2012
For the contest Sound Of Emotion...

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Life begins with a special date
the journey you live is the dash
it's a journey and adventure of you life
it's who you meet along the way
the detours you must take
to get back on track
it's living and experiencing what there is
before the last date is etched on your tombstone...

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Clanks,

blanks,

cranks,

clash!

Slams in tank,

detours irate!

Ingenious infiltrates,

sojourns knocking,

indignation on the plank,

plutocracy dank!

Dotards are prate,

iridescence is just as late-

prime meridian,

songs obsidian,

and the incandescence great!...

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Past permanently in pen 
Eternally etched in every
Thread throughout time 

Can be tempting to toss 
Almost all of it away to
Erase any trace of history

Reflecting reminds us that 
We all walked our own path 
Twisting our way to today 

Don’t dismiss our detours
Lean into them to leverage 
The foundation they formed...

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This awakening
Of listening to tapes
And viewing my life in verse

This strength not to rage
But to reflect for guide posts
For detours lurking
For words to be wary of
The very cost of thoughts I've beheld
Of moves I have choreographed;

I now know of ease, and courage
Not forgetting to regret... .

*

(To be cont.)...

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so let me indicate
the way and the detours for those

show
what light that in slices shines not

tell
how many painful steps to where

(I furnished the house with pots of poison
sharp scissors and sinister frames
the windows bite the day
the rugs hide traps
and the door won't let you out)

welcome to the end...

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mainstream 
                detours,
meeting,formalising
in
   pared
             down
                       measures:
erudite
peculiar
often despised
yet full 
             of meat!
elevated 
              by genius,
creative
reactive,
              textual
              metaphors
of
     poetic
               novelty...

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Oh how I do wish our stances were changed.
Where we could go otherwise,
I have never met a kindred soul as such.
Our dreams align in the heavens.
The stead we could create,
a complete life,
both longing for the same.
We travel the road congruently,
opposing detours.
Does our destination coalesce?
Will our village arise from the mist?...

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Emotional 
deflection
Feelings
departure
Mental
Diversion 
Subconscious
Detours 
Step out of reality
Step into unreality
Into an internal 
Deviation from 
Current citation
into the hearts irrationality 
From the heads rationality 
As a maladaptive means to an end 
Never to go down that road again 
The one that leads to needing you...

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