Short Dictum Poems

FACSIMILE
if we paint
we do not copy,
facsimile-
an appearance,we see
through who,we be

after Van Hoogstraten's dictum...

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Georges Braque art dictum was twofold
at least or so we are told
Form&colour do not merge
but in spontaneity,together simply surge...

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The artist-poet
lives out loud
with words and pictures
that attract a crowd

after Zola's dictum

see the first of my ekphrasis/art series
www.vermeersgirls.blogspot.com...

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words too
familiar
or too remote
defeat the purpose of which,
he wrote

    was his

hidden
enigma
a step too far,
if no-one could open
his jar

Inspired by Johnson's famous dictum...

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Poet
Shows it…

Love* themes
God beams.

*1 John 4:16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

November 15, 2022
4th place, "A NEW HIKU FOOTLE TANKA" Premiere Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 11/18/2022....

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On par to manage joyful course
Approach to live without remorse
While dictums of insanity
Are grinding spars impaling me

Perchance to light upon derail
The most melodic harmony
The rest express to no avail
Irrelevant profanity

Experience of life prevails
Experience no sailing smooth
Pause to enjoy a hilltop fair
The valley comes, despair resumes...

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                      Bossy Dictum.(Epigram Couplet)

                Bossy voices have model lectures to submit,
                EGO SUCKS! Their mistakes they don't admit.





                Contest:Epigram Couplet.
                Sponser:Silent one.
                24.11.2015
                                                      ...

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you panted for air as panic pained 
   as the young life in you drained
   a ghastly gagged youthful life 
   strangled dictum…

   and relatives chocked with grief
   as friends shocked with disbelief
   seeing your destiny you would not reach
   strangled dictum…

   a budding jasmine brutally butchered 
   a blameless young life beastly botched
   a blossoming rose harshly hacked
   strangled dictum…....

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War is destroying their homes in Ukraine
They continue their fight against invaders
Refugees are packing the departing train
With thousands and thousands of evaders
Besieged cities run out of water and grain.

Russia’s Putin claims they are the victim
But clearly, they are wreaking devastation
On sovereign people not under his dictum
Ukraine is a free and independent nation
When will Russia free itself from Putin?

Written March 25, 2022...

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Beauty of nature is in its dictum.
The world is being stratified,
here life and plants are as the guide,
charming consensus of the stratum.

Hushing tones of the swinging pines,
hikers often do approach,
how the flowers claim for touch -
miscellaneous layers, medley signs.

Transparent water of streams and ponds,
human nature making bonds,
entwined, enchanted – gazing.

From the distance looks the deer
on exhausted mountaineer –
sheep grassland biome are grazing....

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As I drift along the cosmos
taking eons for my thoughts to osmos.
Here’s an idea that might sound ALIEN,
just show some MOON to keep from failin.
Originating from a place called Ur-anus,
not a PLANET but designed to contain us.
Try converting your STUN GUN
to ignite the methane for fun.
You’re destined to be a galactic STAR,
by keeping those cheeks ajar.
If you try this poetic dictum
don’t explode or you’ll become a victim.
You need to arrive sans detonation
uncharred by self-immolation....

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Not again shall I fall a victim of folly,

Or again allow my heart be melancholy.

I shall let loose my fancy roam unroped,

And my dreams wander unstopped.

 

Ideas shall rule my mind,

And all I have shall respite find

In the autonomous flow of ease,

Till I slumber in eternal bliss.

 

Never again shall I follow the dictum of demagogues,

Nor be counseled by empty anecdotes of conceited pedagogues;

I shall let all slither free,

And all ordained to be shall be....

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