Short Directive Poems

Direct reaches faster
Reserve your energy
Know
Love
Lord...

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In leaving God 
The west got
Lost
The rest of 
History will
Tell great loss
A world of
Sorrows
And spiritual
Costs...

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May we be blessed to remember in the school of life
the syllabus has but one directive…
Growing old is a mandatory class
Growing up…is an elective...

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a decreed directive
was ordained by 
the queen 
one ordering a 
sequencing 
direction change 
to be made 
immediately
in order to 
comply with 
the new emotional 
ordinance...

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1 I envision.
2 Bad decision.
3 As I take flight.
4 Empty fight.
5 Safety directive dies.
6 From a perpendicular size.
7 Rhombus on a corner.
8 Loss of a mourner.
9 Embers of a dying flame....

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I know little of poet, Sam Slam,
But give him a slice of poet I am.
Of the prime directive,
I am over protective,
So slam your gums down, here comes your ham.

For Anti-Slam Limericks
In Honor of: Carolyn Devonshire
Placed #3...

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BeActive
A new directive
Every move counts  
WHO sounds 
To walk it works 
To run,jump to stay 
Don’t lay,don’t delay
Play and pray 
Play to live 
To pray to live 
The slogan
Getting every move is counted 
Forgetting days are counted...

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THE MESSAGE

The message is clear, there’s no more time
All that is to be done, now has to be done
Whatever or whoever might be the source
One has to obey, without delay, of course
Orders is orders, when one’s under the gun
No mere suggestion, as the directive is prime
...

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Nightly mirror in the sky
I feel you pulling me to try
To find in words of silvered light
Reflective thoughts in sudden flight
In misty shadows gripping night
Holding fast in frantic  fright
I feel the tidal pulsing ache
Behind my seeking eye
And center into focused self
In sanity held tight
Reflections left
Are right...

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cheerful directive
to rise milk cows and plow fields
         cock-a-doodle-doo


Date: April 25, 2020
Contest Title: Morning Praise Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Raul Moreno

December 14, 2020
entered in the Hi-ku (2) Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand

February 21, 2022
entered in the Bite Size no. 37 contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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WORD FOR TODAY: POSITIVE

Happy New Year is a confession; it’s more than a NARRATIVE
It means you are willing to purge yourself of any NEGATIVE
It means that in any circumstance, you will only see POSITIVE
It means when friends disappoint; it wouldn’t seem PUNITIVE
It means you are now optimistic; without taking a PURGATIVE
In 2017, “follow peace with all men”; that’s the new DIRECTIVE

© Wole Popoola 2017...

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Blurred and broken lines.
The charred stumps of ancient pines.
Receiver of an ordinary life.
A directive of outbound strife.

Lost in a sea of shifting light.
The way forward or back is severely tight.
Crystalline formations of danger.
The battered muse is getting ever stranger.

Hope has ceased in circular motions.
Drowned and swept in infinite oceans.
You write because your mind is broken.
Out of power. Insert more tokens....

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Schools, parades and lots of trips,
Cruises, flights and races;
Tennis matches and events
In other crowded places:

All are being canceled or
Postponed for times awaiting.
No one knows how soon is safe
When one’s recalculating.

Expos, luncheons, weddings, shows,
Surgeries elective
Crossed off calendars because
Of cautioning directive.

Life appears to be on hold
As virus germs go flitting
And cancellations mount while fear
Shows not a chance of quitting....

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