Short Distorting Poems

an invisible ring shining ~ distorting reality beneath...

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prejudice,
mental jaundice,
distorting personal perspectives,
corroding humanity's noble objectives,
bigotry....

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prejudice,

mental jaundice,

distorting personal perspectives,

corroding humanity's noble objectives,

bigotry!...

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Like waves of mem'ry
Attracting my attention,
The breezes ruffle
The water's shining mirror
Distorting leaves and branches....

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Ted Cruz
the implausible poseur distorting others' views
try a few of his own
see him preen for those selfies with gullibles half grown....

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It is the tendency of all things in nature
to remain, undisturbed, one mind.
Oh unnatural humans!
Why must they cause ripples
in the clear midnight pond
distorting the moon’s face?...

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MOTIFS
an enriching
leifmotif
  scorching
permeating
 in
distorting
  glimpes
of tonality
on
the brink
at a
     crosroads
an
articulated
 recognition
achieved
in
felowship...

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smoke 
                  aflame, infused
        clouding, signaling, inhaling
fume, billow, reflections, reminiscent 
     distorting, imaging, magnifying 
                   focal, reflected 
                           mirrors...

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Slashed lines’ frequency extends 
Neon-freckled wormhole ride 
Unstable tide rocks the set 
Slashed lines’ frequency extends 
Ivory starlight, synthetic decay
Shape distorting abyssal cry
Slashed lines’ frequency extends 
Neon-freckled wormhole ride...

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ORANGE CRUSH

crushed beneath the fall
visions lost in foggy dreams
bloodied trees in orange robes
distorting angels
trumpeting hallelujah
fog’s gray stone blocks the sunrise


John G. Lawless
9/18/2014
for Dr. Ram Mehta – Choka Me – Poetry Contest...

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Squeaks shrieks and whistling chirps
mixed with mimicry, colourful
spotted speckled iridescent darlings

Pixilated torturous waves at dusk
mesmerising murmurations escaping the day 
starlings, self-pursued sardines of the sky  
flowing contorting distorting, fly...

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Squeaks shrieks and whistling chirps
mixed with mimicry, colourful
spotted speckled iridescent darlings

Pixilated torturous waves at dusk
mesmerising murmurations escaping the day 
starlings, self-pursued sardines of the sky  
flowing contorting distorting, fly....

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Shimmering jewel
Wafer thin fans spread 
Wide, Proud
Gentle vibrating hum
Dragonfly dashes 
Engrossed
To and fro

Searching for……..
THUD

Silence
Glass distorting
Emerald to red
Blink of eye
Flap of wing no more
Nothing
Tranquility...

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History 101
By: Tom
1/25/2021

We cannot reach into our past, and alter any acts,
Many, demanding this change, are attempting sophistry.
They make it more palatable, by distorting the facts,
but It is what it is, and good or bad, it’s History. 
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Our wants do end,
But greed doesn't.
It is a rat trap
Mere bait can entrap
It’s a picture of snatching,
A saga of endless craving,
Loyalties changing, 
Beliefs distorting.
It defies all logic and thrills, 
Mocks sensitivity and kills.
Wake up before it’s late;
Beware lest you are caught...

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A once tranquil pool
starts to shudder in the winds
Distorting it's calm

Within the winds come
a blanket of soft blossoms
Hosted by nature

Cast upon the water
to create a kaleidoscope
of shapes and movements

As the pool grows calm
Movements become less frantic 
shapes do coalesce...

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A thousand adventures 
A hundred love stories
Stimulating emotions 
Milestones met in time 

Words igniting the imagination 
Changing their faces
Distorting the lines of reality
Merging minds as one

Style and rhythm 
Rhyme and reason
Time is racing forward
To relive a thousand dreams...

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DIPICTIONS
an
inauspicious
distorting
 suspicion
with
a
frightening
 determination

but
  with
a
profound
belonging
 stricken
shielding
a
   remembered
entitlement
an
 aptitude
emphasised
by
 cariacture
&
parody

a distorted
arrogance
 so
prominent
so
 invalid
&
bewitching...

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Now new Wizards come on scene in spangled coats 

PR Experts, Press, Politicians paint new scenes

That set us all at odds, each other’s throats

With smears, distorting mirrors, cunning memes


16 September 2019
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 4
Sponsor: Gregory Barden
Verse taken from poem: The New Wizards...

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Raging inside me, as if I inhaled the sun
I can fell it burning my body
Distorting my mind
No matter how much I drink, I am always thirsty
My body rejects all help
I lay here waiting for my torment to end
Through it all, a vision of an angel
Though I can not see her face
I know she is here to save me...

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I will open your hands to the blow of soot
Foam around
And the pejorative of illumination 

I am changing mistakes with your consciousness
The number of exaltation

Soot off the hands
Ascribes oceans to winds

I am distorting the image of reality
Darkness is pejorative
Because it does not expect illumination

2005...

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This temporal self
anchored by a pulsating vigor
distorting my limited perceptions

Drawing me closer
to these material pleasures
immersed in this magnetic depravity

Remedied and satiated
slumbering in disorder
submerged by this banality

Disillusioned and discontent
stripped and starved
like a prisoner of a spiritual war...

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Gallant is a white night.
Deceiving one with delight.
Beckoning with such might.
Obscuring our mind's sight.
Abducting all human rights.
Deluding our true plight.
Creating an endless fight.
Gripping souls so tight.
Distorting our foresight.
Gallant not this white night.
Hell, it will surely you unite. 
Strength it takes to fight....

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‘The Long Shadow’
     Jenny Souter 10/07/2023



     My shadow is longer than me. 
     Pooling my shape and stretching limbs, distorting reality.
     I turn the thin paper edges up and over, frayed, like old baking parchment.
     A kind of alchemy against the shadow, that is me.
     We lay here together- just so-my shadow and I....

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intermediate awakenings
offer heart delight
which is good
but then
ego hijacks
the understanding 
affirming interpretations 
viewed through mind
thereby distorting
the clear truth
and this is the trap
our presence falls into
so it is back to staid stillness 
where by so becoming 
we shine as the light
of pure awareness 
which we are...

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