Short Distorts Poems

the crystal smears
the seeker's vision distorts
clarity lost...

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expound, do smiles fade
as memory distorts reality
how can we know
we were happy then...

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Shekinah

All sound my hearing distorts,
The spine tingles, shivers run.
A cloud neither black nor white - 
Heaven, Earth touching.

by Jean McLoughlin...

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Hate
Distorts minds
Drags us away
Without us knowing it
Destroys


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Judy for providing the description on how to write this form....

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Summer sun slants
acute
long shadows cast
distorts
     reality
and when 
it’s all done,

there’s
no place 
    else to go
but
up on the roof
to dance
    in the
August snow...

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Fire crackle
Its November
an extant season at last
The mirror always distorts the truth
A young body within an sageful mind
Banish those unemigatic days
Make a beeline for your future days...

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perplexed.
with such conviction,
mania fixed, fabricated dialect
of a place 
nonexistent. choke,
breathe, introduction- as faults
stick, seethe.
glee, combustion contorts, 
distorts, creates revolution.
flee....

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Sun
So hot
Stifling me
Gaze falling on
Blue wisteria
I muse on its beauty
Bewitched by trumpet creeper
As mirage distorts green cedar
Blue Damselflies hover over pool
Mesmerizing afternoon, sleep claims me....

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No more will I show,
Or articulate,
These words I retract,
Will drag you down to 
The low that I’ve sank.

Am I deranged? 
Or just misled?
I can’t get it,
Straight in my head,

Truth distorts.
Then takes shape,
Discarded,

So I,
Can feel

Numb....

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he swings above the swimming 
hole and from his flesh spills glee

light distorts his shinny 
legs as they dance upon the screen

I spread my gills then race to him
too late he’s spun away 

tears streak my swollen 
eyes as I return to solitary...

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I see my reflection
and it reminds me of a deep well
whose dark surface 
bubbles and distorts whatever image
manages to survive the descent,
leaving a monster
I do not recognize
swirling in the ancient brick and mortar
seeking purchase 
in that which it reflects....

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Racism kills
Outlaw racism
Racism deprives
Outlaw racism
Racism deceives
Outlaw racism
Racism steals
Outlaw racism
Racism manipulates
Outlaw racism
Racism distorts
Outlaw racism

Racism ultimately denies someone else's rights and entire existence
Outlaw racism...

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Remorse for erst acts, heals our soul
For we were the doer
Face in mirror, that of a ghoul
Redemption in prayer

Choosing pathways correct 
Anger and lust ferret 
We make now stance erect

Ego distorts facts
Remorse for erst acts 

01-September-2021
Quietus...

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Time after time...
I sit and think...
Thoughts wild in my mind.
Rarely ever making any sense.
A slideshow of my life, runs on fast forward through my head
As a endless range of emotions distorts my mind and evades my heart.
It's a game of twenty questions
Never revealing any answers.
Always leaving me asking... why?...

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One more time to say hello
To see the smile in your eyes
Recognise the love you bestowed
One more second
in your arms
feel that gentle pull
nothing fills the void
how deep this crevice goes
where no light ever glows
time devours every image
sound distorts your voice
trying not to remember
if i only had a choice
just once more to say hello...

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SILHOUETTE (15/23) — PLOY


Fear distorts sense
Abrupt change rams;
Despair consumes

~~~~~

Here I curl
In poignant swirl
Of thoughts that hurl
For time and space
Create fond trace

Here I stroll
With touch that rolls
In tales I poll
Word writes that tell
How soul now dwells

~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
08 January 2021
Singapore...

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There was a time when 
pleasure came on the tip of a tongue.
When fear fled and the senses
did indulge.

Though visions dim and
sound distorts, dismays…
the tang of sweet and sour stay
abides within the aged form
in figureless grace.

Released are we aged crones and cronies
no longer the baited traps, the pollen
for the laden prongs
of progeny....

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We all remember some events,
Although in different ways,
For there's a prism that distorts
When in the past we gaze.

My bros and I can reminisce
And laugh without reprieve, 
Yet recollections vary
From the truth we each believe.

There is no way to prove who's right -
We all are, in our minds -
But memories we share still form
The tie that always binds....

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When devastation sets in,
there's no truth in color
and tomorrow doesn't exist.
Reality distorts
and what you believe, becomes.
Memories become lost friends of yesterday,
enemies of today.
Responsibility belongs to tomorrow.
Freedom becomes penal,
shadows lighten brilliantly,
dark is light.
Sweat cleanses the brow,
tears heighten perceptions.
And self
destroys self,
righteously....

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Concerned with self
  birds in a row

Concerned with self
  all droppings show

Concerned with self
  the blindfold tight

Concerned with self
  not day or night

Concerned with self
  what’s real distorts

Concerned with self
  my voice retorts

Concerned with self
  front turns to back

Concerned with self
  —in truth I lack

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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"A Moment Before the Kiss"

vision distorts 
the shadows blend 
hypnotic entrance
eyes close the darkness
next level up 
transforms golden
as the eyes open
channels switch 
tongues not 
used for talking
words no longer
necessary
we walk through 
the door to a place
of mystery
elemental
closed until that
singular moment

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Starlight, star bright;
first star I see tonight, 
I wish I may, I wish I might,
bestow the reality to this life.
An innocent child, a broken heart,
you name the drama, she’s played the part.
Ruthless fiends leave her godless,
like her make up leaves her flawless.
Cherry kissed lips form a pout,
lipstick distorts her mouth.
Mascara seems as a necessity,
because beauty is only skin deep....

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It's all a joke, but ha ha you got me,
Half of its true, but the other half can't be,
You grip my heart tightly And won't let go,
Vanity steps in the way and you deny what you know,
It steals the love you feel And distorts your mind,
But love will defeat it, give it time,
So when you joke, your heart relays,
Half of a truth you would like to say,
Don't worry...your secrets safe with me,
Because you know in your heart I already see....

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Valentines
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There is such a beautiful grace,
I see, every time I look into your face.

I wish to be your Valentine’s, this to be my place,
deep within your heart, not to be, by Buddha’s grace.

This I must realize and accept, this I must face.
Know that within your heart, I have no place.

To know that my soul will never discern your grace,
in any deep manner, sadly, distorts my face

B. J. “A ” 2
March, 1st, 2016...

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It’s a searing, wordless pain to be unsure of my own identity 
Lost in the day to day, shackled by the ins and outs of my stoic life
Mirrors look back at me, a hazily dreampt structure of a face without a name
Leeching naivety distorts common sense, never revealing a world of cloaked wicked intentions
I study myself until my eyes crack, in search of a semblance of recognition 
Though it seems I am just and idea crafted by a bleeding heart

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