Short Downplay Poems

Why can't what I say 
Ever be enough 
Why do others always 
Try to downplay my 
Position 
If I give the OK 
Why can't that 
Be enough 
Why do others 
Insists upon 
Undermining me...

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For your sake I will warm up
the weaselly words
to downplay the fiery spirit
of cold straight and raw poesy juice.
I will serve it blood hot, 
warmed up,
hand-cupped with love,
in wily, lily white bowls....

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To open my way;
A list of accomplishments 
I’m determined not to downplay;
You can’t erase the path I forged; 
Not a thing you could say 
would cover my tracks; 
The way I walk my hips sway,
always make an entrance; 
My appetite unlocked the gateway....

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When i sleep,
  I transform...
I'm a guitar virtuoso,
I downplay verses
coming from the ethereal...
  I  speak   languages
  never  learned before...
I'm a hero and a sage,
lover and angel...
Save worlds and lives...!
I imagine, I am back to being
what one day I
had been...!...

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Slay poor men’s dreams lest hopeful themes gain sway -
     make up self-serving laws to flaw their take.
Fray each mashed man’s reach with sharp wished decay -
     break all freewill just for overkill’s sake. 
Downplay pained lives with Champaign or Broadway -
     slake sick wits as befits life as a snake.

Why do the greedy need the humble’s sigh
high on the list of those to power fry?





... CayCay
June 5, 2019...

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Thundering downstairs, my sister charged me with theft;
wondering, Dad  questioned  the source of her inquiry.
Blundering like a buffoon, at last I confessed, 
plundering her coffers, I had filched her diary.

Deft hands suddenly snatched  the book in question.
Bereft of my fun, I pulled a downplay, 
“Theft is taking and KEEPing something not yours.”
Left with nothing to speak of, I just stole away. 

June 13, 2021

Sponsor	Joseph May
Contest Name	Lento - 8 Lines...

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