Short Drawback Poems

Her beguiling eyes took my breath away
Above the silken mask she chose to wear
Her coif most flattering above her face,
Until I saw her teeth -- the worst, I swear!

Written August 8, 2022...

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the straight jacket
of convention
bring
random
    consolations,
so 
apposite:
the drawback
of the trivial,
underlined
by the inauthentic,
unruffled
by the marginal,
proxy-proof
in the schemes 
of man...
distilled by the
sieve
of the commonplace...

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Love in instances
Love in giving
Love in getting
Love in your weaknesses
Love in gaffe
Love in amorous deeds
Love in frailness
Love in fragility
Love in drawback
Love in dire drop
Love in darkness
Love in light
Love in good 
Love in differences
Love in war
Love in love
Love you...

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All I ask for
is to unloose the tongue
believing it won’t block
among people bar none

A social gathering
is a step too far
where you are not wanted
feeling you have a scar

Indeed scarred you are
socially unable to compete
what is your future?
sitting alone in your back seat

poetgord@2013...

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A bird who sits on the mountain wall 
Would sees the world with great azure 
He would see his rise and fall
In glimpse and glances more and more.

A bird who sits on the back of a cow
Has earned his dreams on others back
He mere explain things why and how
But knows on the back, others drawback....

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Most if not always 
my consequences rest
in lamentation of spirit. 
End if not means, 
that crime is a call break
of thought bearing geniuses
I guess, if not pretention
That I am a man. 
That everything I bare is an ordeal. 
And every ordeal is quite alarming, 
Wither we may loss or won, 
Is a drawback in His time....

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if i said my childhood was rough 
i'd be ungrateful
but that doesn't mean the world hasn't been a drawback
to the fulfillment of my destiny
the devil in my brother is one of those factors
that drew me back in the search
to put my talents to work and use
i'm grateful to God
'cuz He never let the drawbacks take away my soul
but rather they helped me grow
in talent and self-esteem...

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I became the best poet
Greatest one in the paper
The school loved my work a lot
I was the only entrant

Would that put me down
Drawback illusion
No I excelled more
I kicked butt throughout

I was number one in school
Writing hungry poetry
Though superior I seemed
I am exaggerated

Russell Sivey

Verse: 

1st stanza: 7 syllables per line 
2nd stanza: 5 syllables per line 
3rd stanza: 7 syllables per line 

1/31/2012...

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Cupid, drawback your bow, please
Don’t let it miss, don’t let it tease
Release the string, let the arrow wheeze
Squeeze through the trees 
Carrying it off in the gentle breeze 
Pierce my lover’s heart when I’m on my knees


Cupid drew back his bow while I proposed 
She saw the ring in my hand and froze 
Weeping shrieks of passion came up close 
Caressing my face saying I do when I arose



1/6/2016...

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The overpouring raindrops, the incessant rain outside was telling me continuously,
She was a story to nay sayer
and he was a theme park to symbolic haifa.

Baha'i temple and a raincoat.
People get soaked there.
With theocracy, bureaucracy, faithfulness, faithlessness, midlife crisis and many more like all these.
We and the downpouring sounds outside, are a drawback, still
That heavenly sky is still a striker hand of an indoor game!...

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When that time comes to execute a will
don’t procrastinate until you’re fatally ill.
View it as your last opportunity to exert
your power over those wishing you inert.
It’s also your last chance to deny your heirs
the things they threatened should be theirs.
The only drawback, and it’s disappointing,
you’ll be denied to see the fierce in-fighting.
No great loss, so you shouldn’t be worried;
you’ve seen it daily long before dead and buried....

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They say an elephant
Never forgets-
I put memories in poetry
So I'll never forget-
An elephant weighs
Ten thousand pounds;
A picture carries
The weight of
A thousand words-
A poem is a picture
Without a frame,
Creates an image
In your mind,
Creates an idea,
An emotion;
Creates- something-
In your heart...
I don't know how much
The heart of an elephant
Weighs, but they say 
Grief can break
An elephant's heart-
I suppose that's the 
Drawback to
Remembering......

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