Short Dwarfed Poems

Burn reaches its peak
Radioactive white flash
A star has white dwarfed.

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beneath august sun
modest farm house dwarfed
by acres of work



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on July 17, 2018...

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Billowing Majestic Clouds
                                  Dwarfed Mountains Cower
                                   Rain Marches Over Valley...

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pull the cloth from your eyes
look no further
gently turn your attention
towards its plaid patterns
its glimmering splendor
dwarfed by the dawn of day...

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I see you,
thumb in
   mouth
blankie draped
over 
   your head
rubbing your cheek . . .

And holding
your own
son
   dwarfed by
your
daddy hands

comfort zone found
    already...

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There once was a diver called Trish,
Who met an enormous jewfish.
She was dwarfed by its head,
And then, drooling, she said,
‘I’d like to see you on my dish.’

* The goliath grouper is also known as the jewfish...

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lonely
longing
hard pressed
seemingly forgotten,
missing
     from
the calendar
          of society:
hope
      dwarfed
      by dark despair
riding
       the automatic
       staircase
of routine
to
...tomorrow and beyond...

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Mystery and marvel
A world once vast and unexplored
Encompassed in technology
Held in the palm of one’s hand

The realm of unanswered questions
Dwarfed by instantaneous answers
As fingers glide across the screen
Like skaters confident of the next move...

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Across the moats of light year spaces,
Across the dark of the earthbound skies,
Starlight leaves just the faintest traces
Collecting softly upon my eyes.

Dimmed in brilliance by the nearer moon
They are lost in distance, and dwarfed in size,
And I, like them, am in other places
And will not be back anytime soon....

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LIFE
ONE DAY RIGHT INTO THE NEXT
LIFE
EACH DAY IS PART OF A GRANDER TEXT


MOMENTS
CAN YOU LEAFN TO SAVOR EACH ONE ?
MOMENTS
SO MANY MEANINGFUL BEFORE EACH DAY IS DONE


TIME
HOW DO YOU MEASURE IT'S ONGOING SPAN ?
TIME
A DWARFED THING IN THE PALM OF GOD'S HAND


LIFE
MOMENT BY MOMENT RIGHT INTO THE NEXT
LIFE...

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For hygiene no hope,
No recourse to soap,
Cleanliness for rope
Germs no longer grope;
Easy patrols: lope

To those who hate soap
Do you ever cope?
All Catholics Nope!”
For I could tell Pope.

Soap is Next father
Of laundry’s lather
Dwarfed only by surf
But to Dirt still rough

Use it no odour
You’ll smell the other....

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Chasing the golden sun across America,
Expressing wonderment at the vastness
Of the Great Plains, distant farmhouses
Dwarfed by gigantic silos awaiting harvest.


Four lines from "Across the Great Plains"
Written August 24, 2021
Abstracted August 30, 2021
Submitted to "Liberum Divisa 7" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Gregory Richard Barden...

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Cottonwood tree wedged between two buildings
Being whipped by the wind rubbed against two  
Ruff surfaces, how can survival happen

Constant change occurs never able to reach
The destiny God had prepared for you 
Dwarfed roots constricted needing room

Room to grow, room to express yourself
Is it to late for someone to save you?
Only God knows your future not man...

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My remaining days, 
Merely a shadow of those expended.

It’s as if I’ve floated through time,
Aping smoke, born of a match head,

Drifting Indiscriminately,
Chasing dreams, oft dwarfed by reality, 

Evaporating days,
Auto-bused me to the stop at which I stand;

I realize now, that life was truly a vapor,
And beyond life, a timeless existence 
With God.
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The first forgotten
(non erit finis)
was the I,
(non est)
and  who would not,
(in phasmatis reverentia)

for my
(Et credo)
expanded world
(universitas)
climbed in
(saecula saeculorum)
and even God
(pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria)
was dwarfed
(et homo factus est)
by nothingness.
(pro totus universitas)

Come, see the light
(et vitam venturi)
of knowing,
(saeculi amen)
for there is no other  truth.
(amen)
               ~...

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June night…
Gibbous moonlight…
My inner pearl shining bright;

Dwarfed under reflection,
Yet un-shadowed—beaming…
Waiting her coming resurrection
Above the lunar mirrored gleaming.

Passing strange is her journey…
A June timed sojourn to destiny,
Teasing the moon’s cosmic majesty;

Tonight, we conquer the abyss between us:
Space, stars, satellites, or any other celestial stuff;
Nothing can keep me from the pearly glow of Venus....

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Furiously peddling the bicycle
The man is dwarfed
By the huge clear sack
On the bikes' back
Now swaying as it goes around the corner
Filled with brightly colored cans.

On another day he is seen
Pushing a grocery cart
Filled to the brim
With a clatter of tin
Clackety clack
Down the sidewalk.

Then again, he is here
With a black plastic bag
Slung over a shoulder
He is marching,
Marching towards the store.
Its Dan.
Dan the Can Man....

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Standing amid the forest trees
I feel so insignificant.
Small and unimportant can be
Very humbling among the plants
And underbrush that are dwarfed by
The regal, deciduous trees.
Quiet is defined by the sigh
Of the wind breathing through the leaves
And serenity thrives beneath
This lushest leaf-green canopy.
I walk along an ancient path
Once tread by aborigines.
Then, out of the blue, the soft wind
Whispered,” you're home again my friend.”...

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Racing toward the deep blue horizon,
Chasing the golden sun across America
Expressing wonderment at the vastness
Of the Great Plains, distant farmhouses
Dwarfed by gigantic silos awaiting harvest
Tall soldier-like windmills standing guard
While cattle graze, tails twitching like metronomes
To the beat of the clackity-clack road noises.

FIRST PLACE WINNER
written August 24, 2021
Brian Strand "Verse Freed" Poetry Contest
March 4, 2022...

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Cinderella got palaced
   Bambi was Fawned
101 Dalmatians were painted
   A Little Mermaid was spawned

Donald Duck got Daisy'd
   Goofy went crazy
Captain Hook was gatored
   Mysterious Island cratered

Snow White was dwarfed
   A Beauty was Beasted
The Three Little Pigs
   On a big bad wolf feasted

Be they movies, cartoons or books
   All these stories deserve a second look
Reason enough for you to 
   Read to your children; give back what you took...

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At the beach of Coney Island
     IHere in Brooklyn - home of the Brooklyn Cyclones
I attended a star party 
with some friends 
    Gazing through the telescope 
I saw the rings around 
   one of the solar system giants
        Felt a bit dwarfed 
by the immensity of space 
     But recovered 
            with a cup of green tea
 Made in China 
     where they have a space program 
                             as they do in Israel 
Even though it is the land of the Bible...

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