Short Engineered Poems

armageddon zeal
engineered climate collapse ~
making a killing


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The Cabin

Earth given trees mauled
Revised restructure by God’s man
Engineered by God...

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Ex architect Tony Smith loved space
especially with  black surface
Romantic rather than minimal
engineered on a large scale...

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What isn't flawed?
The rule of law?
Any document that holds power
Any legislation written down
Engineered by man 
Dictated by man
Written down by man

Man is flawed
What isn't flawed?...

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Who needs will?
Endorphine blitzers
Overdose blues and alcohol spritzers
Chemically engineered to enslave
Like the things we see
and who were taught to be
since birth weve been told to behave
Anarchy!Rebellion!Ego!Zeitgeist!...

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Engineered to sail far
across Duck Pond's great beyond,
Daddy built my marine dream.
Through Seven Splashes she swayed,
calmed by swan songs and toad croaks,
lily pads and lotus blooms
when paper had strength of steel.

5-16-2020...

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The walls are four-square grange-hall 
brown. We sit in folding chairs engineered 
to hold a body in place. We sit here 
like the law of possession.
 
Could I wither into a seed so small 
I’d not be seen? Could I find a plot of soil 
where I might grow?...

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landscapes
  inside
 the mindseye

thoughts
 pictured
in
reresentations
  topographcal
terrains
in prospect

elaborate
exotics
  artfully
  engineered

in

  ostensible
outlooks
 outwardly
    abstracted
searching
  for
     senstivity...

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Translation trends
Truths forgotten
Languages lost
Estimating
Guestimating


Inadequate scrutiny
Self fulfilling prophecy
Warnings waved
Rewritten in self interests
Applied apocalypse
Engineered ending
Discrediting disaster
"Nature" knew best
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Spawn of the blade,
a bacteria
engineered 
'twixt knife and wound.

'Tween scales and tape
they took
his measure leaving 
figures 
in books.

The spade
cut smoothly
through the earth.

In an effort to save for the approaching moment,
he had lost what he'd failed to spend....

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FREESTANDING

peculiar free-
 with arms aloft
 the trauma
of a thinking
 lifestyle
into objects
of beauty
a
learned
  technique
never schooled
or
engineered
yet
benefitting
by a measure
of
 the original
 announced
  constructive
&respectful
Copyright © Brian Strand | Y...

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artificial smarts
are nonliving intellect
with specific goals

just programmed logic
with limited rationale
that cannot shut off

to think abstract thoughts
as the context of content
ai's a tooled toy

an arts-official
engineered dreams for control
...
ai can't grow up


stan sand...

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And we became the layer of voices
With engineered precision ripples 
And auto-tuned echoes

And though many who bow blindly 
In the sanctuaries of their own belief system 
Would sometimes rationally scrutinize 
And disqualify the sacraments of others

Truth would always appear obvious 
On fables rather than reflections...

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Early morning the
rainbow
spread its' arch, 
bridgelike and engineered with perfect hues of light,
over the fire ravaged California town...
and the first risers looked up, clutching their coffee cups in ritual to the luminous curve, 
contemplating meaning in the wide color of prism,
as the rainbow faded,
content only with itself....

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Pioneered for extinction.

Engineered to be the cause.

I need not.

One prediction.

I feed my addictions.

That is my cause.

I need not.

Any pause.

I forward just to play.

Bleeding.

Eyes.

Blistered.

Lips.

So comes my fears.

With many tears.

Through every single.

Of my broken years.

I cry.

Where angels die....

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Our modern day chorus
Seems sung out of tune
The cacophony of life
Instead of the cry of the loon....

We have so engineered noise
As this world keeps going around
It's easy to loose connection
With the gift of earth's quiet sound....

The call of the prairie  grass
The sigh of the ocean's repeat
Songs of the passing brook
And the sound of our own heart beat........

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Listen to poem:

I engineered an intricate design,
determined to be action,
not thoughtful stasis.
But, isolate and distant --
a preserver of decorum --
formal, unexposed, and safe --
with bounds determined
by tight, sane strictures,
I did not struggle,
could not escape nor abandon place --
became, instead, a creature
habit-ridden:  a cousin
to the circus seal
that honks a horn
for fish....

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Why you wash my summer gone
Weather wicked warlock spins
Reap the whirlwind Master Nothing
Summer cancelled fall begins

Mother’s needs not your concern
Only selfish motive flies
Freezing while another burns
Endless damage mortifies

Play with toys no man should own
Manna tropospheric poison
Seeding her destruction sown
Manipulator of my season

Fred Jagenberg – June 21, 2019...

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with the touch 
             of God
this fountain 
          of mercy
a thing of great beauty 

 portraits in stone
in relief & in 
     round reality
marvels in marbled 
             layered planes
 of dextrous 
        turbulence
expressive ecstasy
    of emotional empathy 
made tactile 

    insights in allegory 
embodied & engineered 
imagination
     into
       monumental 
magnificence...

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I stack my bricks together
Assemble one by one
Construct myself a barrier
To hide from everyone
My soul's become too fragile
It's shivery and weak
Ramshackled by dishonesty
Enfeebled by deceit
So I've engineered a fortress
An rampart for the pain
Ensconced behind my barrier
I'll never hurt again
So I stack and stack and stack my bricks
My emotion thwarting wall
A soul saving work of masonry
To shield me from it all...

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Listen to poem:

ebony and ivory
keys to my heart
sounds engineered

measured dynamics
undulating vibrations 
infiltrating my soul

piano notes
dispatched through
midnight air

a nostalgic journey
longing
for passion



Read on air by invitation  ~  July 14, 2021  'WORDS & MUSIC'

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on January 22, 2021 for contest ALL YOURS JAN 22 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on July 24, 2018...

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BLACK.
My shadow bask in bliss
Paid dues of past life synchyses
Diamonds on melanin doesn't connote asking amiss
Just like the lips asking for a kiss,
Spread o'er and so is this
Art engineered on the instrumentality of black pen,
Its a race no man will see it end.
Black is bold, black is beautiful.
Love your skin and be grateful
You're wonderfully made.
Be #blackandproud cos it'll never fade.

VickWizzy
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}
Copyright ©2019...

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Sailboats at Regatta
bob and weave
play and sway
like feathers on the currents of the air
on a springtime morning. 

Hand carved champions of the sea
engineered to outsail some other
brothers, friends and fathers all aboard
more than ready.

Hoing through the motions
open ocean bound
toward a blue horizon
and fearless - full of faith, only
in what wind may take them far, fast
as cheerful souls on shore
say goodbye.

- a poem by Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr...

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its and to the time
Golden purple into lifts where darker crimes  
Engineered purple into sun coral memories more  
Of the underneath is a breast the joy
 Lily coral slow dark lifting golden rod
Once driven Audi sinister vehicle stalled 
Nature and automation which is greater  
As the swan its beak whisper where bliss
It's a road race twits nature and maniacs
In life's race which is greater
Nature and automation which is greater    





4/17/19...

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