Short Erstwhile Poems

Intuition is ours
         emotional antenna ...
         for the idea comes
         prior to action and
         spirit it's erstwhile to everything!...

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J-oy
A-bates
Y-our

E-motional
S-adness
M-aking
E-rstwhile
L-oneliness
E-nd

Topic: Birthday of Jay Esmele (February 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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My eternal erstwhile gilfriend had astral sex with me,
She five mionths along,
The baby will fulfill a prophesy,
And his /her father is going to have to suffer....

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I remember my last so vividly.  Mistakes 
I walked upon my past is not me. I release
and let go and I'm constantly reminded about
50 cents given for not wanting to eat food of disrespect....

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If all the tears that ever fell
    from lovers' hearts broken
  were to flood the conscience
    of this erstwhile cruel world

  Why, then, things wouldn't
    change one iota
       would they?...

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Satan’s Voice
By: Tom Wright
10-2005 

That reminding voice that whispers in my ear,
Rouses thoughts that long have slumbered.
But forgiveness has erased all guilt and fear,
Now by erstwhile deeds I’m not encumbered.
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His fingers, prone to tremble,
Clasp a chord's geometry,
Attempting erstwhile ease,
While his voice, rough with age,
Seeks remembered harmony.

Defying his infirmity,
He makes his joyful noise
And plays and sings his past,
And does it
Well....

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No argument, no caste, nothing will matter
When India's erstwhile maestros sang in Hindi
Though mine is sparse, their songs made me traditional
O cultural shell! Wired so Indian, South African me
Millions in India, thanks Bollywood, will still sing along...

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Harbingers...
   Bucolic Sounds...
     Efflorescence in Abundance...
       Petrichors of late Summer,
         Redolent of Propinquity to Creation,
       Erstwhile Demesne of God. 
     An Ephemeral Dalliance,
   Serendipitous Timing...
 EPIPHANY !...

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Sitting here,I dream
Those Summer days of my youth,
       Life was slower then -
     Holidays,so full of sun
       Time, just drifted by,
Daylight lasting,oh so long -
       Days stretched into weeks
Carefree as we ventured forth
Growing up,was simpler then....

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The Convivial Mancs Minx
Stirrer of the Soup
Front and center of the Loom
Feminine rat pack crooner 
An erstwhile trusty steed
Who participates and loves to read
No man is an Island
But a women's playground 
To fell with words and pose
And she is a sullen rose amongst tidal waves...

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I haven't any motives to bind me
I'm on a greasy pole
unable to encounter the top
Conscience is for somber occasions

A dream is a foolscap
Yesterday was a brown envelope day
Waiting for Mr Goodbar
My conversations have run dry
I lost my credentials
Now we are stubbornly erstwhile...

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A thought from an erstwhile visionary,
We came from another century,
How can we grow old disgracefully, 
Or not?
The seniles that time forgot,
Peter Pans on Pot!
Obese, gaga or dead,
Silliest verse you've ever read,
Didn't we come from another century?
Now, let's grow old disgracefully!...

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Infant Poet


I heard the sweetest cry: “Jack Ellison!”
Soon after birth of Joe my Cherubim Son
That bestowed bliss and not sorrow-
A symbol for a judicious tomorrow
Evocative of erstwhile Lord Tennyson!	


** With the Wise Poet, Jack Ellison, in mind. (A Limerick)

JM

19th Oct’ 2013...

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Every solution
has a backfield motion
the night sky is a erstwhile copy
Minstrels came a dancing
love is a past ideal
the bells honour the hour
yet the first candle will not bloom
whose breathe creaks to life
swearing blindly by the gallant windows
from Hanover to Boston we roam






...

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My Brain is Frazzled

Been on the Razzle
.
Since New Year's Eve

Drunk and Disorderly

Body and Mind

Craving a Retreat a Spa

An erstwhile Detox

Clean undies and socks

Deodorant underarm

But most of all

I need someone to love 

Who loves me back

Is that to much to ask ??


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Kindred spirits, instantaneously.
It was unbidden love written in the
  Stars for the erstwhile strangers.
  Magical was their connection, an
 Explosion of vermilion; passionate,
 True romance; 'twas sheer kismet!...

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Into the posturnious zelbinger leapt the gryllous quindersnap.
Without the erstwhile zillip how it gubblprumed.
Gubblprume quindersnap! 
Gubblprume forinfinitever in splarchlike encumberance.
And thusways we prayt the quindersnap farewell. 
Again.


Written for the Quoopisk Poetry Contest
In the poetic stylings of the Vogon...

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Make hay!
Meant the macaw's epiphany
Coming in propinquity of the demesne
Pondering the erstwhile efflorescence of dalliance, she chirped
The bucolic redolent was everywhere, smelling petrichor in the air
This land is her home, she whistled with serenpidity
Harbinger of ephemeral life, she chattered: 
While the sun shines,
Make hay!...

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rogue nation
modern slavery
vicious circle
coldwar
caste divisions up in arm,occupy regime
is it religious sects regaining regime?
is it erstwhile princely estate regaining regime?
is it foreign hand shaking regime?
the thin chicken neck chopped
india is now black hole india
inside amoeba like shapeless india
outside shapeless india...

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Satan’s Voice
By: Tom Wright
10-2005

That reminding voice that whispers in my ear,
Rouses thoughts that long have slumbered.
But forgiveness has erased all guilt and fear,
Now by erstwhile deeds I’m not encumbered.


Sooner or later an ill wind blows for each of us,
We err in assuming that it will always be later!
Tom Wright
...

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Betty was muched delayed
said she came from play
hadn't heard the news
Wistful and loose with her one eyed plan

If she had a talisman from the sea
she'd jump for joy
Going to ride on a galloping horse
cause she has a lot to say
yet hadn't the time to choose
going to see the porcelain man
and tell of her erstwhile plans
of  feeling freer than before...

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Listen to poem:

Gardens of Regrets 
David J Walker

Here is how we thrive on grief
Grown in gardens of regrets
just beyond a pale belief 
Preserving how one forgets 
Rehearsing erstwhile
tactile threats 

Here is how we thrive on life
And laugh at epithets in rune 
And dance a thunderstorms delight 
A summers night enbibed in June 
Perceiving fractal
 		Cursive cume...

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I love you from some erstwhile ground
conditions to impart ~
I love you, that my heart is found
in deeper ways ~ from start.

Of loving you, some grace, not frowned
is tempered with apart.
I love you that some schoolhood's maze
is leaning with remark!

I love you from some Heaven's bound
and with some stately art ~
I love you with a quiet astound
still . . . focused on embark!...

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When the erstwhile Tweeter-in-Chief vents
It is "Freedom of Speech," a First Amendment Right
When Democratic Party will "fight" tyrant-efforts
Defense rests on moral equivalence, yet last night
As many as seven Republican Senators got Party censures
For voting to convict Christian Trump of incitement (01/06/2021)

(c) Deo sheltering in place while US democracy blows over this planet....

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