Short Exertions Poems

BRAVURA
saved his dream
from
needless sacrifice
for
feelings
make demands

exertions of soul
will
inspire
to
drive intellect

beauty's imprint
cannot regulate
but
stimulate
an impulse
to
create
the permanent...

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MIXTURES
instances
of
ostensible
 exertions
with
traditional
certainty

expected
    overtly
resolve
  forsaken
embedded
 in
 treasured
 possessions
&
 perspectives

sophisticted
inventive
& intense
feeling
 spatial
turbulent
  immersed
fostered
beyond style
penetrating
the
 recumbent
element
&
interpolated
with
  problems...

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beauty makes demands
        exertions
           to overcome
              stimulations
imprints
  in a new phase
      an essential experiment
to assimulate
    to induce
          the tranquil
soft as falling rain
     a capacity to feel
     to purge the past
     the unseen the seen
to reveal
       & render anew
       & accentuate&embrace
in
   the contours
     of my mindh...

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I have a bowl for a head
I have a bowl for a head
Hollowed out for flowers
You'd think I'd be dead 

I hold my soul in a lotus
My soul is in a lotus
My soul is a redhead
As you already noticed.

In this rhyming epistle
I've got ivy and thistle
Hear a tune that I whistle
To my stamen and my pistil.

Butterflies are my persons
We set out on excursions
Such pleasant exertions
Cuz my head is a bowl....

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