Short Expend Poems

We know well that life is too short, 
We need to expend great effort....

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Don’t expend coldness
To burn hole into my heart;
Dainty dreams turn ashes....

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garnish your gusto
dance your joy
live for this second
expend enthusiasm
this moment belongs to you
live to the maximum
shout your truth...

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Corinthian columns challenge lifespan
host of novelties transcend
observance pause barters expend
cornices prime, capital defend
shaft and base strengthened
All New Testament lengthened...

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The Stake
by Michael R. Burch

Love, the heart bets,
if not without regrets,
will still prove, in the end,
worth the light we expend
mining the dark
for an exquisite heart.

Originally published by The Lyric...

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Entice others to join you in adventures of fun
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Eagerly expend yourself in movement and happiness
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Enthusiastically enjoy your life, living it your way
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C


Written 11-11-2020
Kim’s Acrostic Play Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues...

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Please ...


                    Waste no spin on my heart's needs


Pay no thought for how it bleeds


                    Expend no mind, its ebbing beat


What's left is puddled at your feet


                    Just dip your fingers - find a wall


And make goodbye ...


                    A bloody scrawl....

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I fight this struggle every day.
I struggle to respire.
Like drawing air through a straw.
I'm always craving more.
I just never get quite enough.
I sit motionless, for conservation.
Afraid to expend my much needed energy,
energy needed to live.
My wheezing is strained.
Daily, I spar with my disease.
One day, I'm afraid
It may win....

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M-ost precious time takes 
Y-our soul to a peaceful moment; 
R-emembering the Lord 
A-s you pray with sacred intent. 

E-arly morn July seventh, 
C-herish the worship service; 
H-ouse of God's glory 
A-ims to give grace and bliss. 
G-o spend an hour or two, 
U-sing the praise sublime; 
E-xert your effort to glorify, expend the most precious time....

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I don’t want to sleep or eat, 
check the mail or pay the bills, answer the phone,
clean the bathroom . . .

           Participate.

. . . all those unremarkable demands of everyday life.

Do you ever wish  you
could sleep ad infinitum and
not have to think?  

Do you ever want to expend 
that interminable energy endlessly until there is no more?...

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I have long waited 
This sunny day
To chide myself

Should I cast for this clown
Who with dripping mouth
Sang his electorate his ambitions?

Or this home-made angel
Who with wings of kites
Would myrrh his disciples?

And then again I wonder
Should the heavens rock
Who will restrain the storm?

So I take the little ballot
And with raging words
In verse expend my anguish!...

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I entertain, insignificant thoughts
I feel, insufficient, pain
All of my burdens are my own fault
Or that is what they claim

Un-lived, unloved, un worthy being
Sheltered from extremes
A foolish child, kept from seeing
What heartache truly means

This life I lead, is just pretend
I’m a rodent, in this maze
My sacrifice, they won’t expend
They claim, I’m wasted space...

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What I would give to sit and smile again
Together with the old breed and a beer to expend
We would tell our stories and have a good laugh
As the night hours continued with each round of draught

Those days are now gone in the blink of an eye
And it seems as old warriors the years just fly
So I’ll close my eyes and the years melt away
What would I give now to stay forever in yesterday.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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“Britches”
Miracle Man
2/7/2025

Today, his steps have slowed and back is bent,
and his days most gone afford slight acclaim.
But in thought he relives life without lament,
Knowing expended days he cannot reclaim. 

But his life has been lived with little regret,
and memory still retrieves a long passed friend. 
Today, with issues of health he is now beset,
and he contemplates time he’s yet to expend.
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Where do you go
When you hit road’s end?
How do you know
To more energy expend?

Can we be certain
That the road really stopped?
Has that final curtain
In reality dropped?

What then should we thus conclude
As we these questions surmise?
We obviously then should include
The opposite, completely, unexpected surprise.

Maybe the road continues still.
Perhaps we’ve given up the fight.
Just because it seems all uphill
We must, in pursuit, delight....

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Hello January, my old friend
Did another year so soon expend
It happens to fast to comprehend
I hope this question does not offend
What oh January do you intend
I hope that you have come to mend
A life which seems but to descend
It's all my fault I will not pretend
But tell me what your days portend
Am I to fall or to ascend
Whatever comes I won't contend
With a newborn and dear old friend
I'm with you until the end
Oh January my old friend...

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First cause
before you none
Force majeur
unbegun
Spark to blaze
and waves cascade
torrents roar
the atoms form
all life is born
from you
We rearrange the lines you draw
expend the flame
distort the thought
our chief endeavours come to nought
until perhaps, because you brought us here
we pause
listen, look to our source

Spark to light
of pure insight
One word put to flight
our libraries of blindness
One impulse
moves the door
One Lord...

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