Short Extant Poems

Life is the epithet of extant intermission...

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Soulful compromise
deadciduous blank slate
visceral extant punch...

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Starlit skies of Earth
Extant, unbothered, alone
Lurid sun, looming...

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A bright lit daisy
bloomed at full extant also
known as my sunshine....

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Room number four white wall squared times glass door trim looks like the symbol pi~~I count...

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Fire crackle
Its November
an extant season at last
The mirror always distorts the truth
A young body within an sageful mind
Banish those unemigatic days
Make a beeline for your future days...

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To whom does he smile at
With a tip-top approbation of doggedness
Neglecting the pleasure of the period?

To whom does he cheer
With a reverberating extant sound?
Nobody but he who buckles down...

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Each heart has its asks,
Yet most What? comes unbidden!
Inside lie our tasks.

Man’s no island lone,
Archipelago’s the heart!
Yet man enforces wont.

Desire is extant,
Shouldn’t  the What? make
Scarce smiles rampant?...

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Cloak
all our
today's in
a mantle of
love-
soak
all our
tomorrow's
in showers of
hope-
float
away
yesterday's
mistakes on the
tide,
then
abide,
satisfied-
on this pleasant
ride

Read more @ John 8:32-36
& Mt 6:25-34...

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Extant exertion will loom you to the upcoming hurdle.

Favoring the ideal stance might empower you to hurtle.



Written: October 17, 2021

Your Best Rhyming Couplet #3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: L MILTON HANKINS...

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Time doesn’t turn its wheel the way you want 
It makes its own track ever extant 
You may find or you may not 
It doesn’t digress even if you are distraught.

____________

March 31, 2023
For Line Gauthier's Bite Size Contest No 61...

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Invisible opportunity stairs
Flight fate fashioned
Masked mental wares.

Past existential roots
Accrue manipulative motif
Extant present imputes.

Futuristic intents allure
Remote eternal sanguinity
Time track obscure.
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A drunk man stumbles out of any bar 
Looks at a sky marred with stars 
Inside looks he, a void he spys 
Tears brim fragmented eyes
He feels it-- 
Bestowed burden cumbersome

In the hands of man-- 
The brand,
To think  
To be  
To become 
To not... 
Is him  
Is we...

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stairs
oppportunism
invisible
flight
ingrained
sculpture
of
mental
monolith
clandestine
&
past
existential
root
&
extant
present
manipulative
momentum
&
intent
futuristic
circumscribed
eternal
sanguinity
in
time
continuum
lure
of
nowhere
infinity

...

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Moon and sun an astral idyllium...
In the sky look at each other
  but they don't touch ...
Living a love
almost dreamlike.
Living to weave
in noble threads,weaving
in gold and silver
an impossible affair !
Weave and weave
endlessly weave
a loving work that never
will terminate, ...
  A love they never live 
   yet ever still extant...!...

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Bookstore, Musty Galore
Allen's Old Gold Discover,
SecondStory Pages of Glory,
Kelmscott Shelves Soar & Hover,
1st Editions Scarce Recovery,
Fore Edge Paintings Lover,
However It's Cheapo Papery,
Provides a Comfy Nest Plover,
Finding Fresh Author Flesh Scary!
Going Broke Buying A Great Cover,
I'm Not Waiting 'til Old & Hairy,
Grazing Tomes is Similar to Clover,
Diet As Extant Goodreads is Nary!...

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To prove human
Just a greeting could suffice,
To exhibit solicitude,
Especially when we meet first time,
And none of us is courteous.

To show humanity,
There need be charity,amity,
And not animosity.
For amongst us,
Supremacy and pomposity,
Seem to create a rift.

To whosoever; formal or not, 
From East or West,
richly bestowed or unfortunate,
Generosity reigns extant and supreme.
By Twinomugisha Longinus...

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There's more than just size to the elephant,
they do do some things that the others can't.
Many stories show these acts as valiant;
in the wild, grand gestures seem elegant.
Their wisdom is "ear-ily" evident,
nothing too pithy or given to rant -
like wry witticisms from Oscar Levant.
Or, Ogden Nash whose stanzas are extant,
not the rhymes of some silly sycophant.
Pachyderms make empathy "rel-e-phant"!...

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My symposia welcomes you
On Texans' incessant bragging
Examples are far from lagging
As we examine this strange trait

We look at the geography
As seen through the egos extant
Then explain this absurd new slant
That the state contains the North Pole

A new perspective will arise
In debunking this local lore
An education is in store
From this brilliant New Yorkers mind

8-23-18
For Julia Ward's Symposia contest...

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One million years ago
Before everything we know
Was "this" even here
On the galactic frontier?

For some there's no debate
There was some extant state
For some there's no dispute
God's mouth still lay mute

Such a frothy matter
With such uncivil chatter
And a million years from today
Will we have seen doomsday?

What of this present moment
And all its' many components?
Is this the nexus of it all?
End of the aesthete and Neanderthal?...

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A brook cascades daintily extant
~ flowing gayly heart’s incited joy
Meandering, nestles on Peace
~ quivering restraints strain ‘n squirm 
Breaking-bank, careens downwards
~ extols faith’s grim heart-bomb
Undulating, veering waves extrapolate 
~ Yonder’s zooming blue-adieu
Sojourns, so-longs, traversing under veils
~ weathering wry extremes
Heart’s incessant journey keels love’s mainland
~ new opaque's reach... 

(10/7/21 For 'Islands in the Stream' contest)...

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the only purpose of all life is to procreate!
we as human beings are no different, should we fail
we will become extinct, there are no other purposes.
should anyone think different they should think again, 
what brought us into this world, procreation, 
my purpose, your purpose, our only purpose
is to stay extant! okay, our ultimate purpose!
every other is a means to that end!

Your Purpose in Life Poetry Contest - Sponsored by Heidie Sands

2nd June 2018...

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Extant darkness fills my being, 
Its overwhelming presence captures me. 
In a childhood dream, I was seeing, 
Beauty in all, how it’s meant to be. 

As I walked in the world, head hung low, 
Believing I didn’t in anything at all. 
Oblivious to joy, having no inner glow, 
No insight on life, just plain normal. 

Then came a girl who lifted my chin,
Wiped my tears, her eyes so bright. 
Then took my hand with a loving grin,
As she led me away into the light....

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