Short Exultant Poems

ecstastically me
an exhilarated sense 
indulgent and exultant
powerfully me
a confident zealousness
appreciating myself...

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The poet, having found his rhyme,
may sense a shiver down his spine,
cocooned within a rosy glow
exultant that his words now flow.
Emerging from his self-inflicted torture,
the best of words in the very best order.
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It fills me with exultant joy
To taste your essence 
And drink from your glass 
Of endless passion 
And affection 
I lavish in your overflowing 
Diligence 
And praise, I do 
The gift of love 
Given freely 
On to me...

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Swamp Azaleas

Cloying sticky sweet white trumpets;
Summer heat transports the robust attar
Of azaleas from damp, resinous fens.

Their high notes flirting with the low
Construct complex, exultant perfumes 
Nimbly blended in the season’s tepidity.
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The blue bells assume you came to save me; you're yesterday's love anyway,
A fragmented secluded infinity, no expectations, just sadness and melancholy.
Leave me now, I am exultant and proud, I retain my scrutiny,
Let us not pour fuel on to the burning wreckage no more....

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escape!
 
to live among the daffodil folk . . .
slip down the rainslickened drainpipe . . .
suddenly pop out
                             the GARGANTUAN SPOUT . . .
minuscule as alice, shout
yippee-yi-yee!
                       in wee exultant glee
to be leaving behind the LARGE
THREE-DENALI GARAGE....

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trial
           adversarial, impeachment
     undergoing, participating, pending
arraignment, prosecution, glory, conquest
     conquering, culminating, depicting
                 exultant, decisive
                        triumph



Date created: 07/03/2022...

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The cardinal saw the rose
 puff in rosy self praise and pride
It chimed beating its own drums
exultant about its beauty
The cardinal retorted 
Hey, don't blush in vain 
just hush and shush with that vanity 
for I'm just as ruddy red.
Besides I can fly
with my head held high 
The rose never nodded
The cardinal waited for no reply....

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Evolution leaps
A fish and a dream take place
Mind rejecting all

Day and night unfold
A fish and a dream persist
Bring opaque meanings 

As I go along
A fish and a dream haunt me
Now getting clearer

Every moment
A fish and a dream shed light
Abundant omens

Quest for knowledge ends
A fish and a dream reveal
Exultant promise....

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The night is young
The night is long
The night is a rythnever ending song

The stars are diamonds
Infinite spots of wonder
The stars sing a tune
That is louder than thunder

The moon is exultant
Yet all it is, is white
The moon is so beautiful
An unforgettable sight

The sun has rised
The night has gone
Here come the dances of spring
The promise of dawn...

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Thoracic clouds stream
Healthy with motion
In wisps of whipped cream
Slinging dew potion

Lifting flower face
Open to receive
Veritas of grace 
Exultant to heave

Wilted decays past
Insolvent in debt
Letting fortune last
Longer than regret

Salvaged from bounties
Across the divide
Valued in counties
Ever to provide

Legacies of truth
In churning reason
Fetching hidden youth
Each passing season....

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Pride or Proud; Which are you?
Pride is devastating, reduce to chaos
Reducing one to disdainful behavior
In the long run,
Oscillating displaying a negative behavior
Being Proud is on a different page
Exultant filled with great joy
Triumph having proper self-respect
Jubilation, oscillating with high speed
Through atmospheric phenomena 
appreciation, full of understanding
In any circumstances or situations
Which are you?...

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Racing for shelter, we defy the rain, our hearts a-song
   The heavens open, we slosh, slide and splash along
Shaking our hair, water everywhere, we are free
   To laugh, to live, to love, to be ourselves finally

Drenched to the marrow, we no longer care
   We're alive now, soaked but thriving in downpour's air
We see who we are, the water's washed away our veneer
   Baring exultant, triumphant souls, who passion's perils now dare...

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They gleam and shimmer in the perfect light
of paradise, known to the ancient gods 
as hallowed refuge, where the stars at night
pay homage from on high, and from the west
come ocean flower breezes, to a land
where sea and sand and sky hold boundless sway
and pastel multi-hues embrace the day,
where gentle rhythms echo on the shore
and birds exultant in the heavens soar.
These priceless pearls, set in silvered seas,
known to mere mortals as The Hebrides....

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I cannot still believe my karma
When all drab hope expired
And with it my faith
In humanity -
We met.

I do not question Fate,
It's snakelike ripcord slither;
I accept whole the dream
For fear it is -
Not real.

I will not court denial,
Kiss belief in this fortune;
The living treasure you bestow
Upon my being -
Breathes exultant.

I know only these things:
Life weeps fluid ephemeral,
And bludgeoned by impairment;
Yet together we may shoot -
The moon....

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OUR CHOICE

this is the winter of our discontent
the four horsemen ride exultant
slaughter in churches
bombed nurseries
corrupt legislators
pollinators dying for lack of forage 
all the sun’s blessings can not
disguise our disintegration

small acts of gentleness
saving horses
and tiny piglets from factory farms
a touch of hands
or smile on the phone
keep the choking smoke away
we are the lucky ones
who see these distant fires
signaling from hill to hill...

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