Short Fads Poems

Claude Monet
all those lilies that got in his way
traversing those pads
it's now understood was just one of his fads....

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Form trembles my mind
all matter fads to decay
Empty sense objects
void, hollow, insubstantial
breathes mental impermanence...

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The wife loves the neighbourhood lads
And shares with them the latest fads
She shows them how
To milk a cow
So they all know how to be dads...

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Today I’m thankful for walking…
as exercise fads come and go…
I continue to be enthralled
by the simple act of walking
the oldest exercise of all....

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The soup has a shortage of ads
Let’s call for more saying egads! 
While they interfere
With the reason we’re here
We'll learn about doodads and fads
...

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passing
    fads
       astir
so experiential,
multifaceted
       excesses
without
    perspective:
prolific
prevalent
freeflowing
a tortuous
     trail
of
melancholy
   mistakes...
...with no
way
back...

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Hula hoops and pedal pushers
Baseball cards and Slinkies
Penny loafers and bobby sox
Pony tails and a dime jukebox

Where are all the fads today --
But for video games we play --
Electronic devices all the rage
Hi-tech gadgets, center stage...

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I don’t own Uggs and never will.
I’ve heard they’re super comfy; Still,

To pay so much for something ugly,
Even if it’s warm and snuggly,

Seems to me a tad absurd,
Though fashion has the final word.

When fads appear, so do the hordes.
Abstaining has its own rewards....

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Some things would be better unsaid.
Some fads never should have survived.
Some books would be better unread.
Some plays never should be revived.

I saw a production today
And this show failed my comatose test.
If the years aren’t kind to a play,
My advice is – just give it a rest!...

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Emotion & feelings,active, no longer passing fads of intervening years. A latter day passion,now fading from view along the different path I now stride. Hastened by love,poignant,as a moth to a flame to paraphrase a truth. Willing to take a risk,each aspect leaves its mark as sunlight upon the mundane....

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This is the best of times
       materially
    This is the worst of times
       spiritually

    We live like Kings
       never satisfied
    The more we acquire
       the more we desire
  
    Our souls obsessed
       with glittering doo-dads
    Lunging wildly ~
       FOMO on the latest fads...

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Hungry and cold as lunchtime came at last
with snatched breakfast a long gone blur,
my urge for food was taste and warmth,
but known; not new, no fads, no frills.

Not sure of how to proceed
I met by chance a well known friend,
a tattie, just baked and filled with mince
so simple meal enjoyed, i'm cheered....

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To truly be,
Remove your masks;
To clearly see,
Learn how to bask.


A mask can hide,
Yet truth still shows;
A mask of pride,
Styles a fake glow.


The fake man knows,
That false is bad;
For fear now grows,
More lack gone mad.


So style your mask,
Breed more fake fads;
Forge your blind tasks,
Spice more things mad.




Leon Enriquez
11 April 2017
Singapore...

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little girl you have grown,

little girl you have changed,

little girl you have new fads,

little girl you are still bringing smiles,

little girl don't ever change

little girl you still melt my heart

little girl you have grown,

little girl I wish you a most

happy birthday, from

your papa.  

wrote 3-30-11

for my Grand daughter Erika Foulk who will turn 12  on 3-31-11...

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Time is a butterfly,
One that flies away
Before we can
Ever reach it.

Try as we might
It always proceeds,
Moving itself forward.

No matter how much
We wish it to stop.

It matters not,
What happens
In our lives
Or our world.

It will always
Keep passing,
Without worry or care

For anyone
Or anything

For these things
Are simple fads,
That go out
As quickly as they come....

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Emotion & feelings,active, no
longer passing fads of intervening years.
A latter day passion,now fading from
view along a different path I now stride.
Hastened by love,poignant,as a moth
to a flame to paraphrase a truth.Willing
to take a risk,each aspect leaves its mark
as sunlight upon the mundane.

phrasis from my 2007-9 PS blogs
Hear me recite this phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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Lets walk down this road of life
where happiness and hurt dwells
where pain fads away
For love always prevails
I gave you my heart
which was broken into pieces
I wanted to die
But you showed me where peace lives
You sacrificed your life
To make sure I had one
You gave birth to my babies
My two girls and my son
The love I have for you
Words can't describe
I would die for you
Thats how i feel inside...

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Listen to poem:

We be entwined and entangled,
for spooky action at a distance,
despite our separation.
For I know what you are up to.
I know how and what you think.
I know your feelings, fads and focus.
I know that you know, the same about me.
For we spent so much time being together.

Serendipity loads the dice for chance encounters.
Our fates are intertwined, snared together, entangled.
Recurrences ring the déjà vu party line.
For actions and reactions, spooky at a distance....

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The masses are yelling
Yell of no one is heard
Societies of infection
Drags of bones
Not having depression,
Nor using drugs,
And the no one shouts:
“……..”
Individual and art
Poor masks of poors
The stereotype one
: “We are right”
Characters are broke
Masks are still held
More diseases spread out
The generation survives
Era, feeling of decades,
And sense of themes reborn and die
Human fads, still proves himself
Mumbles loudly: “…….”
Oh…adaptable creature!...

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Muppet Crazy Harry does not seem as odd these days
Maybe because of so many fads and no one is ever fazed.
He pulled his tricks along with bizarre antics too.
Meant very little next to the world’s biggest hullaballoo.

You have to be even crazier, I gave Muppet Crazy Harry as advice.
I am being as off kilter as I can he said, warming up some Kona ice.
You have to step it up a notch, or two or three or four, I told him.
You have so much competition now, people do things on a whim....

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