Short Fain Poems

Wealth is a wheel which
vice and virtue turning well.
Solo vice follows,
fain to the wealthy abodes.
Why the virtue left behind?...

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A once esteemed party was fain
To  cry ‘Racist!’ again and again
Not now and again
But NOW and AGAIN
Til it made neural paths in their brain...

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Naughty children just know,
Nice people fain forget,
Negative “no” tells us,
Neighbours all as we stand.
Neat boundaries are set,
Needs are plainly expressed,
Natural and now clear....

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The pessimist argued that all women are whores,
He spoke with a tear, with a unconcealed pain.
The optimist listen to him  with a hidden fain,
He rubbed his hands with a wish  to explore!...

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Eugenia, delight
Bold, fiesty, fiery
Daughter of God,
Lover of music, sculpture, bards
Teacher of mercy, mercy, kindness, concern
Fearing man, yourself, the world,
Who would like to see rivers, mountains, plateaus
A resident of Columbia, SC
Fain, or the pleasant one...

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Captive of the heart
You are a willing prisoner
You fain the life, a poet's soul
And bristle when love, like writers block
Amplifies the anguish
And tolerates your impotence
Above all, time is not a comfort
It ticks down louder and slower
Until time stops and stills it's beat...

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Singing sweetly and peacefully!
Although the lyrics are squarely of pain.
Every night I close my eyes calmly!
Although I know the morning is simple and plain.

Seasons change and giving up slowly!
Just left behind with harmless rain.
Neither the doors nor windows open, surely!
Looking for a war because I am fain....

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Love, Love of mine
That hath fain mine eyes
That hath vowed my loyalty
That hath touched mine dreams
That hath spawned my wings
To heights eyes doth not touch

Love, Love of mine
‘Twas destiny’s rhythms
That spun the wheel
To petal by petal shape the rose

One true Love for my whole heart
I wake to a lovely promise...

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Amber - sunshine arises in the east
To clamber - to the top, fain to feel Mother Nature.
Lavender fragrance butter   bees, butterflies, hummingbirds
With a splash of nectar that swirls round, farther
A calm pensive melody of breathless banter
11/7/2021


Something Beautiful 5 Line Rhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: charles messina...

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THE WINNOWING

Wake of harvest, came time for winnowing
Separation loosing chaff from the grain
Bake of bread that gave them a bestowing
Creation: body nurture that they’d fain
Make in life, a time for spirit growing
Valuation of virtues not to strain
Then we might cherish food for soul above
When we winnow, retain the grain of love...

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Thy words spill in beauty wherefore must thy colors flee
in moments of peaceful grandeur hath not your eyes seen
my heart in rolling patter arising in a song to thee
while Autumn leaves scatter I fain search through misty rain

Thy words spill in beauty wherefore must thy colors flee..
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A hardback novel 
color thou art can't be of other
leave, resign from this mastered shelter
I can't tell what my heart acquire
only a tempting scale a lonely wire
shall i even think of a plan 
or maybe not I better hide, I can
that smooth groove remain 
an some other undesired fain
thou will is yet all i long to touch
nary i know I'll  never....

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Re : Old Poems


Bells of triumph clang,
Fortresses fain to hail thee
Men of valiant swords.
Glories thence fell, crowns crumbled
To dust, no wailings were heard.

,,

The wind about thy sceptre howl and cry,
Loft precipices trampled;
Ruined rich piles of graves.

~


Forms : Tanka / Kimo


(3/21/2012)


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Gossamer adorned
Knotted love-laced bows
Neatly wrapped and scorned
Words carefully chose.

We dance this refrain
Dream-like sleep induced
Guided quick to fain
Promises seduce.

Pages rip transformed
Immortalized prose
Lover’s dreams performed
Reconcile compose.

Beyond broke to strain
Disguised truth abstruse
Blend until disdain
Kismet love reduced...

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I stand amidst a dimming sky,
adorning nigh my wandering eye.
Serene it seems to feel autonomous. 
Though: yet and still remains annonymous,
the one who holds my heart fain.
I wait in silence where my soul has lain,
for her alluring anatomy to enter my gaze.
Only to cherish as an angel throughout my days,
and never shall i go awry.
For you i wait.
Amidst a dimming sky....

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Divine children of God ye,
Yellow flowers of the tree
Fain blooming, I see,
Happy flowers of the tree
Manifesting the beauty of lovely winter,
Beautiful flowers of the tree
Raining lovingly on God,
Lovely flowers of the tree
Yellow like Helianthus,
Yellow flowers of the tree
Want to meet the golden sun?
Sunny flowers of the tree
A lesson to humanity in a cute way,
Oh! Divine flowers of the tree...

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I live in quiet meadows,
at turnings where you fain would stop.
Though admiring eyes are turned on me,
None heeds my pleas of “forget me not!”

And you, you walk (or run, or skip)
down your sunny path,
but I remain amidst the grasses,
through the evening’s light show and the morning’s bath.

And oh! I long just once to see
what lies beyond this field,
but you will not remember me
and my roots this ground will not yield....

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Morning grows brighter as nearer comes night
And I was no spectator
Ushered to the door though I fain would fight
And saw the longer shadow
Of those coming and coming until some were gone
And the rest kept going
While all would come and go, come and go and dawn
Was only sunset coming.
I thought I was at a revolving door when earlier I came
But not one who past me
Here, came again. I saw upon the scroll another name
Writing a new old history....

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Return as I again,
With daring striking in my chest,
Another circuit open chain,
Then stop to rest,
Procrastinate, a cover for refrain. 

Watching time pass again,
I wonder would it be somehow,
My season comes to preordain,
The time is now,
Shoot flaming straight, destroy excuses lame.

But fate relieves again,
The urgency that I would feel,
For courage in my heart to fain,
To make it real,
What kind of chance, could I then ascertain?...

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Sun, relentless
Son, I can see the glossy haze
radiating from your fingertips.
A warmth unimaginable.
Delicate.
Childlike.
Pure.
I watched you count the number of
time(s) the waves
thundered against the rocks.
Usurped by the number One, you cried
“Ouch!”
On the second you begged me,
Stop their pain,
stop my pain.
What could I do
but turn you away.
“Do you want ( a distraction)
to try rollerblading? “
He fain did accept,
…with feigned interest.

Trust’s Last.


S.M. Alexis...

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Conflicted

Could it be possible to fain ambivalence ?,
in a world full of pain, in pain without romance
and love from the heart and soul of one's desire.

All the while, this one's heart is still on fire,
pining away for the one who, a funeral pyre
is the last place this heart, she has relegated.

Realization !, that is where this one has been fated
to live out his end days in quiet desperation.
For so many, it has become our coarse, our destination.

B.J."A" 2
October 11th 2009...

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Conflicted !

Could it be possible to fain ambivalence ?,
in a world full of pain, in pain without romance
and love from the heart and soul of one's desire.

All the while, this one's heart is still on fire,
pining away for the one who, a funeral pyre
is the last place this heart, she has relegated.

Realization !, that is where this one has been fated
to live out his end days in quiet desperation.
For so many, it has become our coarse, our destination.

B.J."A" 2
October 11th 2009...

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Who told me you're a lazy

They make me everything easy.

Who called me a crazy yak

They advanced me to mind work.

Who is defrauding me in the shop

They are teaching me to wake up.

Who is hurling  at me  words of pain

They are telling me to get ready to fain.

Who is interfering with my  activity

They allowed the opportunity to involve in the jollity.

Whom  looking at me with eyes of disparate

They notified me that you are differentiated from satellite....

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I saw her first on windswept plain
Her gold hair shone like sunlit grain
Her skin as fair as cloud above 
A form that spoke to me of love...  

She dainty stepped; I held my breath
My heart did gasp, a gasp of death
For she was lame, as lame could be
Would love still fain join her with me?


         December 29, 2019
 LAY It On Me - 8 x 8 Poetry Contest
       Sponsor: Charles Messina

 + STRAND SELECT 5 Contest, any theme any form
               Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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You can’t take back
The words you said
You cannot wish 
That they were dead!

You can’t erase
The memory
You can’t rewrite
Our love story

You can’t vanish
Without a trace
You can’t ignore
My tear-stained face

You can’t pretend
That I’m not there
You cannot fain
That you don’t care

You can’t suppress
Your deep desire
You can’t put out
Passion’s fire

You can’t retreat
From love’s domain
You can’t deny
In you I reign.

You can’t escape
You can’t be free
You CAN give in...
Give in to me!...

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