Short Figuring Poems

I think of myself,
I describe myself to everyone but then,
I don’t yet know who I am,
Slowly figuring it out....

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First,
you need to have
something to say

Before,
figuring out
—how to say it

(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)...

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Man,
The self proclaimed genius,
Figuring out the best way to build a campfire,
And then announcing to the stars
That he is on equal footing with the gods....

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Miracle

Stories can

Seem as

Paradoxical

Happenings..

No figuring out..

Stories attacked

By the rational

Consensus..yet

Suggesting 

Not-two.....

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they say some
day expect
a mid life
crisis

figuring
going to
be living
til 143

so seventy
years and
1.5 months
lets see

i should be
driving a
flying car
hopefully...

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To All you Pythagorean's
I love your triangles
Figuring your area
gives me conclusions.
I reach for the fourth
dimension
And shadows fill my
head,
Welcome guests that
are dead....

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Yes, let us defend Latvia's 1.9 million souls
  while we let Ukraine's 44 million die on the vine

As we froth over inequity and gender pronouns
  ~ pretending that Europe's just fine...

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Her mood isn't like the weather
Eastern and western style  
A wise person with big heart 
Light mind often not little
In figuring out
Northern star and
Going on the right curve road....

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Fields of words
Each figuring-out these loud prints
Letters that means each word
Words that speak
Speech of Life
Will cooked Poems
Like a pot of tasty Soup
For all
PoetrySoup

©Kofi Asokwa-Nkansah...

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Reminiscing mind
Figuring out vivid mode
Choose probable opt

Make choices at once
Altering past experience
Changes come amidst

Go free and detach
Vain still exists within thoughts
Create brighter ends....

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god is an absent...
rationale is required...
to work through this life...

but...emotions...and...
stupidity of people...
run fully amuck...

painting creations...
intelligence...with one brush...
slip sliding away.......

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Physically limiting
Mentally depressing
Joy
Robbing,
Life altering,
Joint
corroding,
Spiraling
decent
into
another
spirit
defeated.
Health
declining;
Dis-
figuring
aches
limit
motion.
Limit 
simple 
pleasures...

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FIGURE
I am figuring out the meaning of the figure
Time is burning my soul of the losing winner
Everything is nonsense and need to whisper
Why don't you turn to the next level of flicker
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando September 21, 2016...

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Warmth
Comfort
In a way
That releases
Tough, nagging tension
Turn toward safe places
Beliefs, things, sights, actions
Never stop trying. find your way
By keeping your eyes focused onward
While figuring out your life turning points

Heidi Sands

3/31/22...

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I must confess
I am no less
I am just human

not above any other
we are all equal brother
I am just human

excuse my mistakes
I am just figuring out what it takes
I am just human

pebbles falling off the edge
one step from the ledge
I am just human. -TA...

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The art of figuring it out
Does it matter if I do
My existence is so fleeting
It seems preposterous to care

There must be some
Description to suit this 
Perhaps Monty Python's
Life of Brian

I'm not in crisis
I'm just a very philosophical girl

Ahh this poem went off
In a strange direction...

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Before visiting Dublin town,
I got out the guidebooks
Staring at the crooks and valleys
Studied the terrain, figured out the contour lines
What are you doing? The other travelers asked.
Figuring out where the pot of gold is, of course.
They smirked at my ignorance, not realizing how close I was to come....

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Writing poetry fills my heart
for that this poet pays a toll;
Every word from the very start
creating and filling a hole,
still they take a piece of my soul;
A release of the nostalgic,  
figuring out what make me tick
with each beat the ink is flowing;
Magic slowly mixed with tragic,
immortalizing everything....

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She looked familiar, but I had no idea why.
The instant I walked toward her eyes, I knew her.
It is Katy Perry, of course.
I love her as a red head, I love her as a blonde.
I usually picture her as a brunette.
Today I could see that she looks great without hair too.
Not many people can pull this off.
But she can.
Wow!...

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LOOKING BEHIND A STONE WALL,
FIGURING OUT WHICH STONE TO BREAK,
SITTING IN A CORNER COUNTING,
THE FOUR WALLS BETWEEN HAPPINESS,
AND SADNESS,

ALL ALONE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE,
THE DARKNESS INTO LIGHTNESS,
LISTENING TO THE CRACKNESS OF, 
THE WALLS KNOWING NOR ESCAPE,
FEELING TRAP INSIDE MYSELF TRYING,
TO ESCAPE FROM YOU IN PRISON...

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I have not seen a lightning bug since I was a child
maybe they do not live in Kansas?
I grew up in Iowa
July nights there were full of glittering flashing lightning bugs
I wish I could see one again, I lament
the next night, I see two of them, in Kansas!
I am astounded.
Thanks Mom, I say.
Figuring she sent them as a hello from heaven....

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I always wonder if I look thru a child eyes what would I see. Seeing there parents arguing and fighting for nothing.
Figuring out if it there fault for them fighting. Seeing there mother crying and wonder if they should go and comfort her.
Seeing if there brother or sister see the pain mommy going thru. Hoping mommy and daddy kiss and make up....

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I'm mad
i'm mad as i could be
i'm insane and quite unlikely to suceede
i'm mad
i'm unforgettable
odd and more normal than you
i'm mad
not angry no
i'm quite tranquil
I'm mad
but im more sane than the average man
because how can you be mad
withought knowing
what sane is
and figuring that being mad
is more human
more sane than sanity...

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Ugly Face, I'm leading you
in figuring out your faces.
Ugly Face, you're feeling blue
from being in their places.

Ugly Face, your smile's disgrace.
Your fearing has begun.
Ugly Face, your child like pace
from coming you've foredone.

Ugly Face, your leading race.
A heart of tender come.
Ugly Face, you powerful Ace
where Heaven goes as from....

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conscientious today
sharing my poetic light
penning my very first wonderful kerf

figuring out a way
to pen my unique insight
confidence shaken by blue papa smurf

in the manner of Joyce
there is a smile on my face
skating across ice as snow bunnies surf

dredging up my own voice
winning this poetic race
sliding into home as others windsurf...

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