Short Freer Poems

Saying
The faster 
Life´s carousel 
Spins 
The less we see




Saying

The fewer secrets
We keep 
The freer we are...

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PASTELISTA  degas chardin
manner &
    movement
investigating light
broader
  freer
soft fragility
layered
  superimposed
turpentine
  sealed...

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IF  ONLY
 
If only then the road were straighter
The years to reach the turning fewer
If only then the grass were newer
And onset of the frost came later
 
Still I’d take the way of troubles freer
Only if its path were bound for here...

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to my heart
I say open
open wider than
you believe you can
I tell my soul
be completely free
freer than you dare
my spirit
hears me say
be peaceful but wild
my mind screams,
"What about me?!"
to which I respond,
"Shut up, you ignorant child!"...

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Someone broke my best friend’s heart.
They’d been together throughout the entire lock-down.
And even though it looks like we’re entering a freer time,
he said it felt like she’d become part of the claustrophobia.

Explanations can snag on nerves like fishhooks....

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Its quest is over.
Life's. Wholesome-faced.
At this drop off point, a world's
Sea-washed. Effaced.

Shackled by which search, a slave's
Profitless, for coin
Proved it, toward more and more
Becoming joy-rich
Now breathing freer, will ditch
What for too long chafed
Of self deceit, to the winds.
Sharpest thought-cleansing...

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Embrace your positive power.

Powerful force 
By Michelle Morris
20/08/2020

Once you've faced your
inner darkness and 
turned away,
You'll easier embrace 
love and
light your way... 

Moving forward 
as a blessing 
on this sphere,
You'll be a powerful 
force and 
rise higher and freer... 

© Michelle Morris, 2020...

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Betty was muched delayed
said she came from play
hadn't heard the news
Wistful and loose with her one eyed plan

If she had a talisman from the sea
she'd jump for joy
Going to ride on a galloping horse
cause she has a lot to say
yet hadn't the time to choose
going to see the porcelain man
and tell of her erstwhile plans
of  feeling freer than before...

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I hear his call before I spy
The owner of that wild bird cry.
Protected from the guns of man,
He may live out his full life span.
I watch God's aerial masterpiece
And pray his numbers may increase.
The symbol of Land Of Liberty,
Freer than man can ever be.

Though I would gladly have him stay,
The bald head eagle soars away.



Won 3rd place 3 way tie in contest...

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Listen to your inner voice,
return to childhood and
let those instincts free.
Become a child once more.

See things through their eyes
like unicorns, fairies and elves.
Do not stop and analyse just act
on your gut feeling its seldom wrong.

The more you can let go the freer 
you are of modern travesties'.  
And can return to a natural way
free from stress of every day life....

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When time loses its hold
  do you choose a new father

Free of place and all station
   even freer from blame

Your mother is now 
  and your mother forever

But your father is a choice
  much more than a name

Do you wrestle in torment
  as he calls out to you timeless

 Beyond the past and the future  
    —where you forever remain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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I thought I’d been given
something of value
a nugget of truth
that I’d been enlightened
had a moment
had the scales
torn from my eyes
the fog 
driven from my thoughts
I felt lighter
my step less weary 
my heart freer 
the world less daunting
not as troubling 
but
it was a lie
a con
a ruse
and so
I laughed
loud and long and deep
had I cried
I would never
have stopped.



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MY ULOMA.

Early morning, uloma woke me up by a shining smile
Like sun ray from a bright dandy day.

Afternoon, she called my name and left me taken away
In deep ecstasy of lovely emotions.

My Uloma is faithful than a puppy, fairer than Fiona
And freer than breeze....

MY Uloma is a morning due.... cooling the hazardous climate
Of my past heart break....  ULOMA IS MY LIFE.




    Charles melody -Lightning Ink-...

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Quicksand routines yolks of same
Spinning into limbo hours lost
Unto fraught betwixt existence
Into frivolous twining gone

Stop the drowning and start the standing up
Amidst life’s frenzied stream
And be the “courageous” caught within its currents
Capturing simple moments and mere instances before they leave

Reign in the ticking and the tocking
Offer shelter to your needs
Reverse the course of river
To run freer and thus, parallel to your dreams...

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morbidity and fear,
of the "unknown",
rooted in me from birth,
i waited and waited,
for the"unknown"to happen,
that it did on several occasions,
i had in the aftermath known the "unknown",
yet knew it was still as much"unknown",
as it had been at the birth,
the more the gut wrenching I did,
on each facing I had with it,
the more I knew that ,
it had turned"unknown",
probably I would have been freer,
but ,you know, in this miasma,
death came along....

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Life's a path of many challenges.
So, here is a  challenge for you.
I know a place where,
the walk changes you.
It's home to many birds big and small.
With breath taking views,
while changing your perception of things.
You're stronger than you have ever been.
More insightful than ever before,
freer than you'll ever be.
See the ocean  in the distance.
Watching as the waves come in.
By the time you're done the walk,
you'll know who you are....

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Place of refuge.
The asylum in my head,
Transports each sadness
Into my safe place –
There, imagination rules.

© Dane Smith-Johnsen
9/25/2010


Research References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_(poetry)#Tanka  5,7,5,7,7
http://tankaonline.com/From%20the%20Man'yoshu%20essay.htm  “…contemporary tanka are much freer in 
conent and in word usage than classical waka, and there is now greater room for individual creativity within the 
conventional framework of the form….”...

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