Short Glimpsed Poems

I came across a coral reef
a seahorse glimpsed
sudden taste for beef

a pregnant pause
'pon gulping down
that dainty horse
  ~ all fifteen pounds...

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I found myself in every person I met
In everything I held and glimpsed
Some were worthless and some were expensive
But nevertheless they valued me as I valued myself....

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At a right angle to all that is known,
Exists an unknown that remains,
glimpsed through the windows of dreams,
Remaining un-real until one dares to climb out the window....

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It’s snagged on a long pole.
An officer
tugs a pit-bull from a backyard.

Road-side is a body bag.

I check my rear view mirror
corners conceal the glimpsed.

Clear road ahead....

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Stone homes of ancient memories
Sentinels sleeping under white
Locked in a fading breath
Of the long lost keeper.
Life trapped in timeless glass
Glimpsed amid weathering bones
Outlining the ways of forgetfulness....

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I glimpsed you in my smile today
and heard your voice in time with mine.
Now I'm lost in the yesterdays,
when we were children at play.
The memories play in my mind,
remnants of happier times.

ALesiach © 05/23/2016...

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Intimations of what's been
And what shall be yet
Birth, death, before and after
A lucky few get.

As what , in gleams, transfix me
Are now glimpsed through you.
Paradise. And the one bliss
That matters; love's true....

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If I had money
All cheeses
Of the world
Would I display
For our guest
List of hundreds
Spinning my bride
Dancing for the stars
Seen sitting or standing
Glimpsed so majestically
Above us
Entwined 
In each other’s arms...

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glimpsed
   from afar

voices murmur
            indistinct
eclipsed
in stillness

all desire
              to compete
or
emulate

            begone
such ambition

modesty remain
                      stay close...

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Above
I glimpsed
The heavens.
Peering deeply
Into endless depths—
Past stars and nebulae, 
Galaxies vast and distant—
And then supernal realm of light.
Awakened from life’s persistent dream,
Free at last, I must now bid fond farewell....

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"We need more space," you voiced.

"This space to let."
The notice hastily scrawled
childlike on an index card
glimpsed in the co-op window
passed by quickly; 
rain staining a new coat,
reminded me;

I had heard and not heard....

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a vernal breeze
blows through 
the mist,
the vanishing 
tree-tops glimpsed
now&then,
across the terrace
baroque&beautiful 
visions
         perceived-
contradictions
to marvel&muse,
contemplate in
nature's secret
splendour...

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Whilst in deep sleep
Found a strangest place amidst
Strolled somewhere anew 

Creatures lead wrong ways
But still best life chose its path
Mystic doors were closed 

Glimpsed one and the rest
Until one by one opened
Watcher accosted....

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She was there
a dream often
glimpsed
for a moment
just upon the brink
of waking

She was there
a moment
where the light
and waves
dance then
fall away

She was there
a love made real
a hope made manifest
a wish come true
then gone
beyond reach...

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Is there color in the sky?
Is there light in the night?
Today will we try?
Focus our sight on what's right.

Baby steps may falter, but are taken!
A long-range goal may be glimpsed
Through the misty morning and night forsaken
Climb up and smile, I insist!...

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what had he glimpsed? A hairy black gorilla?
He was mesmerized as he stared into the forest.
It had moved as gracefully as a ballerina, but with longer strides.
What is it? His hunting partner asked.
He shook his head. I don’t know, he lied, knowing it was a Yeti....

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A Richardson’s owl came by today
He wanted to hoot. I wanted to play.
We did not agree in any way.
I fed him crackers on a silver tray.

He gobbled them up, was on his way.
I glimpsed him fly across the bay.
He never turned around to say
Thank you in any kind of way....

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PICTURESQUE
beyond significance
a sense
of drams
in changeable
atmospheres
congenital vision
soft
   vague
intensely uneasy

quickend
aggrandized
  pleasure
in a
spontaneous
   outflow

portents
of emotion
enlarged
  foliated
glimpsed
in
conscious
 reality...

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Evanescently blurred, half beyond recall,
Her voice down a midnight hall—
Or her visage in oils once glimpsed on sale,
Remote, and feminine-pale.

Whoever was she?  Forget, forget
Her classical silhouette:
Let her image diffuse in a twilight haze
Of vapored blues and greys…...

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The child told everyone he glimpsed a faerie in the woods
I could feel her before I saw her wings.
She was lithe, light and lovely.
An ambiance of blue surrounded her.
The child’s eyes popped with joy as he spoke of her.
Most did not believe, for they had forgotten their childlike ways....

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Have someone caught your eyes
In mine?
Had anyone glimpsed
Our love?
There's one secret that I kept, 
But I'm dying to divulge.
Yesterday
I saw you
With her hands in yours
She gazed you the same way
As pearls to ocean floor.
If this is just to make me jealous 
Here are my wounds....

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The world turned back to cold today
I turned, you turned, we walked away.
Four months alone to see your face
For hours few, but worth the wait.

And even though while at her side
You looked content to other eyes,
I think I glimpsed the hurt you feel,
I think that kiss was far from real....

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he sits on the roof
of the building opposite
I sit on the sofa
glimpsed from the window; 
him with his feathers
me with my skin; 
themes tune
and blossom falls
from trees
like plates don't fall
out of the cupboard
and we could go on
like that for hours
such
was the relationship
we had...

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Summertime lover
I'm waiting at the station;
Strawberry evening!
Anticipation heartbeat,
like rainbow glimpsed from a street.

Dusky moments fly
like dense willows in wild wind,
in the moss green spring.
Then a train roars like thunder
Scent blooms 'neath stars of slumber....

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DIVISIONS
sharply
   vivid
 practical
sceptical
   emphatic
remains
   hidden
by
  temperament
in
  abstraction

  dramatic
progressions
  fragment
 evolving
in
sensibilities
of
conceptions
glimpsed
in
denouement
with
  unusual
suspense
of
questioned
unified
in
synthesis...

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