Short Grinds Poems

his breath
clouds the night air
board grinds rail
the lamppost’s light reveals
his heart pounds as red lights swirl...

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Loaded blue-eyed woman
On the blood wheel
Three-legged train grinds
Mindlessly delicious cuts
Sweat gently littering the floor
Rock Bottom...

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In the zoo behold the gator
Seems evil just like Darth Vader
Grinds its food into bits
Accounts for lots of animals fits!
But at least it's not a hater!...

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   Workweek grinds to an end
     Holy Sabbath just around the bend

   Ring up the last sale, turn the key in the door
     Enter a dimension where your spirit can soar...

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Larry Randolfson was a brain physician
who soon wore himself out in that position.
Getting inside live minds
was the worst of all grinds.
So he became an autopsy technician....

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Let's all start out on the sunny side
It's easy when good judgement is applied
Choices come easy
Life's light and breezy
Ignoring the bumps and grinds is my pride...

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Her bouquet a dewed vessel
Flaming my love’s intense desire ;
I wait till rosette hips
Succumb to grinds of ecstasy.



Leon Datu, 26 July 2014
For nette onclaud: Passion Of A Jeu Ju...

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Words fail
Cheer sails


End finds
Pain grinds


Too late
Grim fate


Last look
Close book


Fast hurl
Death curls


Rhymes break
Last stake




Leon Enriquez
17 December 2916
Singapore...

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(We shared a cup of coffee 
over the demise of our relationship
in an orange vinyl cafe)
As we drank to the bottom of the cup
I came to realize
I am the bitter mouthful left behind
and you, you are the grinds...

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With days so bland, I must find color where I can

Panoramic Plaid Underscores Sunrise

grinds dark and fine, aroma transcending
tranquil skies a smoky gray ~
the saffron and blue grass

1/29/2020...

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The Country Mart broods over caverns 
of lemon ices, and a logging truck 
grinds the grade, and the tall pines 
point at a half-moon in the mid-
morning sky that nobody else seems 
to notice, except me, and I’m 
just waiting....

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I’m up, all night long
My heart steals, sleep I’ve never had
Rainstorms wash the love away
I don’t want to feel that way
It blows my mind away
In search of love
Grinds my mind
Walk away, into the night grass
I don’t want to feel the pain...

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The bus is full
except for a seat at the back
designated for minority dissenters,
free thinkers and libertarians.
A youth demands my seat,
I stare straight ahead.
The bus grinds through its gears
as passengers glare or sneer....

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And now she looks guarded, watched.
Why do we want to make love to complete strangers?
She's gone now. Forever.
There is the constant beg
For intimacy that grinds and binds us;
The end to all our means.
Even our meanness. When it pops out
Is a call for love....

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It’s only in our mind
Dims vision of hope to move forward in His Light
Let faith grinds

Trust self and God
Face trials and storms with delight
And nod!

Today
Fight back your fright
Pray!

It’s only in the mind
Face trials and storms with delight
Pray!...

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poetry cascading
over a rock slide
gently grinds it
into sand

a lot of stone
in my heart

the rhythm stops
it's a red flag

word murmurations
have disconnected
flown the coup
and scattered 
to the wind

pretty birds ...
fly home again







...

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The toll of this harshness grinds my bones which now lie bleached in the searing sun. Painful knowledge of ecstasy no longer mine. No greater sorrow exist than the intoxicating memory of you now no more to be. The void infinite and cold,  this emptiness black in its totality....

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A brain awakes
and sheds 
five hundred pounds of sky.

The brain dreams-
it opens a door
walks through it,
grinds beans,
percolates coffee.

It realizes it is way too early.
Now it may or may not
slip back into a tar pit
on the far side 
of the moon....

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Am i to dream of you and me 
What makes a heart not as it seems
It sits and grinds and weighs my mind 
What makes a heart so hard to find
I know you keep its beats from me 
What makes a heart like a disease
As time goes by you can't rewind
What makes a heart a waste of time...

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Delilah's pleasures
Her head lain in Samson's lap
Blind, he grinds around

Concubines' treasures
Solomon's Playboy Mansion
Kingdom of idols

Bathsheba's gestures
Rivers and blood David stole
Hid to no prophet

Stronger have fallen
Your resistance is futile
If you compromise...

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Ego binds us in narrowness 
Veiling the throb of bliss 
Delusion is separateness 
We sense something amiss

Once thoughts rest, we are free
Head-heart with love agree 
In childlike, playful spree

Earth life grinds
Ego binds

09-October-2021
Quietus...

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Sorrow wears a face
As pain grinds in place


Bitter feels the touch
As sad spoil roughs much


Sorrow is sad deep
That suffers lost sleep


Gall can forfeit taste
As pain lays stern waste


Sorrow lumps old dirt
Drags even past hurts




Leon Enriquez
08 May 2019
Singapore...

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Winter wears on my patience.
Dim dreary days – the grey
grinds and grates the spirit. 
Sleet slushes the street.

I don’t even ask for spring.

Grant me a blizzard
or a biting freeze with inky skies,
just something
to lift the weariness
that has wormed into my mind
and paralyzes.

2/12/2018...

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As earth life gores, firms our resolve
Desire to stand erect
Wheel of time grinds and we evolve
Choosing pathways correct

Ceasing striving, we dance
Head and heart in balance
Divine aligned our stance

Down on all fours
As earth life gores

15-January-2022
Quietus ...

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Monday came and went
Sorrow borne and grew
Money earned and spent
Trouble old and new

Tuesday grinds the querne
A practise, a run through
Admin'stered till it burns
Blood red til it turns blue

Tomorrow; Whats to know?
The last two were for real
Another stone to throw
For some more time to steal....

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