Short Hastened Poems

Time evaporates,
And seems to be a quick blur:
When I am with you....

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A cloak of ice worn
Hastened Winters kiss bestow
Churning waters still...

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Crutched like so many sheep
in a paddock
surgery,chemo or rays
the hoped for recovery
or hastened decay....

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orchids, mist-moistened,

              on prim petals, dews glistened,

                   bumblebee hastened....

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Her last glance
Hastened 
My last supper.

Intense, 
Fascinating, and
Fascinated
By life and the agony of the harper....

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The skies are grey but here's what I say
It's five in the morning, the sun's hours away
Need show some patience
It can't be hastened
Just keep feeling tickley while riding your sleigh...

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the sun descended when you left
the moon bereft of its glow
the wind's blow scattering leaves

suddenly we ceased to speak 
the bleakness of each morning
continued pouring teardrops

years were the wasted days
hastened only by sleep
a heap of misunderstandings

7-4-2022...

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Emotion & feelings,active, no longer passing fads of intervening years. A latter day passion,now fading from view along the different path I now stride. Hastened by love,poignant,as a moth to a flame to paraphrase a truth. Willing to take a risk,each aspect leaves its mark as sunlight upon the mundane....

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I love the break of a new day
Despite the disheartening fact
That yesterday I may have lost the way;
I'll never let past regrets abduct
What the future for me labors to create;
I'll instead for days of relief wait,
Even though they may seem to tarry
And the approach of strife appear to be in a hastened hurry!...

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Chronology

Another solar journey hastened by.
Fading vestiges of the setting sun
Handed his scepter to the moonlit sky,
Signaling night's reign had begun.

The ceremony was repeated, in reverse.
Midnight's veil seemed hardly drawn
When sounded a rooster's crowing curse.
Ebony night kneeled to a golden dawn....

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TYNEWALD

This IS the darkest time,
This IS the darkest day,
When men fell,
When women pray;
THIS is the darkest time,
THIS is the darkest day,

When unlived eyes close,
When  unborn stillness pause,
The breath;
Changing particles of grey,
To hastened Death.
This is THE darkest time,
This is THE darkest day....

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I Am Hospitalized 

I injured my brain
and broke my arm
while I was writing a poem.
I used a wrong hand
to carry a burdensome pen.
Its ink flooded my book
whilst blood hastened from my forehead.
As I suffered from crowded ideas
that exploded my head.
I will never vacate from poetry
until I am restored.

Drencho POET Loads...

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Seagulls cast aquarium swirls
Translucent panacea coats the day
Cloudy church  ammonites lear
A child within a Man
has choices to make
he is hastened by the wind
Cold Waterfalls
with Autumn Wheat chaff
Put your best foot forward
Unwrap your plans
To touch the earth
and see the fathoms glow
Avert your glance
to the unsprung mile...

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Frozen, crystallized, jagged
glacier ice travels
toward freedom
toward the sea

a thunderous crash
ice shelves splash
calving free
falling into the sea

tenacious waves
appease serrated edges
rolling over but not dead
ice drifts with the sea

radiant in the sun
marbleized white and blue
dissolve in the warmer currents
death hastened by the sea....

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So strong and abrupt an ancient race
With lusts and sins they raided this place
These men of OLE, few say did see
The sons of angels, no choice to be
Who were these men? A flash of light!
These giants of men who hastened man's plight
A mutant race, a mule of men
A hybrid race, born of sin
Who were these souls of flesh and skin?
A flash of light! The Nephilim....

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The blue curtain falls. Shut the pink sky.
The red hibiscus closes its eye.
Moonlight rest bright, 
blanket my snow.

All the days I’ve watched turn.
Every moment I have let go.
Time may be quick, but I have hastened my step.
Tomorrow I will be on the starting line.

So fall night,
cease tight.
Wrap your veil around my life,
Till the yellow dawn of a new day....

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orange, gold and red,
like sparkling gems on queen’s crown~
mother earth in sheen

gaudy leaves blown down,
lie in heaps before they fade~
burning tongues of fire

laid under our feet,
autumn leaves of varied hue~     
a neat patchwork quilt. 

dry leaves fly about,
hastened by autumnal breeze~
journey to the grave

gently laid to rest,
on nature’s warm breast....

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Emotion & feelings,active, no
longer passing fads of intervening years.
A latter day passion,now fading from
view along a different path I now stride.
Hastened by love,poignant,as a moth
to a flame to paraphrase a truth.Willing
to take a risk,each aspect leaves its mark
as sunlight upon the mundane.

phrasis from my 2007-9 PS blogs
Hear me recite this phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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The mind is hastened forth by
By the redolent sentimentality
Of the idea of heart,
While the soul languishes
Within the detritus of society
And every mention of God
Flows freely as vomit
Out from the guts of pontifs
Expousing the virtue of
Their enlightened experiences
In the trenches of the common wealth,
And devouring their own ability
To know you and me.

Take it away from them!
Give it to us!...

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Since risen dawn, clouds have been drifting in,
shifting their shapes, swimming above the sea.
There seems to be a whale waving her dorsal fin
My accolades to the moon's power sung in apogee

There are tiny rivulets where starfish cannot hide
Sea worms wiggling, trying to inch their way home
Nothing escapes the hastened withdrawal of low tide
leaving treasures to discover on this morning as I roam...

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WORD OF THE DAY: ETHICS

Science and Engineering have benefitted immensely from PHYSICS
Another major concept that has hastened aeronautics is KINETICS
But science is itself a noble profession with its values and ETHICS
Scientists are neither known for oratory prowess nor PHONETICS
Yet they have produced drugs that are as effective as ANESTHETICS
All these and many more were attained with or without AESTHETICS

© Wole Popoola 2016...

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The scorching sun was laughing
Blisters of my feet were crying
My heart sweated with fear
By my side was no one dear
Tears in my eyes were stout
I could not find my way out
I was lost in the dry desert
Emotions poured out of my heart
I kept wandering like a bee
Then suddenly that light hit me
I stepped forward unto its core
It emanated more and more
I strived to reach its source
I hastened like a restless horse
And I lost myself to a new force......

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HURT HEART

Hurt heart hastened home
Hunting hope housed humbly
Hollow holiness has hurt heart
Has humans heart has holes?
Humiliated heavy heart harves hardship
Help harmonise harmless hearts.
Hurt heart hastened home 
Hanging helplessly hand-made hope
Handcuff heartbreakers handbooks
Head home, hand hold halting heart
Has human's heart half hollow?
Hale heart hopes honestly
Have habit habitual heart?
Hurt hair-cut heart haggardly....

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A parade so marches past my window
It seems it’s there most every day
Like life, it moves and goes on by
If only it would stop, I always pray
But yet, so fast the marchers marching
The drums, they beat a hastened step
One day, I’ll stop them, for a moment
To join with them, I’ll get them yet
So play your music loud and noisy
March with smiles as you go by
But know this, friends, one day I’ll join you
To march with you under blue skies...

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A perky woman stepped inside
The elevator car.
I’d never seen her, so her words
To me were quite bizarre.

She turned her back to me and asked
(Formalities she’d skipped)
If I would help her out because
Her dress was not quite zipped.

Of course, I hastened to comply – 
I guess she couldn’t reach – 
But in the rules of etiquette,
I think this was a breach.

For asking someone’s help to dress
Seems much more apropos
If assistance comes from somebody
You actually know!...

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