Short Impermanence Poems

And just like that, it slipped away.

(9/3/24)
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Pushin' up daises
noctuary memories
dismantling me...

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Impermanence blows,
Analysis of summer,
For crystal clear snow....

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Ash, sparks drifting up,
On the fire's updraft borne,
Like souls go skyward...

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The only thing permanent   
about peace
—is impermanence 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)...

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Only a moment,
So quickly passing away:
Waves on the ocean.
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where’s joy eternal
all we see’s impermanence 
except throb of bliss

10-March-2022...

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A man lives and a man dies,
A flame burns and soon flickers out,
And so goes the pattern of vitality.

-Eddie Belcher...

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Form trembles my mind
all matter fads to decay
Empty sense objects
void, hollow, insubstantial
breathes mental impermanence...

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For billions of years
I did not exist.
Then I existed
for a little while.
Soon I will return
to not existing
for the rest of time....

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Recognize the Great Emptiness
Feel the amazing qualities that arise.
Understand impermanence and duality.
Reject all worldly pursuits.
See through the game but play it anyway....

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Unaltered by time
Never ruled by impermanence

Older than this earth
Older than life and creation

And yet how difficult it is
To claim what is mine

To be what I am
In this body feeling and mind...

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impermanence of
all materiality
is essence of life

souls search for the truth
transcending various forms
till they attain peace

soul needs to traverse
deep inside oneself until
in sync with outside...

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Version #1

Petals float down like dreams,
landing gently on the ground,
vanishing before we rise.

Version #2

Petals descend like whispers,
landing quietly on the earth,
lost before we open our eyes....

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Sinking alone in deep despair
I hear to truth whisper
Where Impermanence of beings
Is ignored as ever a bliss
And truth buried ceremonial
To invite happiness immoral
Such falsity of worldly affair 
Can one ever be altruistic?

...rAHUL...

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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The monstrous spires uprise
But never touch the skies,
Vain, earth-foundationed monuments
To Life’s impermanence.

Expensive markers war with Time
Where lichen mosses climb
And cover up each hand-carved word
That tells of those interred....

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flailing through life’s mist
                   a world of doubt bubbles up
                         pops in and remains
               

    Life at a glance contest 
          Sponsored by:
        Mystic Rose Rose
          08/03/2021 N/A...

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Unaware of Time passing
Of its impermanence
Learning not, through Joy's hold on each
Slid-by minute's sky-reach
With their bubble play and ball games
Boys and girls the air fill.
Therefore what else could they be
But careless, fretless. Agree?...

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I lie in the reclining chair, 
sucking my teeth
and wonder why the passing cattle
only stop in the field next door

and then the herdsman comes
with his tortured, twisted cattle- 
prodding stick, and they all move on,
me, the herdsman and the cattle...

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impermanence of youth upstaged every time by purity of heart



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~SUNLIT RIPPLES~ 2019

AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on November 13, 2019 for contest PROVERBIAL MONOKU 2 sponsored by CAROL CONNELL  -  RANKED 1ST...

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Joyful memories carve
a forever-space in time.
Impermanence clips at our heels
with Luciano and Beverly's last songs.
Complacency gnaws at our life-rope
as wild strawberries
go unnoticed,
until the rope snaps
and we hear the cries of Rigoletto
ringing in our ears....

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Impermanence by O.J. $traight
Inspired by Happy Hurts - Icon for Hire

My blood, my life source
I fear waking up
An atheist.
No atheists in foxholes.

Well I’m in the hole, 
The pit, 
The depths of despair, the 
dead poets society
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day, boys
Help me.
…I’m not that innocent. 
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You walk entranced on garden path 
heart rippling with cadence of love. 
You nurture hopes of permanence 
in an impermanent changing world, 
for you being loved, possessed perpetually, 
for you to own, retain the yearning forever.

September 8, 2021
Contest : Bite Size Poem No 20
Sponsor : Line Gauthier...

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Piercing the waves,
as I reflect,
Abundant Impermanence,
lies ahead,
Arises relentlessly,
from depth unperturbed,
Wondering am I any different?
In this Oceanic solitude 
like an Universe droplet,
my insatiable nature 
finds oasis of emptiness,
that enlightens,
my sentient non-existent self.
                ...rahUL...

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