Short Impermanent Poems

Ah, beauty must die
Impermanent flower
Showing gratitude 

©david byrne june ‘12...

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the more man possesses, the more he must protect
imprisoning himself within his own suffering, 
unknowing that all things are impermanent....

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figures
     of speech
cliched
sterile
out of place
retrospective
        maxims:
a repertoire
of snippets,
a collage
of the impermanent
in a 
    play filled
assemblage...
     ....inscribed...

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Good time, bad time,
contrasting confused sensitivities
partition time continuum unequally.
Live the impermanent sequence,
repeated beyond control 
as perceptive pieces of life in time mosaic.


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Memories
of childhood sleepovers;
silly games,
Mom calling, “Lights out!”
flashlights shinning under covers,
then on walls.

Whispers,
“Can you make this shape?”
Impermanent shadows
cohering friendship,
building pleasant
memories....

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Shrouded in imaginary fear
Consciousness contracting
Illusionary demons sear
In dark shadows cowering 

Cause being our attachment
To that that is impermanent 
Self blocking bliss contentment 
Stagnating in gluey sediment

03-August-2020...

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I knew well
The spring is impermanent
So too, are winter, summer 
Monsoon, and autumn 
Flowers fade and leaves fall
Fruits that are ripe decay too
Yet…
Does the sap of the tree
Or the trees themselves
Dry-off by passing seasons?
Why has it happened so
With your love, my love...?
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figures
     of speech
cliched

retrospective
        maxims

a repertoire
of snippets

a collage
of the impermanent

 a 
    play filled
assemblage...
     ....inscribed

   interaction
of parody and
             sentiment..
all
in wordplay:
interspersed
&
crafted
with sensibilities...

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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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MOSTLY      DARKNESS

It’s mostly a mess
Of half-eaten black nothing
After sweet sunset in spring
When predator rays of darkness

Come devour the light sky.
Each unchewed dark bite
Reminds me that light -
No matter how I sigh –

Is impermanent, just passing
Through universal emptiness :
It's mostly a mess 
Of half-eaten black nothing....

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As the violins soar, her poor heart sinks
  Music can't reach her, now she's unlinked
Yesterday life was vibrant and bright
  Today's plunged in darkness, without any light

She sits in the audience, glum as can be
  A melody throbs in her heart -- Woe is me
How fickle is love, how impermanent passion
  Turns day into night, the sun's face ashen...

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Daylight Saving Time

They had their reasons
an energy savings perhaps
or daylight appearance shift
an improvement of time..
But alas a darker view
has veiled the daylight..
Strokes and depression
shade our manipulations..
And perhaps more:
time stands revealed
as a thought impermanent
arriving and departing
veiling our lives
with its seeming
independence......

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I see everything from an emptiness point of view
I hear silent cries and whispers falling on deaf ears
I smell an avarice of a fomented Revolution
I savor the approaching sense of a pandemic Renaissance
I feel we are born-still on a very very very long journey to an enlightenment
I mind those impermanent treasures leading to a Dharma stream of 
not-self collectedness of thought trained Wisdoms...

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Poets Expound
Life is a Dream
Is that because
they realize that
everything is impermanent,
nothing is concrete
or everlasting?
We live in
a dream state
where you cannot tell
whether it is 
illusion or reality
Where it's hard
to get a grip on what
is actually going on
Poets are an optimistic
group believing in
morals, decency and truth
It's easy to see how
they view Life as a Dream...

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Where her obscure red rose tattoo was planted you would not believe it; near her bright
hazel batting eyes, above her left brow extending down to the tip of her nose.  
Her hair was auburn and unruly.  
She was daunting in hot pink and everyone stared because of her exceptional beauty. 
It was startling that she was only four. 
Luckily the scar was impermanent having come folded in a plastic ball only costing a quarter....

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What does it matter
Which words we choose to say,
When all of them
Are devoid of meaning?

And as pointless
As this poem,
And all of my poems
Back to back combined, can be...

I try to make sense
Of why people like me
Are allowed to walk
Among the living.

Should I cease to be now
Or wait till something happens to me?

It’s all as imperfect
As it is impermanent. 

So what does it matter?

What. Does. It. Matter?a...

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Falling at a terminal velocity
From the ether we fall at a speed that is  
Slow
What is my purpose, my destiny
Inevitable fate befalls the
Snow

Colliding with the other frosty white souls
Scattered across the ground sparkling like bright white
Gold
We're born in a season that is dead
How can something so white and pure be 
Cold

Like vampires the sun is our infirmity
Dawn approaches illuminating hues of
Wry
The epiphany before my death 
Is everything is impermanent 
Why...

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Sunlight leaking through every tree of girth 
White tree sap dripping onto the earth
Feeding insects scurrying with no fright 
This sap of life that gives our eyes sight
Gives us shadows to dance in praise till night 

Breaking through the web of branches impermanent 
A shining sap beyond the blue firmament 
That our forebears tasted every day with eyes bright 
A sap spread across our spinning world in plight 
Wrapping our world in sunlight beyond the great height 

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