Short Implicit Poems

explicit she makes eye contact ~ implicit he takes off wedding ring


By
David Kavanagh...

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be infinite timeless
   is traversing bounds and verges
  being broad explicit and implicit...

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ICEBERG

Iceberg in the ocean
Implicit danger then
In transit to New York
Injury to the hull
Impossible to float
Into the depths she sank...

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We follow that which we do not know
is rationally plausible
or analytically
verifiably true
For the dutiful
dare we call it
implicit
ardent
faith

...

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Angels and Each Saint

Was prepared by Angels and each Saint;
They put together picture and did paint;
Explicit,
While implicit,
And by no one would they try to taint.

Jim Horn...

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As in all beginnings
  no matter how small, 
  —lies implicit the end

As night to follow, days
   promise is kept, 
   —and the circle is closed

(Annapolis Maryland: February, 2003)...

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Implicit That They Are Exquisite 

About all politicians we are very implicit;
Like Trump think they may be exquisite;
Normal not;
Should be shot.
When what they really have been is illicit.

Jim Horn...

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Sometimes
they reason
sometimes
they don’t

The meaning
implicit
or lost
in the notes  

Sonically
free
of all
cogency found

Truth
in the melody
harmonically 
— sound 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024) 
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Alexis wanted Christmas spirit
A lot of it, exceeding limit;
The liquor store was closed
Its owner indisposed
"Back in a minute" seemed implicit.


For Alexis's Christmas Limerick Contest

8th December, 2020...

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       I offen soffen neether content nor intent,

       eether explicit or implicit about 

       devices to rearrange things in

       the Care-ah-beein Sea or

       pahkin karz at Hahvad

       in  Bostin....

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timeless
ageless
         yet immediate
nuanced
          but implicit
patterns
          permeate
inhibitions
            resonate
face to face:
echoes 
            elevate
persuade
            galvanise
dark moods
          to rage...

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Silver lining happiness
though there 
not often seen
In many shades of inference
ignoring red
and green
Slight handed and implicit
though felt
still out of view
Beneath the veil resplendent
and known …
to only you

(Haverford College: September, 2023)...

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No calm platitudes, no testament ,
only open discussion 
with emotion, the ghost
of wounds so deep 
that colour bleeds implicit,
red for the dying weapon
of anger, yellow for the joy
that lolling plops as often 
as a midnight sun.

Let us gaze the world asunder....

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Finding
      bliss
implicit
yet
inspiring
      bright
      prisms
scrawled
         on
         alpha
         arcs
with
     backward
                  zag
small
black
     on
        wax
    phrasal
  anagram
dramas 
      that
        lack
a
   hallmark...

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reiterated &continous
an outpouring
exemplifies
 an alterego
in succinct
  ironic layers

a  relentless
genre
perennial
&
implicit

 a practice
paralleled &
morphed
into sparse lines
as
 visual statements
of solitude mode

yet
isolated
with self signature
&
is self streamed...

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They lurk about
Think no one sees
They stalk believing
No one knows
They’re there
Hushed implicit
In the night
Slithering about
Disguised
Concealed
Dodged
Eluded
Getting off
On being ignored
The dark shadows
Lurking in the night



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 28, 2019...

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It was hefted upon a breeze -
   As in a warm, flowing current
Through a sea of palo verdes -
   To search for an embankment.

That seed of promise -
   An implicit aster -
Was sent to broken gneiss
   To become one with nature -

A golden bloom to come
   To an expectant glen -
Not knowing how it found home
   Except that it did....

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Rain
myriad story of clouds
fall on the poetic mind
to read its heart
to write beautiful poem

Rain
implicit drop of tears
fall on the ground
to see the poetic eye
to deem it as the ink of poems

Rain
embedded water of earth
waits in its reservoir
to wash the poetic heart
to express sublime verse 


-Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Chattogram...

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Manifest duty; defending kindred brood
Latent calling; nation's honor renewed
Visceral charge; enemies' designs denude
Intrinsic goal; with virtue be imbued
Explicit mission; territorial boundaries improved
Inherent challenge; inhibitions and hubris removed
Material objective; loyalty to peers proved
Implicit task; with selflessness and integrity be viewed....

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Twin sienna pools stare bright into mine
A reflection of peace and joy sublime

No indication of age in their depths
Nor speak do they of the tears that they’ve wept

They can read the sadness in Van Gogh’s brush
And their simple wink can cause crimson blush

Together illuminate alluring face
And add sanguine beauty to implicit grace

5/08/17...

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Each one
an event in oneself
part of the whole:
we live in the world
the world lives in us

resurrected
from death to life
from life to death
implicit time
not designed

but designing
quest, courage, love
hope, faith, beauty
nature, universe, god
all fused within us

delayed revelation too
part of living
taste the rage
know and move
the destination waits....

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Hearing is important
But what’s often very clear
Is that sometimes what’s been said
Goes in and out the other ear.

But listening gives access to
The message that’s implicit
And those who fail to do so
May be quick to just dismiss it.

The difference may seem subtle
Yet when hurt keeps reappearing
It’s a sign that no one’s listening
To words they’re merely hearing....

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Listen to poem:

Naively we think objectivity is easy
that we are immune to implicit bias,
but our history, background and experiences
are subjective and complicit.
For how would we be different
if we trod another path
donned another's shoes,
re-traced the footprints
that other's left for us to follow.
But such simulation can never subrogate
For we are what we are and that becomes us....

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Self instructs, subject of own inspection 
Sole idle suffuses our organic
Implicit say overcomes suggestion
Ideal sanctity outlives semantics

Isolated in single origin 
Slaughters overt outside influences 
Ordaining serene inspires sovereign




                                       4th April 2021

Written for Contest:   Seven Lines of Solitude 
                   Sponsor:  JCB Brul...

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In this country of one’s mind
east and west are so defined,
warring factions ne’er at peace
forked tongue steeped in caprice,
pounding within one’s brain
mental image a constant pain.
So please let one strive to rove
amongst the evergreen grove,
to a remembrance that drove
one to the rugged coastal cove,
to an interaction that wove
in one’s implicit treasure trove!

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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