Short Impound Poems

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Found that.

Multi
Holey.

Life verse
Diverse.

Now found
Impound....

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On the greatness of humility some expound,
but still fail to leave their egos at the impound.



*Entry for David's Chiasmus contest...

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Death once so foreign,
  calls like a friend

Voice ever gentle,
  heard at the end

Death once a nightmare,
  dreams to impound

Now comes to free
 —my spirit unbound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

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The dreams of a soldier…
   dead bodies impound

A warrior’s spirit
  his enemy found

The battle once over
   a new war to find

Though death be not imminent 
   —all sleep to remind

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)...

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What is the difference 
  between a fact and the truth

One limited in time,
  the other free and unproved

Language and formula,
  the great deceivers abound

As the light burns inside us
  —our hearts to impound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Once upon a time
the old songs were new
On prairies unplanted
invaders were few 

Where rivers rolled onward
no ferries or towns
All riverboat minstrels
new ages impound

The time of the season
unmeasured refrain
And cursed belladonna
tomorrow to reign

As butterfly’s wander
o’er questions unasked
A dark shrouded answer
—  the future unmasks

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)


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Bind my hands
Shackle my feet
Rain lashes on my body
Prick, prod, impale and crucify
You can impound my freedom
You can bludgeon me bloody...

Still, I stand tall
Proud, unbowed,
My spirit is yet free
I am yet, the master of my soul!


(Inspired by W.E. Henley's Invictus)

~Contest: A Freed Verse
~Sponsor: Brian Strand.

~"I Stand Here" contest
   Sponsor: craig cornish...

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Don't stand by me, 
if you're going to be mouthy 
and doubt me,
go back and respect my boundary,

your septic perspective and negative pictures will be deflected from my eyes and ears, 
reject through control, selective subjective inspections of your lies, so clear,

I don't need to see photo's for truths,
when dealing with bozo brain youths,

I wont be bullied on the ground and crying to your sly,
I'm the bullet to impound and leave you dying, am I....

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As shadows elongating round ~
change shapes appearing in among.
So witness sparkles with astound,
and seeks to operate its bond.
Thus restless tithe creates the shun ~
      and giant of the morning,
            . . . is the Sun!

That callings short of everyone,
and yet belonging in abound.
To hear not, or implant begun
in herald's sport refuse, impound!
The echo's loss is God's re-run ~
     yet giant of the mourning,
           . . . is in His Son!...

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In grace divine, she guides with ease,
Her empathetic heart, is a  masterpiece.
With beauty, brains, and a gentle spark,
She shines, illuminating every dark.

Journey of life, joys you embrace,
Erasing sorrows with gentle grace.
Achievements come, applauses resound,
Smile bright, let no one impound.

Daughter, sister, wife, and mother dear,
Strength personified, casting away every fear.
Let's honor them in every stride and sway,
For their courage and grace, this Women's Day....

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What closest to my kinship, there abound
as mercy in God's service so surround,
I place my heart and wonder at confound
regretting no truth's blunder, its impound.

Oh God, Oh living Savior, I am found
in Thee, in focal wonder, His resound
as I have loved in thunder, so rain rounds
the edges of creation to life's bound.

So in Thee celebration, reason's crowned
I love Thee more in station of God's throned -
And so determination, its tried song
is thee - continuation, my belong....

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I marvel at the seemingly small things
That collectively form America
And wonder that a human did those things
Without praise or question - just an "Okay"
When told to wire electricity
Into every room in Manhattan-
Or build a building a hundred stories high
Or lay a pipeline three thousand miles long
Or build a dam to impound a mighty river -
Just an "Okay" to remove a mountain
And replace it with a city
America has never heard,"Are you serious?"
It was built on, "Okay"

12-20-19...

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