Short Impressionable Poems

Your Words in my Head 
They tangle up in my thoughts 
Till they become mine...

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Innocent, fresh-faced girl, 
iris blooming in spring - 
illuminated soft
in dawn’s honey-spooned glow.
Impressionable soul
inspired by worlds unknown,
I, too, was once like you....

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Young me took this to heart:
“Love many, 
Trust few,
And always paddle
your own canoe”

Now I paddle my canoe
In icy waters
Far from my youth
and my many lovers 
not one of whom 
I trusted....

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Newborn
pinkisk, innocent
sucking,enticing, cuddling
daughter,purity,charmer, energy
giggling, inhaling, transforming
impressionable, dreamy
Baby



Diamante Poem for Regina Riddle
12 Nov 14...

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Glitter, glisten 'neath 
still waters running deep;
she attracts the unsuspecting,
lures the impressionable to their doom.

Slick and quick you never see her coming,
her subtle magic permeates your soul
and you're imprisoned, you've 
relinquished your control....

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a lone fallen leaf

on the pavement

Insecure and impressionable

the wind carries it in all directions

many young people are like this fallen leaf

insecure impressionable and in need of direction

brothers sisters step up and be counted as mentor...

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Glitter, glisten 'neath 
still waters running deep;
she attracts the unsuspecting,
lures the impressionable to their doom.

Slick and quick you never see her coming,
her subtle magic permeates your soul
and you're imprisoned, you've 
relinquished your control....

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Glitter, glisten 'neath 
still waters running deep;
she attracts the unsuspecting,
lures the impressionable to their doom.

Slick and quick you never see her coming,
her subtle magic permeates your soul
and you're imprisoned, you've 
relinquished your control....

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Glitter, glisten 'neath 
still waters running deep;
she attracts the unsuspecting,
lures the impressionable to their doom.

Slick and quick you never see her coming,
her subtle magic permeates your soul
and you're imprisoned, you've 
relinquished your control....

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Glitter, glisten 'neath 
still waters running deep;
she attracts the unsuspecting,
lures the impressionable to their doom.

Slick and quick you never see her coming,
her subtle magic permeates your soul
and you're imprisoned, you've 
relinquished your control....

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Children can be a handful
 They can even cause you grief
Children are innocent and beautiful
 Let's show them the world is too
Children are impressionable
 So careful what you teach
For these children I speak of
 Are the caretakers of you and me
Children are the future
 Don't you see
So I warn you 
 Careful what you preach...

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Chaste and pure the thoughts
Moved by awe and curiosity
Cherishing the gifts of life
An impressionable blank slate



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~A CHILD'S WORLD~ 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on January 15, 2020 for contest ARBITRIUM DIVISA 6 sponsored by GREGORY R BARDEN - Excerpt from my poem ONLY DREAMS...

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How quickly youth vanishes
The innocence of time
Chaste and pure the thoughts
Moved by awe and curiosity
Cherishing the gifts of life
A most impressionable blank slate
Virtue integrity morality
Only dreams...



AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on May 6, 2019 for contest FREE VERSE OR RHYME POETRY (PHOTO #1) sponsored by EVE ROPER  -  RANKED 1ST...

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I am a diamond in your eyes,
My sweet impressionable child.
I must keep my purity and strength
That you be not defiled.

I watch my ways, I watch my words.
I do not spare the praise
When you have listened to my words
And have followed in my ways.

My God has put you in my care
And trusted I'd be wise
And worthy of the honor as
A diamond in your eyes....

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Phantasmal mysterious spectator
lingers between reality and dreams.
Waiting, weaving spectacular wishes
from our hearts chambers of solitude.

Fabricated images in complicated braids
creating rainbow crossings of tempered color.
Whisking sand matted eyes into designed visions
dancing on clouds of impressionable illusions. 

As inner hallucinations castle bridge is drawn silently......

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It is all up for interpretation really.

Such as I am a single variable but nowhere near alone. 

I am quite impressionable and find myself opinionated in a bullheaded sort of way.  

At the beginning of my journey with so much more to learn,
looking back on how far I have come and what truths I know to exist.

Whatever impression you have gathered, I am simply my own person different from the rest. 

I am an epic variable!...

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The colour red makes you stop
thinking what can be wrong
it makes you hit the brake
as the tailback is so long

Red fills the heart in alarm
makes you think to fear
the conscience sets you off
your moral code gets in gear

A picture filled in red
gets your eye being so bright
holds your full attention
an artists impressionable sight

This colour speaks only a part
involves traffic, emotions and art
for they all effect your heart...

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You wanted someone strong; you wanted someone who wouldn’t crack. You thought you were making me tough by breaking me down. You told yourself it was the only way, because I wasn’t the boy you wanted. 
No
I was a girl, your first born. I was delicate, young, and very impressionable. I grew numb to the pain I became accustom to. 
You succeeded. You made me into someone the world couldn’t shatter, because you can’t break something that’s already in pieces....

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Upon a wall out in the west,
A print hung nailed to adobe.
A beaten Indian warrior hangs his head
On his horse on a cliff so sadly.

His braid disheveled, a tear I think,
A memory upon an impressionable child.
I can still feel with my little girl's heart,
When I recall "The End of the Trail."

Now that little girl is nearing that end,
Her battles not the same, but done.
With the hope she’ll meet that Indian again,
With his head high, his war now won....

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We learned about lonely people
At a tender impressionable age

Our neighbour was sixty or so
A widower leading a quiet life

Grand-father figure to us kids
We’d drop by visit the odd afternoon

It was dark and lacked life or joy
His little house felt smoky and cloistered

He taught us how to play cribbage
First sips of beer, cigarettes, silver coins

He seemed so painfully lonely
In his little house smoky and cloistered



Posted on December 26, 2017...

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you want clarity
but I want you to handle this female energy that I bring
terrify me, petrify me 
crucify me, purify me

but only if I could wait for you - I would
I swear, as sure as heaven resides on Earth, I would
I cruise through your male energy 
so smooth 
and just barely impressionable
but I lose emotion
and control

and then I escape

it's me
it's me
it's me
it's me


terrify me, petrify me 
crucify me, purify me


s i m u l t a n e o u s l y...

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To every woman and girl
That I have called pretty 
Before anything else,
I am sorry

Women are the hearths of life 
And I am sorry to have not
Shown my awe at your strength 
Before your beauty 

Girls are impressionable and 
I’m sorry I didn’t ask you 
Your talents before I saw 
Your [girlish] beauty

I’m sorry that “beautiful”
Came first, instead of 
Talented
Strong 
Important 
Loved 
Willful

Because all women, and 
Al girls:
You deserve more
Because you are more...

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we are impressionable at a young age, each male and miss
tv advertisements and magazine advertisers know this
they show us what to dream of, things we want to buy
experiment with our minds, so we have to do or die

I personally like chocolate candy the best of all the sweets
but after seeing this lifesaver ad, I feel without them I’m not complete
so I run to the store, and buy them and of course they are a delight
tv will probably decide what else I will dream about this October night...

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