Short In Real Time Poems

footfall
in the mall-
surfing off-line...

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eternal ferment
parturient symphonies
play out in real time...

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Air quality,
Water quality,
Soil quality,
Fire quality,
Sky quality
All to be tested
In real time
Here with life....

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I am the unknown hermit
living beyond your sight
Follow your puppets
beneath lives the boy who never grew up
Living in reality but not in real time...

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My son Scottie is experimenting with
Time-lapse photography results are he's a whiz
Working out so cool
A flower going by the rules
Opening up in real time like magic it is...

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When you hold up a mirror
To anyone in the act of hating
That is the most loving
Thing you are offering this world:
Asking all to see their own image
Reflected in real time ...
Shalom, shalom!...

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Deception comes in all forms. Various forms unimaginable beyond one’s expectations. Bluffing, ghosting, Denial in real time. Soon one’s masks will fall off and the truth will bubble forth from darkness to light....

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Some never 
experience it,
that time 
of a perfect fit

Before everything 
that gets 
in the way gets 
in the way.

It was really 
nothing much: just 
words, and 
remembered touch,

Brevity
in real time,
in memory 
forever....

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I drink of your company
and dine on your laughter
I bathe in your kisses
and glow ever after

You fuel me forever
We are a force divine
and I expect our love to last all tests of time

Love to Last the Test of Time
I wrote you a poem in real time in IM on a phone! Artimus (C) Susan Manley 12:45AM 11/12/23...

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An addendum to the list of universal truths:
social media can be — no, is detrimental to ones mental health
stop engaging 
open your eyes 
post your comments using your voice out loud
post your pictures in real time through your actions 
live, don’t partake in the charade of our time 
but
Take yours, in real time...

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A keyboard gigolo
works on his profile.
He photoshops a younger him,
plastering the Net
with his winsome smile.

Is he very different
than the little lies
we share in real time?

Best face forward,
but under our hands
we are digitizing
a pseudo existence.
one more acceptable
to the rigors
of a life-long
hard sell....

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Atop the calm surface
no truth or indication
of all that is below
caused by great fermentation.

What ever is there hidden
can be seen in real time
eruptions spew to the crater
stench of death is now benign.

We should take heed of everything
below the surface boiling
the bubbles soon will rise
as serpent's scales uncoiling....

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Bottom line
This is genuine
Alcohol was his thief of time.
I heard him say
It took all of mine.
His body is now in decline
His mind has trouble dealing in real time.
It sends a chill
Down my spine 
To realize he gave up his free will.
The wife went away
His children are filled
With hearsay
Which he has never disputed up to this day.
The sad part is he still
Is learning how to behave....

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Straight forward basic life
complicated by living
Insignificant activities
essential essentials, essentially
I’ll live my way, I’ll die one day

Sanity is the crazy
restraining eccentricity
living in real time eyes
the buffers of real skies
the blinkered genius fries
Reigned creation, monotony motivation

Everyday resignation, imagination stifle
future dreams, behind the everyday
Shoot me -
use my rifle....

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Saturday slings into Sunday 
with a serious slow down in attitude.
Sermons on the ethics of sinning 
are found in the NY Times magazine section,
and the arrogance of one celebrating
the finished puzzle on 300 count sheets 
on the Lord’s day is as much a lie of conscious 
as tea and a bagel taken in communion 
with the misery of undesired solitude. How righteous 
is reality when it washes against the grain 
of heart baptized to love in real time?...

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It only lives in our imagination
The past we have already done
The only time left is the present
We cannot look toward the future
We are all standing still in time
All see movement one second at a time
Life’s actions are real life in real time
Television and moves are in the pasted
They are an illusions created by man
Computers are fast for communication
But they can’t beat time 
they are in our pasted
Real Time is right this second

Don’t Waste your Time...

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Don't use psychoanalysis on poetic friends!
You have no degree, and you never spent even one hour 
with them, personally.

If you possess no degree, or never worked in psychiatry,
Be their friend, stop being Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Be a friend, unequivocally!

A poem is an expression of a poet's heart in rhyme.
Analyze the poem, not the poet.....
Better to accept and to love them in real time!


                          2/24/2021
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