Short In Stages Poems

The deepest ocean
Becomes shallow at the edge
How deep will you go?










Co-inspired by Raul's contest and by our minister's talk today on Integral Spirals of
Consciousness, going higher and deeper in stages and states....

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A young Poet is to an 
  older man

As an old poet is to a 
  younger man

“When young then old,
  when old then young

The past twice borrowed,
  the future sung

The old man’s knowledge,
  the young man’s youth

To cross in stages,
 —like wisdoms tooth”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...

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risen and shone
did I
snare a dream 
untainted in its craft 

But rapidly its shine faded
Although I did it in stages

How to beget hold of it? 
How to sustain 
such purity of heart? 

What ecstatic love 
a child of the night
It was a calf from the skies!

Written: June 03, 2023...

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Depression fluctuates 
It rises and falls in stages
It can make you feel the lowest of lows
like your locked in a bunch of cages.
You don't know what is wrong 
and the hallow feeling just keeps 
lingering on until you began to fade.
You try with all your might to hold on 
tight to the person that flips the pages....

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I grab a pen with my hands cold and damp 

Blank stare cascades down upon the pages

Broad strokes of ink beneath a buzzing lamp 

Lines land flat with thoughts couped up in cages 

Air thickened and foggy with writer’s cramp 

Words dissolve like mist slowly in stages 

Ideas rendered useless with no say 

A poet lives to write another day...

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The ultimate truth pointed out by sages,
being taken as read, needs to be applied,
transforming our heart where a fierce fire rages,
fanned by wayward ego, which to soul has lied,
to which end, shifting to silence in stages,
when in the womb of space we choose to reside,
the light of a thousand suns ignites our form,
as our presence surrenders to God’s bliss storm....

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These were found Amidst the flames of Creativity that Burn deep down Salient 
Hearts...
Is there a Likelihood between Bats and Platypuses....
Or maybe between Vampires and Dragons...
Aha! The writings of Saliency on these mild pages...
Damning Thy Six Mad Spirits sending Them Off to that City of Rages...
Life is to be taken in Stages...
Honouring My Quail,Ink and This Wise and Humble Page....

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The gunfire rages
through the cracks
of neighborhood cages
as every fetid tenement ages
and voodoo economics suppress wages
of waitresses, cabbies and sages...

while the slick-shoe alderman engages
in taxing your turnip-blood in stages
and blue-jeaned billionaires decry outrages
of clothes-hanger abortions back-stages
and gang-banger rampages --
as this feckless dog-and-pony upstages
detonated death's tick-tock gauges

-...

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Through the Ages
By Franklin Price
8/11/2015

Through the ages 
Smiles and tears
Moved in stages
Through the years

Childhood, youth
Middle, old
Long in tooth
I've grown quite bold

Say what I will
I must confess
Say what I feel
Who I address

Satisfied 
With who I am
Nothing to hide
Still give damn

Maybe more
Than any time
Working before
Not so sublime

Can be just me
 With loving wife
Where I should be
This age in life...

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Before my mirror, on this summer day,

I see my aging landscape spreading far

in stages of my autumn's own decay-

with weakened frame and aching bones which are

now shielding winter sleep from death afar.

But deep inside, my soul stays springtime green

with love for God that paints my mental scene;

accepting, waiting- that in death I'll rise

in beauty once again, brand new, pristine-

above in Heaven's blessed, Eternal Skies.
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Changes,
know what they’re all about;
Flip each of the pages 
on double breasted doubt;
Let it go in stages.

Back road 
may be a bit longer
but you lighten the load;
The trip makes you stronger 
left running in beast mode.

Do it! 
You have your future locked;
Sick rambunctious misfit 
you always leave them shocked,
I’ve got five on your wit 

Changes
can be for the better;
Those ho hum exchanges 
gone for something greater;
Blitz fire rearranges.
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Water flowing all around
Wetness flooding these old grounds
Aqueous atmosphere abounds


Rainy day springs murky
Misty moments most windy
Cold shivers freezing surely


Torrential monsoon friction
Ply the frozen affliction
Too much action in tension


Grey skies in black shades address
Change in nature's sweet caress
Hideaway from wet duress


Wonder awakes in stages
Weather from yonder ages
Greet exit in end pages




Leon Enriquez
21 December 2014
Singapore...

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They were wasting the hostages,
This deftly handling in stages;
Thirty minutes another one slew,
Nor bothered they would soon be few...

For the beauty of Twelve Million;
They're not asking for A Trillion.
Twelve fine girls,nine boys handsome
And only Eight left for ransom
Captor tells captives "I love you!
Just that parents do not facts chew;
Like I do kola and bitter pill...
For delays, impatient guns kill..."
Isn't it too hard to swallow:
What we'd do to in wealth wallow?...

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