Short Incisive Poems

Joplin's Langston Hughes
drew words from jaz&blues
With verse incisive&folksey
is how Harlem sequence came to be...

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The stutter a stammer that
Holds the air
An incisive question to fill the space
Only to know it needed none
To bridge the gap
Between us
...

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“Attic Salt” by definition means “refined incisive wit”
Finally found a description for my style, I admit
Not bragging or such
Just adding my touch
It's why I'm a sweetheart, now don't give me no lip...

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“Attic Salt” by definition means “refined incisive wit”
Finally found a description for my style, must admit
Not bragging or such
Just adding my touch
It's why I'm a sweetheart, now don't give me your lip

grin...

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Indigestion

Incorporate corporate

Income greed stocks revenue 

Increased incisive profits 

Illusion independence

It’s money dogma inshrined

In the end internal blood

Ingested coins one big belch


28th September 2016

Pleiades  I  instituted 
howmanysyllables.com
7  7  7  7  7  7  7 = 35...

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Demosthenes was 'de most' famous of orators in ancient Greece!

His "Philippics" attacking King Philip of Macedonia is considered a masterpiece!

History recorded this and many other of his incisive orations,

For which he received well-deserved thunderous 'ovulations'!

(Written with considerable tongue in cheek!)...

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In endless dark tunnel, 
winding incisive anguish
delves deep tireless through 
insensate sensual strata. 

Visual surface of being sheared 
to shards by excruciating trauma, 
sinks to benumbed depth 
of tolerant unfeeling... 
        
seamless stillness.

__________

January 16, 2023
For Brian Strand Contest No 1170...

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You who had seen my next of kin
Dining and wining near a bin
And you forgot to raise a din
Or had minded your Gripping Gin… 

It was A War you did not win,
Though Loss reports not on The Skin
Like would Incisive Pricks of Pin
Or handiwork of Wounding Tin…

Your love, please, extend to My Kin
In Water Fish that needs Your Fin:
Never mind his mischievous grin
Nor like God be counting his sin…...

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To pierce through the surface,
none sharper than words

A vowel like a razor,
to shave undeterred

Each letter a saber,
that strikes to the heart

All phrases an arrow,
your will to impart

Once spoken, each edge
is eternally honed

To cut through deception,
and carve into bone

The blood trail that follows,
all sages can track

Incisive, unsutured
—the truth turning black

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...

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Bad stress
What a mess

Wound up like a spring
Not a good thing

Tired and down
Wearing a frown

Heavy hearted
Hope departed

Indecisive
Not incisive

Eyes frazzled
Feeling Dazzled

Opposite to this
Let yourself not miss

Good stress
Worries less

Motivated
And elated

Moving on with force
Sticking to your course

Confidence raised
There is no haze

Light hearted
Fear departed

Eyes clear
Inside you cheer...

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Ephemera hung from the philosopher’s stoned mind

A plethora of rubies dangled at the heart of suspense

Diaphanous souls mingled at crossroads of thought

Seeping miasma and fragrance cutting diamond’s edge

Archetypes flowing at the rubicon of incisive return


16th February 2020

I chose the words in bold for no reason other than they came to my mind. Let me 

call it stream of consciousness, or poetry in motion ......

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DESCRIPTIONS
meaningful
 actuality
half hidden
aborbs
the
joyous
so
positively
  apparent
incisive
eloquent
  &
unquenchable
in
relished
definitive
tonality
 instinctive
&
outstanding


INDIVIDUALITY
style
  &speed
in
staccato
  gestures
an
atmosphere
 blossoming
quickly
midst
the intricate
complications
  commemorating
the
isolated
once
  obvious
now
quietly
  anonymous
unbridled
charm
  exposed
&
underneath
empathy
  slips
away...

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