Short Increments Poems

Born of other depths
written in lost increments
unseen interludes...

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New fling
Lust clings

He shaves
She raves

He aches
She fakes

He veers
She sneers

He winks
She shrinks...

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increments of time
lorn on fate's hands
lie motionless
as if frozen
like one drop
of winter's rain
on the edge
of an icicle 
restrained...

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Relational,
Situational.

Rate aware,
Said affair. 

Increments,
Detriments.

Free choice,
My voice.

At the gym,
Inside vim.

Sim ready.
Foot steady....

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It is here I would finish
that thought I had before
and giggle with foolishness
and waste my time in
careless increments
before the sun comes
and I wish I’d never done
it
before this stupid unrhyme
I can’t finish....

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Inchworm 

Inchworm as you measure 
In increments by inch,
Interfacing hemlines,
Implies...new clothes...a cinch!
Impulse begs excitement,
Imagining this gift
Imparting...inch by inch!

2.25.2017©deborah burch 

Pleiades...

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Plastic flowers
upon the grave
once bright 
now faded....


How do you live?
In the small increments
of the present?
Looking ahead ~
Ignoring today?
Retrospective ~
and with regrets
Wishing that 
the flowers
left behind were real.


**...

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26th of September,
the morning woken, broken
by the past,
                   has passed,
the future comes
in
small
increments,
unspoken,
I change in silence, chrysalis,
butterfly emerging from hallucinations of guilt,
Solaris,
one step closer
to total bliss....

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Step by step we walked 
Closer side by side; 
Bit by bit we talked, 
Hearts we opened wide. 
Day by day we grew 
Nearer face to face; 
Piece by piece each clue 
Fell into it's place. 
Star by star aflame 
Shone for us above; 
Little by little became 
A galaxy of love....

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With no riches to afford happiness, I dwell in poverty
With no payment in sight, I shut my eyes to a world I do not know 
Coins jingle as they search for a way of escape from my entrapment 
The increments are present, yet I have no sense 
With dreams of spending, blindsided by the reality of begging...

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Able to take change 
in smaller increments …
the total overwhelms

The pieces digested
in tiny fragments
absconding from the realm

— Breaking it down —
 taming the maelstrom 
 hail turns into rain

The whole reemerging 
inside my becoming
 transforming me again

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
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With no riches to afford happiness, I dwell in poverty and pain
With no payment in sight, I shut my eyes to a world I do not know 
Coins jingle as they search for a way of escape from my entrapment 
The increments are present, yet I have no sense 
With dreams of spending blindsided by the reality of begging...

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Pssst Got a Minute?
By: Tom Wright
9/21/01

So inconsequential, our minutes may seem,
They're given to idleness, and oft to daydream.

Rarely do we consider, that increments in time,
When linked with others, make a life sublime.

So allocate time wisely, giving to God each day,
For time is too precious, to let slip away.
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If nirvana is a void of emptiness 
Then I am experiencing nirvana 
In increments

The stillness in my thoughts
Lingers within my daydreams

I can taste the bitterness of anxiety

So I breathe in 

My chest expands 
And now I am full 

I am complete
I am at peace

I exhale

To unfold The world around me
within the million stories I tell...

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In increments of times unsung,
pure truth belittling, or restrung,
I string my passive rights, succumb
before my eyes - thus wanting's strum -

Is justice - and the world's dull hum
is sleeping, like a broken drum.
There in my heart - still beats upcome,
thee mine - thee mine, thee - loving's one -

My only constant - strung, not strung
but lifted by God's willing rung....

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In increments of times unsung,
pure truth, belittling or restrung. 
I string my passive rights, succumb
before my eyes - thus wanting's strum -

Is justice - and the world's dull hum
is sleeping, like a broken drum.
There in my heart - still beats up come,
thee mine, thee mine - thee, loving's one!

My only constant, sung, not strung,
thee lifted by God's most willing rung....

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Life can be kind
When you learn to confide
Liberate your stress
Don't avoid but address
Your issues at hand
Which may not be so grand
Once you tell a good heart
So you don't fall apart
Treasure the days when you feel most alive
Savour the moments you finally thrive
In increments we change
And expand our own range
Not built in a day
More complex than clay
Born from months of gestation
To live contemplation....

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Its strange how a loved ones footsteps
are so recognisable
even in the sleeping hours
of the crust on blur
A midnight sigh to tempt
or in sadness recognise its merit
Deltas are finite increments
That course within this form
from thistle to thorn
vessel carries the forlorn
Adorn her with the universe
that exist simply just to frame
To know beauties true name
My slow clap to the sunset
That never sees her face...

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INVESTOR’S EDGY FEELING

Numbers sticking in the investor’s mind
Always counting  increments 
Projecting
For a bountiful return!

But, 

She knew, she is
Counting chicks in un-hatched  eggs
Uncertain  how many of these eggs 
Crack out winners from their shells!  

Fatalistic she can’t be
There is no place for pessimism
She bribes her intellect with optimism
Winning numbers glued in her mind!...

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In increments, reflection's waif
some sedentary lifting of restraint
is sameness from a will of dullness' taint
and compromised by feeling, urging's faint.

While courage in resistance pools intent
to greatness in truth's beauty, not event.
And gearing for concern, comes slow but meant
as when discernment's Grail is God's extent.

With thee, this cup of life, man calls content
is empty ~ less thy nearness fills this vent!...

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We enter and exit
through the vision – 
what we see, and
what we deny; never
knowing what is there;
nearsighted and a-far – 
born unclear, our focus
a gradual ascent – eyes, not
a victory, but what they show
us of the world outside, unseen;
birth is a doorway ajar – the 
vehicle, and not the journey;
the thrust, but not the fuel;
born to die so that we may
live...passing through and
beyond in recyclable 
increments.......

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I am told that Time
are increments...the
happy man counts 
his by kisses – a family
hour, a dream for the
thrifty~ wise, a short REM 
seeming somehow linked 
to greater eternity – 

I am told that Time 
is precious – or burden
to those without Power,
to those hungry – 
alone as empty and sad

Time with God I've never
found wasted...

Though I've managed
good use of all these

Time away from you
has always been, pure hell.......

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Oh to wear the crown
Asking God to fight
Death and fate strangled
at my arms end
Ripping angels with my teeth
Race to unseat beast
Fold reality until it disappeared
Squirting words
upon    the                              page
in my raUNSETTLEDge
Depressed into my form
Squint in increments
scream reams of ams to scare
splatter matter like it mattered
unstop and able
causing rain with dribble
clench my fist and grin
as the empty i step in...

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Garlands draped and strung. 
White creeper blossoms
 reminiscent of  snow
penta-hedron, vase shaped, 
 single bells.  Five sepal-ed,
 finial, fillistered,
 flower bowls. 
Such delicate geometry
 predestined from a seed 

Destiny, fate and duty
will always mock one another.
Power struggles between courage
and cowardice, rest in the lap of higher powers.
Increments, irrelevant to atoms.

All that will unfold 
is manifest in flowers.

Suzanne Delaney...

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magic mage
in tragic rage
calling time 
in falling rhyme
hat atilt his cane a wand
limping lilt and pain a bond

His soul is tied to earthly needs
he falls in rhythmic rhyme to knees
feels frustration's pull and twist
finds no reason to resist
tears fall blind as hands unfist 
in such surrender life is missed

precious moments measure life
increments of joy and strife
some cause pain and some delight
some are taken into night
like teddy bears to hold on tight...

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