Short Indelibly Poems

reflections reawaken images
     indelibly  silhouetted
       upon memory...

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sometimes change is
good but the one
thing that is indelibly
clear is that change
is eminent...

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Fleeting diversions
Cross the common of life.
Our chance comments often
Indelibly impress,as casual
Acquaintance fade into the void....

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Fleeting diversions
Cross the common of life.
Our chance comments often
Indelibly impress,as casual
Acquaintance fade into the void....

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I arise from my bed
Pictures of you in my head
The opportunity I could not miss
To tell you this
Need release from my emotional chain
So I pen this refrain
I love you 
From, Elaine...

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keep your eye on the prize
tangible dreams
not the pot-holed road
once paved with hope
the dust now settled
on past fantasy
perspective sought
indelibly gained
live the lesson
from what remains...

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in winter...continuity
....on a blank wall

locations,interiors
indelibly drawn on memory

dirt grime,decomposition
mirrors of neglect

nothing ..no one rules
anarchy avails

reputations burn..
with no place to go...

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White gull in canyon of high boiling mist
Soaring to catch in a moment not missed
The feeling of freedom expressed with this pen
Indelibly certainly caught once again
Soaring forever and free
In soul sight of  readers and me...

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His believers 
were seen leaving
their earthly bodies;
then He turned to go.

Others marked intransigent,
never desiring more than
their own fragile beauty,
were left here indelibly
cringing in shame
to die among their own....

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You can’t wash away loneliness,
it lurks and it spies
a stain on tomorrow
where destiny cries 

You can’t keep what’s been stolen
or find what’s not there,
alone and deserted
—the soap of despair

(Dreamsleep: November, 2021)...

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The icons are falling
As idols are rising
Perhaps for their gifts
Being spared coming rifts

For the poets we grieve
Are of this fabric's weave
They are this tapestry
The fibre of our society

And they have marked us so indelibly...

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Images
     
Imprint of holocaust
         indelibly entrenched
implodes with recurrence
          Injuring array of
icons  evokes nightmares
         inciting shrill screams of
infant left motherless

Contest Pleiades I
Date Feb25  2017...

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There is a book
authored by the supreme
before the existence of men
Guiding our path on earth
knows man more than himself
written differently for every man
knows the begin and end of creatures
it indelibly written
it title is smitten

... destiny... can never be changed...

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As billowing clouds drape endlessly, flurries gently hover indelibly;
jovial kids leave mom's nest, outside playing, quickly racing snowfall,
tumbling under vigilant watch, eXperiencing youth zealously.


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, March 10, 2012
for Snow ABC Contest (Yasmin Khan)
Fourth Place...

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Such is life
A mixture of happiness and strife,
Not always in equal measure
The sadness and the pleasure,
We must take both in stride
For we are only along for the ride,
Trying to gain a modicum of control
To make ourselves indelibly whole.

written March 15, 2022...

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That gift of reason
has led me
some would say astray
for I see faith in fable
as ceding response
ability
fundamentalism
indoctrination of ignorance
indelibly 
bliss of all bliss while
I submit
to this glorious sky
waiting for bliss to
fly by
for I see bliss as fleeting
on a falcon's wing....

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Somehow, the glint of morn's prayer
awakens an unexplained urge 
to find new  journeys
in the remaining meditation
of time...I gush as daybreak yields
freshened rain, 
that my  old city of dreams,
of hope begins to  inhale 

all that is indelibly alive-- precious.


...............
Late April Standard Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Symbols of structured prose,
an instant insight when read
aloud.The prose of poetry purposed,
to experience,once and forever
then filed in the mind’s eye&ear.
When triggered,to be recalled
and repeated over again& again.
A living voice intoned and inflected
echoing as an everlasting ripple
acroos momentary eternity,indelibly
sketched,a recorded act,  of life...

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Don't eat off the tips of  your pens
tomorrow they might earn you a living

Don’t play with your pieces
Tomorrow they might start working

Don’t clean any of your lines
Tomorrow they might save a life

Poets are gods 
They grow old like the earth

Indelibly,
There works live like the cloud

“I created myself”

Dedicated to Mariah
Angelo. Deid may
2014....

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I found your letters yesterday—
Eighteen years ago.
You wisely wrote from Paris in francais
Without the pride, without the show.

I’m glad to note, I feel no more,
Reading you anew
Except to marvel how your closing door
Was shut so softly.  Subtle you.

The tactfulness in every line
Missed me way back then.
Your dignity indelibly divine…
Thanks come slow from certain men....

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'Tis not that false sense of immortality
  which beats back horizons, neither
'tis some God-given prescience, not talent
  you warrant as indelibly yours

No, 'tis the quiet of the still hours
  deep in the night; a walk in the forest
through nature's delight; oases of
  tranquility ~ the world aright




              January 17, 2021
   Completely Your Choice (43) Contest
           Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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A brush of leg
mirroring mine
spaced delicious


Dust tumbles in air
playing kaleidoscope
to light,
laying transfixed
in scents 
of jasmine and hyacinth
enfolding senses
to serenity,
and in the moonlight
as the Grey gum
castes her shadow 
supreme


Struck
in Marbled rays
sprung from noon
to moon,
becoming 
a tableaux of
lust,
etched indelibly
into the stone 
of my soul



Gazing into
microscopic dust,


I sigh...

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apperception
              an intuition
                    beyond form 
              instilled     spontaneous
         of the moment 
a channel
             of self conscious
              convergence
                  a crystallisation
                           spoken aloud
             indelibly inked forever
an interpretation
     changing
        according to mood
essentially fluid
    inherently variable
illusive
      as a shadow...

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apperception
              an intuition
                    beyond form 
              instilled     spontaneous
         of the moment 
a channel
             of self conscious
              convergence
                  a crystallisation
                           spoken aloud
             indelibly inked forever
an interpretation
     changing
        according to mood
essentially fluid
    inherently variable
illusive
      as a shadow...

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Struck void the will of intellect,
against such pondering, 
the injured spirit to protect. 
No tangled reminisce provides, 
Surcease to turnings 
of such tortured mind. 
Nor time-fogged recall 
that guide requires - 
So indelibly scored, Regret's cold ire.

And soul bereft of all hope of gain,
Forsakes Intention's road,
for one paved in self - disdain. 
And all the way,
the mocking laugher never fades.
'Sleep well now, in this bed you've made.'...

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