Short Indicators Poems

Problems, pressures, pains, hidden hurts and annoyances arise...
Good indicators of abnormalities in normal bodies...
Diseases discovered by the doctor's diagnoses......

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The moon
is a bay leaf
folded among the trees.

It is not.

There is no time
to love one another, the days
smear like wet ink.

It is the time
of the wolf.

We must feed him....

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(Based on the painting “The Treachery of Images” by René Magritte)

If you label symbols traitors
Since they’re only indicators
Rather than the actual things they signify,
Then you’re logically unable
To affirm your very label
Is a truth and not a metaphoric lie....

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The wealth of a nation
its measures and indicators
manifests conspicuously
not among wealthy class 
not among the powerful
not in the banks, treasuries
but in rugged and dry hands
of the ordinary peasants
the ones who sleep hungry
The poor are poor, die poor
because somewhere one
is praised, loved, endeared
through riddles and lyrics...

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If the scriptures we had read not
Would then the divine energy be naught
We think not! We are all self taught
As we blossom in the elixir bliss brought

Good to read and we are not rude
But mind has only partially understood
The truth in actuality 
Our is-ness alone manifests reality
In undeniable certainty & clarity
Connecting us to our own infinity

Within...

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Already down, he has presented with yet another sign
moving away from life, this body is drunk with bad wine
health indicators and physical sensors no more stay in line
abilities and strength together cannot dine
the task to awaken this life is now mine
tests and pricks, protocols already reaching nine
administering correctly the much needed vine
with God on my side, this helpless being is now fine.
...

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Tear-drops kisses skin scale
lover prayer heard fail
sun rise not today
for i tumble a cry

Clarify missile elegy
poets own pantomime
target inner blood line
Abel's gifts crop lien
what else to define
world crisis; fine 

Darts light match-sticks
indicators get th' tip
th' innocent th' sip 
th' seductive th' trip
runs then airsick 
trying to hold or pick
some old garment fic
neutralize grip
th' lure wins th' snip...

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Dogs won’t bother these traps the exterminator said.
They have poison in them and they’ll make mice dead.
They snap shut with indicators of green and red.
He was their chief expert, his name was Big Fred.

He had not met our dog Buddy, who was asleep on our bed.
Buddy ate that mouse trap this evening, my husband said.
He’s thrown up his food all over our Kansas homestead.
I am angry about it and blame that pest guy, Big Fred....

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My phone dings for no reason.
I am not playing video games.
I am not trying to speak to a friend.

I am sitting in the living room
And I hear my phone dinging in the kitchen.
I pick it up and stare at it.

There are no alerts.
No messages.
No indicators at all.

I leave it in the kitchen
And it happens again and again
No rhyme or reason to it.

The new phones
have their own personality
their own mood, and their own secretive magical ways....

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