Short Indistinct Poems

Elusive  prophet
while the bearer of good news
sings with the Angels
then flirts with society...
indistinct the conductor.

© Harry J Horsman 2012...

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Indistinct tremors whisper over my skin, I'm lost in the echo.

A Ripple To Me 2 Poetry Contest
17th February 2023
Sponsored by: JCB Brul
1st place...

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Toe the line, why?
Who decides I should toe the line
Sometimes the line becomes indistinct
And fades into oblivion
So it is impossible to see where the line is...

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Ideas with nowhere to hide
A eureka moment inside
Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words& pictures coming near-
A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to make me whole....

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First time I want to say you something
First time I want to meet with you
This is lovely, enchanting
An indistinct feeling
Until I reach you
I want to say
For ever
I love
You....

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Napping on small boat,
adrift in the bay currents,
crimson moon rose enticing.
Red rays in the dark.
A shadow jumped like a fish.
Too indistinct in the darkness.
Did I hear a laugh in the moonlight?
...

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Happenstance
           eyecatching 
                and astute
a
unity of indistinct 
                      diversity
Observed
               phenomena..
the emperic
illumed
                true
but inexact...

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glimpsed
   from afar

voices murmur
            indistinct
eclipsed
in stillness

all desire
              to compete
or
emulate

            begone
such ambition

modesty remain
                      stay close...

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COUNTENANCE
attention
 to detail
with
the
passion
of
subtle
expression

 the
stark
instinct
blurring
reality
in
the
   indistinct
recognition
so
restrictive

demonstates
an identical
 purpose
to
overwhelm
in
 relief...

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Night subdues color 
till Dawn's light pierces 
its indistinct heart
and it bleeds scarlet
onto crimson smeared
alabaster clouds.


(Tableau)


3/18/2021


Tableau - 6 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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INSIGHT
Ideas with nowhere to hide
buried deep within long
forgotten dreams
indistinct ,then becoming clear
words & pictures coming near-
like petals on a stream;
A fragrance that lingers within
a passage of light to my soul,
inspiration to make me whole....

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I am no one and nothing of importance
  lest you look a little deeper into my eyes and read my soul.
I am indistinct and unremarkable, naked and revealed
  transparent for the world to see the emptiness of nothing.

And yet, I am everyone -  visible with only myself to show....

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 indigo moonbeam
Mere mortal deeply asleep
Shadow surge on wall

Indistinct movement
Particle of existence
Memories recalled.  

Melancholia
Sleeping face ignites sadness
Desolate heartache. 

Shimmering shadow
Lover's shade imparts soft kiss
Indigo moment....

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On the path when the broken twigs burn,
the sun rules the world,
barriers collapse,
chains dissolve.
Looking at them,
so small, so indistinct,
in the struggle, in gloom.
Floods upon me, the brightness,
freedom is near.
The game of life is far away.
Nobody knows me,
a faint line of sand,
along the river flow....

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Vi's faded jeans
folded for another occasion.
Their distinction -
a silver arrow on main pocket

Friends would ask of
its significance,
but Vi became vague
and slowly indistinct

It was large, so prominent...
A silver arrow pointing down
with determination
to the reddish Texas earth





4/21/2015...

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My marmalade eyes
are viscous
lids sticky
gummed up
glazed over
the world is
sometimes imperceptible
sometimes impenetrable
nebulous
opaque in appearance
incomprehensible
indeterminate
indiscernible
enigmatic world
why is your
complexion so
indistinct
today?


(click on the picture to buy my poetry book!)...

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Indistinct things
In night’s malaise
Mar morning haze.
We slowly die
Across far sky
On scalloped wings.

September hones
Away the nights—
Blur city lights—
Bleach pale claw marks
Above brown parks
Fading to bones.

Summer now flees—
Blanch indigo
Of afterglow—
Patina wind—
Yesterday’s sin
Of twisting leaves....

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Indistinct things
In night’s malaise
Mar morning haze.
We slowly die
Across far sky
On scalloped wings.

September hones
Away the nights—
Blur city lights—
Bleach pale claw marks
Above brown parks
Fading to bones.

Summer now flees—
Blanch indigo
Of afterglow—
Patina wind—
Yesterday’s sin
Of twisting leaves....

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asleep in a bloom
on the lake of pearl moonbeams
water lily dreams

green frog in black night
drifting in rock-a-bye dark
where stars make their mark

moonlight tiptoes soft
on cool petals of the pink
shadows indistinct

colors mourn for hours 
at the lake of pearly dreams
observing black themes

...

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PENUMBRA

A semi-hidden place
Out of the limelight
Hovering in shadow
And almost unseen
But still a dim copy
Sometimes cast large
And sometimes not
Its own shade of grey
Moving in synchrony
An indistinct identity
As if self-conscious
Yet knowing its role
To echo and follow
Like its black cousin 
Faithful until it’s dark...

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Brittle, uneven nails 
Jabbing her skin
Kept her alert
While forcing a grin

Blank, saddened eyes
Skimming the faces
Sure, to keep moving 
Refraining embraces

A mumbling cycle 
Of indistinct chatter
Diverted attention 
From what was the matter

Leaving the impression 
She had little to say
With no one aware
She had a bad day...

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let the world fall
let light extinguish
let the beauty of all 
truth, life, nature
decay & fall
in slippery chunks 
past the windows
let the world bleed it's self out
in dingy-dark water color
& slide like rain from the rooftops
our rooftops, our windows
our world
falling 
graceless & graceful
over the last edge of sanity
the precipice
of all finalities...

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Years of lifetime thrown away,
I am encaged of bars I created myself.
The host and the hostage;
The prisoner and the prison.
They are all the same,
They are all me.

I have been here long enough 
To have befriended the shadows,
Shadows that are almost indistinct
From the cold dark floor that I lie on.
My cries fade out through the bars
And the shadows swallow me, whole....

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.

                *poof*
      that wuzn't cannabis
  'twuz mine into the visible

                *foop*
now you thought you seen me
                 nope
              you don't
    mine slips back unto the 
              indistinct

                Yards
              Jameson
             Thuh bone
              Mine lisp
       'fore the midnight
                gongz...

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Behind the masks 
We are safe 
From epidemics 
Behind the masks
Thieves and robbers 
Being not recognised 
Are safe too
Behind the masks
Voices become indistinct
Dining becomes inconvenient
Smiling hidden 
Anger has no vent
Sorrow and despair overlooked
Beauty not appreciated
Behind the masks 
Just like the politicians and cheaters
Never show their real faces
But don't worry
God always read your hearts
But not your faces...

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