Short Inhabiting Poems

The jungle ever green destroyed 
Killing all the inhabiting elephants 
Very sharpe the bull hook 
The old Mahout...

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I am anonymous
Inhabiting shadows
In between covert cracks
Inverse morality
Inside toxicity
Insane infinity
I am one of many


Entry to "Pleiades I - Poetry Contest"

Written 25th February 2017...

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In the extreme corner of Michigan lake,

When the inhabiting birds flying over our heads singing,

Picking the smile of children offered free;
 
I whispered in your ears like seashells-

A secret,

Reveal it to anyone,not,

Even in your dreams!...

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unseen in forests
creepy crawly things slither. . . 
inhabiting night

miles from the black woods
bolder creatures (upright) flit. . . 
whooping in the streets

woods seem eerier
towns' garish beasts seem wilder. . . 
and strangeness prevails 


For Linda Marie's Halloween Haiku Contest...

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gods 
                  immortal, celestial
       worshipping, believing, sacrificing
divinities, prophets, behemoth, monstrosity
         destroying, lurking, inhabiting
                hideous, maligned
                       monsters



Date created: 10/10/2021...

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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers
teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco, Foucoult’s Pendulum

LIFE

Living on road, once a week.
Inhabiting Dad’s kitchen.
Food for two with leftovers.
Every subject chewed o’er
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Through trees and uphill we attain a peak
Not snowy mountains but alone in blue sky
Its rocky face hiding narrow paths inside
Persevering as landmarks to glacial crawl
Many species inhabiting vast areas within
Waterways run past towns in valleys below
Flight of birds returning at refuge above
Little acknowledgments of nature among us...

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possessed 
crazed inside
with your devlish desires
and lusty thoughts
you moved in
inhabiting the marrow
that nourishes me
my fierce yellow gaze
targets your soul
the soul that robbed
my innocence
sharp jagged teeth
poised for a bite
your sultry saliva
seeping into blood filled veins
of my mortal heart
diseasing my soul
with desire...

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Cue music,
I’m sitting on my childhood bed,
Flowers emanating off the spread.
Osmonds, Partridges, “Me and Mrs. Jones,”
Stewart’s “Do you think I’m sexy?”

Magazine posters, boy bands, smiling large
Donny cheeks. Records dropping, spinning.
Scratching. Little sister inhabiting my space.
So what if it’s her room too.  Mosquito.

11/14/2020...

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RELISH THE RICHNESS
luscious
  notions
attempt
  to demonstrate
vibrancy
  touchingly subdued
original
  precisely
  endured
refashioned
  fulsomely
in
gorgeous
  desired
voluptuousness
feminine
apparent nonchalance
inhabiting
&evoking
sevelteness
semi-revealed
  conscious
twinned
 with entitlement
intriguingly
  sensuous
stunningly
nurturing
  the surreal...

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Aloneness 
metamorphosizes 
into isolating loneliness
with haunting banshee-like screams; 
daily caged inside
perennially mute 
four walls, 
a divorced empty nester.
Inhabiting 
                             a home 
once filled 
with mirth and chatter.
In much happier times, 
                             his refuge; 
now a lonely prison,
Until he steps out 
the front door 
to plenary freedom.
...

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Our gifts boxed up
Pitched across the horizon
Such sweet things
The elegant simplicity of us

You wrap yourself around me
Reaching through my chest 
Your soft hands cup my heart
Love is the air you breathe

I am consumed by you
Inhabiting my thoughts, my will
Filling me with your breath
Lifting the birdwing of my soul

Dancing eyes and golden tresses 
Shimmering in foxglint
A vaccine against my darkness
Scattering my wraiths 
...

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Frisking in glee,
the cobweb swayed,
the wind that was crossing ventilators,
kissed the spider,
it did somersaults,
pole vaults and high/long jumps,
it was just aware of air,
and its soothing effect,
and ran amuck one cobweb corner to another,
it scarcely did realize,
that enemy had intruded the abandoned room,
and was thinking of inhabiting it clean,
first thing it would do was to use a broom,
and sound poor gleefull spider's doom....

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We are the unbegotten 
 We are the unassigned
 Redeemed from oblivion 
 Kept out of mind 

 We are the great rotation 
 Unfolding the sublime 
 An echo of obliteration
 Returning with the tides 

 Unmarked by boundaries 
 Before the birth of lines
 Inhabiting voided forms 
 Unrevealed by signs 

 Dissolving like a vision 
 Or a phantom of the blind
 We are the soon forgotten 
 In the reckonings of time

 Written by © Raven Drake...

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the punctuations
                 start crumbling
a soldier
         falls to coyotes
                        this was their space 

a moon was sitting
           in waiting room
                    inhabiting war at
a defining moment

it was a fatal attack from
                    the guards    impersonal
            ripping through the passions
                     to hold or not to hold

            the fruit – end was near


Satish Verma...

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the punctuations
                 start crumbling
a soldier
         falls to coyotes
                        this was their space 

a moon was sitting
           in waiting room
                    inhabiting war at
a defining moment

it was a fatal attack from
                    the guards    impersonal
            ripping through the passions
                     to hold or not to hold

            the fruit – end was near


Satish Verma...

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I REMEMBER


Shadows have fallen
since I saw you last.
You were a  cool drink
of quiet in this world of noise.
Inhabiting the still  parts 
of my soul.
Embers of your fire 
still warms me.

Your life found eternity.
A life cut achingly short.
A stage without a closing act.

In the end, we are sand
in an ocean of men.
Waves on the water
that break 
along the shore.

But for a select few,
lives were touched,
souls heard, spirits freed.
I remember you.


-1992-...

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