Short Insidiously Poems

Many
Envy
Lady 
And
Nurse
Insidiously 
Jealous
Antipathy...

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insidiously tangled
in hope of
a divine touch
only mad

(vertical haiku)...

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Bereft of rational thoughts accumulated insidiously disappearing into nothingness...

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Irrelevant anomaly?
individual autonomy

Irreverent reality
(consumate depravity)

Continuing disparity
divisive inhumanity

Nhilist demographics
insidiously tragic......

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From work to love.
From family and friends 

Have you encountered this Senryu?

Being betrayed
Is insidiously mean
By those you trusted

(575)

(C)
Copyright John Duffy...

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A DELICATE MAN

insidiously she claims
her ‘right’ of passage
stepping on stones of
thin ice she aims and
stakes sharp daggers
of spiteful hate that
permeate stabbing
a dark hearted
delicate man



© Kim van Breda—17 October 2015...

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Sun sets swiftly for lack of fuss
Insidiously dark after dusk
As I retire in a shelled husk
In contemplation of my fate

Lift me up high upon your shoulders
Height that awakens the beholder
My battleground goes soft and molders
I'm reassured it's not too late...

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Greed is not a financial issue. It’s a heart issue.
—Andy Stanley

Gold

feel free to share
         insidiously
      to murder
   decree
what’s not worth
         gold
      a drop in a bucket
   you kick the bucket
but
         it’s not your bucket
      list
   goes on
      with no memorial
a gazillion
        candles in heaven
...

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How Much Longer Will We
Sacrifice JUSTICE for MERCY
With the likes of 
Our Dee Pee Bee's (Domestic Purposes Benefits)
Before we realize it
Undermines OUR morality
Insidiously insinuating itself in
To legislation landscaped unevenly
As if handouts are 'free'.

"Who DECIDES WHO IS NEEDY?"
Should be the question asked.
Why do we ignore
Embedded in the core
The rot mercy masked?...

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Daylight hours too, 
Can be insidiously cruel.
I'm sunshine on a cloudy day, 
And I'm nobody's fool.
My manners will last longer, 
Than any pain he can bestow. 
The lessons from my intimates, 
Outlive the insults he can throw.
There are still rainbows 
Where my heart beats.
Look! He is walking 
up the wrong street

For I am no longer his home
And I am numb no more.
......

© 2012 
Ruby Honeytip...

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Pitter patter on rain polished pavements
Tears straggling down window panes
The rattle of ricocheting  raindrops on galvanised rooftops
Spiralling eddies in bull's eye puddles
Umbrellas ,shields fending off the sharpness
Of blasts of non-stop water bullets
Insidiously a soft drizzle penetrates 
Right through to the skin
Producing shivery limbs
And chattering teeth
Transformed by the sun into glittering diamonds
Which disappear with the welcome arc of the rainbow....

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Transfixing with emotional content
and images too vivid to ignore,
it came to conquer Earth from inner space,
insidiously seeking to present
reflections of daily experience
and threatening to blast preconceptions
by simply revealing through printed words
at spoken venues, in popular songs,
and in theatrical performances
the true depth of the human condition.


Author's note: This is an original poetic form I call the CENTENCE. It is a one-hundred-syllable, blank-verse, single sentence....

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Why are you back again?
you keep plaguing me,
creeping up on me
attacking me from within. 

Insidiously you invade,
loving my warmth 
and my sweetness settling
in, making yourself at home

You attack me slyly
not welcome in the least,
yet you do not care
what damage you do.

Four times now this year
you have invaded me
rushing into my body
germ that you are.

Enough I say, be gone!
find yourself another host.
Leave me alone to recover,
go find yourself someone else....

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