Short Insignificance Poems

Delving into space
Man will soon realize his
Insignificance...

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Learning about the vastness of space
     belittles us to sub-atomic insignificance...

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Viewed from a distance
—we all fade to insignificance

(Dreamsleep: November. 2023)
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The awful insignificance of history
is laid bare by the titillating lightness
and frivolous form of our real lives....

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We deceive ourselves,
To try to hide from our own
Insignificance....

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Many proud mountains
Worn to insignificance--
Just gone with the wind...

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Lip stained ugliness
On my detrimental brow
Transcends the insignificance
Of union unbound
By tides indefinable
Even her skeleton is beautiful...

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It's all

Concepts..

But somehow

Rendering an

Insignificance 

To concepts

Cheers separation

In its persistent 

And undisturbed

Lair..

Another concept...??...

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latent privacy
emerges into the limelight,
into the unfamiliar:
emptiness
exhaled
anguish abolished
destroyed:
insignificance
dismantled
despatched
to the extremities
of life...

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It's all

Concepts..

But somehow

Rendering an

Insignificance 

To this concept 

Cheers separation

In its persistent 

And undisturbed

Lair..

Another concept...??...

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Keep on calculating the numbers of insignificance.

It is better to be full of knowledge; 
than a fool without a brain of neurons.  

The right person will truly love you & vice versa....

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Insignificance!
Is not a mother who has buried
Both of her young boys
In the space of 2 years
To ill health
And the deafening silence
That prevails in her house of cards 
Her toy less baron back yard...

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What great dimension of the vast beyond
makes Earth a microscopic vagabond?


October 7, 2021

Premiere Contest:
Your Best Rhyming Couplet #3 
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
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An aqua tulle falls wistfully white,
her whispers hushed by her sister's roars;
hidden twixt and tween in mists
that rise in a garden where rainbows grow.
Does she flow in insignificance,
or lavish within the truth she knows
is hers...?...

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Hear his thundering roar!
A golden shadow of magnificence.

Fear not the fearful  lore
tales of bygone insignificance

for behold a majestic beast
staring you down to shivering bones

but neither bite nor scratch, at least
behind silver bars his majesty’s throne....

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I'm sorry I'm not sorry,
nor drowning with regret;
you're not my worry, you see this surely!
I'm more likely to forget
the significance of your insignificance,
like a shark would mind a flea;
or a raindrop to a mountain top
that fell haphazardly.

*Favorite Poem Contest Entry...

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Speckled black 
Against a shiny redness;
Once cleaved to old and tattered,
Inspiring me to cleave it to -
A new found insignificance.

An extension of what really matters
Hidden somewhere past your focus;
Underneath the wood and glue,
Such a little thing as this -
A faint memory of you....

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Taking 2 minutes , Thoughts come to me, The words don't
Listening to Duritz trying to find the perfect words to Jot
I stop kidding myself , My words are of insignificance 
I'm a phony, The thoughts are real ,but not the intention 
How I wish I was real, How I wish my words could be real and touch 
Until next time...

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Hollow eyed 
gatherers of material... things
thick egos smashing everything 
no understanding of our insignificance 
against the black curtain of time and star
forgetting the lessons from our scars
Christ crushing little rogues
'til we snap our heart bones
'til the awakening slaps us back 
into a puddle of our ashes...

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Trillions of suns, my mind is awed
Distances as unfathomable as the face of God

In sense living, and sense divine
To lose myself, I find other minds

It’s not insignificance, the growing feeling
But connectedness leaves my soul reeling

Not random chemistry on a spiritless grid
But divinity that is no longer hid

4/20/16...

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Christopher
Thoughtful, tough, passionate, loyal
Brother of Megan
Lover of novels, chocolate, and Chloe
Who feels confused, loved, but still lonely
Who fears insignificance, failing loved ones, and the after
Who would like to see Rome, Tokyo, and my children grow old and happy
Resident of Cleveland, Ohio (it really does rock).
Kane, Jr....

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I disdainfully anticipated its arrival
Believing it would compromise survival
Surprised how quickly it neared
Accompanied by changes, I feared

Just as quickly, it passed
At it’s insignificance I laughed
Now that its forever gone
Turning forty again, I long.


Written and posted 1/24/2016 for the Forty contest....

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The drawer holds no confusion,
Nor secrecy or calculated space
Of rotting and impure breeding,
Under these invisible under-layers
Of brittle papers and sharp pens.
The drawer has life in the hinges
That speaks of pain at being unopened
And creaks of zealous joy for wrists
That pull love out of insignificance
And approve of unfabricated stances....

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I’d orbid any suns with you,
or earths.

Together casting shadows,
Proclaiming insignificance
of light or night or day or
time.

Silently swooning weightless,
airless.

Compositions of magnificence
crashing through stars
and holes of darkness.
Big, bold balls of deafness
with graves of blazing fire.

Nautical pilots of our sky
orbiting each other....

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fold myself into the falling
files
of each row
of days
this neatly stacked
insignificance
the belligerence of common sense
casts it's shadow
break me open
& i will bleed the pages
of an order not my own
these thin sheets more rigid
than any branch they broke from
what lives here?
whose hallowed halls are these?
what veils me
no longer avails me

02/20/2007...

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