Short Intimating Poems

we skirted closeness,
barely intimating
beneath me
were you implicating,
each subtle thrust
as inference
or lust...

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Revelations,

intimating sanctions,

sailing you to make-shifts,

assailing with blank lips-

I rock Hetty,
while she make's a day-list,

I'm rock steady,
but she's having her hanky tins.

We both have a family-
they all have flailing limbs,

why can't we get along on a train we ask?

But soon lose to space ships...

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They plead with us
manipulating
pain and hunger
between the segments
of broken merriment.
Beggars
paid big bucks
to raise funds
tearing at the tender
underbellies
tormenting the scorched souls
of the old and lonely.
Chastising us
in voices muted
by soft music
intimating that we
are all that is needed
to suture the wounds
of the world.

John G. Lawless
20/30/2020...

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A she now mine,
A she made time.
    A she instincts cool,
    A she minimizing blue.

A she daydreaming,
A she leaning still.
    A she toying glee,
    A she living free.

A she and her hoodie,
A she and her fringe.
    A she reflecting smile,
    A she reinventing style.

A she intentionally indifferent,
A she intimating significance.
    A she simplifying stealing,
    A she modernizing meaning....

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Seek the treasure, however buried
where lie the childhood echoes
reverberate, gently ferried
across the gulf of time.
Hear the voices, softly calling
in tones of misty deja vu,
resonate as night is falling
a sweet, beloved nursery rhyme.
Seek and find the memory stirring,
party streamers, blue and gold,
intimating, shadows blurring,
laced with tender tears.
Days of thunder fall to stillness
in arcs of rainbow solitude,
generating wish fullfillness,
holding back the fading years....

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