Short Introspective Poems

     Always the Poet
Writing on beautiful things
   Ne’er to be the poem


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So
alone-
a depressed
introspective
lair

see the lovely painting by Fernard Khnopff...

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An  Einaudi 'Le Onde'*
                                           Ludovico waves his introspective wand...

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Belgian Fernand Khnopff a symbolist
achieving cult status as an artist
'Listening to Flowers'*so unique
introspective style so unique...

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~ quiet 
         person . . . 
introspective
             thinker//
                         enjoying 
   my solitude  ~

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Memories

memories are the dreams of aging years
becoming crystal with time’s
introspective embrace


10/9/16  ...

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On this warm Spring evening I bathe in cool moonlight.
I cherish these quiet nights.
Listening to the chiming twinkling of the forgotten stars....

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Through the window of connectedness,
    the landscape grins.
 Introspective roadways?—
    nursery clay.
All the somber mountains—
    props in a play....

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Rising and falling, wavering and waving
   
   Bloody battles, lofty notions shattered...

Now limply resting, introspective
 
   Til she catches a ride on the wind...

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Stop being pretender to paramount
 care for not be so rude
don't act too crooked
and being stupid and introspective
  superior is  being simpler,
extroverted
than a villain... !...

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suiters were drawn to her
she was reflective
what was she contemplating?
She seemed introspective and preoccupied
Women who are pensive are often fascinatingly contradictory
men waited for their turn...

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Introspective or
Sparkling bright,along
Life's highway we alight.Now
Crestfallen,then tearful sad,
Pensive,wistful blue
Steadfastly our moods show through;
Close up or afar
Our moods make us who we are....

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Virginal composure sits judgment on life
Introspective awareness dispenses advice
Righteous and lawful, all wording concise
Grounded and centred declining all vice
Objective perspective but still very nice....

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Silent sentinels rise from the tide,
bones of steel, nourished, refined.
Like Canti, a lord forged from the mind,
bound to the earth for the ones who cry.
Painted for the hymn of adults—
swinging a bat for freedom of lies....

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Modern Haiku  

Wet dog
Looks into a rain pool
Contemplative 

When it rains
Cats sleep on window sills
Pensive mice


Meditative rain 
Gently descends
In September



Introspective  
Mountain village 
In the mist...

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You're gonna figure it out 
once you get a burn from the sonshine
that quiet introspective moment
this whole way and all those people with whom you've spent your time
all to ask why ?
you're gonna figure it out 
once you get a burn
from the sonshine...

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IN A WORD

authenticity
 in
patient
 spontaneity

unpretentious
 introspective
artistic
musicality

committed
  dedicated
    persistent
encouragement
of
honest
  realism

of you
      ...& me

     revealed
for
  all
      to see...

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Why must words never be so true?
Turning my skin from olive to blue,
From the cesspool of my heart comes pain,
It reeks with the stench of an infected vein,
Someone ought to come forth, break the vault,
Though from an introspective look, it was my fault....

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Insecurity. Bled me dry.
The seed. Root.
Ghosts in my soul.

Invasion.
Laughter at speakeasies.
Bubbles in the champagne.

Surfaced, too quickly.
Whether on my right,
Or, left of you.

You let the  
Bubbles rise to your
Unthoughtful Head.

None the less....

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the
   emotional 
apprehended
into
    experience
by
the sensual
instinctive
  impulse

patterns
& recurring
         contoured
shapes
open
&abstract
coelesece
the active
    extrovert
with
the introspective
in
a contrasted
                        personality

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Stumbling through existence
having passive days and active nights
your happiness a facade 
contemplate promises were made 
wonder are they kept safe
but past is a cloud of haze
don't look any further don't turn your face
it was dawn when i met u it'll be dusk when we call it a day....

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Introspective indecisiveness
Ignoring ideal intricacies
Intelligent indigents ignoring ideas in idleness

Sage sensuous silliness
Soaring significantly succinctly, sassily
Sashaying sensitively scoring sensibilities savagely

Words winging wildly 
Wildflowers writing winged words....

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Ohm sweet ohm. Home sweet home.
Through computer cascades I roam.
Introspective resonances fade.
As quickly and eloquently as the plans I made.

Infomercials resist and persist in my head.
Ohm's reverberate until i'm dead .
Sweet shifting breezes in my mind.
Ohm how I despise your rotten kind....

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IMPRESSIONS
prospects of
ennui
 of the imaginative
sharp &engrossing
 expectations
 sidelined
for a different flavour
in a reclining
introspective a
 shimmering
bold fluent
 flickering
 left visible
 savoured
in complexity
 encounters
with the past
 tenderness
interacting
with
enthusiasm
 throughout...

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The pearl lay
In the half shell
The oyster paid and was spent

The bird fell
From the sky
Shackled to a fishing tackle ascent

The beach stretched
To the loneliest point
Where infinity was met

The man sank
In an ocean of regret
Forgetting what his life meant

And I stayed
Wondering where
My rhythm went


September 2018...

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