Short Lag Poems

Menu ishq da roog lagya
Meri izzat lag gai Loray......

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make a wish and wait
manifestation follows
time lag our blockage

07-February-2021...

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The post-trip recovery 
From Sri Lanka situation,
The jet lag situation,
Is not
What it 
Once was
Because his body
Is not
What it
Once was.
...

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Distances




Your day will pass and I will sleep

strange these balance's of things remain apart

like a jet lag of life

impersonates my heart...

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Over the flag rise it
And the people think
It can be catch

Why suffer the thinking
Of people who think they can
When the flag is down forever

Just forget about it
And walk to the sun....

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summer solstice
verdant landscape-sandy beach
families frolic

summer showers
heat and humidity reign
sunlight lingers

temperatures lag
cheerful chirping of crickets
summer’s last gasp...

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There was an old lag* at my sale,
Who drank all the barrels of ale,
As the beer was sublime,
He confessed to a crime,
And puked on returning to jail.

*A prisoner/a person who has often been in prison

For Skat’s contest...

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Please, dear, join me tonight - 
Perhaps, for a delight, 
Popping, exploding loud,
Puffing up like a cloud. 
Probing in a fresh bag,  
Precisely, no time lag, 
Pull a ring.  Make me proud....

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Twisting turning
Engine burning
Never learning
To slow it down

Fires stoking 
Tires smoking
Ever joking 
A common clown

Racing master
Always faster
Near disaster
The best in town

Loves to brag 
Will never lag
Checkered flag
The winning crown...

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Support Historical Statues

Support historical statues they had tried,
And this is how they all were glorified;
Past does lag;
About not brag;
In action or after a long life they died.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Bolivia, NC...

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Fight the jet lag; stay awake.
Mail to deal with; calls to make.
Clear the suitcase; clean the clothes.
Fridge needs filling, I suppose.

Hit the market, as you must.
Trip is over – readjust!
Mind is in a time-zone fog.
Home again, home again – jiggety jog!...

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The boy, he drowns in it, 
That double-breasted flesh blanket, 
Striped and stylish upside down noose,
It's too hard to get loose.

Death delayed as he sees the tree, 
The checkered lag finally waves, 
He's the champion of this Grand Prix
against the non-competing slaves...

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Asking life to meet half way,
  you always lag behind

The focus on the things you lack,
  not the gold you mine

All compromise and copping out,
  your table left half bare

The brass ring distant and remote,
 —your reach too short to dare

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)...

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WAIT

time lag

p a t i e n t l y

shy ugly  duckling

cold and sad he wants death

seasons change reveals mused swan 

"timed doorway to breakthroughs: patience"


(c) Olive Eloisa
11:56 am
June 03, 2014

Contest Name	CREATE YOUR PYRAMID!
Sponsor	Nette Onclaud
Theme: hourglass...

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TO TIME TEASING TIME

Time was told to lag behind;
the rooster forget to crow
and the sun was late:

Yet, I did not feel 
any younger!

Time was to rush ahead;
the rooster was early
and the sun too:

Yet, I did not feel
any older!

As time sashays to and fro,
How confuse my body becomes....

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Footprints leading a life
I try and follow in their steps
But days, lag somewhat behind
And in need fall to my knees
When washed away by tempting tides 
To feel the warmth of heaven
As the atonement comes alive
Redemption of a soiled soul
To walk on, head held high
He lives...
Son of man who gave all life...

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I know that poetry
is not everyone's bag
(dime or nickle);
and its taste 
makes many gag;
and the labor
intense as it must be
certainly not for those
who lag – 

but for the poet
while most often
not his bread-and-butter 
he senses God, somehow
a complicit Brother

closer His heart

and Spirit Divine...

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Lady in drag
Under a flag
Smoking a fag
Wanted to gag

From saddle bag
Pulled out mag
Keys with a wag
Without a snag

Walked with a swag
As if jet lag
She was no hag
No scalawag

Roaring zigzag
Just had to brag
Driving her Jag
Still with its tag



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on February 28, 2018...

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Note surge and sag,
Observe the flow;
Time stops in lag,
Heed dying glow;
In just a while,
Note pulse decline;
Glimpse dreary style,
Note steep incline;
Ending comes fast,
Sense a blurring;
See falling dust.
Note pulse oozing;
One hurl of breath:
Waltz ends in death.



Leon Enriquez
02 September 2014
Singapore...

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she doesn't
wattle she
doesn't walk

like a pair 
of nylons 
she runs 

but i
a belly
bloated
blowfish
don't dare
even to try
to even think
or contemplate
chasing her in a
marathon and
so s l o w l y
lag behind
my pace
maker
and

my
mile
marker

only at
five
and

a 

half
inches
that's it

watches her
amazing
feat...

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Sun dry wet laundry,
Autumn sun shines bright;
Cold damp breeze spreads flight,
Wet clothes fly gaudy.


Sun and clouds play tag,
Autumn drizzle fall;
Rush to meet close call,
Feel wet laundry lag.


Sun and frozen damp,
Hang wet laundry in;
Moist stale clothes bin,
Wetness in a cramp.




Leon Enriquez
06 June 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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First day back at work
The holiday has ended
I was a man of leisure
or so I pretended

The days went by fast
I wish they were slow
All that's left of my vacation
Are the pictures I show

Jet lag and a headache
A tan and a smile
Some European fashions
Added to my Style

Time to earn more money
Save for the next trip
So I can get back to a beach
With a Margarita to sip...

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My older self gets tuckered out
Before the night has started.
The energy I used to have
Has quietly departed.

And toss some jet lag in the mix,
Plus days a’broil and sunny,
Add extra-rich vacation food
And I’ll bet lots of money…

That I won’t make it through the day
(Since I’m opposed to napping),
Without a few espresso shots 
To boost my pep that’s sapping.
...

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I protect the abandoned
paint over the graffiti
fill the shattered warehouse windows
with kapok stuffing,
lag rusting pipes with pitch and tar
chain all the broken doors from the inside.
Sleep on mounds of archived words
eyes drooping over yellowing pages.
One day I'm going to burn it all down,
but not this winter, 
I still have to keep the dead 
a little lukewarm....

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Newly adopted toddlers mourN
Indemnity as locus  standI
Gold-crests laG
Event invites the employeE 
Rodeo on the wealthy riveR  
Irrevocable superminI
And the black gold run et ceterA 
Nobles with black gold gains remaiN


Spectacles of other specieS
Opener ramains incognitO
Ne'er-do-well holds the horN
No one remembers the mooN
Expatriate  the extra farE
Teach the gospel momenT...

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