Short Land(A) Poems

I live from the East
And land a job from the West
To find better place....

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Intro
Square up, bell rings
Square off, timed round by round
Jab and move; stick and land a punch
Score cards
...

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Little boy Bo
Loves football so
He’s glued to a television

He spends half his fall
Watching football
A boy with a life’s mission

He dreams he’ll grow big
So, he’ll land a gig
In the game of human collision...

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My body is the sacred ground 
You laid your soul to rest 
An immensely painful stone 
I've hidden within my breast 
The land a beautiful Garden 
That you could only dream 
But the soil much too dry 
To grow the life you had foreseen...

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Bird song symphonies
Interweave through trees
Adorned with blossoms. 
The land, a mosaic
Of nature's splendor

The doting eye
Of the sun lands
Upon the blush
Of red dogwoods

Skins are out
Earthy smells 
Cling to me

The days
Become

Lazy...

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This great land, a new chance
   A love affair, pure romance
Our hearts and minds open wide
   Purpose in our every stride

We are the face of America
   Immigrants from everywhere
Our shoulders strong, our workdays long 
   This nation's dream we proudly share...

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Another Soul just got his wings
Another Angel gloriously sings

From this land a soul flies free
Burdens are lifted, rise does he

To new adventures, no pain just Love
where he can watch from stars above

Time was up on this Earthly plane
but happy memories will always remain.
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they came through the mirror
solemnly passing
on this thin web
to you I am asking

drink with me 
lay with me
in the frost 
or in the sand
which ever it is 
hold my hand

in and out of those ole ways 
when no shadows grew for days
we roamed the land, a mid the trees
searching for a place to be...

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Bathed in the crimson beams of the harvest moon,
The freshest fruit falls on fertile earth,
Celebrated in a crunchy confetti of color:
Pumpkin orange,  garnet scarlet, raven black.
Treasures of yearly labor are reaped,
While the reaper advances to take the year,
Inevitably, he will turn the land a bony white....

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Little pink baby
bundle of joy for her mom
a gift from the God
angel like smile at her face
spreading an aura of love.

Grape like finger tips
waiting for mother's caress
soft pink rose bud cheek
tempting all to land a kiss
her mom's pink joy for ever.










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In today’s crazy,
topsy-turvy world,
you do
what you gotta do,
pick up jobs as you can,
but I must say
it is a bit awkward
to do your job
taking ‘grams
door-to-door
only to find
that you must
land a kiss
on your boss’s lips…


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an ‘e’ lipogram that will not be delivered to any contest doors… :-)...

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So now she's letting go
Breaking out the mold
There's land-a-ho 
I can make it on my own
Breathing softens then
Grows some tougher skin
She can feel her feet
Lifting with the wind

She can see the changing leaves, and
She wears her heart on her sleeve, and
Says one little prayer as she drops to her knees, 
She's got faith like a hurricane...

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Cara’s on the pull with her mate
And hoping to land a hot date
She spies a fit guy
Who gives her the eye
What happened next made her irate.

His work tag reveals his name’s Jim
She flutters her lashes at him
He says’ move over pet
Canney see TV set’
Her chance of romance sure was grim

Inspired by a true story from a sweet friend,

02/07/22...

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R&R

Silently I contemplate
Secretly I desire your essence
Cardiff is another land, a far away shore
Absent from my lust, yet craving still
Drowning within my self, I lay myself down

And 

Divesting my thoughts into the winds
Victory is surviving with only lingering pains
Hieroglyphic messages of undying love I leave
Even a Libra can not always balance the scales
Even a heart has only so many beats...

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Johann Rall and his Hessian men are defeated this harsh chilled day.
Washington routed these troops at a small Trenton town with surprise.
Crossing the raw Delaware Run, with war so lost as some would say,
he gives his land a victory now - such needful and sought for prize.
Hundreds of the bad German guards are then taken when full at ease.
Faces are red ashamed for sure when caught having pants down at knees....

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Violet Nature 
A bacteria, lived in the sea it was green and 
found its way  to dry land, a desolate place
knuckle rocks, lava soil and sharp diamonds.
The bacteria thrived became the ancestor of 
plant life our nature too became green, which
is a blessing, just think if the bacteria had been 
lilac. On a mauve field horses trotted and under 
lilac olive trees sheep grazed on juicy lavender. 
How gay is that?...

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I studied to be an actor

And after graduating

Auditioned for everything

Yet couldn't even land a bit part

But as of yesterday

I am officially the back end

Of Donkey ass in a local production

Of Shrek doth Shakespeare

I guess this what they mean
when they say starting at the bottom

Or maybe this is sign that i have chosen the wrong career path

And that my vocation is not rooted
in the arts...

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Raging rain falls down the street
Creating holes on the land a bit
Rainy, stormy, and windy days
Bring us turmoil, horror and screams.

How I wish to stop the rain from falling
In the days and nights while meditating
People overlooked the reality about rain
That it comes from the earth and naturally falls again.

The rain will drift
As our minds learn to accept
The idea that we create
Everything we partake....

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dreary eyed, musky languor- tassels tight
a loose walk paraded by looser convictions
an acquaintance of that sad, lowly height
that alluded odysseys and several hymns

open window, surely dries out the stink
encroached in the room shadows and fleas
the zeitgeist of this area; to even think
flowers and dewdrops burly trees; to seize
the thought, it lingers, but only so little
too soon, to even land a misty eyed dream....

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Born out of hate
condemned to fear from each other,
the race lives, the race dies.

The loser finds a quotient
to dig a mass grave
for innocent paeans.

My stains were bigger than you.
In no man’s land, a corpse
is lying unattended.

A terrorist strikes in the house
of god, who will not react
in the face of a massacre.

Death will not atone
the grief of a child,
whose mother did not come back.


SATISH VERMA...

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I am a refugee
Can you see me
I am not Australian 
Not of your nation
I'm fleeing, I'm running, I'm running scared
I'm tired of running 
How far have I come
To find a new home?
My babies, my woman I've left behind 
With promises of hope
That at last I would find
A people, a land, a new community
That would give immunity
From oppression
Where my children might grow
With the dignity
That is the right
of all humanity...

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Cumulus

	Cumulus clouds
Fill the once lit daytime sky,
	These structures
Do now more than just pass by,
	Winter is here 
Becoming the season for sure,
	It’s going to be a 
Heavy one, more than demur,
	These flakes are 
All in their own way unique,
	Giving this Winterous
Wonderous Land a totally new peek,
        Maybe this one
Will be the Winter’s miss,
	Or could it be a
All awaited snowy bliss.

Travis “Ceijaeh” Klein...

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In a harsh often lonely land, a warm heart is a treasured haven of hospitality.

                                                              beyond boundaries
                                                              across miles and time
                                                              ~ open arms



Published in my photo/haibun anthology ~PRIMITIVE~ 2019

AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 29, 2019...

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Looking down from somewhere up in the sky. 
Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider stand by.
Below, Bronx Bombers, all in their pinstripes,
come out swinging their bats, taking their swipes.
Dem Bums have Shohei Ohtani and Betts.
Get ready, this is as good as it gets.
"Play ball", says the ump, to a lightning flash.
Big bats heard o'er the land, a thunder crash.
It starts raining as, out of the park, it flies.  
Is it Mantle or Snider who cries?...

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Somber eyes in the mirror
Can't be seen any clearer
Forgive me for the damage done
I never saw my unborn son
Wasting in my own pity
Walking the land a foreign city
Death due to my conviction
My own suffering inner affliction
Lullaby of sorrow and strife
A decision made on a life
My love made form as a son
What have I done
As they pour the dirt
My heart and I share the hurt
No more constant lies
As I sit here now with somber eyes......

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