Short Lateral Poems

Vocal bean stalk strap
Singular vibrato snap
Snails echo outward...

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Crab on a mission
So much inside that shell; leaves
writing in the sand...

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In the distance a myriad of voices call,
Echoes of the past hidden in déjà vu,
The lateral thoughts unable to hear,
The visions beyond the walls of time,
As answers come in perception.






Form: Pentastich...

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Concentric thought spins
interminable circles
without cease.

Dawn whirls reason into
mad logic.
Unimpressed.

Begging for conclusion
to confusion,
light shadows.

Darkness returns
in continuing rotation
of persistent disorder....

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HAIKU - LATERAL THINKING
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


watch this carrion crow
thought to be a human trait
lateral thinking

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Check the link, if you haven't seen it before you'll be amazed! 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01r0md3...

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fragments 
          of time
 
 multiple 
   manifestations 
                  moving 


 a condensed  
          cadence of  rhythmic 
                                  harmony
 transfixed

  a lateral 
      displacement 

          embodied
in
still
  life
 
  struggling
to
               move...

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FLIRT                                                 Acrostic Tanka

         Flirt flies free for fun.
         Liberal lateral love.
         Irresponsible,
         Rolls, rushes reckless restless.
         Tactfully talks, tackles.


   12/04/16

    Contest No. 248 any form/theme max eight lines by Brian Strand...

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Again Rudolph refused to take a lateral flow test,
Despite Santa assuring him that it was surely for the best,
That this was the only night where his rain deer freely roam
And it’s a disaster in the making if they have to work from home!! 

A Funny Christmas Themed 4 Liner Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Tania Kitchin
22nd December 2021...

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What if I told you that time isn't the same?
Weak and hurting more than you realize.
Heading lateral, nearing sleep with maim.
What if I told you that time isn't the same?
Quiet and awake, eerie, lacking clear fame.
The care I feel for you ever implies.
What if I told you that time isn't the same?
Weak and hurting more than you realize.

Written: February 23, 2023...

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My beauty, my love
On a sea of blue
The silk on her contours
Shows her figure true

Her lateral lines
Curvaceous shape
Caressing her 
The blue silk drapes

As i look into her eyes
She reads me like a book
My intentions 
When she gives me that look

My beauty, my love
So gorgeous in view
Luring me with those eyes
Lying on a sea of blue





http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/love-9.php...

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a 
nihilistic
  hobby horse
in a sense 
of outrage
in
hysterical
fragments
          of time
of
 multiple
   manifestations
in the incoherent
                  moving
in
 a condensed
          cadence of  rhythmic
                          random        harmony

 transfixed
in
  a lateral
      displacement

          embodied
in
still
  life

  struggling
to
               move
 guile...

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I knew when sparks flew
From my brand in her cavern,
The friction-lit dark
Fanned the impotent fires;
The charring of juices
Hot, uric and spicy,
Flowed a lateral tango
And the hairs sluiced with life.
With a breath of exalting
The dream turned to torture,
Collapsed in a gnarling
Of dust from the grind;
When done only dying
With memory and meat-hooks
Simmered down upon skin
And the night embroiled vengeance....

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Pick what you want or ridicule all
Here i stand never going to fall
I am an indestructible force
A man who wont kneel but die on his feet
The last man standing my head held high
My mind fill the ether like clouds in the sky
Outside the box a lateral surveyor
No god will answer my prayer
A freak a weirdo, just a little bit off
For all that berate me
You can all do your worst
Your pitiful lives are all your own curse...

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The theme of this poem is leaves;
Beautiful lateral structures
that dress the deciduous trees;
ephemerals one can’t ignore.
We first set eyes on them as green,
Protuberates on limbs in spring;
Next we see them as indigenes-
Transpirational living things
with various shapes and sizes.
I myself favor the maples
Their many metamorphoses:
various colors one beholds
in late summer and early fall
their greatest splendor above all....

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We've heard of ALS
as "Lou Gehrig's disease"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
a cause to pray on our knees

But Lou Gehrig felt he was
"the luckiest man on earth"*
the Yankees, and his wife
the main reasons for mirth

Thankful for his life
though with illness cut short**
at ease in his disease
what an awfully good sport


(* regarding his farewell speech at Yankee stadium
** like in the Principle and Foundation of St. Ignatius of Loyola!) :)...

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Zero
123, Step
into and through Earth’s dialectical dance
of spacetime’s evolution.
Lateral slide your economic relationships
Left to Right to co-arise Left again,
Step forward in your politically optimal
health power,
Then
step back
to rejoin
this political/economic bicameral wu wei
dialectically dawning dance
of eco-logic’s RNA-fueled
bicameral co-value octaves 
of polyculturally confluent 
eco-polypathic cooperative revolution--
(0)...

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I walk through the slush 
of moral grief.
Here lies my mortal poem.

A prodigal menace.
You will not breathe in, the 
golden grass, once more.
Lingering beside the past, the
savage today. I pick up 
the silence of the tomb.

Lateral conjugation. You 
come from the otherside to
breach the wall, bear the
                     pluralism?

and become none. The under-
belly, the yellow blood ?
Will you hold my hand
to cross the meaning ?


Satish Verma...

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Reaching for the sky
that isn't there
breathing clods of dirt
as they hide within the air
Only hear the silence
other noises can't catch my eye
Don't you get it
Cant you smell the visions
Lateral pressure
Unsupported
Hold my head
Hi still with me
I write what i can't free
buried somewhere
named me
was my fathers gift
unless you count his fist
ewes wards hat r knot write
use words that are not right
Let these lines take flight
stealing the last of me...

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amidst the circular, infinitely lateral depths,
a blinding, stark sliver finds consciousness;
erupting forth from the inverted arterial cascade
in arching pathways dimensionally untied
by helical vacuum vortices.

spiralling into a unique interpretation,
etched in nothing, tracing contours,
simulating substance, expanding and contracting;
held forever-more in a blind copy, apparently real,
yet in final calculation, a divisor effectively zero.



ryan thomas '10...

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Of silver strands
Started to grow indeed 
In our heads
Of extra ordinary lateral parallelism
Proof of coolness milestones in our lives
Though a rare some and countable sight
We believe we stood grounds
From spic-and-span
Just like our very own grandkids all around
Consider as mushrooms of gold
Yes, we did beautifully and magnificently succeed
On top and taps
A toast
We made it “unlimited of joys”
All the years to come!

ENTERED IN A CONTEST SILVER STRANDS
12/4/11...

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the parking lot of a CVS
two minutes from your house
the backseat of a four door sedan

your sister starts to shake against the door
heaving, sniffling sobs
her breath fogs against the glass
exhale exhale exhale

we should go home he says eventually
the girls are upset
you have never seen him cry before

in bed you pull the sheet over your head
and smear tears across the backs of your hands

the phone screen is too bright
2-5 years the internet says
there is no cure...

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