Short Lengthens Poems

near a playground
     my stride lengthens…
         sidewalk crack...

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Your golden broken 
halo's blaze gently lengthens 
the shadow of mine....

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the daylight lengthens
warm wet winds blow gently now
old man winter sleeps
...

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Watch what happens
As you sit still
And time lengthens
To flex your will
And thoughts feel slow
On drowsy face
As a blur glow
Foils words that pace.


Leon Enriquez
18 June 2014
Singapore...

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I feel Him in the still of Night
  and in pools of warm sunlight

I sense His shadow by my side
  as twilight lengthens hurried strides

I invite Him in my modest home
  pour over His Holy Tomes...

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As the s h a d o w of  life lengthens .................
             s h a d o w
each day of travel is suspense -

but the Light of the world strengthens.






01~16~17
...

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Summer
lengthens evenings,
dawn stretching til the dusk.
Light cascading through our window,
an amber ray, golden liquid dancing.
Warm to the touch, a soft embrace
lulling a gentle sleep.
Lovers bloom in
summer....

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the noose of fate tightens
even as time slows
and space lengthens 

such interpretations of mind
fickle, unsound, temperamental 
are politely declined

be it instinct, be it reason
if we choose to indulge in thought
it is against soul’s light treason...

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This One Way Street
Leads to the gateways of hell
Tearing the invincible 
Into the tiniest shreds of humanity
Longing for reprieve
Desperate for relief
But the winding road lengthens
Never shall it end
And forever shall it draw you
To your unspeakable fate...

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a frame cold-sprayed with
perfect tranquility; the world
and the bell are one,

a flock of wheels that join;
then the three-in-one in balance,
the sky,the moment, the crunch

of tyres on gravel,the river flows,
all suffering has gone,the day 
lengthens, this is where I am....

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The empty corridor of distance 
stretches long and dark between us. 
Silence, like a deepening shadow, 
lengthens as no words redeem us. 

Time, an ancient kindly neighbor, 
promises a light will come; 
a dawn to break the bonds of night, 
and love, your love, to take me home.
...

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I'm losing the feelings of happiness
All over again, my mind becomes a mess.
I'm losing the feelings of strength
All over again, my spirit weakness lengthens.

I'm losing the thoughts of confidence
All over again, my thinking's darkening.
I'm losing the thoughts of hope
All over again, my state of mind is fading…...

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Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water from lake.
I know that things change, the erratic constant that needs be,
but this loss of you I can’t fathom, grieving the shift from us to just me....

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How every move you make
sensitizes my sensibilities?

How every breath you take
heightens my abilities?

How every word you write
wakens my internalities?

How every smile you share
lengthens my eternality?

How ever tenderness you show
makes me grow and grow and grow
beyond my inborn need to know
if you really love me?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

curiouser and curiouser...

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Hymen intact, it was a long night
in the grave. A naked skeleton
trying to cover, after a broken skull –

by telltale hands. Failed weapons ?
To bring out the unborn child of a
rhyme? The shadow lengthens on the bird’s nest.

A moon subtracted from a sky, meets
the sobbing silence of a valley. The
virgins will be sold again.

Mind blowing pearl on a wedding day
becomes a dance of tsunami, engulfing a smashed
boat of a body.


Satish Verma...

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As the day lengthens
and sun grows high,
your shadow shortens
as the day goes by,

and i think of you 
in noon's repose,
and wonder where
your shadow goes.

Then there you are
on the other side,
in shadow's length
you no longer hide,

afternoon shadow
you slowly slide,
abiding once again
'til your light's revived.

One more thing I'll say
before I'm through,
I've never before met 
a gnomon like you.





(April 26 2016)...

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Oh well the being, mine the floor
of outstretched firmament not lore.

Unsettled ~ yea, but profound more
observance not contingent store.

But giving, give I thee my floor
to walk upon ~ my  love as for.

To wait upon as grace implore
I count the time, but ever more.

And love thee so, not adding ~ poor
with Holy will that lengthens shore.

I lengthen faith to thy restore,
not fated, but God's course explore ~

That underrating loses score!...

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A tumbler climbs a rain 
in all crimelessness.
Perhaps you will never know 
my in******ting self. The thirst has
become a river.

A pile of books and I cannot read.
The shadow lengthens on the wall.
An eagle melts in the air.
They are shifting him for amputation.
Truth cannot walk.

I become my father tonight 
and watch the house burning .
I am told there was lot of bleeding before.
There will be no need to rescuscitate.
The dead man says, why not ?



Satish Verma...

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