Short Lieu Poems

Unlocked the door while sun rises.
Even though life's full of surprises....

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the haiku famous
nation of conservation
who will save the whale

© Harry J Horsman 2018...

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The sun, the moon, stars
send cosmic rays for our lives~
in lieu faith only.

29.5.2020...

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mortality speaks
words in lieu of razor blades
healing some
but mostly

containing the mess



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LUMINOUS TIME
(Radium)

to light up one’s face
emitting the time of night…
lives taken in lieu.
 
© Harry J Horsman 2015...

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Bahia of all saints,
                     lieu where the people
                    and the saints play
                    and sing together......

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the cuckoo in spring
needs to suss out homely nest
comes with baring gifts...
adoption not an option
a brood parasite in lieu 

17/2/2022
Entered a Brian Strand Tanka contest....

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In lieu of complaining
with regard the brevity of our
eternity of life,
we should respect the law
universal that says there are beings
that should not be repeated
in the dawn !...

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Nothing else Matters
just Love. 

There is lots done,
lots said,
lots thought
in Lieu of Love,
in Stead of Love
in Place of Love.

Nothing, none of these
Matter.
Just Love....

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In a labyrinth fixed 
on parchment folio,
Words smother eyes, 
midst confounding minds.
Each jargon befogs 
what’s ought to be explicit:
deluging audience, 
in lieu of comprehension....

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Is being open to fate,
a choice

Accepting tomorrow,
in lieu of today

A foretelling that still
can be acted upon

A remembrance
—the choosing at bay

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)...

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Vase of red roses instead of 
fondue
Gilding my White Lilly not pudging 
with stew
Cache of sterling poems rendered
In lieu, greenbacks not tendered
Blue carnation her jaundiced face 
to clue...

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Time passes,
my past time has passed,
but not totally
I came from the past
but I will board
for the future
in the present tense
where am I...
To seize the destination
lieu that God reserved me ..!...

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There is a day the last day of the year
To reminisce ponder and yes a tear
The next day comes along full of hope
As if to give us all enough rope
Resolutions spent in lieu one cold beer.

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Touching the divine
Immersed in the Aesthetic
Finding beauty in Simplicity
and a true Wonder in Functionality

to gaze upon true beauty
is to see the Glory within
in lieu of superficial pleasure
free of virtue, free of sin...

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Kinda hoped we lived closer, young John and I
Could've enjoyed a cuppa at a Starbucks nearby
So I guess in lieu
Cyber cuppas will do
Guess it's a lot better than a sharp stick in the eye


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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In lieu of
              carrying
              flowers,
              she arrived
              dressed in flower,
              in person
               to me...
               dazzling enchanted
               I became... !...

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The 'N' Word

Some
people
of color,
diminutives
of a secular order adherent
superior echelon, stigmata
decoratives
in lieu of
a good
term.

2021 February 27
*2nd Place*
Double Tetractys 7
~~Eve Roper
Picture #1...

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The world was my darkness
The soot in my blackened sights 
I once cried in shallows
Words entomed within my grave
Dug with smiles merrit of fading sorrows
My final morrows led by fate
Towards the rejoicing of tomorrow.

3.11.23...

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If it didn't cost me that much,
                  if they didn't charge me so much
                  would leave this narrow lieu
                  and would live where wish and love
                  the sweet dream land, my planet... !...

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the child within,
in times of certain incidence
will face a grown-up task
wearing bravado as a mask

yet, often, too... 
must bite a trembling lip
in lieu of lacking confidence





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Intrinsic failing is all good and well.
But too much stargazing makes my heart swell.
Ruptured emotions in lieu of mistakes.
A failed romantic interlude and how my heart breaks.
Corners beneath perception.
Disgraced and dying introspection....

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She mirrored the shape of a psychotic hooker
Tattooed by hickeys and bruises
Written upon the pages of her breasts
In lieu of her nightly pearl tuxedo
The teeth protruding from her ******
Began hissing and spitting at me
The war was far from over…...

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Haiku  Straying Husband

forlorn ice slit bedroom
frail flower between your legs...
ardor expires

Tanka   Stay At Home Wife

hours ravage ardor
supple sin envelopes grey
thick belly obscures
erotic athletes wrestle
loyalty in lieu of love...

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SECRETS

Breaking shackles of restraint
Is love the lost key?
Heart opened?

FADE TO GREY

I gave away tomorrow
So you have today?
This in lieu?

MECHANICAL RESPONSE

The clock on the wall ticks on
Yet my heart does not?
Sick of life?

© Harry J Horsman  2014...

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