Short Microcosmic Poems

WHICH ARE YOU ?



nice caring chatty people sitting
next to bitter grumpy miserable folk

just another day at the
hospital’s emergency lobby

the microcosmic reflection
of life in general



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on January 23, 2021...

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Incongruous realities of microcosmic minds
Torturous awakenings in lives raging reminds
Dormant and deceived are rapid eyes moving
Absorbent are neurons firing fluidly brewing





June.25.2019
Arbitrium Divisa 2 
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden 


...excerpt from “Dreamers of Dreams”
Aug.28.2018
Not for any contest
Can also be read backward

Placed 3'rd...Thank You...

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Such is life in all the universe,
nebulas are born, others just explode.
In our microcosmic world.
we fight our wars for pecuniary greed,
for love and passion and sadistic fun.
The tide comes in and then it ebbs,
cycle follows cycle until the end.
Yet we are after all too young to give up
or too old to battle on,
which is why we sometimes weep,
but other times we sing
our song of true love.
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The bough that cracks in midnight sleeping,
split from tree and hurled toward the stony earth,
struck by lightning, forked and sweeping,
burned to ashes, stripped of worth.

The rock that dreams in ocean hollows,
by salt abrasive water broken to a grain of sand,
a microcosmic state which follows
insubstantial of dry land.

My love is stoic, never shifting,
unlike the sand or degraded bark of tree,
it is yours alone, resolute and uplifting,
gloriously given...effortlessly....

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