Short Minders Poems

Manger

Miniatures to touch.
Messiah’s cradle where
many came to worship.
Magi bearing gifts of
myrrh, frankincense and gold.
Minders of field and flock,
make haste to the new king.

12/21/16
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29 words
42 syllables
173 characters...

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It needs to be populated,
needs a landscape, skyscape
or seascape
some gymnastic escape
into a cloud-forming poem.

Mind meanders,
it picks up diamonds and garbage
from its endless highways.
Mental are the minders
of our inner fires.

Space to be filled
made to talk
from a universal nothingness.
Finger-painting moments.

Populations emerge
over a dim horizon
walk until almost seen,

then too often they turn
only to walk away....

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