Short Mutes Poems

When my Mind mutes my lips as time draws near - read my Eyes - they softly speak that my Heart holds you dear  

February 27, 2021...

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Wind 

Black orbs

Fields where torches fly

Without hands

The hill hides the Sun

-set / “who are you?”

a voice mutes an electric shock...

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In the dusk of the day
When the dark shadows merge
And the cry of the wind
Mutes the chant of the bird
Where the waves hit the shore
And the air shakes the trees
Cold shivers of shame
Shape the bold into meek....

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Hawaiians speak like 
Soft rain falling…Asians talk 
Like popcorn popping

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Germans sound angry.
French… like clearing their throat…Mutes
Say nothing of note!
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Two Mutes in the Press Room


The two mutes we hired
to wheel hot type 
are bickering again

Their fingers 
quicker than beaks of cocks 
tear the air

with perfect curses
tongues never utter
ears never hear


Donal Mahoney...

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To refuge the sea, to set my pain free,
love in jubilee, now cast to debris.
Her heart lock and key, once given to me,
love lost to be, by her heartbreak decree.
Grim reality, mutes my final plea,
not again to see, my once loved...Marie.

 Robert Gene Stoner Jr ©
1/8/17...

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Blinking characters
Silent speakers

Awesome images 
Emotional carriages 

Beautiful thoughts 
Words fought and mutes sought 

Hiding behind hands
To make its own stands

The shy faces 
Gladly embraces 

While chatting 
To avoid combatting... 

Your favorite emoji is......?...

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Blood is dominant,
 Blood is rare,
 It sustains all life 
 and can be taken bare.

 Writing in Blood shows respect,
 Drinking Blood shows power,
 Doing both is an honor, 
 If you call yourself a vampire.

 Show your deeds
 and hold your truths,
 for the night to come over,
 and spare us mutes....

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Tranquil
the ocean
sun sinks
sky orange-red
with distance
comes moon
each wave
mutes night
circling gulls
waves and air
water and evening
infinite horizon...

Everything
utters night
losing shape
eyes closing
darkness in wind
each wave
the water
sky and moon
go together
with these words
I paint the sky dark......

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NATURE

Sun burns soil of earth

To refrain from heat cloud takes birth.

Sky smiles

Sun burns

Sky thunders

Birds in sky wonders

Rainbow colorful

Sun startles

Sky shows frown

Sky toughen

Stormy cloud flows

Sky sparkles

Bird mutes

It rains

Nature transmutes

Bird chirps

SAROJ KHAN...

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the light leads us to the door
footprint leak with road
secret of our language mutes
not asking our pain

if we explained our color
cold face fades
about our one-shoot
overhelm our hands
nobody knows we mean by

what they says
we will our respond
we shed our range full

quest lasts until you die
this is life
affirms the negatives...

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In the shadows of forest light 
Lean and steady on his stump 
The fox prays, solemn and still. 
Soft, the light glows 
As it mutes and slides through branches and twigs 
Across his wooden face. 
The movement of God: 
His white-bearded cheeks: 
Following prayers, 
Chasing the light, 
Finding the prayers, 
In a melting forest flush of a lighted God 
And a wooden fox....

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Immigrants immersed in snow
Flakes of dreams slip from their eyes
The dark forest stands behind them
And ravenous red-eyed wolves howl
Their necks stiffen in thoughtless fear
The night shines stars in the horizon
The cold freezes their frightened fingers
They chant prayers in desperation
But the old blessings never arrive
The wolves strike their trembling faces
The moon mutes their coughing cries...

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Words fade away...
Not much to say,
Works find new play,
Greet thus strange day.


Poise frames odd show...
Style mutes old glow,
Choice in non-flow,
Meet what I know.


Verse in a lull...
Words feel lot dull,
Lines I now mull,
Odd touch now culls.


Swing by the gate...
Odd lot feels late,
An empty plate,
Verse in blink fate.


So late this day...
When night blooms say,
As new words play,
Glimpse a crisp way.




Leon Enriquez
25 November 2017
Singapore...

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I watched you slink
lower into numbing coat,
where warmth just boils
away any residue of respite,

saw how your smile
developed MD,
drooping like torn flesh,

and no matter how often
those three words
nuzzled, you still held
that shroud so tight;

are you dying my twin?

Your eyes seem to have found
a place where nobody goes,
somewhere stuck in a moment
halfway between us,
and silence mutes me
with all the things unsaid

while you wrap yourself
in tainted conclusions....

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