Short Nearsighted Poems

Cats have eighteen toes,

jumps 6 times their length, no sweet

tooth, nearsighted, calms


Date: 09/06/2019...

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Shifty brown waters
Gnarled grey shack
on a verdant grassy pier
Snow white townhouses
on nearsighted shores
The sky, powdery blue
and you,...

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You woke up this morning
Remembering what they said to you 
You remembered what they did to you 
Learn by heart 

That it doesn't matter who said what
 Or who did what to you
Don't dress up in their negativity;
Your destiny is not determined
By what people did to you 
Or by what they said about you;

You are so much more than nearsighted perception!


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We enter and exit
through the vision – 
what we see, and
what we deny; never
knowing what is there;
nearsighted and a-far – 
born unclear, our focus
a gradual ascent – eyes, not
a victory, but what they show
us of the world outside, unseen;
birth is a doorway ajar – the 
vehicle, and not the journey;
the thrust, but not the fuel;
born to die so that we may
live...passing through and
beyond in recyclable 
increments.......

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Like a contact lens on a very nearsighted cornea
smoothes out the rough edges of sight,
We see a magnifying glass with reflections
of the past, broken and shattered
The center of a city with images and visions
of innocent lives lost
with a completed 168-piece puzzle destroyed
a devastating reality spreads darkness to many
we remember the pain and suffering of a 
city in chaos on a normal day that
turned out to be everything but normal....

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You Have Loved My Horn Haiku

Horn Haiku Poems

we would see him walk
after having heard him squawk
must be seattle seahawk

Clerk Who Would Like to Smerk

always like to work
being a bright soda jerk
up did try to perk

breath away taking
many hearts had been breaking
fool always faking

man may move to moon
searching lagoon for silver spoon
eaten by big baboon

knew nearsighted neighbor
when we did her a favor
went into labor

Jim Horn...

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