Short Not Present Poems

“None will ever see the future it is pasted and not present”...

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Sore confused would share with the world their treasures
Pain provides the means to express this sadness
I won't give my voice to a world of madness
I am not present...

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Your words,
  a rapier through my heart.
I bleed
  from a wounded soul.
My tears, 
   a salty river.
Trust is a past, not present, concept.
I am no longer me.
Your words
   have forever changed me....

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the art of doing nothing
takes precedence over

the art of domestic engineering
if marriage is not present

in other words, I don't cook, clean, or do diapers
if I'm not married

By Susan J. Mills...

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away at home

not present but remembered

scents recalled, Fahrenheit?

your lips soft

your eyes, i can't see your soul

is there any truth in them

i wish i knew

i can not feel

i can not see

i still love you...

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My eyes are opening now
Only to fill with tears
For I am waking up to a dark and lonely world
A world where the colors of your love are not present
The music of your touch is missing, too
And I walk alone in a silent and grey world
Where I will fade away into nothingness
And you will never know...

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I am receding
 into my psyche
 deeper down
 than you can probe
 I am missing
 I am not present
 you wave your hands
 and I stare back blindly
 I am bleeding
 but you cant see me
 I am lost and found
 I'm a piece of fools gold
 I am missing
 I am not present
 I understand
 but I don't take kindly...

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Pandering comments about
God,
self-defining

Imprinted and
wrong,
our limitations displayed

“God is not kind…
but
God is not unkind

“God is not wise…
but
God’s not unwise

“God is not just…
but
God is not unjust

“God is not present…
but
God truly is”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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Productions, no raw material,
visions infinate, born ethereal.
Imaginations memory, 
cojouring thoughts where they dwell.
Images taken, the empty minds void,
depthless well,we poets the weavers,
of timeless spells.
Tommorows muse not present or past,
imortality, ink made fast,
when future poets study whats passed....

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At the point of desire origin
After it stirs to commence 
It reaches not culmination 
Owing to awake innocence 

Emotions seeking indulgence
Inevitably do arise
Viewing them in nonchalance 
We revel in surprise 

Desire a maya dance seductive
Menaka luring Vishwamitra
If we be not present & meditative
We self block grace of Shiva

03-October-2020...

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Come home to the darlings
Those children who wander they are not here
Ever wondering human child's

Take with the guidance
They are not present 
Those burdens those second glanced
Covered are those deep feelings
That is unassured deceiving
They are not here

Yet we go on believing
Where have all the children gone


Written By James Edward Lee Sr 2021©...

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if attention be absent, then we are not present
in as not quite so in active mindful cognition
thus Turiya as screen of consciousness 
dims for awhile its resplendent lustre
as presence languishes in stupor
softening attention rescues us
with ego resistance removed
requiring active negation
in a mode of surrender 
to the light of Self
aflame within...

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The wind, chime, chimes
The wind chime, chimes. As my watch tells time.
Rain beats the ground, leaves scattered all around.
The trees are like me, I shed leaves of insecurity. They fall and fall.
Wind blows a chill familiar to my spine.
The street light glows giving reason to my rhyme.
I find that I'm not present at such a time.
Unexplained, unannounced. The wind chime, chimes.......

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She turned ten;wasn't there
In love and war,all is fair
Father and daughter apart
Now off to a new start

She turned twenty, not present, if I say
Only an Indian ocean away 
Time lost; absence felt
My heart,my life had to melt

She turned thirty in the land of the free
Once again, without me
Can anything destroy my love for her ?
She turns thirty one today;Happy Birthday my daughter...

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In the present I'll tell her I love her
 even though she is not present
 in the future I'll tell her I love her
 because I meant it
 in the past I've told her I loved her
 but yet she left
 while I have breath 
and I believe in the witness
 in the future holds the New covenant
There will be a future love for me I confess

10/31/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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I don't need no genius, 
To know that I've sinned, 
And yet on your insights, 
I've come to depend.

It seems my own vision, 
Is cloudy at best, 
And I feel more at peace, 
When sins are confessed.

It's like food in my teeth, 
That I just can't see, 
If you were not present, 
Then where would I be? 

I'm lost in your wisdom, 
But found in your love, 
And my only future, 
With you hand in glove....

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You were not present.
Far from the pallid sky- 
in the graveyard, 
the marbled tears 
had become the eyes.

The meanness of the grill.
It will not fix the sun.
I stand by a river,
which was very thirsty-	
very deep.

The silent flight of a 
white falcon takes a dive- 
for the darkned moon.
The wingless poem soars high 
to catch the words. 

The jacarandas were trumpeting 
in blue flowers, of the return 
of demigods.



Satish Verma...

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Your heart belongs to another, but how can i stay silent.
There is no dance in my heart, when these eyes betray me.
You know by now, I was born to love you,
and you were born to me mine, but I wait decades.
Don't worry my sweet friend, I will always love you
and I will die crying your name, remember my silence.
When I leave, stare at the stone with my name,
all I ask is for a kiss each time you visit,
because in my life, you did not present me with one....

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Everyone wants to be it , but few attain it . If you can think , not be mislead by your own idea but fact . If you can perceive that which is not present , but imaged by the mind , bring it to reality . If you can judge between a worthy cause , or just irrelevant . If you can say we , not me . If you can stand yo ground and not yield but prevail . If you can be humble when wrong instead of crumble . If you can love with a big heart yet stern . Now lead with that , lead with sense ....

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Cognisant of what’s absent
signals we are not present, 
for it is but negation
of manifest creation.

Thus mindfulness of absence,
say of scent of bliss incense,
relies upon memory,
scripting another story.

Awareness must be sans thought,
free from forms ego begot,
with no anticipation
colouring meditation.

In such vibrant being-ness,
we’re one with the that oneness,
in a mode embrace-release,
flowing with nonchalant ease.

27-December-2022...

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