Short Obediently Poems

Clicking ticks in 12 hours of seconds
Long-cased box silently beckons
Obediently, the pendulum swinging sings
Cranking frank of old grandfathers hands
Keeper keeps him pristine where he stands...

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OUR LIVES


Our lives, 
The waters of a river
Resemble,
Rushing from their source to
The sea,
Obediently following fate’s  
Waterway, 
Unable to let themselves 
Free! 


© Demetrios Trifiatis
     21 APRIL 2013...

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In front of the class
she obediently stands
her fingers locked in cradled hands
with downcast eyes and trembling lip
she leaks a tear that sears her soul
then meekly voiced 
and barley heard 
she mumbles what she thinks the teacher wants.

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People look at me like I am insane.
Do they not understand the pain?
I love it when you abuse me;
Use me and watch me come back obediently.
I will never allow myself to be free;
Kneeling in front of your, my Master, is the only place I wish to be....

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Anne Boleyn Condemned 
  Declared England's Floozy 
Grotesque Henry Imposed Justice
King's Law Meted
Nobles Obediently Praised
  Queen's Reasonless Subjugation
Testosterone Unequivocally Vindictive           
Widespread Xenophobia
Yielding Zeitgeist

11/13/2021...

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Porcelain shells sit obediently on gift shop shelves
while curious children press them tight against pink ears
and listen for the waves of far away seas..

Deep inside there cries the voice of mother earth
in a pulsating womb that of oceans far away,
begging to be returned to the bosom of Neptune's kingdom.....

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OUR TRACED PATH*


My fellow men,
Travelers are we 
On life’s journey well planned in advance  
Without our consent,
Let us 
Obediently follow our traced path
Resisting not our fate    
For
Easier this trip to make!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
      23 MAY 2013


*HOMER: Every man's fate is determent by the Gods (Iliad, t', 592)...

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And your Lord has inspired the bee:
Make hives in the mountain and in the tree
Then eat of all the fruits
And roam in the ways of your Lord obediently.

There comes forth from within the bee
A very colorful beverage, you see
In which for the humans there is remedy
Surely there’s a sign in it
For the people who think deeply....

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From the perspective of the main character....

I drink so I don't feel left out. I
Need to follow the cool and not the lame. Your
Feelings do not mean anything to me. Your
Life is not yours but theirs.
Used you like a dog and you follow obediently.
Everyone has a fun time and you follow and pretend. I
Need to follow to be cool.
Crash! Wake up! The
End....

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FATE


Conceived was I in the vastness of infinite
Time,
Developed in the womb of never dying
Cosmos,
Born under the watchful eyes of the vault 
Of heavens, 
Breast-fed by destiny’s inescapable
Commands
And
Nurtured by the laws of unyielding   
Providence, 

Thus  

The unswerving path of fate, now, obediently to 
Follow I have! 



 © Demetrios Trifiatis
   06 NOVEMBER 2013...

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With a rescue package that won’t pick up
Being steadily hit by a hiccup  
And prices jacking up
Should we still treat him like a hero 
Who has scored a shameful zero?

Still him obediently follow
And this taking to tomorrow?
Ourselves consoling with laughs hollow 
And him sparing a ripe bellow?
Or isn’t the disappointing Hero 
Some sort of Caesar Nero 

A name penned with common biro?...

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Overgrowths of arm-post life
Lift upward as my steam-breath
Vanishes thinly into the sky

Cool sweat drips deliberately
As the stacks grow larger
And the sawdust smells and sticks

The wagon-load will wallow obediently
As the frost bites cleanly
Through the still winter dusk

Ash white smoke curls softly
From the cut-stone chimney
Where a portrait of simplicity
Sleeps eternally in my mind
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The Holy Face of Jesus 
You are everything within 
the Sacred Heart of who I am

Immersed in this reality that transcends 
God is Love embracing with faith 

The inner voice is a spark which fires reality 
that draws into this material world 
shining the light through darkness 

Deeply engraved His Holy Spirit 
expresses gratitude for creation and life 

A deeply rooted dialogue 
where obediently our souls 
they will surrender to Justice...

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Happy is the man with no dog
for the memory of 'no'
walks obediently beside him
and that absence needs no leash.

Happy is the woman betrayed,
divorced from her long delusions.
Her aloneness sings now in her heart,
she learns to enjoy the hunger
it feeds her strength.

Sad is the person who clings,
who chases moonbeams
with butterfly nets.
Sad the person
who's 'wants' outrun their needs,

for their lamp may shrink,
become so small and hard to see....

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