Short Outside(A) Poems

Events revolve inside a magic ball
People change outside a hallowed, crystallized ball....

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Last rattling breath
The air sucked from the room
Outside a dove calls


The sky is turquoise
The moment pure filigree
Nearby the hawk sits...

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He waits for a woman,
Who’s shift was changed years ago,
But yesterday told him,
"Visit you on Wednesdays now "
So now he waits for her,
and Wednesday to come....

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A fearless knight in shining armor
On his way back from battle
Outside a maiden's tower
Climbing her long golden hair
Because she is a prisoner in her own castle...

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from outside a nest of light
warm with steam and quilt
and slippers worn with steps;
a kitchen ship with dad crunching

when i think of this
i nearly say i miss you...

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A sign outside a Fish & Chips shack sure stopped me
“Buy One for the Price of Two, get the Second One FREE”
Now I've seen deals
But this one appeals
Wait!!! Maybe I should buy two for the price of three...

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A sign outside a Fish & Chips shack sure stopped me
“Buy One for the Price of Two, get the Second One FREE”
Now I've seen deals
But this one appeals
Wait!!! Maybe I should buy two for the price of three...

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Weave between branches
they're playing a game of tag
one by one, they're it.

Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Dec.12/2013

I was watching the chickadees outside a few days ago. This is what I had come up with....

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A time of hollyness
feelings of happiness and pride
The only joyful day
A morning of a background filled with snow
Flocks or scores of crows
outside a cold wind that blows
An evening of presents and toys
Santa claws arrives...

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Pride detests God
     God detests Pride

   If you dare utter this
     You better go hide…




  ________________________
  Note: I saw a news clip that
  featured the second line above
  on a sign outside a rural church....

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Next to a hospital-bed
Sorrow
Outside a hospital
Lost
Inside a hospital
Felt at home
Sometimes what we do
Means more than how we do it
Sometimes how we do things 
Means more than what we do
Next to a hospital-bed
Realized that...

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Can't find my car, should recognize it... it's white
That's 50% of cars these days, doesn't help my plight
Outside a local grocery store
Tried to remain calm, but swore
Finally found it, it was jumping up and down with delight...

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Your eyes on mine
mine in yours
kiss me
forked lightning
hot and white
from sky to earth...

Root of flowers
springs from the earth
beneath our feet
outside a tree is full bloom...

Our garden
our heart 
flutters...

We rebuild
shattered trust.......

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   I step outside, a world of beauty greets me
     landscaped gardens, lush leaves on each tree
  
   Yet my stomach feels so queasy
     a vague sense of doom leaves me uneasy...   

   Sans freedom of speech, life is hell
     afraid to break a single eggshell
...

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Sit outside a spell
  Sense the freedom
Sans hi-tech whistles and bells

Thrill to stylish cloud formations
  Sunset's changing combinations
Grace the palette of Creation

Breathe in deeply, then exhale
  Arms flung upward, touch the sky
Take your leave now, off you fly...

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His name was Brown, his face was black
he walked alone outside a shack.

A siren sang across the track
and signaled clear the next attack.

A man in blue (a maniac?)
took aim and made the morning crack .

Like stones around a cul-de-sac,
six bullet holes frame Michael's plaque....

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I’ve woken in the strangest places
If, by strange, one means faceless
Scantily dressed, if at all
A parking lot outside a mall
A park, a street
In unsocked feet
An autopilot’s nighttime journey
Assless gown upon a gurney
Uncertain of what brought me to
Embarrassed, shocked, without a clue...

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I have stood next to a hospital-bed, felt sorrow

I have stood outside a hospital, felt lost

I have stood inside a hospital, felt at home

Sometimes what we do can mean more than how we do it

Sometimes how we do things can mean more than what we do

I have stood next to a hospital-bed; realized that...

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Upon the freshly fallen snow
Outside a church a horse and buggy
Waits for the owner to arrive
They are going for a ride
To a farm that has a sleigh ride

In the farmer's field close by
Enjoying the sleigh ride
Hot chocolate is served
After the sleigh ride
The children will have coca

With a tasty snack to enjoy...

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Out my window, just out of reach
Where I can see but cannot go
Wanting to learn from what will teach
Out my window

Through panes of glass no pain to show
The other side so close to breach 
When it opens, one day I'll go

Outside a forest, sky or beach 
Soon I can be there toe to toe
Swap my reflection I beseech
Out my window...

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I awaken to shadows
outside a soft patter
the emerald lawn glistens
a screen glows
laptop on table
waiting for a new poem
the day begins
with a whisper
solitude's embrace
with a whisper
the day begins
waiting for a new poem
laptop on table
a screen glows
the emerald lawn glistens
outside a soft patter
I awaken to shadows

...

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  veiled by a shroud of mourning, 
                    lost outside a mask of woe-
    I seek abhorring moments, 
            disguised by joy, a rough smile-
            concealed by a handmade cloak, 
       obscurity is a sheath...
                      until I feel love’s blanket.



Sevenbits
Theme: Mask
October 4, 2017...

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You might think that I'm happy
All of the time
But inside my smile
Is upside down
Otherwise, you wouldn't 
Want me around
If all you ever saw
Was a continuous frown
I guess that's why
I'm always clowning around
Not wanting others to see
Me feeling down
It's the only way I can think
To keep you around
On the outside a smile
On the inside a frown...

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Never able to break on through
 caught in the time capsule
of yesterday’s tomorrow
he wandered alone … 
Searching the darkened streets 
of Santa Monica
hearing the music—chasing the words
dancing as demons followed behind
Channeling ancient voices 
 trapped outside a future closed
to his irreverent questioning
—lost within the storm

(To JDM: August, 2023)...

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I'm in a secret garden
Happening upon a book called Lost Words
My favourite spells within
Are Dandelion and Lark
I chatted to a dress designer
The pictures in the book fill my brain
As I now sit quietly
Imagining dresses covered in Ravens
The walls tell me of toadstools in pretty frames
This sitting and waiting suits my mood

*Waiting outside a children's party room...

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