Short Paradigm Poems

A twinkle in time
A sparkling rhyme
  ~ Epiphany's paradigm...

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Inert mass functions
paradigm outre' halos
emerald Tang minds...

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Shadow
Trite reflection
Caricature of self
The existential paradigm
Stalker...

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change a diaper 
explain to a one week old
the half-life of Pampers


John G. Lawless
©8/5/2021...

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framework
set unscrambled
with fresh omelet whisked,
and cooked to set as paradigm
reneged...

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hieroglyph
a root of an immortelle 
life’s paradigm


- inspired by Brian Strand's Poetry Of The Noun Contest...

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I vow to attain a conscious paradigm shift

Through manifesting love completely evolving, 

So we may transcend, cosmically ascending....

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The gray separating black and white
Wow
Read one way, an awe inspiring comment
Read another way, sarcasm

What color is your paradigm?...

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When lifting hair was not a crime
Tonto was ahead of his time
He saw a bald Ranger
Whose mask made him stranger 
A real pandemic paradigm!...

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Fossil powered gas coal and crude
Got miners and some roughnecks screwed
With solar and wind
Their fate could be pinned
On working with fuel that's renewed...

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If doctrine and dogma
held a conference with reality 
and an agreement was reached  
on a common philosophy and set of tenants
Would that be a paradox or paradigm shift?...

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Let us with remaining time write new a paradigm
That we may believe what we do not know
Taste the honey we lick the sour lips of tart lime
Share fond memories we cannot show...

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Reality doesn’t come
with perfection
Its paradigm rooted
and flawed
To love an ideal
 its fantasy sealed
The truth found in mores
—not law

(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)...

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Patience is a virtue when casting a line
One never know how many damn times 
Fishing requires drinking
Sitting and thinking
Catching fish doesn't enter the paradigm...

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No matter how we achieve life's paradigm
A truism is foremost, in the mists of time
Love is the answer
It's life's enhancer
Like paintings by DaVinci or Monet sublime...

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Almost eighty-three and can't remember a time
When peace ruled the Earth when freedom bells chimed
Got ten years or so
Remaining but whoa
The odds are not promising for a different paradigm...

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Some say I am the queen of rhyme,
     get meter perfect every time.
So these four lines to top should climb
     if Bobby likes this paradigm.


March 1, 2019

Contest: I Am A Winner
Sponsor: Bobby May...

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Dear someone, 
there are no funerals
for the flesh
no hospitals 
for the mind
no curtains and no cremations
for all out pretty words 
paradigm, 
you can't save every patient
sweet,
a corpse would warm your bed...

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LOVE AND HATE
I am listening to the song of love and hate
Are you listening to the hate of love
The poetry is nonsense and prorate
Everything is paradigm and berate
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando February 4, 2017...

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Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  no reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out,
  false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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Before you fall,
  you’ve got to stand

Your voice once stalled,
  fates reprimand

The paradigm floats,
  on swamps that drain

Where praise cries out
   —false hope again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)...

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Not just a plastic peg
You reflect the light below 
Born into a guiding template 
Cast members for the show

We play until our light burns out
Game rules as old as time
Look within and find the source
A true self paradigm...

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Sown by beings courageous
The seeds of unsayables
Streak across landscapes echoless,
Vast and conscious of our mindsets,
To sprout home a shift paradigm
That gives insights to the sightless, quake not,
And voices to the mute....

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Find me beneath the waves of time
Floating endlessly in the dark
I struggle with life's paradigm
Hear motion of its clock hands mark
This ticking of time I can't flee
In the end my death will find me

1/18/17
Find Me in Six...

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Eighty years old and can't remember a time
When peace ruled the Earth and freedom bells chimed
Maybe 10 years or so
Remaining but whoa
The odds are not promising for a different paradigm


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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