Short Parentheses Poems

David Jones ' IN PARENTHESIS'

      .(  PS- a by the by )...

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It was not easy, 
to rewrite a dream poem 
when you are bound and hurt.

        *

A twiner 
looms out, at my window. 
Like a face, peeps in.

       *

Do not want to tell, 
about my sorrow, 
before the dried up river.


Satish Verma...

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You are the poem,
you dwell inside the letters.
Apostrophes like freckles,
smile lines like parentheses.
It may be me that scribes the poem,
that finds the words and braids
them together, it may be me
that pens the poem,
but you, you my love, are one...

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Tozer, deep - thoughts
well explored with-
in the realm of man

Thankfulness, for what man
cannot touch -
deep mysteries of an eternal God

our speech, no matter
how profound cannot reach
the depths, God’s eternal 
storehouse

A few things stored:
his love, grace, mercy

What’s left to explore:
(between the parentheses 
of eternity)...

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Tension grips:
when you try to open
the jarred doors-

of the death.
It was on old friend,
on the cusp-

selling the dirt.
Was it the ending of
the beginning ?

Who will go
beyond the dead 
to find the immortal ?

You have left 
many cantos unfinished.
I will try, will try

to join the dots,
the dashes,
the parentheses.


Satish Verma...

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At a rest stop on the highway,
In the women's room, a sign 
Saying, "Please don't steal the toilet paper!"
(Exclamation, mine.)

Beneath it, in parentheses,
Was added ("Yes, folks do it")
Although what type of people would,
I couldn't quite intuit.

I guess the ones who litter,
Cut the lines or text and drive;
In other words, a huge percent 
Of people now alive....

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You are my life's apostrophe
The part that has always been missing in me
You're right where the hyphen used to be-
You are my life's apostrophe

Once a question mark was all I had? 
And commas dominated my soul, 
Semicolons; separated my dreams
And the ellipse was firmly in control...

Then you placed your brackets around my [heart]
Your braces around my {soul}
Your parentheses surround my (dreams) 
You're the exclamation mark in my life so droll!...

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