Short Pendulums Poems

Humans are like pendulums,
they swing from one mistake to the
next and then a crisis....

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pride will not let go
'til our selfishness we know,
on pendulums we swing
as emotions sing,
reason has no place
'til faith we will unlace
and humility let flow...

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oh, Gold and silver in the sky
Fading into blue
I sit around and wonder why
I only think of you
These thoughts: they wander to and fro
Like pendulums in clocks
but only in your shining face
does the moving stop...

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People made clocks 
Pendulums 
To strike like their hearts 
To live wall clocks 

People made clocks 
Pendulums 
Not striking 
Even to live clocks

Pendulums of people 
Not live like clocks 
Without striking...

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Visualize the interaction of the energies of people’s lives as pinholes and pendulums.
  Shimmers reflecting streaks of god’s light
    Through pinhole instances
      Which illuminate the infinite,
        Defiant night....

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The hours fade away
Like old men at evening
Wearied of the day
As their lives drift by,
Like the slow /swift sailing 
Of clouds in a margarine sky
And fall in flakes as the pendulums sway
To those man-imagined measures of decay....

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Time is a road.
We move forward and backwards;
sometimes we move at the same pace,
different speeds, while other times we collide.
Progressing or deteriorating as humans,
we're all travelers through time,
trying to understand how and why we are moving
up and about, like eternal pendulums........

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Southern Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Like sleeping companions tugging the suns warmth from each other
One hoarding it, one exposed
And leaves quivering like exposed limbs
Until the trees jettison them like paratroopers
Each one swings in the currents chilly
As if held by an oscillating string 
A succession of falling pendulums...

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Parallax in optics:
   Perceived objects vary.
      Pendulums swing from your
         Pivot points unique from
      People who don't concur.
   Perhaps your relative
Perspective is correct.

Image Attribution:
By Booyabazooka - Parallax Example.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1335592

written 4 Oct 2020...

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Birth ushers us into the world,
giving us an opportunity to mold
our thoughts into music and noise;
love and hate; peace and war.........

We find ourselves doing deeds
that are either good or evil,
swinging like pendulums between
the two qualities; history books prove
what we are, and what we can become

We stop creating our reality only in death....

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Stuck in a loop,
Staring into space,
Time and time again,
Making the same mistakes...

Soaring one moment,
Crashing the next;
From long conversations
To unanswered texts;

Hourglasses and pendulums,
Keepers of time,
Are stopped and restarted,
The clockwork rewinds;

Stories are rewritten,
Hearts are unfurled,
Memories fade away,
To the beginning I return....

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The pained pendulum pushes through the fog
With the ever-crashing splash of rheumatic guilt
Licking at the swinging bronze from below.
We lose God again and again
In the cluttering of thoughts
Like the burnt wings of butterflies
Over-used, over-driven, and
Over-flapped and now here
Festooned to a wheelchair he sits 
Staved and dying from stale love.
And needing my help....

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He took chances where there were none and created options when 

recourse  called for momentum. Not by choice but by the necessity 

of dreams and dislike for being left out of control. In the end he

surrendered to inevitable standstill.

                   pendulums swung fast

                   fulcrum suspended in time -

                                                            warped clock for repair


07th July 2020...

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