Short Periphery Poems

years go by like birds flew past our eyes ~ to perch on the periphery...

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White foam
Patterns periphery
Between sea
Between land
Unicorns home...

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Life bleeds
On periphery
Dripping off the edges

Churling screams
Unheard in vacuous world
Pitch-black...

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This star will guide you.
Framed in rock periphery,
head north to my heart.


*For contest "FAMILIARITY UNKNOWN"...

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Truth is elusive
truth lives inside truth
In the periphery are claims
Flying around it are lies

No truth, no lies...

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gnats, hovering in a 
tear drop, battle dust motes for
room.  a peaceful wind
separates them.  i should be
glad with my personal space....

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Humans are like fleas
On this planet of created breeze
Your eyes will never see 
The whole diameter of the earth' degree 
Unless you are walking on the moon periphery...

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Kelpie eyes. 
Water horse,
Drag me under,
On your back.
Fingers and mane entwined,
Eyes wide.
Mouth gasping.
Water rushing.
Blurry periphery,
Extends its reach.
Dark, dead eyes....

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the stillness centre witnesses all movement 
occurring at the periphery and all points in between
presence sees thus order in seeming chaos
whilst those in the storm, this truth cannot glean...

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Birth to death, awareness remains unchanged
What then is life
Dream sequence
Moments
Here

Time
Thus flows
Nonchalant
As we flounder
Periphery moves; the centre is still 

23-November-2020...

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Let me be
On the periphery
And not take center stage.

I guarantee
It’s best for me,
Especially as I age.

While some feel free,
Without a fee,
With audience to engage,

I disagree.
So let me flee
To where I belong, the page....

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Vivid spring rosebuds are awaiting sun,
in a magenta meadow of calm morning,
in the middle of our hectic, happy lives,
at the far periphery of the silvery moon.


Written on 4/19/2023
For: Rose Meadow Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Julia Ward...

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On the periphery, is
  where one can really see
The lens is blurry when you're near
  Too far away, nothing's clear

Don't judge your boss' job
   as does the angry mob
Kindly take two steps back
   Cut a fellow human 
      ~ a little bit of slack...

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Bury Me no more
As I've put up a funeral in my head
And engraved the words I want to say and can't, in the concrete tombstone

If you live in my head, you'd know
And you don't
Engine's on when I'm off put
So even when in between
it feels very more than periphery...

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Bury me no more
As I've put up a funeral in my head
And engraved the words I want to say and can't, 
in the concrete tombstone


If you live in my head, you'd know
But  you don't! 

Engine's on when I'm off put
So even when in between
it feels very more than periphery...

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We know they exist 
because warm breath
leave marks on wine glasses.

In the basilisk black
or bright glare
we stare behind our eyes
seeing them
drift into life once more.

As mind turns to glimpse itself
the ‘never born’
are there within the smoky periphery,
of a sight unseen....

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Pendulum fulcrum is so still
As periphery moves
Likewise thoughts distil, as voids fill
In divine entwined grooves

Nonchalant witness stance
Love with love in parlance 
Gyrates in joyous dance

Bliss sensorium 
Pendulum fulcrum 

24-November-2021
Quietus ...

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Gilded parasol on horizon's edge twirling
Twilight's lamp shade dying embers swirling
Sun's spent beams with embroidered frills quilting
Patchwork of tinctured gases simmering
Deep red, burnt orange ridges brimming
Violet, creme pastels periphery fringing
Dusk's opaque veil with palling shadows dimming...

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Oscillation in a static realm. Stalking desolation, a haunting reminder of 
transcendence. Sporadic fractures paint a decadence flourishing confined mortal. 
Omnipresent the triumvirate, yet fallow diversity feigns a collapsing periphery. 
Malleable beings vivisect the strings of eternity for clarity divine....

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The Mystery of the Monastery 

In the Entity comes Sanctity

Repentance giveth to Admittance

Cleansing of the Sensing

To Homogenize and Energize 

Around All Periphery Leads to Epiphany

Curing Lesions and Bringing Peace to The Regions

The Summoning of the Soul

Giving Truth To the Worldly Toll...

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they've always been there
on the hazy eyed periphery 
awaiting opportunity

looking for a dusty stumble
a splash of blue from the breath
the off beat tap from a sunken chest

a wee bug kills millions
making billionaires
misfortune for one 
is fortune for another
society falters
and the buzzards hop in...

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So very many words
(Powerfully lush creativity)
Colors
(The dark edge of silver, reluctant ruby, smoldering ocher)
Imagery
(The periphery of sunset, the bouquet of rain kissing hungry earth)
Oh that I could whisper
The one word
That can describe You
(my poet, my lover, my King)
The sweet echo of
Your Name...

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So very many words
(Powerfully lush creativity)
Colors
(The dark edge of silver, reluctant ruby, smoldering ocher)
Imagery
(The periphery of sunset, the bouquet of rain kissing hungry earth)
Oh that I could whisper
The one word
That can describe You
(my poet, my lover, my King)
The sweet echo of
Your Name...

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The purple moment of the canvassed dome
Pink pastel orgies like Miami in the eighties 
A figure sits insignificantly on the periphery
To be of her dream is to need to be seen 
In the drunken painter's delusion
If she weren't so high there'd be no coral sky
To chart our own dreams by 

August 9, 2018...

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Tingling toes
of the megabyte cavalry
callouses scraping
along private roads
Cascading matrices
on the plasma periphery
peasantry bleating
on official commands
Stewing a cauldron
a festering foment
watering nations
from acid-soaked cans
BE SAFE!
say the oracles
so buying a check
but electing the cavalry
leaves the infantry wet...

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