Short Perishing Poems

perishing at the Second Death...

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Understanding is like blossoming
of flowers
Misunderstandings of course perishing...

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I try to find it
Beneath an old solid oak
And then it happens
Lightning strikes it, fire burns bright
Let out a cry, happiness

Under this tree, cold
Perishing before their eyes
Deluge starting, now
Come crashing down on me then
I found eternal refuge...

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Opening minds to change

Perishing painful remains

Resolving love and hate

Acceptance permeates

Helping pain abate

Winning hard fought wars

In opening new doors

Never shown before

Facing what is past

Reaching to outlast

Everything untrue

You did it OPRAH – You...

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I carve and cut my quarters from a cork tree
Intermittently pausing to assess my progress
Young yet yellowing Yggdrasil on the Yangtze 
Getting grander but perishing in the process
Good God gaze at this gape and give a guarantee
Don't let me regress, digress, transgress, or obsess 








4-17-2020...

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do
                finished, complete 
performing, executing, undertaking 
   function, affair, death, inertness 
     perishing, departing, expiring, 
               deceased, lifeless
                           die


Date created: 08/10/2021...

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You grin,
the Kodachrome is Venetian-dusk.
The photograph still perishing
from its vintage exposure.

On the back of the image, 
bleeding to invisibility,
a telephone number.
The London area code is quaint,
only a young man on a ‘Triumph’ motorbike
could trace it now.

I still want to try....

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Status of impersonation is changed;
Have made a prayerful personality out from a slave,
Now given up on weed smoking, 
Every soul is testifying about the love he's showing, 
Zealously singing and playing xylophone to broken hearts, 
He's no more perishing, 
Yes,that person is a new being.
Today is really ruling as king....

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Above my head, a ray
where I sit on a mossy ledge, 
stylus in my hand drips words 
like acid upon thin papyrus sheets--
of myths and cultures perishing,
never to be repeated in splendour 
and tragedy-- their brilliance borne 
through swollen rivers' lore.


A Brian Strand Contest NO 18
Oct 10, 2016...

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 do
                   apply, participate 
    accomplishing, practicing, performing 
execution, complete, termination, decease 
        perishing, expiring, succumbing
                   moribund, mortal
                             die



Date written: 03/07/2023...

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A Perishing Soul

Warrior fell with desperate woe 
  pride wounded or innocent hurt
  missed the play but never the show 
Warrior fell with desperate woe
  dying quickly he does not know
  prayers offered but so very curt 
Warrior fell with desperate woe
  pride wounded or innocent hurt

08/10/2014


Zeugma/Triolet contest entry.....

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Whenever I sit
in the rain
and see
streetlights 
light the
pavement and
puddles,

the snow piles
from last week
creep to
the drains,
as if to wait
for next year
in hibernation,

I think about 
what's guarenteed
tomorrow,

and I laugh
at history's repetition
'First tragedy,
then farce.'

And I feel the 
unrelenting sun
from the summer
relent 
as I exhale....

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The zealot was a man of convictions
Believed he that he was on the right
All others but him were perishing
Self righteous he loathed others
Believed himself chosen anointed

Transgressed he on the commandment
Love.. he only had for his own self
Penance he believed below his station
On matters of faith concieted he believed
That the creator was of his religion...

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Brave men fighting
Knights crawling
Strong men dying
Life fading
People perishing
For that wish that should be dying
Sooner or later it shall start crying
Kings crying
Emperors imploring
Kingdoms falling
Empires collapsing
Poets writing
Musicians performing
Paintings begging
Statues Kneeling and flying
For a glimpse of your eyes
People had done so
And and now there's no going back....

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Back with a SLAP to this British chill
Hard to find the WILL 
Empty purse - can't get much worse! 
Washing basket up to the brim, 
Everyone on social media wishing to be thin 
Unjust when other nations are perishing 
We were tipsily relishing 
We indulged in food and booze
Then flaked out on the sofa for a snooze! 
That we have plenty is not an offence, 
but a sad call now for abstinence....

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death is the closing door of thought,
threshold of serenity
the soulful paths of cordiality 
it is perfected for unerred sorrows
the conclusion of life 
at uninviting time
the flickering hopes of cause
the cause of fingers rising eventyally from shit
the cause of having hands shoved back in deep muck
the dimming flame of candles the blown out storm
the saddening peace of perishing dreams....

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As I was troubled by the night walkers
Tossing and turning for my last breath was kept from perishing  
I was empty of body but full of imagination 
Reciting next to my dreams
My past, my comforting visions 
For I was to be no more 
The life I was given soon to be a memory 
My past, my comforting visions 
Yet another soul severing from nightmares 
I was awaken by the gods 
My life was left to see another day...

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Came dancing my doomsday
With the dark specks contort
my head shook to dare-
pour the corrosion on spot
my life dealt below the belt-
Over the matrimonial surprise
Made confused dwindled head,
that came to seal my pact
with the signature of doom
My lover's attach remnant-
On the align with malignant ages;
I lay subconscious in dormant-
And cuddled my angels,
If not for me my heart's grant
I could reverse our quarrels....

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A Woman of Africa

Indisposed by the load of tragedies,
Her tears waters the floors of mother earth.

A lonely life she leads an orphan on her back
Into an agonizing path of unknown future.

Passerby feed their eyes to her perishing soul
As they journey their ways far from mercy.

A bright day to others, a dark one for her,
But to God the father she continues to lament.

Hang in there seed of eden,
Africa will one day be saved....

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In the rising sun,
Coming down by the mountains,
Echoes the sirens of seas.
Teaming with all life
Were clouds of foul defilement
Shifting torrents to crimson...

Metal vessel floats,
Tainting with slow corruption;
Flora, fauna, disruption...

Hopeful sakura
With leaves falling, vanishing;
Whales sprawling from erosions.
Trying to forestall,
From corrosions nature squalls.
Dying, perishing pleura...




*Collaborative with J.C.M.C.*...

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MY LITTLE UNIVERSE—LEXI'S PERSONAL PLANET (Visual 1)

Penned in a poetry permissive as a
periwinkle
painting palette’s passive paths to
pain

Petty philosophy added to phobias
perils
perishing peace in selfish pedantic
prose

Passing parodies of passion on paper
permeate
pacifying periodic paralysis, a paltry
pardon

Phoney photoflashes, the profound
performance
persist perfectly profound on my personal
planet


© Kim van Breda...

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As he slowly fades,
his eyes grow heavy until they are shut.
Dying, perishing slowly in his little hut,
his wife pulls down the shades. 
Never again is he going to see the light of day.

As she weeps her trouble good-bye,
she cleans well.
So well in fact she slipped and fell.
As she stares into the night,
she has found the golden light.

Even though it's the end for her and her love,
In front of the pearly gates of heaven they conjoin as one dove....

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Oh my little white orchid,
my little moth
caught on its little green string
Dreaming of his escape
Day in, out 
until the sun fades
Moonlight glare onto gleaming 
petals. 
Dear little moth,
why do you stay here? 
Away from freedom, away from
air? Such delicate wings 
will carry you for months. 
Yet only seen in the shades of
night slowly perishing
wishing to soar
You may believe it to be 
unfair 
But you, my little white orchid,
are a single one of 
many....

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We whispered those lustful affections in each other ears
secretive we were, hoping no one could hear
this conversation remained steadfast, for about an hour it last
predicting our future and remembering that joyful past
what our future will be we wonder
perishing the thought of it falling down in yonder
a hope that this fruitful love cherish in bliss
a matrimony that leads our lips to kiss
Let us soak this affection in our brain
in our thoughts this shall remain. 



Demeter Edwards...

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speculative stars seering eyes closed —
                         unseen what comes by faith alone

Hebrews 11:1,3 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see…By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what is visible.

1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

NIV Bible...

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