Short Personae Poems

With a heart as good as in heaven,
though detained in earth of love’s leaven. 

For Contest: A Couple of Lines!
In Honor of Brian Strand
Honorable Mention...

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Haiku-sen'ryu SERIES:

Seek things from above
feet on ground, blue sky in spring
gilded clouds chase the NIGHT

my role, just a scene
the author knows all the Acts --
personae, THE END...

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Only clowns had masks

And secret agents

Personae non grata 

Disallowed from disguise


Now the Stasi and Gestapo

Of all nations denunciate

Those renegade souls

Who hide their screen


Blindfolded we justify

Judge and reprimand

Cushion our conscience

In self-righteousness


28th April 2020...

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He’s found his groove again
His pen finds a fount to reign
In the smile of a lady, he muses
In her voices, his rhyme bounces
Her presence illuminates his lines
Her thoughts take him thousands of miles
His rhyme is her unfading beauty
Her personae is his poetry 
Her life is his prose
With this poem, he offers her a living rose...

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HIT THE GROUND

before I hit the ground
and all this fades to dust
before I turn around
and start to walk away

before forever is never
and all dreams lofty hopes
are castles in the skies of
whimsical lavish desires

before times tides turn
to a surging rush deluge
flooding out veracity
in hues of ocean blues

before authenticity
takes on forged personae
when mirages of delusion
compel me to hit 
the 
ground




© Kim van Breda—26 January 2015...

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