Short Posterity Poems

I never write for money
I write for posterity buy
My old shabby hat...

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note to self
               for posterity
               feeling dated...

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Fullness of constant presence
eternity of full moments
posterity of absence that hurts...

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Life is,but an essay
                 Write yours well
      For unto posterity,it would be read...

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Angel wings 
dominated -
drinking
delirious
contempt
prostitute plutocracy 
posterity predicament...

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What the eye could see
now,painted for posterity
a visual language of the present
unfinished..ephemeral
joie de vivre...

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Neither spouse should ever forget -
             In marriage, the courting never ends

~Paula Swanson



Placement:  9th...

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Posterity be damned,
today is your reward

The future but an empty wish
—a sheath without a sword

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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Inception of poise anon-times.) And burgeoning..! 

"Plays" of and to; each entered instance...

To posterity through eternal inference.!



Copyright 20 12 2011 Joe Maverick.....

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~ Posterity May Not Understand ~
 
           Why I traipse five miles a day
              to whittle time away

            Idling in a safe daydream
              gazing at a listless stream...

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Aftermath
Even when the war is over, you still fight the battles. You keep hold of them for posterity. Just like a real soldier from a war. Fighting the battles again and again in your head. Just like a Sven Hassel book....

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Our hands
kneaded together
the daily bread...
together we made the
molds we carve
our lives...
together we embroider
the future and us
we gave posterity.
similar to waves
in surf,
we spread out in the world
our children...!...

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Tiles of remembrance of classes
long past, replacing blankness
painted handprints and colors and smiles
spanning the length of the ceiling, forever
reserved for the posterity of wandering eyes.
How glorious the sunset! Our days unforgotten!...

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Oh to break the generic bonds- 
that bind us to this mundane world-
to fly away on paths unknown
beyond mere empty words-
to stretch beyond our mortal reach
and capture unseen worlds-
and imprison them for posterity,
on paper, with pen and immortal words....

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The last drops of a drink
    crumbs of cake on a plate
  The olive in the martini
    lone blueberry left to fate

  Shan't we save them for posterity
    morsels and sips to treasure ~
  Or rather down them callously
    for the slightest second's pleasure...

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boundless presence
caged in organic form 
in bondage to limitation
facing fierce storms daily
celebrates the experience
vibrant with blissful joy
recognising the game
conjured for our soul
wisdom for posterity 

26-September-2021...

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No fuss about it
You being west and I being east
We took the split
With such kindness of release
And better friends remain
Nor once did you complain
Against my prejudice of class
The riled me to let you pass
I thank you
For being so understanding of me
The footnote for no posterity....

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As I didn't realize that I lived
               just a dream in the form of a nightmare,
               so then I held on a nonexistent future...
               I reaped the unhealthiness of posterity
               of hope, and the taste
                of absence  of  real life......

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The poet dies, but does not die
if he has left a line
black inked upon enduring page
or lingered on the mind.

With no thought than to see it grow,
the gardener plants a tree,
his immortality assured,
by shade for posterity.

A way to prove that we were here,
a child in whom, our truths appear....

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Legacy

Inheritors we are of depravity,
yet blame do we the ignorance of 
those whom graves stolidly invoke,
or pity do we the oblivion of 
the unborn, who, in our dirty shoes
shall sordidly rule the seven seas?

BITE SIZE POEM no24 Poetry Contest
Date: 27th October 2021...

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To have my name in a literature book
Or read aloud at a poetry convention,
Is not why I write these little verses
Has never been my desired intention.

To leave a legacy of written works
Hopefully, for my posterity to read,
So they know what Grandpa thought
Made him laugh, or, made him bleed.


Written July 5, 2021...

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SHIPYARD

 Visions do come to me...
Shades floating to Eternity,
Ships of souls floating away,
People now past their days,
Heavenly light's clear haze,
Leaving gifts for posterity,
Shipyard  of our souls' humanity,
Eternal blessing, never ending,
Ships of souls we're sending
Home, the ships of souls are wending.......

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Posterity, tell me now
who are you in this world?
everyone is talking about you
everyone is waiting for you
it seems you are the miracle
the savior eagerly waited for
Do not hide away from us
there is security for you
no time is time for you
come in haste to save all
that day  you bring your face
the world shall celebrate...

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Why are politicans always so sure about the future being better any whichway?

whilst they are continually addressing past mistakes all day?

that were never going to happen in their future anyway!

but they never want to go back to their past either way

and why can't they just be happy with the way things are (today?)

Joe Maverick...

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One might say,
That no doubt I have shrunk,
In hard and dirty work,
But I have stored a lot,
For the posterity lot,
They would now rest easy,
And not shrink as fast,
However do think,
When you have shrunk and gone,
Your posterity,
Will not be yours,
And probably,
You may end up shrinking again for them,
Quite unrelatedly....

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