Short Preclude Poems

Had some lonesome soul not wrecked,
and fortune never let preclude,
to disrupt this butterfly effect,
then, in this world I'd not bedeck....

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When God made the beasts, in days of old
It seems He lacked quality control
That surely would veto 
The cursed mosquito
And preclude all that itching untold...

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The gleam of face should never be traced 
In mind their should be a place where one can grace
Your heart should always sound, For the one you have found
so let it not preclude with the lovely bound...

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Lord,
Let me never become so enamored with the future,
That my journey on earth is not appreciated;
Nor find lurking in dark corners of my past,
Things concluded,
That might preclude my journey from being validated.
Amen...

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Hidden in plain sight
For all the world to see
Is a soul bearing all
About love, life and destiny

Confessions, obsessions
Questions preclude
Laying it all out
Preponderances exude

A pen name reveals truths
More than the man
Reaching those it intends 
Finalizing the plan...

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Do you count your days
Or are you busy in your ways
Is your step light as a feather blowing
Or do you count each one just to be known

I wonder if in this life’s interlude
We wander along while thought will preclude 
A plan for the hour, day and week
When having to react to what occurs looks so bleak.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Grasp the anguish, of the dank do-

Gooder, bursting across

The local track.  Kids bored silly

Outside the school, sneer as

She slips past.  The brassy broad clings

In the wind to her hat,

As shoulder straps preclude her sack

From sinking, she is an-

chored by her leather bag, the last

Treasure she can hold fast.

Since the rain washed away the mirth

Of the carnival day....

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Do three dimensions,
preclude a fourth

Does pointing toward South,
prevent being North 

Is now just the midpoint,
between future and past

Does the freedom to choose,
leave all nature aghast

Is one and one two,
if one is in doubt

Are the whole or its parts,
what this world is about

Are Creation and Physics,
at war with themselves

Is Divinity chosen
—willed unto one self

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: July, 2019)...

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Neon fingers
banish the remnants of the day
Dustbins loiter ominously
blurry eyed
The Night people slide in between
Sailor doom bewitched by sorceresses
as heckled men face electric spears

Stet the occasion
A drawbridge opens
staining the gangster day
Outstretched palms
preclude the day

Jewelled ghost trains
ordinately take you
further away

Velvet dolls with a brainy side
watch stale commissioners slide
Star  clad ingénues infuriated evermore...

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Swirls ,twirls. kaleidoscopes of color
Dreams and  schemes the whole night long
Ideas unleashed, boundaries unknown
The winds of  frenzy blow so strong..

Keep turning the wheel..yet one more time
My kaleidoscope gives another scene
Seeds of insanity.. tumbling shades of red
Looking and looking .. what can it mean

Hoping that reality does not preclude
The kaleidoscope of dreams I view
The madness masked in deepest sleep
Turn to brilliance? I wish I knew......

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clearly one hears clearly
in the silence of the mind
solitude does not preclude
relationships entwined

beauty's often mistaken 
by those without the key
perception’s combination
ultimately sets it free

defending fortifications
a knight quietly serves
repulsing suspect incursions
protecting treasured reserves

draw not your sword with anger
or revel in other's defeat
rather seek to conquer
standing on your feet

to a knight in silent armor
humility comes with honor...

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Other people’s lives are always
Different from our own.
That goes for strangers and for those
We know or once had known.

There may be similarities
Or even common threads,
But age and time might take those bonds
And slice them into shreds.

Those differences, though, won’t preclude
Relationships or trust,
For what is complementary
Is often quite robust.

So though we never should compare
How we and others live
We should rejoice in what we share
And take as well as give....

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