Short Presides Poems

A corrupt judge
Presides over
Certain injustice...

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why land mass subsides
       laws of physics can’t decide
        ~ as man now presides ~


Brian Strands
All yours 14
13/03/21...

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A ricochet of light
skimmers across the moor
Goose in flight
The rivers iced over
Dusty paths await you

A blade of grass
lusts after the dew
A giant Willow presides
down the bank






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Rise early with the sun
bleed your dreams
wipe the sleep from your eyes
Ladys ears and rainbows
are just as forlong
Early bird presides something this year
All I had these years
was hope
dollar down
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Super Moon presides
Laconic application
Devouring life and soul
They say it’s a curse
Shivers replace the heart beat
Unwelcome changes imposed
The mindset for one
Howling beasts inside contrite
Affection withdrawn...

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Vast November sky,
Strikes the senses, everyone.
Goose-pimples, sight, hearing, soul.
Howling windswept dark,
Shivers the bone, soaking wet.
Soggy ground I want to eat.
Waxing moon presides,
With attending star in sync.
Winters clouds inspire....

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Soon plan B will be presided
and the skies will cry
Is there some cause
to be opined

The fallow fields
on a horses meadow
with her Foals
presides over a warm spring


Lost promises by the trees
although with the beast lurking
St George he tried
to avenge the haunting...

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Hand in hand
Across the land
Child and woman
Burning sands.

Death defies.
Compromise
Shining skies.
Darkness lies.

As God knows,
Loving glows.
Anger slows.
Mankind grows.

Hate derides.
God presides
Deep inside.
Love abides.

© Dane Smith-Johnsen
Poetic Form: Rhyme
May 24, 2010...

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Have you ever stopped to wonder,
Just what it's like up yonder?

Where God presides and no one hides,
Is it Harps and clouds asunder?

When this mortal coil is cast,
is your spirit free at last?

Is it heaven that you seek,
Wings and harp to play?

Or have yo been so foolish,
As to go the other way?

© Dave Timperley 2014....

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Frozen blades of grass,
Icy autumn winds,
In a final pass.


Feeling freezing chill,
Heavy cold unseen,
Crash of frozen will.


Cold icy winds squeeze,
Body core within,
Frozen touch brings sneeze.


Crazy cold collides,
Dry skin feels mad winds,
Sacred space presides.




Leon Enriquez
28 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT...

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So I'll go sick. It's just a little bit.
                      I try to be honest. I try to be straight.
                  I can't force myself to concentrate.
                         It's lucky thank God I have pride.
                       For now I will preside.



                                                               S_K Y...

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Eventide comes with amber blush,
a hue of calm presides.
Scent of rain upon the wind,
caresses the countryside.

Slow the tawny glow fades,
as twilight steals the scene.
There upon the sky's palette,
comes a violet sheen.

Chasing the sun to the sea,
night wraps us in her cloak.
A soft deep blue on velvet black,
as the land, moonlight strokes....

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The silver birch
presides over the scree
A caravan of love
proceeds duly eastwards
I'm staking my faith in you

The wind whistles past
We are on the road again
to magic lands where the gypsy queen shows
the world her love

where you find
butterflies and buttercups 
smiling in the rain,
and hope waiting for time
our faith connected to the earth
uncorrupted...

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. for public domain

No human justice is without flaw,
no law has suffered strain,
when mercy presides over court
in favor of its name.

The guilty thus be sentenced fair,
justice win the day,
pettiness shall be put to rest,
and evil lose its way.

Cast the first stone, if it must be,
so saith what is right,
but cast it truly, not in rage,
let justice rule, not spite....

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DEATH LAUGHS #6


A stillness calm presides right here,
A soothing balm in tunnel clear.


Soul wakes drowsy with glimpse and hint,
Death laughs easy with sparkling tint.


Masks left behind in dying sleep,
A strange new find as mourners weep.


Death holds my hand and beckons brave,
A sure ascend beyond earth's grave.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
04 February 2016
Singapore...

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The divinity of art
hiding in the folds
Draping o’er the multitudes
placing time on hold   

Its pristine encumbrance
so gently it calls
Speaking to our purity
transcending the small

The divinity of art  
in all of its forms
Its music seeks to woo us
its canvas adorns

And once it gains entry
our emptiness hides
Eternity surrenders  
—and Heaven presides

(The New Room: May, 2023)...

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Dawn breaks
Through supple boughs;
Sparkle of light


Brief encounter,
Spirit presides;
Enlightenment


Lotus posture,
Mindful Clara;
Affinity Yoga


Knowing
No-thing;
All-seeing


Arise now,
Awake here;
Awareness comes


Soul passage
Fond message;
Zest fulfills


Knowing
Without knowing;
Wisdom lingers


Dark and light,
Night and day;
Dreamer awakes


Leon Enriquez
15 Mar 2014
Singapore...

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Death Of Mother:

she tucked you in at night - the nightingale,
soothed your forehead with her palm
and there her song presides.

Death Of Child:

your tears squeezed out from bleakest thunderheads
flooding the whole dam-ocean
— a friend to hold you tight.

Death Of Husband

muscular arms unwound like octopus
head aches of inky blackness
— angels tender your veil

7/10/2018

Merriam-Webster:
Tender - to regard or treat with tenderness...

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The lion's thunderous roar breaks the dawn
As creatures begin to stir on the plains
 To the water's edge they soon will be drawn

 To quench their thirst, and their life to sustain
 Lionesses gather to ambush prey
 In the tall grass, in silence they remain

 Suddenly the attack is underway
 As frightened creatures scatter far and wide
 An zebra's caught,   the first meal of the day

 Over these plains the king of beasts presides
 And  his mighty roar echoes through the pride...

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