Short Pretext Poems

Harmless
as a rock dove,
yet shrewd and worldly wise-
but forswearing pretext,pretence 
and lies....

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The present prince of Prussia prances proudly
With preaching priests, while prattling proles suppress
The primal pressure to prank the pretext
Of proper praise for the precious primate....

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lost love all sorts
motivates not
any good reports 
move cold to hot
such own sigh wish
gone now eye next
one here blue dish
without pretext
ready confess
real life unfold
death not success
ends life untold...

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Why is it that 'All's fair in love or war?'
Because war is hell and love's a whore?
Well, there are rules in hell
Just ask the devil
And a whore's heart's made of gold
She's on the level
  So 'All's Fair' may be just a pretext
  ~ For a combatant who's oversexed...

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Sam, 
A man, 
A good man
Is now tainted
We judge by the shallow sketches painted;

 In the crimson, pallid, and cobalt dream,
The devil scheme,
A mean plan.
God bless …
Sam   

Male, 
A sex, 
A pretext.
Man is a lie.
Behind closed doors great heroes often cry....

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Beware of the scribes
Who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces
Seats of honor in synagogues
places of honor at banquets
They devour the houses of widows and
As a pretext
 Recite lengthy prayers
They will receive a very severe condemnation [Taken from MK 12:38-40]...

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A generation seeks to build and create metal machinery electricity krytrons to make this globe go round expanding like a virus that knows no cure stupid boxes couch potatoes 
Clickers information out of context 
Drama at a pretext style to mock 
What's cool and what is not 
What use to simmer is now a crock pot...

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Let winter come...!
      But let's  It just come
      as a pretext...
       that my love
      wraps around me
      in a tight hug, absolute
      tight...
      That winter proposes
       all the heat we expect...
       let it be less winter
        and further spring...
        This is what I recommend
         to winter...!...

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Yearning for golden days of yore-
Obstinate, omniscient,
Unruly, unabashed, and lost -
Traded for worthwhile wisdom, at a cost-
Happy-go-lucky golden days of yore. 
Finding harsh trade-off foolish and unwise
Under a false pretext - 
Life’s full of compromise!


December 1, 2020...

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Modern age
the scientific digital age
people full of varied interests
opposite views
strive
malcontent
force in pretext of economists
clothed in diplomacy
while a lid is kept on hell
while hell is very much alive
then people vote their hero in
with idiosyncrasy he opens the lid of hell
then hell is reborn
into doom and pain never to mention...

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Sun rises in the east
and on it repeats.

Sets in the west
without pretext.

Within strands of life
served cold, or delight.

Love, war, and strain
no need to explain.

Young, strong, yet bold
worn, weak, aged old.

Through time's twisting churn
we are destined to return.

From where we began
so shall we end. 

As Ashes,
In the wind....

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get the cure
be always sure


what happens next
solve all pretext


problems are many
look never tiny


history or sociology
knowledge is methodology


knowledge is power
meant for shower


problem and knowledge
things to acknowledge


problem of communication
knowledge without inhibition


if problem intricate
attention paid adequate...

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Lets pretend we are friends
Lets pretend you live in me
But remember we are two different entities
Who fool each other in the name of love
But then,  
Lets just pretend
Perhaps the universe was projected out of pretext
Lets  amaze each other with delicate touch
Hold hands together
And project a make-belief smile
And watch the universe disappearing 
Lets just pretend


awoh awoh...

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I give you reason to breathe
   not a pretext to seethe

I give you what to point toward
   not an excuse to be bored

I give your spirit room to come alive
   not an alibi for another nosedive 

Without me life's a steep uphill climb
   With me you're on top in no time

I am the straw that stirs the drink
   I am the pen that holds the ink

          ~ I am Hope...

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Take a call and bring 
the upside down.
The desire becomes supreme.

Are you going to redeem 
for the lost empire ?
A musk deer will start

the scent-marking.
This was the price of
insecurity in the mob.

Unhook the wounds.
Life will give you
a new pretext to die.

It was an ordinary name.
No prefix and no frills.
You were ready to become anonymous.


Satish Verma...

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I was ten when Hurricane Hazel passed over our farm in the Piedmont of North Carolina with gusts exceeding 100mph. I really wanted to see that eye.  On the pretext of needing to check my weather station, I waited for the wind to stop howling and  rushed out the back door. 

In the stillness my eyes were drawn upward.

so still
the weeping willow
straightens 

First published in Contemporary Haibun Online....

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Sometimes, people suffer
From the mistake decisions of other
Much worsen if it's the errors of leader.

Oftentimes, people mistake
In choosing their leaders is a pretext
That something is going wrong to expect.

Moreover, leaders come and go
Government remains executing law
For people who believe progress will show.

However, lover's for freedom
Should keep warning for a damn
So we can be aware that change is a humdrum....

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A week ago, I was visited by woe…

As the tears runs into my eyes,
I was thinking for what are my mistakes
It is because of your pretext.
Yes, I never ask you to be perfect
All I ask is for you to be honest.

My heart seems crumpled by your hands
Because you never true to me at once!
The happiness it brings bygone,
When I came back, it was all gone!

That’s why a week ago,
I said good-bye to someone who’s being part of me so…...

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COPLA 76 INVOCATION: This Bad Guy World

Is the authoritarian set up
Also the Confucian Heaven:
Prince on people

Can the rogue State cushion blow up
Under the pretext it’s Yang’s Tian:
Good Guys grumble

If the Earth sinks Heaven’ll break loose
If Tian rises through sinking Earth:
World is at peace

Can Confucian States Bad Guys disguise
Be made to hound the Good Guys’ worth
And still save face

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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Write me with full meaning not incomplete,
Do not put me on the door of meaning
Then under the pretext explainers..
Raises a whirlwind of criticism.
Do not crowned me by poems,
Then by letters tighten me to the bed of thoughts.
Do not extracted sweet talk from my lips,
Nor liquefied musk from my neck,
Do not mobilize armies of language in my ground,
Nor warble your poems,
My doors are closed, wrapped in silence
You are too close to letters
Too distant from heart....

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Are we sacred souls
who shed our flimsy flesh
like slimy serpents
shed their skin?
Be observant,
but show no chagrin,
for in learning life’s lessons
we lessen our scars in the next.
It’s the game master’s pretext,
yet a disaster for those
who guard their granite heart
as if, by giving love away,
they might have less.
Perhaps it is best,
to toss love about in tenfold,
for souls only glimmer,
when they reflect light.
But it is dark inside now.
So…alas … 
Goodnight....

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A passing tram
and people
on Sunday morning walks
provide the pretext
of direction and give
a vague, comforting hope
that movement
has a purpose.

But the hard stuff
has a fuzzy core.
A ghostly roulette wheel
of what could be
makes the morning
ride the vagaries 
of a spinning ball.

Yet all is anchored,
somehow,
to this lovely illusion
of a cafe table
on which there is
an arrangement
of perfumed flowers,
two cups of coffee,
two warm croissants
and you and me....

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