Short Prolonging Poems

Your organs are failing
Like the sun going down
But you're hovering at 4 o' clock
Prolonging the day
Best to get on with it
To a new day dawning...

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ETERNITY

An eternity passed by today
Since I started writing the poem
Full of eddies and storms
Prolonging the time in my heart
Or was it a magic of the art?...

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...
came
them
scoundrels
defeated
by little children
growing up to be women/men
Sooner or later they knew of their future demise
but as monsters, they tried to keep prolonging, the thriving under their enemies beds....

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Prolonging the inevitable
Wanting this feeling to linger
Succumbing to the infallible 
Feeling like we're strangers
Staring at me w/a dormant gaze
Your heart lost in a haze
Wanting us to recount the days
When we were happy & in love....

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Too tired to think
Too young to die
Too afraid to dare
Too poor to try
Past prolonging 
Sense of belonging 
These letters paint brushstrokes 
Hopefully better seen than read
This soul can be felt like nothing else
Better alive than dead...

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Day brightens
Resplendant Laburnum buds are glowing
Still an unquiet morning
An ornate chandelier blazing
While the SUN is hiding
And a disease re-emerges
Prolonging months of grieving
Pyre unstoppable
Tik Tok Covid
Tango of the dead and living....

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Peace blissful and tranquil
Pervading our being
Pulsating bliss rapture
Piercing each pore of form
Prolonging ecstasy
Play of divine silence
Pouring love ceaselessly

08-April-2021

Pleiades P Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

7-lines @ 6 syllables per line...

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Im hairline
lost in the scent of you
delirious shared moments
yet under your eiderdown
lies a self centred heart
eagerly searching the next victim
I don't want to feel your pain
Id rather be a stream
that flats past your jaded chase
yet somehow prolonging my fear
you ve changed...

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Lingering memories, those
I yonder,
I yearn for the marvel,
As I wonder,
All emotions grasped, 
I am torn asunder,
Thoughts of mine, all squandered,
Taken by its oblivion,
 Its beauty I ponder,
Stolen away by its prolonging
Sensations,   
Plundered,

In England’s streets I wander…...

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Sympathy

Sympathy of violins,
Sensate sliding of heartstrings.
Canorously caressing.
Like cherry brandy - feels good.
The warmth spreads, like a prayer shawl.

Fermata holds on too long...

10/2/2017
Early October Premier Contest

*Fermata - prolonging a musical note
**Prayer - with 1 syllable...

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I can smell blood under my feet
Lost souls wondering the street
There body’s are cold,
There hearts can no longer beat
Heaven knows when their will fall asleep
Midnight Zombies prolonging the street
Their body’s are swaying, 
There hands can no longer meet
Mother’s are wailing in their sleep
Lost souls are calling from the street
Heaven alone knows when again their will meet....

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As if someone put a lock on my brain
jailing my thoughts and words
caught by the guards trying to escape
prolonging their stay
Stuck behind bars of mental scars
confined to their cell 
taunted by numbers and equations 
being feed letters and punctuation 
through open slots in metal doors
Written by Keith Edward Baucum aka The 
Brown Philosopher aka The Green Poet 
aka Red Seven...

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Ronda Rousey just beat me up.
Beat me down would be more appropriate.
She choked me with her left arm over my neck
prolonging a breath to reach my lungs for a refresh.
I went for the elbow to the head, but she kicked out my legs
and I fell, metaphorically of course, on my death bed.
She wasn't done yet,
she had more to prove and less to expect.
I'll never again comment on a women's...
ability....

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My daughter painted my picture,
it hangs next to the mummy’s bust sculpture she made.
They both resemble each other.
They are the stages of my passing.

Mummies in some cultures
were preserving the bodies
for eternal life –
prolonging human’s existence.

So this is our ending.
“Let the dead bury their dead”,
for in death we are equal with animals.
There is no sacrament - death amounts to nothing....

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The mask we wear, belied by hidden fears,
self-deception, feeling not emotion,
thereby prolonging torture that pain spears.
Plunging headlong into each sensation,
nonchalant eye grants us liberation.
Unfettered presence, thus free and unbound,
transmutes dark dungeons into holy ground,
ecstatic with bliss, moment to moment,
sensing within heart, loving divine sound,
form ignited, countenance radiant.

22-March-2021...

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Poetic verses manifest,
for there is beauty unattained.

We yearn for distant, lofty skies;
for floating, contemplative clouds,
and souls that overflow the eyes.

Combustive, nameless hankerings
revitalize our sluggish hearts,
prolonging our linguistic cruise.

Forever, we anticipate
precise vocabulary hues.

All we possess is poetry
to hold on to our heavenly 
infatuation with the world,
for poetry has always been
the herald of eternity.
...

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The tides have turned for all but a few
Because of this we hide inside seashells,
On the ocean floor.
And we sail to another existence,
And Prevail!
And while sailing far away,
We fail to look back at what we left behind.
Another tide that is mine
Underneath the clear sunshine
How we hide as the birds flied 
To seek other places.
Higher than ourselves,
Noticing prolonging,  
The tides of uncertainty that hides in all of us, 
As we prevail and sail!...

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My dream as a man 
is to wake up with a pan
under my bed full of soup
but to eat without no group.


After the good meal
I believe prayers is a good deal
And my wish continue to grow
with the prayers i know

I pray to always have
but i cant share a halve
of all my belongings
and i live a life of prolonging


I wish this dreams can be cured
But nothing happens and my poverty is secured
I cry everyday praying and saying
my dreams are always failing...

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Stage one is so far gone
they say, "Don't look back."
Stage two dragging me along,
those nine pounds I lost this week
won't be coming back.
Now where in the heck did I put them?
Just let me say this very well
I'm not looking back at you,
just within, inside my heart,
Where you dwell.

Everyone says, "Look to the future."
Trust me, I already have,
Stage three has me on machines
breathing for me
prolonging life just to get to stage four...
Why???
Big money....

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LONGING AND BELONGING

What has been
What I have been longing
Be connected with longing
So that it could have been a belonging?
Yes it is our belonging!
‘Coz you are longing where you belong!
We belong to each other
How can we prove the belongingness
By prolonging this belongingness and longingness
What if I can’t do, it become aloneness
For becomeness would not a become, never!
To be loved and become a loveliness
Is the solution
This time…my love for you … 
Is all I have!...

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Sometimes…

Kindness can prolong pain. 

Sometimes…

Kindness can make fate become even more tragic. 

Although we like to believe we can protect others from wrath. 

That would create consequences in itself. 

So that when we look back-

It will be like we allowed weeds to grow for too long. 

So that through the foliage, we are unable to see whether we made a mistake. 

A mistake…

That was not the cause of death. 

A mistake…

That allows their last words to be a fog....

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