Short Pronouncement Poems

Hiding within the rhyme
  lies a melody of pronouncement
  lifting the words up off the page
 
Its liberation spoken freely
  within times expanding moment
  giving and taking—beginning to end

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)...

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In the Doctor’s Office


A poetess, sits and waits.
Wondering his pronouncement
on her future fate.

I realize at times, other poets, this 
process, you have endured.
The tension, the mystery, one
feels as a sentenced Moor.

Please do call my name, i beg, do
let me go!
This morning in icy cold, Sacramento!

        
                       12/9/2021...

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I would predict a landslide (Blue!)
Without a hint of déjà vu
But superstition rears its head
And warns me to shut up instead

Or else I would absorb the blame
If vic’try came to What’s-His-Name.
The reason why might give you pause – 
A kinnehura*’d be the cause.

*a pronouncement indicating good fortune
which should not be uttered for fear of 
attracting the “evil eye.” (Yiddish)...

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Our precocious President pronounces,
in patent ad hominem attack,
that those deplorable disagreeables
are notably Neanderthal. 

He might be technically correct;
nasty Neanderthals existentially exist
in DNA models of most modern hominid incarnations~
even in the Commander-in-Chief!


And [God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...Acts 17:26 NKJV
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Our backsides don’t see the stars

  the seeds of our eyes hypnotized

mesmerized suspenser

  on the flapping sheet

etchings of a classic

  flick  moths flutter and cling

seeing shadows drawing ever nearer

  on the grassy knoll

sunflower eyes expand

  as the sea explodes

and Brody’s one hundredth pronouncement

  stunned and slow backwards tow

“We’re gonna need a bigger boat…”

7/8/2019...

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The corn maze full in October,
“As the misty moon rides high.”
Nighttime makes occasion sober,
Still laughter lingers, is not shy.

Headless, the hopeful, scans the crowd.
The high and mighty on his list.
With black stallion, his shrieking loud.
Like judge’s gavel shakes his fist.

One by one the kids are captured.
A pronouncement made with thumb thrust.
They share the hijinks, enraptured.
Price worth ticket - fear was robust!

(4)...

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   The shake of her digits
            as the she
      with palm up high
            gazed at I
    knowing all the while
        mine reflection
             was wild

    The pane betwixt us
          thick as ice
            as the he
      over her shoulder
    intently with nervous
      did construed why

         His beam from 
        beginning to end
did declare pronouncement
           not with lips
          yet with eyes

             good-bye  :}...

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