Short Proposition Poems

mother
is
not
enough

maternal love
is
not
lacking....

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A proposition 
Had affair with preposition;
Of where was it at?

Jim Horn...

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sphinx on planet mars
a juicy proposition....
man's goal-- to travel 

 © Harry J Horsman  2010...

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In life there is much laughter, however, life is no laughing proposition.


For "Chiasmus" contest sponsored by David Williams....

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a dilemma
focus your face
          for all to see,
wander over the hills

beyond what?
               you say:

Deliberate
this anadyne lament
this proposition
lest we forget
(as if we would):

Done for,
come to an end
be still

wait....

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A bird's wings may evolve into flippers,
just like the penquin.
The bird loses its ability to fly,
so that the penquin can adapt and evolve to swim.
Evolution is a give and take proposition.
When you adapt and evolve a new ability,
you lose an older one....

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Preposterous..?

To our conditioned selves
The proposition of our
Thoughts originating beyond
Our limited body and brain
Seems..well..preposterous..
It remains preposterous
Until life circumstances 
Render a new Recognition
Slowly or quantum quick
Of What we are......

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Losing Proposition

Alcohol can really wreck your life
The list of friends will constantly shrink
It cost me my job,I lost my wife
So I tried to sober up,then think
Oh hell,just have one more little drink



Hard Choices contest/Dr. Ram Mehta
Greg Hoffman 6/16/2014...

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Fascism
Totalitarianism
Authorism
Drawing out side the line, makes one trapped outside an unlawful state.
As your state magistrates are filled with implorable hate.
Full of perfidious traits.
Picking on minorities, women, and small children.
An extension of your proposition....

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empirical evidence - what supports or counters this proposition,
 or experimental procedure or admission...
a body of facts that are true...
fingerprints & footprints at a place admitted to...
those telltale signs one has to admit too...
well; that's how you can be so sure; True...

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In the back of bars, 
Places my soul Shouldn't
Be. 

But isn't this an 
Altar, just like the 
One you worship? 

Differences and 
Similarities are 
One in the same. 

Ignominy, and I 
Smug your face
as you do mine. 

Soon we'll waste
Away and forget 
We even had this
Ridiculous Discourse....

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It was the End of Days
To go down in a blaze
Of a scientific proposition 
As the comet hits in an explosion

It will be an extinction level event
To end the world in a catastrophe sent
They tried to nuke the comet away
But it did nothing and on its course it stayed

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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The soup tonight is matzo ball
    A night of wonder for one and all

  Crossing the Sea on foot is a tricky proposition ~
    There's poetry in the majestic seawall


  ____________________________________  
  3,350 years ago tonight, Moses lifted up his
  staff and the Red Sea Split......

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They came over all smooth and unique
But scum is scum wherever you seek
Dirt is dirt all over, the same
A beautiful face but inside so plain

But it’s all the same wherever you go
Beauty is beauty, beauty’s for show
Inside what’s lurking in that deep hole
Is the thing I need to leave well alone...

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Juxtapose two conflicting minds.
Against one another they tassel.
Never to complete their argument,
Nick is stuck as mediator.
And it is not a fun job.

Proposition after proposition,
All movements are mirrored.
Rather than agree, they fight.
Kind Nick is torn apart.
Everyday he worries about the outcome....

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Discordant scissors cuts a ribbon
Pleasure of a man destroys
Nature bows to indiscretion
Reality deceit deploys

With glee, they break the ground
To set an edifice to man’s ambition
Forever ruined with proposition 
Field and flowers sacrificed

Breached to bent insanity
Evolves a place profaned
Glowering graceless vanity
Imprisons the insane...

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I don’t like doctrine,
It’s right before it’s considered,
Accepted upon suggestion,
Derived before it’s formed.

It’s understood without hesitation,
Passioned by cold-hearted teens,
Prized by the biblical loner,
Whilst being upheld as meat on leans.

It only comes from the belief,
That god exists as a proposition,
Without that there is rational thought,
And the condition of reason’s feeling....

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Arrogance and confidence swirling
Such close hues

Paying the price of being known to collect beauty
A mannequin's proposition:
Live life or stagger through parts
Glimpses of lucidity through a veil 
Wry smiles passing by
Reach out before the fog descends

A frozen kind of beauty
Steam from the swelter
Paint the canvas you have been given
To make the hues your own
Lest you lose
It
Before you wish for it to be lost...

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Last night gravity broke down and today 
my toilet refuses to acknowledge a 
fundamental rule: the push of God's gaze 
should make the toilet water flush away 
all of my worse fears and physical 
burdens.

It hasn't and likely will never.

Lifting the cosmic lid and adjusting
the lever of proposition gives me
some hope -- gravity apparently
has a terrible temperment when shit
tries to float down hill.

:: 06-01-2018 ::...

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Came looking for a verse to transcribe
Couldn’t think of anything to inscribe
Mind wasn’t directing any orderly lyrics
Composedly accepting everything as is
No ripples of thoughts, no dilemmas,
No judgements, no opinions,
No portrayals of any sorts 
“Why does anything need description?” was its question
“Just be” was its proposition
Decided to ruminate on that
A feeling of freedom came just like that.


Smita Kulkarni
02/11/2021...

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Solace lacks in the crimson night
Diabolical vindictiveness lessens the light
Drink up your absinthe and feed on unsheltered prey
Not to walk beneath unmarked shadows at day
Fearing the loneliness consuming your soul
As well, blood sinfully shed for sense of control
Courting dread mentally within your being
And loosing sight in what you are seeing
The corpse of the earth keeps proposition in sight
When you are walking alone in the dead of the night...

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And if they know not what they do
The lonely weary souls
Who share the common goal
Imbibe a sense of disbelief

They wander aimless through and through
Panic stricken sullen
Risen and the fallen
Reality obscured by grief

To make amends from me to you
My proposition is
Give solace and forgive
What timeless would consider brief

End excursion black and blue
In the deepest ocean
Swim through tears forgotten
The joy we'll feel from such relief...

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Triangles tend to squares
tend to circles tend to
reasoning tends to forces
which tend to tending itself.

The law of attraction is attraction
to law which tends to the resolution
of perpendicular forces. 
 
From great circles, arcs vanish
because angles vanish together.
Equal be taken for equal and
things supposed will be.

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy(1846) 
Issac Newton

(Book I, Section XII, Proposition LXXI, Theorem XXXI)...

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It was a risky proposition.
yet they held no inhibition.
Then formed a coalition.
obtained the disposition.
And it became a mission.
to make the acquisition
Ancient gold exhibition.
Had the right condition.
with all inside position.
Ran Into opposition.
Hadn't figured on sedition.
Stan the finger in suspicion
put through the iquisition.
Couldn't explain his transition.
One slug the ammunition
He's a ghostly apparition.
In moldy decomposition.
It was a risky proposition....

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Passengers on planes who balk
At following the rules
Should not be seen as harmless,
Merely acting out like fools.

For disobeying mandates,
Flying trapped up in the air,
Is a risky proposition,
Which to seatmates is unfair.

A threat to flight attendants,
Fellow passengers or crew
Should make flying, for the perpetrators,
Totally taboo.

Arresting those offenders
Who cause on-board stress and strife
Isn’t punishment enough – they should
Be cuffed, then banned for life....

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