Short Prostrate Poems

Last thing want to hear
Were it detected sooner
Have doctor check rear...

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wishing for heaven 
supplicate in front of  god
solace in hardship...

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limbs prostrate and reach —
soul’s somatic form agrees
           to remember God

                          2/9/2018...

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Poets are but 
Sick in sublimity
Of love
	Time & Events
	People & Places
	Ideas & Divinities
Without which
They lie prostrate
In portrait...

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You once were grand; you once were great.

Your presence made me fall prostrate.


However luster does not last,

So now I leave you in the past....

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When a Royal Irish Lancer
Was told he had prostrate cancer
He shouted with glee,
"I got it for "FREE!"
Now he serves as Cork's break-dancer...

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The page
bears so eagerly
the weight
of everything
inside of me
my pen prostrate
leaves a dent

I muse
this paper could use 
some weightlessness

I make an airplane
instead...

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HAIKU

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shush... antelope... keen
lion pride prostrate... sleeping
thirst... a chance to quench

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#quench, #thirst, #lions, #antelope...

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Oh Lady, you make my head wobbly spin.
Don’t show such a harsh contemptuous grin.
I fall prostrate at your feet.
From you, expect a fair treat.
Your sole unshared love, can I ever win!
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Prostrate between earth and sky
Drained, desperate, powerless,
But the imagination soars,
And penetrates reflections
Like Alice’s looking glass
When we look yonder
We see within
And explore
Dreams

©David Byrne 2011...

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He wandered in the wilderness
from enemies, to save his life.
Prostrate, he cried out to confess
his sins and pled for end of strife.
Though lonely, he knew God was near
to shield him and assuage his fear.


I Samuel 26 and 27 and Psalm 25...

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Hello, God!

Clarity of vision, 
   and purpose in thought, 
never so divine than when found prostrate, 
   flat on our backs, 
      and looking up, 
with nothing more to lose.  

Hello, God!  
   We finally meet.

by, Martin Braun
July 25, 2023...

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So comical is the struggle
As we so vacillate
Myriad desire forms juggle 
Before each we prostrate

Make still the shaky heart
Simply add love to cart
Behold desires depart 

Heart unstable
So comical

20-November-2021
Quietus ...

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A prostrate exam is bad enough
I would have called it off if able
Sweating it out in the exam room
Half naked bent over a table

As the Doc came up behind me
A rubber glove snapped in the air
He said, "If you are feeling nervous,"
"Just pretend I'm in my underwear!"...

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*Image of Hourglass Shattered Broken by Pixabay.

Scheherazade's throat vessels of time

snuffed clock prostrate hands 
desert coarse sands moods travels
hollow cracked glass loafs 

2021 July 03
*1st Place*
A Brian Strand July 13
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 July 12...

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God I prostrate in my thought on your feet
I want to meet you please show me the street.

God please make my works easy be it big or small
God please never neglect me though I am your doll.

God please light up my soul like morning of the day
God please be my Guide never let me go astray.

(Amen)...

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Your perception is obsolete,
dried up like the blank stare of an empty well.
 
I’ve seen you before,
prostrate to television news history,
casting your putrid stones
into a sea of fear.
 
Even a dog has the capacity
to reasonably tolerate its own species.

And you call all of this God....

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Senryu On Cellular Reality

( Hitlers)

Nations joyously
celebrate independence.
No freedom yet
from shrouded Hitlers.

Chairs they behove
vindictive and corrupt.
Servile prostrate before
tyrannical eye.


Balveen Cheema
September 13, 2015
Contest: Senryu on Cellular Reality
Sponsor: Marvin Celestial...

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The prostrate lizard,
hated savior,
crawls the crooked road to the city

Figures, sinking with the light, 
bending your prayers
—watching the sun

Light retreats
as shadows leave,
emptying space for a new awareness

Its carnal madness
telling again and again 
—how far you’ve come

(West Philadelphia: December, 1972)...

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I can feel blades of steel tearing deep into my soul.
Yet no blood pours out of it and still it feels whole.

It keeps existng, despite the waves of terrible pain.
As my eyes flow like the waters of a monsoon rain.

There is nothing that I can do to end my ceaseless torment.
Except to prostrate myself to God and truly repent....

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Your silence
casts a shadow
your stillness
is my weakness
your pallor
leaves me wretched
like a fallen leaf
prostrate with grief
I lie, by the tree
which gave me life

My senses 
are dulled
Time is relentless
Tomorrow I walk
the slow path of sorrow
Near to me still
yet already lost
you lie
and my wishes
are dust
at my feet...

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Petrifying prediction proffered.
Abhorrent abominations
and shapeless shadows stalk streets.
Perpetually pitch
as Luna's light lapsed.
Prostrate and pray:
Stygian
nightmare
roused.

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28th April 2017

For the "Form N - Ninette or Nonet" contest, sponsored by Broken Wings.
(Eighth Place)...

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Trump Looks Like Big Whale

Trump looks like big whale on a beach
Can you imagine him being born breech
Seems to think what looks real great
Beautiful woman lying on bed prostrate
But an erection could never reach.

He truly is a real sad case of rotten tomatoes.

Jim Horn

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx...

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A fool you are
that can be kind
that can be honest
when even clergy
prostrate at your feet
due to your powers

A fool you are
that can be humble
when whole nation
when whole army
adore you as excellent
to honor and win favor

A fool you are
if you leave power poor
with all resources
minerals, national treasury
movable,  immovable assets
lie at your mercy...

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ITS FINE TO CRY AND GRIEVE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
my tale of fairies please believe.
many a day i meditate,
sat crossed legged or often prostrate,
and fairies come, my woes relieve.
casting fun spells they preconceive.
they know how to restore my mind,
back to where it should be, they're kind.
told me its fine, to cry, and grieve. 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

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