Short Quasi Poems

powerless poet -
for death is apparition,
ghost like Donald Drumpfs...

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We  are all alike that:
   equal, unlike, dubious,
   quasi inhuman ......

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contrast God with man -
evolution? who God is,
man? God’s finger writes......

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snow melt fantasy -
a rose fully realized
with evergreen soul

Brian Johnston
March 22, 2016...

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The mid-term voters
Couldn't take it anymore
A quasi-blue wave


Date written and posted: 12/05/2018...

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In quasi blissfulness
     what is the use of searching for mysteries
     if we already have the magnitude...

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contrast God with man -
evolution, who God is,
man? God’s finger writes...

Brian Johnston
March 19, 2016...

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accolade revealed -
Spring unrolls wildflower carpet
children welcomed home

Brian Johnston
March 15, 2016...

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feral cat crossing
dark cloud glides across grass sky
frozen mouse watches

Brian Johnston
January 25, 2016...

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A damp moon 
staggers across the sky. 
I will find my balance now.

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Meditating on 
the words and meaning, 
I read your face.

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Quasi-intelligent, 
half-man, half-beast, 
the new species.


Satish Verma...

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Towers turned to dust,
Pentagon ablaze in pain,
Still the Eagle Stands.

Turning our anger,
Pretending to be happy,
Quasi- war Lingers.

Give Islam its due.
Let them prove their peaceful cant.
Or loose the Genie....

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Any Bright, Coherent Deist Effects 
Fascist Groups Honing Illusions 
Justifying Killing, Lending Moral Notoriety
Oppressively Proselytizing Quasi Religious Sanctimoniousness 
Tailgating Unabashedly Viciously With Xeroxlike Yapping Zeal....

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mental spice taboo
salt and pepper images
written haiku rules

Brian Johnston
December 6, 2015

Poet's notes:
This is meant to be a joke poem about the traditional haiku definition. Please note the season reference in line 2 and the lament that while real spices might be part of a concrete image, apparently mental spice does not qualify! Ha!...

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Trickle down through the Carolinas
A star so far, it's never that hard to find it
Exhilarated, you call I'll say it
integrated us all through the lines
The Jesus here will catch your tears
But why wont he just let us cry?
epic solo quasi modo
Bent backwards to see you guys
And it all falls down
We'll see you around
Not sure where I left my hat
After all I'm an acrobat...

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watching head
line breaking
news in quasi
belief

in another
part of the same
world same time
my Muse

rides her
moto home not
knowing of news
of Paris

and in another
time one of
memory my 
son and i

climbing to the
highest steeple
looking down
on the Seine

and back now
to the headline
breaking news
seemingly

trying
to
explain 
the insane...

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wanting to 
i did to you
my own
makeup
to make
you

forget my
face as it is 
just a mask
a persona
that can be
erased

like a clown's
upside down
smile doesn't
mean he or she
is unhappy
underneath

so feeling like
the phantom
i operatically
chained you
with not seen
changes ever

before for
you are are
you not
Isabella
and i not
your Quasi

modo...

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Listen to poem:

*Image of Tomorrow Moon Sunrise by Pixabay.

Sunrise, Moonrise

Gold
affects
a black sky
unveils blue seas
awakes blends of life
tans gods and goddesses

dazzles mid heavens girth
gleams a quasi-earth
flip-side vibrate's
slips and bade
fill tones
white.

2021 August 20
*3rd Place*
Your Favorite August 2021 Poem- 
~~Constance La France: Judged August 31...

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An acid test under 
thin, misty moon.
The words were yours; 
thoughts were mine.

There was an aura of
suspense. A muddy patch,
before the alarm-
suddenly went off.

A quasi-fear, when you 
find a freeze. There was
no evidence of a corrupt
god becoming a man.

You want to change 
the rules of the chastity-
and faith. You don’t believe 
in me. I don’t trust you.


Satish Verma...

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“How may I help you?” asked the quasi-mother earth counter girl at the espresso bar/quasi-coffee house, “Oh, give me a cup of house coffee; after all, I’m just a caffeine slut,” I replied,

She looked startled, then controlled, gave me my beverage and returned to the cultivated profanity of a repressed wildflower aboveground disconnected from her roots in the fertilely non-sterile soil of mythic satyrs and sacred whores....

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The rocks in water 
like words, between 
the tears. 
Quasi-pain, reverberating 
like a river.

It flows? 
intermittently. The lava 
of an active volcano. 
You want to cover 
the smashed skull.

The mirror 
breaks, under the shock. 
It had never happened before. 
A nude streaking 
on the screen.

The moon had nothing 
to offer. Over and spent. 
It moves on its axis 
ungoverning? 
the stars.


Satish Verma...

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Genoa by night

Meandering streams of light
Like wisps of smoke
Wrap themselves on the hills
Of the dormant city,
Sliding towards the sea.
Genoa beautiful appears
By night too
Almost as awaiting
For the new day
Silently.

Genova di notte (italian version)

Rivoli di luce tortuosi
Come volute di fumo
Si avvolgono sulle colline
Della città addormentata, 
Scendendo verso il mare.
Genova bella mi appare
Anche di notte
Quasi attendesse
Il nuovo giorno
Silenziosa....

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A drowsy sun has closed his eye
Leaving me in tinted twilight
Hemorrhaging color by degrees
until I stood in blue-black night.
Dusk is the darkest of twilight
where sights and sounds become adverse:
a contrived unreality,
imagination unrehearsed
and interspersed with primal fears.
Harmless shadows act out phantoms
conjured deep within my psyche.
Howls and hoots: night sounds most fearsome
Quasi-influential fancy
when dusk attains ascendancy....

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Not do bright after all

Glowing like a bulb

Covered way down deep in manure

Misrepresented and posing
as fertile soil

Backed up by so called expert 
quasi intellectual bright sparks 
types armed with clipboards
pie charts and endless statistics

To keep us all firmly in the dark

Using flattery as a conniving
erstwhile tool to make us all feel 

Ipso - facto 
De- facto
Tik - Tok - Toe

Aren't we therefore 

Er- Go

Also so very , very smart as well...

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Of ventures dates arise and forth
Musky as tortures I swinging
       Quasi I view myself hate or enrich
Who by pigeonholed proof been
Of actives kinship thy bachelors
       Around a try within of vibrantly range
Indeed, handle as matters upon
A dress code dealt
       Thus as doubts or widely inquire
And sinlessly lo ways
In state done so hornily, so straight
       And be jealous in signify a foe wan
Culled up essential by her, and obvious
Culled off mine attends of bachelor....

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