Short Recycles Poems

A set of bad books with black pages flip
much stain recycles and stays on a clip
lives like a germ
spreads his foul sperm
making all errors more than just a slip....

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A never ending task
over 4200 of them
we fire them
like Presidents

The secrets of eternity
change yourself
so that the universe
recycles you

for the butter...

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Growing old, like quartz and diamonds, the human being occludes.

The trials of life, leave cracks in the soul; grind the body back to dust.

All life recycles, in life after life; we all give back....

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autumn leaves grounded

revealing tree skeletons -
 
nature recycles


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8 Nov 2020
(checked with poetry soup syllable counter)
3rd Place in Any NEW Nature Inspired Haiku Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin...

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beams of hope tendered
mirror images refract 
combustive spark

burning ember flames 
radiant glare recycles
residual steam

intense stare refuels
bursts of energy stokes flame 
sweet puffs of smoke stream


'Eyes First Meet' contest

Stephen Parker...

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R est my mind. Quiet my soul.
E mbattled. Tortured. Bitter. 
S end me home where silence reigns,
E arthworms spin secrets and scars decompose.
T ime relieves, energy recycles ...reset...

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And so it goes
from cradle to grave
From baby’s wail
to funeral laid

We reason, ponder,
dissent, and cry
As time repeats
and years go by

Sages offer
their grand excuse
In what’s left wanting
to feed the muse

But one thing’s certain
to never change
Death recycles
— the same old game

(The New Room: May, 2024)

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I evacuate
sitting on a throne
of waste…

till something live
emerges – taking
inspiration, wherever 
it comes from…

the writer strains

filling bowls

and wastepaper baskets

inspiration navigating
internals      and beyond

I am a Literary Proctologist
claiming from recycles

deciphering bottomless spirit scents...

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A sad
miracle 
of existence
in spite of our waste and
squander.
           
Our home
recycles
herself and cries
for complete renewal
and peace.

While we
reject our
first mandate to 
care for and nurture all
of her.

*Cinqku: 2-3-4-6-2 syllables
*Meant for the Stuff contest (sponsored by Thomas Martin), but I was too late. :(...

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Florida recycles Summer heat,
a slower version of a hot beat;
Fall’s still smoking;

Leaves crack and dull to brown
skipping the colors of Autumn;
Southern sky’s daunting;

September’s a soft shadow
with hollowed flames to follow;
Serotonin’s falling;

Freckled skin still a bit warm,
season has no time to transform;
Sunburn’s resurfacing....

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'down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind' - 
Edna St Vincent Millay

In
Vastness
We shall lie
At peace, beneath
Mountains of moonbeams
No servants or masters
Equal bells, everlasting
Shackles of suffering release
Over celestial bridges, where the
Cosmos recycles our souls in stardust.

5/21/20

For 'Etheree' contest
Sponsor: Dear Heart...

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Waters edge
gator lies
raccoon gets
big surprise!

In forest
something hides
bird on branch
with two 
slit eyes...

Unsuspecting
no cry
empty branch
lump inside!

Snake digesting
waterside
hungry croc
snake inside!

Swimming salmon
seeking spawn
searing pain
bears claw!

Plants decay
feeding ground
newborn sprouts
spring abounds.

Life’s cycle
ever green
it recycles
everything.

Life’s cycle
circles ‘round
all life
feeds ground.

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Spicy smell metamorphoses
in the garbage.
The same chunk that stimulates 
the taste buds
induces nausea. This is a bin
of dual relief.  
As the darkness falls on the bare
reality, an arm 
stretches through the hole
that nobody tries 
to caulk. The stray man picks up 
a gnawed chicken 
leg bone, a scrape of fried mackerel,
some steamed rice 
mixed with reddish yellow curry...
He recycles the 
junk. Hunger can burn away
any disgust.

First appeared in The Literary Hatchet...

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