Short Redress Poems

Pandemic of flesh
Pandemic of internet
Cleanse and seek redress....

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My heart you possess
For the fact that you said yes
Obviate not redress...

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Redress inked in red
Impatient man never read
Truth's ink has not bled
...

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A little more amour,
A little less confess:
For those whose hearts they pour
Have little to redress.
...

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...for Sylvia Plath
 

Her grasp of things is gone,
she fiddles, and is lost 
with no prospect of redress.

She hovers shapeless,
rudderless, 
in a storm-toss'd mess.

Substanceless, tottering
in limbo's loveless hold,
merely dross....

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from a winged elm tree
a wren's knife cuts through glum dawn ~
                            joyful day afoot



A New Hiku Footle Tanka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
Date written: 11/15/2022...

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She sleeps forever
I sleep funeral day
she shall be buried in earth
I , buried in wine
one day flowers I will lay
at her graveside

Never the less
consumption will not redress
the naked truth
two died
that
day...

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...for Sylvia Plath


Her grasp of things is gone,
she meddles and is lost 
with no prospect of redress.

She hovers shapeless,
rudderless in a
storm-toss'd mess.

Substanceless, tottering
in limbo's loveless hold,
only dross....

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have mercy on me 
for my sins flow like a stream
cleanse me with your blood.

my heart remorseful
wicked acts perpetuated 
to redress bad deeds.

on my knees I cry!
for heavens to bless my soul
my sins blotted out.


DATE:8-18-2016...

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What will it take?

People taking stock
admit their failings
try to redress the damage done
but it's too late ~

Our planet clearly violated
it's easy to see

Beyond shame and guilt
there's you and me



Posted on March 6, 2025...

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...for Sylvia Plath
 

Her grasp of things is gone,
she fiddles, and is lost 
with no prospect of redress.

She hovers shapeless,
rudderless, 
in a storm-toss'd mess.

Substanceless, tottering
in limbo's loveless hold,
merely dross....

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Let's reafforestate,
It is never too late,
Make an oxygen emitter,
An anti-plastic transmitter,
Atmosphere deranged,
Redress climate change,
Over to millenial brains,
Or we're all down the drain,
Some hi-tech savvy way,
Let's all start today!...

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A brilliant child a bit wild
learning disabled not her style.

Creative redress 

Reading a puzzle for this child
pb and d’s all made her smile

She’d pass the test.

A brilliant teacher not child
creatively challenging wild.

Creative address....

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Awakening 

The dragon eats land
Steps on other people´s right
And we say nothing 
Because once it was wronged
Can´t speak ill of the ogre
The dragon spews fire 
Over anyone who seeks redress 
To get what is theirs 
And slowly the world awakes 
The monster a perilous fiend...

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All pretenders drowning slow,
lungs to fill with every breath

Casted off amongst the waves,
nothing spoken to redress

Treading water, spewing lies,
legs to flail in wasted states

Choking from each word unsaid
—trailing death within my wake

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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I love them when they come around not alone;
When they explain a say which keeps many in thought:
They help humanity to think and wake to address and to redress.
I have always loved them because they prove sincere;
As their conduct and serenity, 
Drives us to love and stay peaceful with one another....

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I serve the Truth
That prickles often  minds
Ruthless return.'

Lord all components
Many parts; none removed no.'
Every atom owned sic..

Who can turn off?
Sun black, the midday faces'
Tell Him no.'  whit'less

No redress, this is.'
The story, tells it more real.'
Its life, death; victory.'
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Slave

No color
No grave
No place
No past
No future
	bonds
	rope
	chains
	Pain
No hope
No Tear
No one to hold near
No redress
No race
No face
Only the end
The final disgrace

A Slave of
	Memories stolen
		.......... the half empty plate
  Rose petals of hate

						Silence your fate...

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When you attack another man in the name of your god
You need to stand back and reflect
How did this bitterness become your redress?
A garden filled with such reckless weeds
With mirror and prayer, he above will forgive you
If only you ask
Angels can only hope


Notes: Part of a series called "Reflections"...

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Magnificent four-portal machine 
   I undulate and pulsate on-screen
Distribute you life completely for free
   As long as you take good care of me

Smoke and stress I find hard to redress
   Specially when you indulge to excess
In the 'good life' of cigarettes and booze
   For now you win; in the long run you lose...

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Sir –
More epistles are waiting:
Redress the truck-pusher first
Before speeching at the truck!

Sir –
Excursions are forced for a lull
Into further excursions 
Coaxed by the vicar’s levity!

More epistles are waiting:
Addressed to the strong sister
Whose redsear in a nurture crypt
Marked a new devotion to the deity....

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My purpose is to be expressed
And to impress
I am never stressed, 
I define the press
I cannot be suppressed
I thrive under duress 
I can be oppressed 
If arranged in a mess, 
but I am able to redress
I am obsessed 
With my dress, 
The wrong colour can depress
I am always searching to find a new delivery address, 
To relief stress...

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I know these are not hidden passions that will hide 
     let say for instance when the country is tasting either 
  tik or tok-
     I know even the world itself sometimes itches or 
        bubbles or cheers like a resournating glass or 
    monster?. 
   Since years are gone and love is beholding strong. 
   What then is such redress through?....

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...for Sylvia Plath


Her grasp of things is gone,
she meddles, she is lost 
with no prospect of redress.

She hovers shapeless,
rudderless in a
storm-toss'd mess.

Substanceless, tottering
in limbo's loveless hold,
only dross.



(Note: One of her poetic devices 
         was the use of multiple double-
         vowel and double consonant words.)...

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Sack the lot, theyr'e not that hot' 
Mixed messaging and many flaws
Wicked counsel deviant causes
Making most, to reasess.' By many
Multitudes there will be redress.'
Its a mash of polony processed to
The enth.. Political nonsense done
To deat.! Awaken people you must
Proceed, flex you power there's now
Dire need; Full stop! Its time right now
To (sack the lot).!...

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