Short Reduces Poems

Dreaded dream killer
A freight train loaded with pain
Reduces heart to hope,
Though surviving, don't be fooled
To live, you've gotta move...

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     Of all the inventions which have
       blessed mankind o’er countless years

     The port-a-potty alone reduces me to tears
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He whom
Who questions'
His own entity
Retreats' from
Nothingness
And hinder the
Forebear ace of
His fate
And reduces' it
To a mere equation

GF...

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He who question's his
              Own entity
      Retreats' from
   Nothingness
And hinder the
      Forebear ace of
            His fate
And reduces' it to a
       Mere equation

             GF...

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My humor relieves my future uncertainty
This magic elixir reduces stress most certainly
Struggles through life
Can cut like a knife
But inner strength isn't my strong point emotionally...

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Oh my incompatibility
reduces one to the backwards of beyond,
you are suppose to be at my command
yet stone cold in your ability
when this user of self want
is eliminated through stupidity.

© Harry J Horsman  2014...

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Bird that sings without crying
and cries without singing
brings curse to the tree
and to self it reduces life
elders will throw hot charcoal
prayers full of curses fly after it
and it’ll die in the bush
with legs scattered to the skies...

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The cantilevered soul
	looks up--
Wonders at the mood,
Strikes out alone.
	Reduces
All to stone.

He revels in sight;
He sees beyond.
To see or be seen is
	his motto.

Truly he will fall
From that old wall
	and break
	not gently....

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Temptation begins,
In un-swept passageways of our minds;

Satan's evil charm,
That oft reduces men to mice.

Yielded to,
It becomes sin and spiritually blinds.

Sin, rarely needs a coat of paint,
To keep it looking nice;
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lust is a scary thing fore
it reduces us to base
the core, the body without a face
the pleasure of the pimp and whore

lust bursts bubbles wide
opening our lips to learn
the contours of bodies that burn
for more than the surface but what's inside...

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Fog thick as thieves reduces sight
Misty drops drip from eaves
All's quiet in nature's realm
How my heart slowly bleeds

Time seems to be swiftly ending
Days are numbered 'pon wall
See the calendar's pages move_
Xes seem to voice sqall  ...

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Afraid to ask
Afraid to cast
Afraid to hear
Afraid of jeer

Fear is delaying truth
Fear is growing from youth
Fear is reliving the past
Fear is irrational typecast

Asking diffuses fear
Talking reduces veering
Trying clears fear
Chose to steer
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It would be like a Cessna hitting a mountain;
Weltschmerz; rain falling on a tin roof.
So let me work my garden with burnt hands,
Thoughtless as a spade in cold loam.
Let all words fail as the day reduces.
We all love the holes in which we put our heads....

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The colour of a car affects the price dramatically I have a hunch
An expensive car in yellow reduces the sale price a whole great big bunch
Probably pink even more
Or violet most abhorred
Strange but true when it comes down to the crunch UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quicken the compost
all this for free,at no cost!

Okay,okay,yes I sting...

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A man's ability to think is related to the sight of a woman's cleavage
Reduces a man's ability to think by as much as 50% per boob, no secret
Genetics are used
As drools doth ooze
Can't think of anything, maybe apple pie, that would cause such disablement...

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the term China girl

reduces me 
to nobody 
defines me
by my skin color
singles me out
as a misfit 

it strips me
of all that I am--
poet 
college graduate
the “it” girl
the beauty and brains

which matters not
to you--
in your world
I’m only a girl
with no worth attached...

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The scarred desk, littered
with the wrinkles of young,
melts into chocolate

canary
easter bunny
birdsong

My ear mutters
"Are you there"
not able to finish

my homework
grinding
pepper

she reduces herself to glossed lips - 
they gloss over everything

dull
turn on the light...

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Doctors have connected the dots:
COVID-19 balloons blood clots!
Avoid aftermath
Just soak in a bath*
To send blood clots sailing like yachts!

* A Japanese study reports that
soaking in a tub 2-4 times each week
reduces clots and blood pressure plus
coronary heart disease by 25% and 
strokes by 13%...

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Communication is not just talking
But listening with the heart
Sometimes, your partner just wants to be heard 
Not given a solution or console
When they vent, try saying, "I'm here to listen." 
Do you need a solution or just a story
It's that easy to communicate 
Sometimes ego is so high that it reduces empathy....

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SNOWY SILENCE  



Snow’s silence slowly
Floats down on the blanched land,
Stops memory  - frozen moment -
Whispers do not hurry.
Her over-ardent love clings to
My every-cornered coat,
Reduces my footfalls
To muffled whispers  - stays,
Spreads her shawl of quiet
Till memory records no detail, 
Nothing but herself....

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Soup and greens,beer and tea
buttlerfly young just love me,
aphid trap and liquid feed
ladybird heaven,yes indeed!
I love phosphate & nitrate soil
such versatility reduces toil,
my leaves quicken the compost
all this for free,at no cost!
Okay,okay,yes I sting
but for you its win,win,win!
,
Tribute to the utrica dioica...

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There's no exaggerating it;
What reduces pride.
Lifted, for a lofty being's;
Who would rather hide!

Man, a god, did on how many
A squirming, shaking
Little fright, just that forced choice
With unjust cause bring?

Standing alike o'er, stony-faced
And as sharp-outlined.
An intimidating presence.
Sky-tall. Sky-enshrined....

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You have to roll a six,
With four dices on the board.

The odds are not in your favor,
Playing a big game of chance.

Critics are saying it’s impossible,
But you still play in the tournament.

Self-discipline increases the luck,
Determination reduces the risk.

Regardless the outcome of the game,
A dream is better pursued than left alone....

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Candle,
cylinder,
of wax,
with a thread,
end to end,
spread,
a break in middle,
limps the fiddle,
and reduces,
the candle,
to a riddle,
our lives,
are like candles,
soul threads them,
like handles,
a broken soul,
lessens the light,
and it would not be long,
before you break yourself,
to limit to unbroken thread,
and burn in parts to death....

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