Short Reference Poems

the carving knife met
drag the blade down the chest
smiling face ghostly...

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in deep night
the wind blown camp fire
wet swimwear 

wet swimwear is my seasonal reference for summer...

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Love plays all shadows
Cosmic reference holds tight
Human free planets
Invasive species
Inevitable losses...

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Mario Merz of Art Povera
an ace in multi media
He even made reference to Fibonacci
though a bit difficult in art you see...

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You have become an 
unnoticed benchmark; a strong
yet hidden point of
reference that I found so 
natural to hint at you....

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Death Finally Here
Horn Haiku

approaching and near
and are afraid of and fear
death finally here.

In reference to RBG....

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The immediacy of time,
its reference untold

The beginning repeating,
not young—and not old

(The New Room: January, 2021)...

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Life without death
  joy without pain

No reference, no bearing,
   no loss—no gain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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I keep my distance
Even, when I am under her skin.
Her eyes are my reference; 
They reveal the depth and
Tell the difference....

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Life without death
  joy without pain

No reference, no bearing
  no loss—and no gain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)...

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Is time but a reference
to prey and confound

(while)

In memory eternal
—enlightenment found

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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“We
don’t know
them all, but
we owe them all”
is a reference
to veterans.
I’m grateful
to each 
one.


...

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Are we reality or are we dreams?
Without a point of reference, who can say?
And does it matter anyway?
Reality is only what it seems....

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Sting of bee,
shakes you up,
Bite of snake,
makes you dead,
that's difference,
when you have adversity vis a vis death in reference....

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Ceramic feelings
cuts my skin
photo-shopped a dream
inserted you in

Pain is reference
years never knew
time card punched
Love is a color
BLUE...

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perilous waters….

        first star of evening tide

               point of reference








For Annalise Brigham's contest
"What My Eyes See"...

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for your reference

i'm an open book
but you can't check me out

i'm an open book
but sorry
i'm closed right now

please
come again

don't stop asking...

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For years historians dismissed it.
Calling it nonsense,a fairytale,certainly not a mystery.
Its the first reference to Medieval plumbing.
The Bayeux Tap History...

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over the years
that
become this
with a small 
reference to that
of the past

it is difficult 
to stop this
it takes the form 
of what
it is
here and now...

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How much is enough

When trying to reference 

Power and Money

Is it ?

To infinity and beyond

Or rather to the corridors of power

And the ear of the man...

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The correct answer was "virtual particles"- they just pop out of nowhere...Ex-lax 
reference was to "physics", and, yes, Shar almost nailed it- she is the declared 
winner....

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When you reference

And say

My People

I take it then i am excluded

I take it then by stict definition

I am not an actual person

Kind regards
Yours Sincerely

John Doe...

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No ladies, these bugs, not quite.
Asian lady beetles
Little thugs: they like to bite!


—————

An American 767, like a haiku, and must include a reference to a bug...

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If you don't believe in Miracle's 

I refer you to

Anfield,  Liverpool 

Tuesday 7th May 2019

Liverpool  -  4

Barcelona  -  0

Miracle's are not Dead 

God supports Liverpool...

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A Moon Manikin 

A moon manikin;
Yellow and round as ever
And I so clever.

Ho, ho.

In reference to Moon over Poet Destroyer,
not Miami.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet...

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