Short Refusal Poems

Like the current way 
Refusal steers the contest
Idiocy sprints...

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God's number one rule
The stiff refusal to interfere
With our will...

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ageless swollen sun
life gentle persistent bliss
mourns refusal rest

2/17/2019...

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Contempt freezes the heart
refusal cools the soul quickly
makes love wither in life...

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staple trainers school canteen
left over apple crumble
eskimo right refusal fire biscuit...

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Highly dependent and needy
in the midst of providers
but blatant refusal to the face
...

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The inability of Man to be enlightened is due to his refusal God's light to perceive!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
  29 September 2016...

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A cuddly Harp Seal, when just a bub,
Swam further south and slipped into a pub,
The barman gave a wink,
Have this whisky to drink?...
“No way known, it’s Canadian Club!”...

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“I don’t care” sat on her lips like an 
      unacknowledged tumor
metastasizing

I don’t care
said it all in its refusal to
acknowledge
     the depths of its anguish...

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the green nymph in shallow water
knows no life but this
yet when Pan comes,
all dark-eyed & wanting
there is no refusal of nature
the world ends & begins anew
in the fingertips of mischief...

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My fickle faith foreboding still
I’m with you in the end
My powerless heart to spend
So many instances
Is this pain my heartless chest
I will not die
Complete refusal
Shadow still follows
As usual...

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Unloved
beaten since birth
a prostitute mother 
pimp's refusal to pay abort 
estranged 
 
                 ***
Contest:  Traditional Cinquain Contest
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey
Submitted by: Judy Konos...

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Alone while together,
unringing the bell

The darkness enlightened,
new silence to quell

Permissions refusal,
denial admits

The fusion of oneness
—a hit and a miss

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

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REFUSAL TO DUCK

Tucker sits on lawn chair sipping his pop.
Two bullet holes like flies land on backdrop.
A retired mechanism.
He’s done with tourism.
He’s a sitting duck in front of a shop.

8/16/2017...

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Cultures dissected …
structured refusal
Cloistered eruptions
dearth to accept 
   
Rising triumphant
 they steal from each other
 Defining their existence
—by what they reject


(Septa R5: September, 2023)...

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under his stench, 
the world known, 
her love drips viscous 
to the glade. 
his wanting quenched, 
in a slight light shone 
surface-reflected eyes 
beholding dawn, 
a son which the night 
in its end 
has made....

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Your touch today felt safe for the first time
In what seemed to be a lifetime of numb refusal
Conscious forgiveness
Liberation from bitterness
Encapsulates and shelves the pain
Enabling intimacy 
No longer naive but adapted...

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Bamboozled By Trump

After reading more notes and their perusal,
They all referred to Trump and his refusal;
Income information to release,
So we should call the police
Before he again all of us does bamboozle. 

Jim Horn...

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Dark  Darker  Darkest

       
           Too dark is deceit, so is betrayal.
           Darker goes malice, to swallow or digest.
           Darkness in ingratitude : Ugliest.
            Scene darkest, when love faces refusal....

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dirty carpet.
plastic hearts,
the colour of fresh blood.
a lovers refusal.
a crickets harmony.
the chill of august before its pain is unleashed.
biting nails and tongues.
feeling pins and needles on a left hand.
on edge.
off topic....

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It was just a break in the road
gaping, defying, sneering its
refusal to allow normal traffic;
smooth pavement ripped like
some old plastic seat covering
revealing wet stained stuffing.
No easy traverse in sight,
so I turned, and went back....

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when i heard about her death
i ran out to buy her record
something about her death to me
made her music much much better
someone from this world was taken
far too soon than usual
they say they offered her some help
but all they got was her refusal...

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A Refusal To Believe

After I read about it and further perusal,
Punishment may be cruel and unusual;
Did have disdain;
They were insane,
And to believe it my soul had a refusal.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Bolivia, NC...

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Fig Leaf

           Thick  Fig leaf deep green
     Flowers of plant hardly seen.
     Just as love hidden
        inside your fake refusal.
    Fruit of love at stalk of leaf.
       
  04/18/22

 
This or That Vol. 11

  Contest by Edward Ibeh...

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Things That Are Constitutional

Am concerned about what is constitutional,
And followed by politicians exists a refusal;
Necessary for nutrition;
Intelligence exhibition;
For existence of democracy is essential.

Jim Horn

My Horn Political Poem Series...

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